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The suggested collection of Chekhov's love stories is meant for fanciers of Russian classic prose as well as for English-speaking students learning Russian

Dear friend of the Russian language and literature!

You appreciate Russian literature deeply, don't you?

And you would like to read it in original without any particular strain and delving into dictionaries.

You would like to enjoy its sounding at the same time, wouldn't you?

But it is not simple. You know you should regularly make considerable efforts to learn Russian.

However, having not that much knowledge of Russian, due to the SOUNDING PARALLEL program, NOW you CAN READ and LISTEN to literary works in original and UNDERSTAND them without consulting a dictionary.

The SOUNDING PARALLEL program enables you to see the Russian text, its English word for word translation on the monitor and to hear the Russian synchronous sounding simultaneously.

Moreover, you can improve your spoken Russian with the help of the program.

How is it possible?

All three components - the Russian text, its English translation and the Russian synchronous sounding - are presented concurrently and segmented into PHRASES and PAGES, providing the opportunity TO REPEAT any fragment as many times as you need until you can perfectly comprehend it aurally and repeat it freely at performer's speed.
This very peculiarity of the program turns the text into an effective and captivating COURSE of COLLOQUIAL RUSSIAN.

We afford you an opportunity to enjoy Chekhov's stories just in such a form and to learn Russian with Anton Chekhov as your tutor.

By clicking on the titles of the stories you will see the slides of 5 stories, played by the SOUNDING PARALLEL program. Use the player able to reproduce wmv-files (Windows Media Player, for instance) or play the same videos which are posted on YouTube.com.

Дама с собачкой (The Lady with The Dog)
Дом с мезонином (The House with the Mansard)
Рассказ госпожи NN (The Story of Lady NN)
Душечка (The Darling)
Зиночка (Zinochka)

In the tab "the Method of learning Russian" " you can take a closer look at the Method of learning Russian without grammar.

The price for the collection of stories is EUR 20 (or its equivalent in USD, RUR, UAH) Order

The main way of delivering the program is loading it in the electronic format from the server. The speed isn't limited.

The author of the idea (patent UA 5314 7G09B19/06), the program, translation into English, reciter - Helena Zimovina (Chief Manager of "SOUNDING PARALLEL" Private Enterprise).