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Since publication in 2010, this has been Hippocrene's#1 selling book, with over 50,000 copies sold   Adopted by numerous colleges and universities forfirst-year Russian courses  Perfect for classroom use or self-study at home  Free accompanying website gives students a wealth ofadditional material: videos, audio, exercises, flashcards and notes forteachers/instructors who use the book  Russian is on the State Department CriticalLanguages list and is a key language on the world stage for diplomacy, defenseand trade. The U.S. government is actively seeking more Russian speakers.  Nearly all large colleges and universities in NorthAmerica offer Russian language courses and over 110 offer degrees in Russianlanguage  There are over 270 million Russian speakersworldwide and it is currently the 8th

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Anna S. Kudyma is Senior Lecturer and Russian Flagship Academic Coordinator in the Department of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Frank J. Miller was Professor of Slavic Languages and the Director of the Russian Language Program at Columbia University and Barnard College for thirty years. He served as president of AATSEEL in 1999-2000, and was the recipient of the Hettleman Award for Distinguished Teaching and Service at Columbia University in 1988 and the AATSEEL Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1996. Olga Kagan was Professor of Russian at University of California, Los Angeles for over 35 years. She was also Director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA and the UCLA Russian Flagship Program. She saw the unique difficulties facing heritage speakers of languages other than English, and was a leader in designing curriculum specifically for heritage speakers with little to no literacy in their native language. Michael A. Lavery holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he has taught Russian language at multiple levels.

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