English discs for learning. The best CDs for learning a foreign language

Today, proficiency in a foreign language (primarily English) is a prerequisite for career growth. Firstly, this is due to the computer technologies that have firmly entered our lives, secondly, the increasing mobility, when work and leisure involve active movement around the world, and thirdly, the increased demands on the labor market. As a result, many often have to read foreign press and literature, conduct business and personal correspondence not in their native language, and some even communicate in a foreign language, which is even more difficult.

There are many ways to learn what is so necessary both for communication and for reading various materials of a foreign language. First of all, of course, this is attending language courses, which are good for everyone, except for the need to adjust to the class schedule, which is very difficult for a business person. It is much more convenient to study at any free time, without changing the daily routine depending on the schedule of courses - this opportunity is provided by virtual courses, which are in many offered today on CD and DVD disks. Unfortunately, this method of learning has a serious drawback - real communication cannot be replaced by any virtual one. But such courses allow, at a convenient time and with an individual speed, not only to master the basic level of language proficiency, to study its vocabulary and grammar and to accumulate a minimum vocabulary, but also to learn how to translate texts, perceive speech by ear and even acquire some communication skills. All this knowledge will help in real communication and significantly speed up language adaptation. True, this training option will not be effective for everyone, since some people are able to perceive the material only in the classroom form of training, and someone may simply not have enough discipline and perseverance for independent study.

For virtual learning of a foreign language, a wide variety of courses are offered, among which everyone will find something suitable for themselves - for adults and children, for beginners and for those who already know the basics of the language, for a wide range of users and specialists. Let's take a look at the best of these solutions.

Tell me more series

Developer: Auralog S.A.

Price: full course (Full Pack, 18 CDs) - 1650 rubles, Elementary level (6 CDs) - 810 rubles, Intermediate (6 CDs) - 810 rubles, Advanced (6 CDs) - 810 rubles.

The Tell me more series of interactive multimedia courses features a unique combination of traditional and computer-based language learning and includes CDs for English (US), Italian, German, Spanish and French. All courses can be customized according to the purpose of the study and the time it takes to learn the language.

The courses provide for three levels of difficulty: Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced, and therefore are suitable for both beginners and those who improve their language skills. The initial level assumes the study of the basics of the language, the intermediate one - fluent reading of fiction and communication on everyday topics, and the in-depth one - listening comprehension of television and radio broadcasts and free communication with an English-speaking interlocutor.

The course of any level of complexity includes many tasks, an extensive grammar reference with examples and a dubbed vocabulary of active vocabulary of the course. The courses are based on interactive multi-level dialogues in which common situations of everyday and business communication are played out, while the program allows you to conduct a free dialogue with the computer, the development of which depends on the student's answers. A variety of exercises that have to be performed in the course of studying the material expand vocabulary and consolidate knowledge of grammar rules, and also allow you to practice speaking and writing, reading and listening. The videos in the dialogues are accompanied by the English text and its Russian translation, which makes it easier to understand and develops the skills of oral speech perception.

Thanks to speech recognition technology, you can conduct an oral dialogue with the computer by speaking the answers into the microphone. The built-in pronunciation visualization system (the program displays spoken speech in the form of a graph, comparing it with the graph of the correct reproduction of the same phrase) and three-dimensional animation of the speech organs in the process of the formation of individual sounds, accompanied by comments, help to improve pronunciation and intonation. Moreover, while practicing pronunciation, the program tracks mispronounced words using the exclusive S.E.T.S. technology. (Spoken Error Tracking System) and draws the attention of the student to them.

Support for the monitoring function allows the student to keep track of their progress and mistakes.

REWARD [email protected]

The developer: REWARD [email protected] software YDP Multimedia, Macmillan Publishers Limited

Price: Full Pack version - 2250 rubles. (9 CD), Elementary level - 810 rubles, Intermediate - 810 rubles, Pre-Intermediate - 810 rubles, Upper-Intermediate - 810 rubles.

REWARD [email protected] is one of the most complete multimedia English textbooks on the Russian market, covering all stages of language learning. It is based on the world famous Oxford textbook Reward, which is considered the foundation for learning English as a foreign language. The course is designed for adults and adolescents and is perfect for self-study, but with no less success it can be used in classical education - in schools and universities, in various language centers and courses, especially in combination with the traditional Reward audio and video course.

REWARD [email protected] includes four levels: Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate, which in total contain about 200 lessons and 5 thousand exercises.

You can study the course sequentially - starting with the first lesson and moving forward step by step. But at any time, you can go back (if something is left unassimilated) or, on the contrary, skip this or that lesson, if the topic studied in it is familiar, or immediately start with the control work. And if you need to brush up on certain topics, then you can enter a query in the built-in navigator - and the program will search for the necessary topics for lessons and select exercises for pronunciation, speech skills, writing, etc.

The course covers all sections of linguistics: vocabulary, phonetics, grammar - and allows you to accumulate a good vocabulary, master reading literature, and also develops the perception of oral speech. Vocabulary increases with each lesson, and new vocabulary is consolidated through active use in exercises. A special lexical module, consisting of a short English-Russian dictionary, a word search system and a mechanism for creating user dictionaries, provides convenience for working with new words, for example, a student can enter current vocabulary into a personal user dictionary. Learning grammar is not limited to a simple introduction to the rules - they are accompanied by numerous exercises that allow you to better understand the topic. There are a lot of phonetic exercises in the course, thanks to which the user not only develops the correct pronunciation, but also learns to read phonetic signs.

REWARD [email protected] also greatly facilitates the acquisition of speaking skills. From the first lessons, the exercises are accompanied by sound examples - you can listen to any new word and phonogram for any exercise, which allows you to practice the placement of stress, intonation and pronunciation. In addition, there are special listening exercises in each lesson. Their complexity gradually increases, and at the last stage of training, the student listens to a real conversation, which can be emotional, interspersed with slang, and the diction of the speakers is not always perfect. If at first the student needs to grasp only the general meaning of the conversation, then then he will have to clarify the details, and then restore the dialogue verbatim.

For self-control, the program implements several mechanisms: you can make a recording, listen to it and compare your pronunciation with the speaker's reference pronunciation, or make a visual comparison of phonograms, or use the built-in ViaVoice (tm) speech recognition system.

With the Forum and News features, the student can use their English to communicate online.

Bridge to English II. Basic and Advanced English Courses

The developer: Intense Educational

Publisher: Intense Educational (http://www.intense.ru/)

Price: basic or advanced course - 100 rubles. (1 CD), basic course or advanced course with "Audiogramma" - 170 rubles. (2 CD)

These courses are developed in the UK and are widely recognized in the world, and the basic course is also awarded the highest award of the largest international educational network - Aspect International Language Academies. They represent a continuous unified training system that allows you to study the features of English vocabulary, grammar and phonetics in a complex, learn how to compose dialogues and write dictations, translate and understand live speech, which is facilitated by both numerous methodological techniques and a very strict system of monitoring progress. The basic course covers the basic grammatical structures of the English language, and therefore is intended for users who are just starting to learn English or who want to improve their existing initial skills in reading, writing, pronunciation and listening comprehension. The advanced course includes additional grammatical constructions that are not covered in the basic course, and is designed for those who speak the language at an intermediate level and wish to continue studying it.

Both courses contain 20 lessons, in each of which a specific grammatical structure is studied along with a lexical block corresponding to the topic of the lesson. Each lesson additionally contains playful colorfully illustrated exercises to check the material learned, spelling and the ability to conduct a conversation on a given topic. All text material is voiced, and most of the sounds are read by both male and female voices. The student's vocabulary is replenished by listening to new words and expressions, accompanied by viewing their text writing and the corresponding bright, figurative picture that increases the level of memorization. At the end of each lexical block, it is proposed to complete the exercise "Shooting gallery", in which it is necessary to have time to write the desired word in a certain time. It allows you not only to consolidate the material studied, but also to learn how to write without mistakes.

The study of grammar is carried out on the basis of an original method of presenting grammatical structures in the form of changing "stamps", supplemented by a "grammatical mosaic", when from the possible options, like from cubes, it is required to collect the answer to the question posed. The rules are interspersed with a variety of practical exercises.

Both courses are accompanied by an audio trainer - a special program for training the correct pronunciation of English words and phrases. It can be used with any exercise and allows you to listen to the speech of a professional speaker, as well as record and listen to your own, which is useful when practicing pronunciation.

“Professor Higgins. English without an accent! " and “Professor Higgins. German without an accent! " (version 6.0)

Developer: IstraSoft CJSC

Publisher: LLC "1C-Publishing" (http://www.1c.ru/)

Price: the new version is not defined, the previous version - 188 rubles.

Training courses “Professor Higgins. English without an accent! " and “Professor Higgins. German without an accent! " are a complete phonetic, lexical and grammatical multimedia reference book for learning a foreign language. They are intended for those who wish (regardless of their initial level of knowledge) to learn to understand spoken English or German and speak grammatically correctly, with good and distinct pronunciation (in the case of English - the BBC version, which is the norm of speech on English television, in the case of German - a variant of Hoсhdeutsche, the norm of speech on German television).

Courses include theoretical material (rules, diagrams, explanatory examples) and many exercises to train pronunciation and develop skills for the sustainable use of lexical and grammatical models and can be used both for independent language learning and for teaching under the guidance of a teacher. The material presented in them is divided into several sections, which can be studied both sequentially (which is necessary for beginners), and in any order, based on the goals set.

With the sequential passage of the sections, users first master the perception and correct pronunciation of speech sounds and their combinations, study the rules for setting stress and train in the pronunciation of letters and their combinations in common words. At this stage, they are assisted by the built-in three-dimensional animation and visualization of the correct articulation of sounds, which give a visual representation of the work of the speech apparatus and allow the learner to control the pronunciation. To evaluate the results, you can not only resort to the classical visual comparison of your own pronunciation with the reference one (by ear and according to the graph on the monitor screen), but also use a special module for assessing the quality of pronunciation (this module will appear in a new version, which will be released in early 2007).

The next step will be listening practice, during which users will need to complete many exercises to develop their listening comprehension skills. In this case, you can choose on which groups of words or phrases (from those provided in the program) to train.

At the last stage, stable in use lexical and grammatical models are studied and preparation for effective communication is underway, for which you need to perform many vocabulary exercises that serve to train pronunciation, enrich vocabulary and accelerate the pace of speech. Such exercises are based on real speech: common phrases often found in dialogues, proverbs, tongue twisters, poetry and stories.

In addition, the course has sections "Grammar" and "Dictionaries". The first sets out the basic rules of English grammar and contains a series of independent lessons with theory material and interactive exercises. The second contains a general dictionary and a dictionary of homonyms, any of the words in which you can listen, pronounce and conduct an acoustic and visual comparison of your own pronunciation with the reference.

Series of training courses "Learn languages"

Developer: EuroTalk Interactive

Price: 119 RUB (1 CD)

The series is presented by two courses - “Learn languages. Level for beginners "and" Learn languages. Continuing Level ”, and each course has versions for learning English (American or British), French, German, Italian, Spanish and many other languages. These courses are suitable for both adults and children, and training can be conducted entirely independently or at school under the guidance of a teacher (for example, the theoretical foundations of the courses can be used to explain the material, and exercises, games and quizzes can be used to consolidate it). Both courses are interactive (the computer reacts to the student's successes or mistakes), they keep statistics and provide the ability to monitor achievements (which is especially important if the course is used for teaching children). The theoretical material in them is presented easily, accessible and visually, and the presence of various means of self-control (quizzes, games and exercises of different levels of difficulty) contributes to the consolidation of the studied material. The ability to record your voice and compare your own pronunciation with the pronunciation of the speaker (albeit only visual, since there is no automatic pronunciation assessment function in the course) will help in developing the correct pronunciation.

Business Targets

The developer: Young Digital Poland S.A.

Price: RUB 810 (3 CDs or 1 DVD)

Business Targets is one of the best solutions for learning Business English, a must for all professionals working in the international market. The course is designed for users with an Intermediate level of preparation and is a unique combination of advanced computer technologies, distance learning opportunities and a traditional educational and methodological complex in one product. Thanks to interactivity, flexible planning of classes and regular, precise control of knowledge, together with the use of advanced computer technologies, Business Targets can be successfully used both for self-study and for learning English in schools and universities, in language courses, during classes with tutor, etc.

The course allows you to learn business vocabulary (including terms associated with modern means of communication: mobile phone, Internet, e-mail), master the lexical structures and expressions necessary in business communication, and contributes to the development of speech skills. In addition, it involves the study of basic grammar at the Advanced level, includes extensive information about business (of course, in English) and a variety of exercises to consolidate the material covered.

Correct English without boring rules!

Developer: Auralog S.A.

Price: Full Pack version - 570 rubles. (6 CD), level 1 - 199 rubles. (2 CD), level 2 - 199 rubles. (2 CD), level 3 - 199 rubles. (2 CD)

"Correct English without boring rules!" is the Russian edition of the internationally recognized electronic textbook Tell me More Kids by the French company Auralog. The program consists of three parts: "Fairy House", where you can invite preschoolers from 4 to 6 years old; Amazing City for primary school children (7-9 years old); "Magic World", a journey through which is designed for 10-12 year olds. Each of the options assumes an initial level of education. With the purchase of all three parts in the Full Pack, a set of 60 colorful flashcards with English words are attached to the course, which help to consolidate the passed vocabulary.

While exploring the mysterious world of Correct English, the child will acquire an initial vocabulary, and two funny friends will help him in this - the prudent professor Albert and the restless parrot Calico. They will accompany the child on the trip and, if necessary, will tell you what and how to do, praise or scold for the quality of the tasks performed, and their advice will not only provide invaluable support, but also will not let you get bored.

Over a thousand vocabulary games, many cartoons and fun karaoke will be waiting for the child on the journey. Exciting games (find the difference between two posters, guess the words encrypted in a funny crossword puzzle, return the stolen pieces of the puzzle, etc.) contribute to the development of speaking, reading, writing skills and expanding vocabulary. In cartoons, all the characters speak English, and by voicing their favorite characters, the child will be able to develop the correct pronunciation and intonation. With the help of karaoke, you can learn funny songs in English and in between times learn a lot of new words.

The study of English spoken language occurs smoothly and unobtrusively: at first, the child only listens to English speech (immersion stage), then in the tasks he is required to understand it, and at the final stage real conversational practice begins, involving the child in dialogues along with the characters of the course. Pronunciation is assessed in an adult way - automatically (using modern speech recognition technologies) and graphically (using the built-in pronunciation visualization system, when oscillograms of the child's speech and the speaker's are displayed on the screen for comparison).

Bridge to English for kids

The developer: Intense Educational

Publisher: Intense Educational (http://www.intense.ru/)

Price: RUB 200 per course

To know a foreign language as a native language, you need to start mastering it from early childhood. Online courses Bridge to English for kids, in which children are told fairy tales in English, can help with this.

Each of the four courses in the series so far released is an educational video book with two fairy tales recorded on two discs: an audio CD played on a regular CD player connected to the TV, and a DVD for playing on a DVD player connected to the TV. The first one is designed for children under nine months old and is played simply as a background so that the child learns words with the correct stress, pronunciation and intonation; in the future, this disc can be used to listen to a fairy tale before bedtime. The DVD is intended for children from nine months to five years old and contains colorful cartoons based on English folk tales, as well as age-appropriate interactive exercises.

"Quick Start: Fluent English (DVD + Book)"
Stop boringly cramming with old textbooks! The latest technology in video teaching - watch, learn and have fun!
Why is a video course effective?
It has been experimentally proven that more than 80% of information is received by a person with the help of sight. Therefore, a video course is several times more effective than learning "by ear".
The material in the video course is presented thematically. Each topic consists of individual words and a set of phrases. Pairs of words (foreign-Russian) or pairs of phrases are displayed on the screen, which are voiced by the speaker. With this presentation of the material, you will memorize the sound and spelling of words in a foreign language, expand your active vocabulary, learn to communicate on a relevant topic and maintain a dialogue. feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: Quick Start: Fluent English is_partner: 30

English Reading Club. Beginner level "
Reissue of a popular English course based on the books of famous English-speaking authors.
The English Reading Club program is an electronic library designed for different levels of language proficiency. The entire course contains 12 books in English, including the works of Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and others.
The functions of the program make it possible not only to read, but also to listen (all texts are voiced by native English speakers), as well as to train pronunciation by recording your voice through a microphone. In addition, at the end of each chapter there are special tasks for the development of basic speech skills: exercises for reading comprehension, consolidating grammatical structures, activating new words, predicting a plot, etc.
The English Reading Club is designed for three levels: Beginner, Elementary and Intermediate. In fact, this program is not just a library, but a whole training course with which you can easily and unobtrusively improve your English.
Product Features:
# Systematic development of all language skills: speaking and writing, reading and listening comprehension, pronunciation
# Lyrics are voiced by professional actors - native speakers
# Built-in Collins Cobuild Student's Dictionary (English-English)
# 33 hours of original English speech
# 1065 voiced exercises of 20 different types
# 5100 illustrations
# Built-in RE-WISE system for repeating and quickly memorizing a large number of words feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: English Reading Club. Beginner is_partner: 30

English Reading Club. Elementary level " feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: English Reading Club. Elementary is_partner: 30

Full contact №1. Travel easy! "

Full contact №1 - these programs will help you when choosing vouchers in a travel agency, booking tickets, getting insurance at the airport. 8 thematic programs. Duration - 80 minutes. feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: Full contact # 1 is_partner: 30

Full contact №2. Travel easy! "
Video program for English language learners
Full contact №2 - these programs will allow you to feel free on board an aircraft, in a taxi, in a hotel, on an excursion. 8 thematic programs. Duration - 80 minutes. feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: Full contact # 2 is_partner: 30

Full contact №3. Travel easy! "
Video program for English language learners
Full contact №3 - these programs will give you the opportunity to communicate freely on the street, in a restaurant, on a train. Duration - 80 minutes. feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: Full contact # 3 is_partner: 30

“Modern language course. English. Full course "

Learning English has never been easier with this program. And these are not empty words! Developed by the leading Business Coach firm in Europe, this program incorporates all modern developments in the field of foreign language learning. You no longer need to buy many different discs - everything you need is already collected here!
The full course includes: a business English course, a grammar course, a conversation course, training courses of different levels of difficulty, a vocabulary training system, and a built-in dictionary. This is the easiest way to learn a foreign language, both for everyday communication and for work. feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: Modern language course. English is_partner: 30

"Video course: English - easy to get started!"
With the video course "It's easy to get started!" You can do this effortlessly - just insert the disc into your DVD player!
Video course "It's easy to get started!" will help you learn the necessary set of English words and expressions that can be useful to you in any life situation! For better memorization, each word in our video course is accompanied by an illustration, pronounced in English, in Russian and supplied with subtitles, in order to help you not only learn the correct pronunciation of the word, but also remember the correct spelling! feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: Video course: English - easy to get started! is_partner: 30

“English at the wheel. Full contact. Travel easy! "
The new unique course "English Driving" is a practical and easy way to quickly and effectively learn English without the help of a textbook wherever it is convenient for you - driving, at home, on vacation, on the road. Professional presenters and native speakers of English from the USA, Canada, and Great Britain took part in the creation of the linguistic base of this program and its dubbing. 7 educational thematic programs.
Full contact - situational dialogues for tourists. These programs will give you the opportunity to communicate freely in a hotel, restaurant, on excursions. Travel with ease and pleasure! feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: English driving. Full contact. Travel easy! is_partner: 30

“Word Express. Audio dictionary. Improve your vocabulary! Tutorial"
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“Word Express. Video dictionary. Improve your vocabulary! Video program for English language learners "
ENGLISH CLUB TV video programs are intended for viewers with different levels of English proficiency, from beginner to advanced. Full contact - situational dialogues for tourists. Travel with ease and pleasure!
Word Express is a video dictionary for quickly replenishing your inventory. 30 educational thematic programs. feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: Word Express. Video dictionary. is_partner: 30

“Video course Intellect of accelerated learning of foreign languages. English. Required minimum (2 DVDs) "
Based on a technique known as the 25th frame effect.
Education with the help of the video course "Intellect. Required minimum" allows you to learn up to one thousand two hundred foreign words. With traditional teaching methods, such a level of vocabulary is achieved in at least a year of systematic classes in foreign language courses. The linguistic base of the set "Intellect. Required minimum" has been developed in close cooperation with leading experts from the largest universities in Europe on the basis of the most modern methods.
A special technique is used based on the reverse perception of the studied material. You have the opportunity to: repeatedly view the lexical base; get acquainted with the pronunciation of foreign words; consolidate the knowledge gained with the help of control charts, using imaginative thinking; optimally distribute the number of lessons learned daily; monitor your progress with a progress diary. feed_id: 5025 pattern_id: 14 search: Video course Intellect. English language is_partner: 30

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ENGLISH READING CLUB. Intermediate Kit.(4 CDs)
ENGLISH READING CLUB. Intermediate Pack.(4 CDs)
Contains works: "Dracula" (Bram Stoker), "The Sign of Four" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), "The Woman Who Disappeared" (Philip Prowse), "The Speckled Band and Other Stories" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).

ENGLISH READING CLUB. Full Kit. (12 discs, contains all levels and Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary)
ENGLISH READING CLUB. Full Pack. (12 discs, contains all levels, but without Collins)

The English Reading Club course is based on a proven practice method of learning and improving a foreign language through reading fiction. This course will be especially useful for everyone who needs to consolidate and develop basic knowledge of the English language.
When you open the e-book, you will see the table of contents. You can not only read, but also listen to texts voiced by professional actors - native speakers, and illustrations will help you understand what is at stake. Each chapter is preceded by tasks. If you come across unfamiliar words, the Collins COBUILD Student "s Dictionary is a voiced electronic explanatory dictionary.
The English Reading Club course comes in two complete sets: with and without a fully-voiced Collins COBUILD Student "s Dictionary (if you already have one). In the dictionary you will find an explanation of each word from the course texts, its grammatical forms, examples of usage and the exact meaning, taking into account the context.A special section of the program makes it possible to train the pronunciation of individual words and phrases.
A useful feature of the dictionary is the original method of memorizing words RE-WISE (you can enter any word from the text into your own dictionary and work with it using RE-WISE). The program will create an optimal individual scheme for memorizing and repeating words for you. This will allow you to keep in memory a large amount of learned material. (Note: the RE-WISE memorization technique works only with the Collins COBUILD Student "s Dictionary.)
You can also practice your pronunciation: voice dialogues, repeat sentences, compare your version with the voiceover, perform phonetic dictations.
E-books of the English Reading Club series are suitable for self-study and for classes in schools, universities, courses. Read, listen, talk with their characters, and you will understand that English can be learned easily, interestingly, with pleasure. Try it and see for yourself!