However, the program will run directly from the CD-ROM . Windows-compatible sound card . MP3 driver supplied. General Description Figure 1 Ruslan Russian 2 is produced by Ruslan Ltd., a British firm specialising in Russian language teaching materials. The dialogues were written by Natalya Veshnyeva and John Langran, the exercises by John Langran, programming and production by Mike Beilby using Asymetrix Toolbook.
Primary focus is placed on listening comprehension.
Learners are provided with extensive support by means of sound files, interactive exercises and grammar explanations. Figure 2 Evaluation Technological features The program can be used in one of two ways. It can either be played directly from the CD-ROM or partially installed on hard disk. At the first time of running the program suddenly shut down when it failed to find the necessary MP3 driver already installed. The Readme file states that in such a case 'the option will then be given to install a copy of the Fraunhofer driver by running an installation program'.