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Max Bollinger

Autor(a) de Easy Russian for English Speakers

13+ Works 86 Membros 28 Críticas

Obras por Max Bollinger

Associated Works

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) — Ilustrador, algumas edições39,294 exemplares
Mumu (1852) — Narrador, algumas edições149 exemplares
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov: Bk.2: Talent and Other Stories (2010) — Narrador, algumas edições45 exemplares
Singularity (2005) — Narrador — 31 exemplares
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov: About Truth, Freedom, Happiness, and Love (2011) — Editor, algumas edições14 exemplares
Red Planets (2018) — Narrador — 8 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1974-11-29
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Russia (birth)
UK
Local de nascimento
Russia
Locais de residência
Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Cloverley, Shropshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Educação
The Actor's Centre, UK (acting)
City Literary Institute (drama)
Saint Martin's University of the Arts (photography)
Ocupações
publisher
producer
editor
actor
project manager
Organizações
Interactive Media
Urban Romantics
Agente
Harvey Voices

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Born in Russia in 1974, Max Bollinger spent his childhood in the south, near the Black Sea, now Ukraine and moved to England in 1993. He is now based in London, speaks fluent English and Russian. Graduated with 1st Class degree in economics and IT.

Graduate of classic music and arts school in Russia.

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UN CUENTO DE ENANOS

Gustavo no supo nunca que al devolver el anillo, la corona y la carroza habia salvado a un príncipe, a una princesa y al hijo del rey.

Talvez fuera el , aun sin saberlo, una criatura encantada.......quizás un hombre corriente, como tú y como yo....
 
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FundacionRosacruz | Sep 3, 2018 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
Over the years, I have taken a few Russian courses and used many different study guides/tools to help learn the language. Obviously, one will never become fluent in a language after listening to one cd, but this particular disc is a good one to listen to for a quick introduction. It is always interesting to hear what one person considers to be the most important parts of the language, but there are no major surprises on this cd. For some reason, Russian seems to be more popular (at least for sources like this) in England than in the US, so there is a bit of British English to American English that must be done, but nothing major. Overall, this is a quality effort and I'd be interested in more training materials from Mr. Bollinger.… (mais)
 
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krepitch | 15 outras críticas | Aug 28, 2013 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
(Early Reviewer Book) If you're going to be vacationing or doing business in Russia, and need an aid to memorizing a few simple, everyday phrases, you could do worse than this CD. Since I don't know any Russian, I'm not competent to say whether you could do better, but you could do worse. I'd recommend using this as a supplementary tool in conjunction with a written guidebook or language self-study course.
 
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ngmoore | 15 outras críticas | Feb 22, 2013 |
This series of bite-sized Russian lessons will not turn you overnight into a Russian speaker, but it does include those phrasebook nuts and bolts (hello, goodbye, please and thank you) that would be helpful to a traveller in Russia, as well as wandering into some more complicated territory – you learn to point out an interesting barn, for instance. The later sections include some hardcore stuff – readings from Chekhov in Russian (I fear I would not even understand Chekhov in English), as well as Yuri Gagarin talking about space travel. Perhaps its key benefit is the way it familiarises the listener with the sounds and subtleties of the Russian language – the way the words are formed, the different ways the same consonant might be pronounced, and advice on the positioning of the tongue. Listening to repeated audio is perhaps the most natural way to start learning a language – the way we all learned our first one.

The vocal delivery is clear and precise throughout, and new vocabulary is repeated, as well as being broken down into sections which I found particularly helpful. But to be really effective this course needs to be listened to in conjunction with some kind of printed material. There is no accompanying written guide, though transcripts of some of the sections are available online (I found downloading was a lengthy process). The use of a whole new alphabet means words don’t look the way one expects when written down! Furthermore, the lessons don’t stray very far into the realms of grammar; many verbs and nouns are introduced but transposing them to different contexts requires understanding of the case system with its fearsome array of word-endings. So a proper visual course would be needed in order to go beyond repeating the vocab in the lessons.

The whole thing can be downloaded onto an iPod which is exactly what I did, and I found the concise sections were perfect for listening to on short car journeys, or when in one of those pesky British queues. I have probably listened to it through about four times and some sections are starting to stick though the section on telling the time still ties my brain in knots. It has undoubtedly expanded my vocabulary. It even includes the verb ‘to listen to something to the point of forgetting everything else’, so I guess if I ever do get carried away whilst plugged into this on my iPod, there is a chance I could formulate a Russian excuse.
… (mais)
 
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jayne_charles | Mar 27, 2012 |

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Obras
13
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Membros
86
Popularidade
#213,013
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
28
ISBN
18
Línguas
2

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