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Teach Yourself Russian Complete Course Package (Book + 2cds) with CD (Audio) (Teach Yourself Language)

Teach Yourself Russian Complete Course Package (Book + 2cds) with CD (Audio) (Teach Yourself Language)
By Daphne West

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This is a very well put together package with excellent audio material to go with the book.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #65250 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-04
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

does anyone know what beginner means?2
The people who wrote this book obviously don't know what its like to be a complete beginner going to a foreign country! Where is the weather vocab? numbers? food? instead the audio cd jumps straight into full on conversation. Unit 2 is at the art gallery! thats the last place i would go if i was new to russian and i certainly wouldn't be able to hold a conversation. I was hoping to get a step by step guide to basic russian language that would help me out when i get there. the book is better than the CD though. there is definately a market out there for a really good beginners guide. if anyone knows of one please let me know

Good but challenging4
The CD is useful, with the characters speaking slowly and clearly. Builds a vocabulary steadily. The vocabulary in the back is short, so a dictionary is recommended. Excellent value for money.

Not a bad start4
I'm an absolute beginner, pretty much, particularly with the Russian language. And after reading the first 3 chapters (yes, I didn't get far) I still had enough to introduce myself and impress the people I was visiting in country Russia. (Though I'm still a long way from actually conducting a conversation or asking anything really useful).

The CDs are a necessity with this book as the dialogues are written entirely in Russian script. Whilst one can supposedly infer the pronunciation of Russian from the script I would say that Russian is not too dissimilar from English in that some words are pronounced a little differently from how it is strictly written.. (it's hard to guess which syllables are almost skipped over completely, and which are vital). So CDs help with reading the Russian script to understand how it should sound.

It did help that I bought the associated Russian Script book in the Teach Yourself series. If anything I was able to easily identify post offices once I got to Russia!!

The CDs have an American sounding introduction, but the exercises themselves sound like a well-versed English woman is making the explanations.