RUSSIAN FOR PARTNERSHIP OF RUSSIA AND AFRICA
Textbook for English speakers in Africa
with a cultural application,2-nd edition, changed and added
The textbook is recommended by the Working group
of socio-economic projects of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists
The textbook «Russian for partnership of Russia and Africa»; for English speakers in Africa» is part of the International project «Russian as a Language of International Communication». The project was developped by the author to expand the inclusion of the Russian language in international communication. Excellent examples of Russian culture have already won a global scale in intercultural communication. The Russian language has situations in phonetics, grammar that are difficult to bring into correlation with a foreign language and difficult to find lexical matching during translation, and this explains the coverage of countries in its use. Foreign students need to be shown what a valuable culture space the Russian language holds. Therefore, the textbook has a teaching culturological part in addition to the basic foundations of phonetics; vocabulary and conversation, grammar that trains the logical perception of the structure of the Russian language. The culturological information of the textbook briefly introduces Russia’s state symbols, the geography and nature of Russia, the calendar of holidays and memorable days, Russian scientists, Russian literature, music, painting, Russian traditional dancing and customs in brief. Immersed in such an exciting atmosphere of culture, the student will understand that one cannot but know the Russian language, and one must know it well.
The second edition of the textbook «Russian for English-speaking Africa» is changed in structure presenting Russian, also more information about the nature of Russia, Russian traditions and mentality is added. A Russian language textbook is provided for English speakers in Africa, levels B1-C1,C2 is reached by intensive studies. Since the culturological bloc is written in original English, this part of the textbook is useful for Russian students to develop conversational skills on socio-political and socio-cultural topics. The more so as the culturological bloc included many intensive excercises, that may bring Russian learners to Levels C1-C2 in English. The learning material of the textbook is open for teachers and students to invent developing exercises independently.