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    Today's Publisher's Pride is  How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately  by Boris Shekhtman, which reached  #7 in study and teaching reference and #15 in academic and commercial writing reference .  Book description: This is the fifth edition of a popular book that provides a unique set of tools designed to enhance an individual's success in communicati0n in a foreign language environment. The devices presented allow the speaker of a foreign language to demonstrate the level of his/her language more impressively, so impressively, in fact, that it appears that the speaker's language itself has improved overnight. These techniques were developed and tested by the author with adult professionals in such varied fields as journalism, diplomacy, government, and international business. Many of these professionals have attested to the efficacy of these tools in their own columns. Read more posts about Boris and his books  HERE . Sign up for the MSI ...

    Today's Publisher's Pride is  How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately  by Boris Shekhtman, which reached  #7 in study and teaching reference and #15 in academic and commercial writing reference .  Book description: This is the fifth edition of a popular book that provides a unique set of tools designed to enhance an individual's success in communicati0n in a foreign language environment. The devices presented allow the speaker of a foreign language to demonstrate the level of his/her language more impressively, so impressively, in fact, that it appears that the speaker's language itself has improved overnight. These techniques were developed and tested by the author with adult professionals in such varied fields as journalism, diplomacy, government, and international business. Many of these professionals have attested to the efficacy of these tools in their own columns. Read more posts about Boris and his books  HERE . Sign up for the MSI ...

    Today's Publisher's Pride is  How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately  by Boris Shekhtman, which reached  #7 in study and teaching reference and #15 in academic and commercial writing reference .  Book description: This is the fifth edition of a popular book that provides a unique set of tools designed to enhance an individual's success in communicati0n in a foreign language environment. The devices presented allow the speaker of a foreign language to demonstrate the level of his/her language more impressively, so impressively, in fact, that it appears that the speaker's language itself has improved overnight. These techniques were developed and tested by the author with adult professionals in such varied fields as journalism, diplomacy, government, and international business. Many of these professionals have attested to the efficacy of these tools in their own columns. Read more posts about Boris and his books  HERE . Sign up for the MSI ...

  Today's Publisher's Pride is  How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately  by Boris Shekhtman, which reached  #7 in study and teaching reference and #15 in academic and commercial writing reference .  Book description: This is the fifth edition of a popular book that provides a unique set of tools designed to enhance an individual's success in communicati0n in a foreign language environment. The devices presented allow the speaker of a foreign language to demonstrate the level of his/her language more impressively, so impressively, in fact, that it appears that the speaker's language itself has improved overnight. These techniques were developed and tested by the author with adult professionals in such varied fields as journalism, diplomacy, government, and international business. Many of these professionals have attested to the efficacy of these tools in their own columns. Read more posts about Boris and his books  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press L...

  excerpt from  How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately  by Boris Shekhtman -  Some Words about Boris Shekhtman and This Book I met the late Boris Shekhtman when I became the Russian Language Training Supervisor at the U. S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. He had been enjoying remarkable success as a Russian language instructor of diplomats—they glued themselves to him as one would to a prophet. And perhaps he was sort of a language prophet. He earned teaching awards and established and taught an immensely successful advanced language course. He did not fit into the mainstream of language teachers, though. His methods were his own—no labels for them that fit with current thought. Today, one might point them out as transformative, and the advance course structure did give rise to what today is called Open Architecture Curriculum Design. His approaches and techniques in the 1980s are only now, 40 years later, entering the consciousness of th...