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- Thanks for using my Russian Tutoring program. I wrote this program
- because I'd been away from Russian for awhile (I'd had two semesters
- in college) and needed to refresh my memory, which leads me to my
- disclaimer about there probably are mistakes, so please note any and
- send me a reminder.
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- First and foremost, I wish to dedicate this program to my
- Russian instructor at Morehead State University in Morehead, KY,
- Dr. Matt Pryor who is perhaps the most wonderful teacher I've
- ever had the pleasure of studying under. He is truly a <sim-puh-TEECH-nee
- che-luh-VYEK>!
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- Obviously, this is only a very beginner program. It teaches (hopefully)
- the alphabet, numbers, some verbs, some greetings, and some info
- about how to address someone by their name.
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- To run the program, type MAINMENU at the C: prompt. This in turn will
- display a menu of the individual choices. Note that it is possible to
- run these individual programs from DOS since they are all EXE files,
- but each of the programs returns to the MAINMENU program, so you'll end
- up in the menu anyway. In other words, use the MAINMENU method to start
- the program.
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- The individual files are:
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- ALPHABET.EXE Learn the Cyrillic Alphabet
- NUMBERS.EXE Learn some numbers
- GREETING.EXE Say hi and bye to someone in Russian
- WHATISIT.EXE Learn about Russian objects
- NAMES.EXE A list of male and female names
- VERBS.EXE Sixty verbs in the past, present, and future tense
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- The series also consists of some auxilliary programs. These are:
- RUSS.CHR The BGI Russian font (created by me)
- LITT.CHR A little font from Borland
- TRIP.CHR Another Borland font
- OBJT.CHR Some simple monochrome graphics for the objects file
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- Finally, there is a text file which contains the verbs for the
- verb program, as well as a backup copy of the verbs list. DON'T try to
- modify the verb list, because the source code needs to be modified
- too, to be able to add additional verbs. Of course, if you register,
- I'll send you ALL source code...
- VERBS.TXT
- VERBSTXT.BAK
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- The final file (besides this documentation file) is the Borland Graphics
- EGAVGA driver.
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- All files listed above must be in the same directory (preferably on a
- hard drive, but it will work SLOWLY on a floppy drive).
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- STUDY SUGGESTIONS:
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- To make the best of this program, you should by all means study the alphabet
- program until it becomes second nature. You should use pencil and paper and
- copy every letter you see, the sound it makes, and its name. The rest of the
- programs depend on you being able to identify characters of the Cyrillic
- alphabet, so this is an important step.
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- Good luck on your Russian and please register. A lot of hard work went
- into these programs (I'm working on the upgrades, now), and I would
- like to feel the programs are of some value to someone, somewhere.
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- Bal-SHOW-ya spuh-SEE-buh!!!
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- John Selvia
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