 | Oxford Take Off in Russian (Paperback with CDs) by Nick Ukiah
Buy used from: £30.52 The best all-round pack on the market. Lots of audio content, useful vocab and phrases and plenty of enjoyable exercises, all at a very good price.
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 | Russian Language and People Course Book by Dr Roy Bivon
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £4.49 The best place to start if you are a total beginner. The difficulty curve is shallow and the Cyrillic alphabet is introduced gradually via tasks, rather than a list with an instruction to learn it!
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 | Teach Yourself Russian Conversation (Teach Yourself Conversations) by Rachel Farmer
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £8.50 Provides what most people need more practice of: speaking and listening. Especially important if you are planning to visit Russia.
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 | Instant Immersion Russian 2 CD-ROM Set (Jewel Case)
A good value pack, you get Talk Now! and World Talk bundled together. It's not a course, but a fun way to build your vocabulary and supplement a textbook.
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 | Colloquial Russian: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series) by Svetlana Le Fleming
Buy new: £12.55 / Used from: £9.00 Completely unsuitable for beginners, overpriced and boring! But at least the ridiculous difficulty curve means it'll last you a long time, and the reading and translation exercises are good practice.
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 | 501 Russian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses, Alphabetically Arranged (Barron's 201 Mandarin Chinese Verbs) by Thomas R. Beyer
Buy used from: £2.50 Ok so verbs are boring, but you can't learn Russian without them. An invaluable reference book.
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