<p><em>Colloquial Russian 2</em> is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills.</p><p>Structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern everyday Russian <i>Colloquial Russian 2 </i>has been developed to work systematically on reinforcing and extending your grasp of Russian grammar vocabulary intercultural communication skills and understanding of contemporary Russian society.</p><p>New to this edition:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>revision material to help consolidate and build up learners’ basics;</li> <p> </p> <li>a wide range of authentic and up-to-date reading materials including blogs forums surveys opinion pieces and commentaries;</li> <p> </p> <li>exercises based on role plays group activities and debating techniques aimed at developing oral communication and expanding vocabulary range of learners; and</li> <p> </p> <li>new audio material including authentic and up-to-date audio excerpts.</li> </ul><p>Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.</p>