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.The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Penguin Handbooks)
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by: Nicholas J. Brown

March 28, 1996
Can someone tell me if this book has accents to show where the stress falls on a word? I have used "Oxford Take Off in Russian", which does have these accents, and found it very good, if a bit thin. So I bought another book Basic "Russian: A Grammar and Workbook", but the lack of accents renders it virtually useless for self-study.
Thanks
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.The Oxford Russian Grammar and Verbs (Dictionary)
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by: Terence Wade

June 20, 2002
A well-written & well-organized book. Provides answers for many question that rise up as you learn the language. The examples are really useful in order to understand plus the pronunciation is marked on the words.
This is a nice book which you can easily carry in your bag; however small it is, it contains so many things that you wonder how they do fit in there.
I would highly recommend it.
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.Russian (Lonely Planet Phrasebook)
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by: Jim Jenkin

March 01, 2006
I took this book with me when I visited Russia for the first time with absolutely zero knowledge of Russian. This book was invaluable! Due to the nature of the Russian language, being one that is spelt as it is spoken, I was using words and phrases from this book and being mistaken for a local! The problem was I could not understand the responses I got many times, but that is not a fault of the book.

The book also lists words and phrases in Cyrillic, which means it's extremely easy to learn to read in Russia and I was able to read nearly all of the Cyrllic alphabet within the day!

On my journey on the Trans-Siberian railway I shared my carriage with a native Russian from Omsk. He had only a bare basic understanding of English from ... Read More:
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.First Thousand Words in Russian (First Thousand Words)
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by: Heather Amery

April 29, 2005
The book was delivered in time. By the way, the First Thousand Words in Russian is excellent book for children with bright pictures. Also good for adults who study Russian as foreign language.
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.Oxford Russian Dictionary
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by: Oxford

May 10, 2007
I agree with the previous reviewer completely and cannot put it better. As a proud owner of the Oxford French and Oxford Polish
Dictionaries, I am disappointed with the Oxford Russian Dictionary, (and how naive was I, in eager anticipation of the 4th edition, to have thought that it would one day live up to its name and rank alongside the great bi-lingual dictionaries of other major European languages.

In compiling the ORD, OUP did not collaborate with any Russian dictionary publisher. For a bilingual dictionary of this scale, this is a key weakness. It is perhaps therefore not surprising that ORD cannot stand comparison with the OFD and OPD. In fairness to OUP, however, I must point out that good reference books on the Russian language ... Read More:
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.Michel Thomas Method: Russian Foundation Course (Michel Thomas Series)
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by: Natasha Bershadski

September 28, 2007
This new Russian course is a great addition to the Michel Thomas series. Although the great man is no longer here. Natasha Bershadski provides almost ten hours of excellent teaching for those learning the language for the first time. She spends a lot of time reinforcing pronunciation to the two students, stressing the importance of soft and hard consonants, in that way you as the 3rd student pick up the Russian accent along the way. The later part of the course deals with the Cyrilic alphabet and goes through the formal construction of spoken Russian.

Along with the Advanced course, a great introduction to spoken Russian.
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.Easy Russian Phrase Book: Over 690 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use (Dover Easy Phrase Books)
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by: Dover Publications Inc

1995-11
This is a nifty little book for stuff like numbers, the russian alphabet, greetings, asking for directions etc and all with a pronunciation guide. However, it is an american book, last published in 1995, so it still has a bit of a cold-war air to it. And I can't ever imagine myself in a situation where I'd need to ask "shall I get the militia men?" But it's pretty good.
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.The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs: 555 Fully Conjugated Verbs (Big Book of Verbs Series)
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by: Jack Franke

January 01, 2005
The last time I learnt a language I choose the Barrons 301/501 guide, but this time I decided to try The Big Silver Book, and I am very pleased that I did.
It's very clearly laid out and has easy-to-understand, but not sub-par or too-basic, descriptions of the different verb types and conjugations at the beginning of the book, as well as an extremely useful 'verbs of motion' index (Russian verbs of motion are far more particular than English - you cannot just say 'go', you must choose a particular verb for your mode of transport, then change the aspect according to whether the journey has been completed already, will be a return journey, or whether it has a specific destination in mind before its commencement).
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.Russian in 10 Minutes a Day
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by: Kristine K. Kershul

January 01, 1998
This book is frankly poor. The emphasis is on vocabulary, although it does throw in a few set phrases for you to use. However, this book is not going to enable you to actually SPEAK Russian or understand anything of any real merit. Yes, I realise it is for complete beginners, but Take Off in Russian is also aimed at the beginner market and can do a lot more for you than this. If you want short lessons, then Take Off provides this (although they are more like half an hour than 10 minutes - but then what can you really learn in 10 minutes?). Take Off also provides you with the tools to produce language on your own, rather than relying on the few set phrases you might have found in a book like 10 minutes.
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.Beginner's Russian Book/CD Pack (Teach Yourself Languages)
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by: Rachel Farmer

September 26, 2003
Rachel Farmer is the best CD Tutor of Russian......I had bought many CD Russian courses... many are by residents of the USA, with their own sloppy version of Russian. Rachel Farmer speaks very clearly and her voice becomes your friend, which is good for not getting stressed when you are listening and learning.... This contains 2 CDs and 256 page book, starting you from the basics and learning the alphabet. The alphabet is the key to pronouncing the words in Russian, not English spellings of the words. The only other Russian course i could recommend above this CD and book is actually taught at Birmingham University or Brasshouse by Olga Bean!!!
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