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Colloquial Russian: The Complete Course For Beginners
Colloquial Russian provides a step-by-step course in Russian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Russian in a broad range of situations, requiring no prior knowledge of the language.
Features
progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios useful vocabulary lists throughout the text additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries This fifth edition offers modernised language reflecting social and cultural changes, new vocabulary that's essential for day-to-day interactions, and updated audio material.
Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Russian will be an indispensable resource for both independent learners and students taking courses in Russian.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download for free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. The audio material features the texts, dialogues and exercises from the book and will help develop listening and pronunciation skills.
Features
progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios useful vocabulary lists throughout the text additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries This fifth edition offers modernised language reflecting social and cultural changes, new vocabulary that's essential for day-to-day interactions, and updated audio material.
Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Russian will be an indispensable resource for both independent learners and students taking courses in Russian.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download for free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. The audio material features the texts, dialogues and exercises from the book and will help develop listening and pronunciation skills.
411 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 1993
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September 10, 2024
Nice book for learning basic Russian!
However, I found the dialogues included pretty boring and mechanical, and the exercises leave a lot to be desired. They also contain some errors, like not matching up correctly with the answer keys, but I'll just assume they were making sure I was paying attention and I passed :).
Overall, some more focus on pronunciation in the alphabet chapter would be nice. It is deceptively tricky to learn decent speaking/pronunciation in Russian. The grammar explanations also aren't my favorite. Still, using this book in tandem with other resources really did give me a nice base.
However, I found the dialogues included pretty boring and mechanical, and the exercises leave a lot to be desired. They also contain some errors, like not matching up correctly with the answer keys, but I'll just assume they were making sure I was paying attention and I passed :).
Overall, some more focus on pronunciation in the alphabet chapter would be nice. It is deceptively tricky to learn decent speaking/pronunciation in Russian. The grammar explanations also aren't my favorite. Still, using this book in tandem with other resources really did give me a nice base.
October 9, 2018
Probably one of the best books on the market for Russian language students. Challenging yet lovely.
September 22, 2012
Still studying and get ready to communicate in Russia
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