The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Penguin Handbooks)

The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Penguin Handbooks) | Nicholas J. Brown | Outstanding book for beginners to learn Russian

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	The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Penguin Handbooks) Nicholas J. Brown Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 59 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

After a year, still my favorite russian book

There's not much I can add to what all the other reviewers have already said. I'm an expat living in Russia for a year so far and I'm currently taking classes using a different text (Ben Clark), and I still pull this book out regularly. People of course have many different learning styles and I guess for some genius polyglots, this may not be the best method, but for me the material seems to have a very organic presentation to it. It's certainly not a phrasebook, but the author does tend to present commonly used words and phrases as earlier in the text rather than later. This is a serious book and you can expect to be doing some concentrated studying if you want enjoy its full benefit. I highly recommend this book and it's some of the best money I've spent before coming here.

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Outstanding book for beginners to learn Russian

Alright, i'll break it down for you. This book gives you EVERYTHING you need to learn how to speak russian fluently. The book itself is broken down into lessons and throughout the lessons its broken down further into Exercises. Then, at the end of the lesson they have anywhere from four to six exercises. Make sure your actually DOING THEM! they will help you immensely. At the end of the book they have a Russian to English and then after that an English to Russian vocabulary section that covers most of the common words in russian (the vocab. takes up the last 200 pages). DONT BE INTIMITADED, stay open minded, ask questions (if you have the resourses), have fun and enjoy it. Russian is an awesome language!

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Penguin Russian Course

This book is fantastic. I'm new to the language and have several resources on hand, but this book is my favorite. It systematically presents key concepts and is very thorough.

Perfect for Self-Study

What a great book for anyone studying the Russian language! It's very well organized with lots of vocabulary and practice. If you learn by "doing", this book will challenge you to do just that with written exercises.

I recommend this book to anyone who is self-studying Russian (as I do with all of my languages.) It's very concise, easy-to-understand and user-friendly.

Usable Course

I used this course before going to Russia in 2006; there I took a two week course - and showed the course to my teacher. The course (as most courses) are filled with grammatical errors, old language forms. However, they always help to build a base. Keep expectations low -- the Russian people are kind to new language learners and will help anyone making an effort.

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