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In 2012, the Department of Modern Languages launched a new series of handbooks and textbooks entitled Slaviska handb.cker och l.romedel (ed. Jussi Nuorluoto), which is intended to be used in instruction at different levels within bachelor, master and graduate programmes. As the books are written in Swedish, they are used in Sweden, Norway, and Finland (in the latter case, for Swedish - speaking students). The first volume, J. Nuorluoto's De slaviska standardspr.kens framv.xt: idéhistoriska kontexter och concept , 2012, is a comprehensive manual containing a modest number of examples from individual Slavic languages. Thus, it can be read by non - Slavists as well. The focus of the first volume is on the circumstances under which the modern Slavic standard languages were created across centuries. This means that the book aims to present the background of the individual standard languages in space and time. Moreover, it focuses on what the standa rd languages are not. In the majority of cases, they are constructions that do not coincide with natural speech, i.e., the languages that are normally taught in courses.