Word: lipson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private course, taught by Alexander L. Lipson, assistant professor of Russian at M.I.T., began in February and will continue until reading period. Its total enrollment...
When asked why he chose Lipson's course over the University's Slavic A, one student replied, "Other graduate students in my dorm warned me not to take Slavic A. I was told you may learn to write Russian, but not to speak it." Another student said he avoided the University course because he had heard that sections spend all their time "learning to get the accents right." A physics graduate student who had taken Slavic A pronounced it "time-consuming," "medleval," and "a cook-book course...
...Lipson's pupils remarked that he is not taking the private course "to get away from Harvard" but because he had "heard it was terrific." He described it as "the best language course I've ever...
...first lesson in Lipson's course concentrates on several Russian sentences that the students repeat in class. One of the sentence groups is a dialogue beginning, "Do you understand why the verb ends this way?" "No, I don't." "Well, let me see if I can help...
When the students are fluent in the sentences, Lipson begins to explain the rules of grammar. "Once they have a feel of the language, they can more easily memorize the rules," he explained. "It's almost like learning the grammar of your own language...