Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83987 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

Ruslan Russian learning books and workbooks.
After buying many courses on learning Russian these courses make learning Russian a pleasure without any ambiguity and some well remembered humour. The courses are fully supported with language casettes, cds and computer cd roms. If you are a little beyond beginner there are videos and Russian folk songs with English translations and meanings of important dialogue.
All I can say it is a pleasure to learn Russian with Ruslan.
I look foreward to progressing through the course.

Great for beginners
This was the book I needed to by as part of the basic Russian evening class I went to. The only reason for a drop in the stars line is because, sadly, the audio was tape and not CD. I do not have anything to play tapes anymore because I'm a little addicted to new technology. Apart from that, there's nothing wrong with it.

I'm not really sure what the reviews below mean about all the rubbish dialog and stuff, but I guess it can be depending on taste. I found it rather amusing, but then again, other people in my class did not. If you are a beginner, it's an excellent start. I knew the alphabet and a few words before learning Russian using this book, and I have to say that helped a lot first.

From a student's point of view, it is a useful book to use and, the best thing I found, it wasn't in American. Other CDs I'd borrowed were all in American with people visiting America and it meant nothing and the spelling was really irritating. However, this means a lot more with Russians visiting England and it meant more, but that's a personal thing. I only wish schools actually taught this language down to GCSE level and beyond.

Grown Up learning
This is an excellent text book for learning Russian as an adult. It tackles the sometimes infuriating complexities of the language in a clear and easily accesible manner, but doesn't skimp on the basics! Other books either skirt the grammar issue or overload you with too much inpregnable fine detail. In conjunction with the excellently designed cd rom and the useful audio tape/cd this is an excellent way to learn Russian. Well done Ruslan!