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    Easy Russian Alphabet: A Visual Workbook
    Easy Russian Alphabet: A Visual Workbook
    Easy Russian Alphabet: A Visual Workbook
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    Easy Russian Alphabet: A Visual Workbook

    By Fiona McPherson

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    This highly visual workbook takes you, step by step, through the process of learning the Russian alphabet. It uses several strategies to help learners achieve mastery quickly and thoroughly. These strategies include:

    • grouping
    • visual mnemonics
    • test questions to help you practice
    • vocabulary lists for further practice.

    These vocabulary lists appear for each group of letters, so you can practice on words that only use the letters you have learned. To make them easier to read (and also, beneficially, remember), the words are mostly cognate with English words. Thus you can not only practice your letters, but also pick up some few hundreds of words as well. Where the meaning of the words is less obvious, mnemonic keywords are provided.

    The workbook includes:

    • instruction on learning the individual letters
    • visual and story mnemonics for learning the order of the alphabet
    • targeted vocabulary lists
    • full glossary with word meanings and mnemonics where appropriate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWayz Press
    Release dateOct 5, 2018
    ISBN9781927166543
    Easy Russian Alphabet: A Visual Workbook
    Author

    Fiona McPherson

    Fiona McPherson has a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Otago (New Zealand). Her first book, The Memory Key, published in 1999, was written in response to what she saw as a lack of practical advice on how to improve memory and learning skills that was based on the latest cognitive research. Since that time, she has continued to provide such advice, through an extensive website (www.memory-key.com), and several books focused on specific memory and learning skills.

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      Easy Russian Alphabet - Fiona McPherson

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      Easy Russian Alphabet:

      A Visual Workbook

      By Dr Fiona McPherson

      www.mempowered.com

      Published 2018 by Wayz Press, Wellington, New Zealand.

      Copyright © 2018 by Fiona McPherson.

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Wayz Press, a subsidiary of Capital Research Limited.

      ISBN 978-1-927166-54-3

      To report errors, please email errata@wayz.co.nz

      For additional resources and up-to-date information about any errors, go to the Mempowered website at www.mempowered.com

      Also by Fiona McPherson

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      The Memory Key

      Learning the letters

      Grouping for memory

      The mnemonic cards

      Group 1: Easy letters

      Group 2: Straightforward consonants

      How to practice

      Review 1.1

      Vocabulary

      Spacing your practice

      Group 3: Greek cousins

      More on practice

      Review 1.2

      Vocabulary

      Group 4: False friends

      Review 1.3

      Vocabulary

      Quick practice

      Group 5: Tricky vowels

      Review 1.4

      Vocabulary

      Quick practice

      Group 6: Novel letters

      Review 1.5

      Vocabulary

      Quick practice

      Group 7: The little b set

      Review 1.6

      Vocabulary

      Quick practice

      Learning the alphabet

      Complete review list

      Answers to review questions

      Glossary

      Vocabulary for Groups 1 & 2

      Vocabulary for Group 3

      Vocabulary for Group 4

      Vocabulary for Group 5

      Vocabulary for Group 6

      Vocabulary for Group 7

      Other books by Dr Fiona McPherson

      Learning the letters

      How do we learn? Learning happens through two fundamental processes: connection, and repetition.

      We always need repetition, but the amount of repetition needed varies a great deal. If we can make connections to information already well known to us, then that new information will be more easily remembered — meaning that it needs less repetition. For example, if your cousin has a new baby and names it Geraldine — a family name, the name of your aunt and great-aunt and great-grandmother — you will remember this much more easily than you would a less relevant name, chosen simply because the parents liked the sound of it.

      When we learn meaningful topics, such as how genetic transmission occurs, or how black holes are formed, connections are made and strengthened in a way that reflects your growing understanding of the subject. When we learn something that is less rooted in meaning, such as vocabulary in a new language, reducing the amount of repetition required often depends on creating new, arbitrary connections.

      The point of mnemonics (acronyms, images, silly stories) is to make arbitrary connections more memorable.

      This book uses several strategies of proven effectiveness, in order to reduce the amount of repetition you need to learn the letters of the Russian alphabet. These strategies include grouping, mnemonic images, and opportunities for varied retrieval practice.

      Grouping for memory

      The standard way to learn an alphabet is as a list of letters in ‘alphabetical order’. But a more effective way is to break it down into useful groups. I have broken down the Russian alphabet into groups based on how difficult the letters are to learn, for native users of the Roman alphabet (which is the one used by English speakers). Doing it this way not only enables you to more quickly master the bulk of the letters, it also explicitly tells you which letters need to be practiced more.

      We’re going to start with the easiest group — those which are just the same in both alphabets.

      You may wonder why it’s

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