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The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners (Penguin Handbooks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nicholas J. Brown
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
List Price: $18.00
Buy New: $10.03
You Save: $7.97 (44%)
Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 7575
Media: Paperback
Pages: 528
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0140120416
Dewey Decimal Number: 491.782421
EAN: 9780140120417
ASIN: 0140120416
Publication Date: December 1, 1996
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Product Description
Whether you're learning alone or attending classes, you'll find this complete Russian language course for beginners both accessible and indispensable. Designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equivalent of A level standard) this book features thirty lessons punctuated by revision exercises to ensure you have fully understood what you have learned. The emphasis is on acquiring vocabulary, experiencing conversational language and learning useful grammar. This book also includes a vocabulary of 1,500 words and a glossary of grammatical terms.
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 Best russian book November 21, 2008
S. messer (MI)
I've been using this along the side with rosetta stone and both have helped me learna great deal of russian in the last three months.
The new penguin russian course for beginners August 23, 2008
Szilvia Locsei (St helier,Jersey)
very helpful to learn how to:
- pronounce the words
- read and write
- use grammar
- and for the vocabulary
 Russian Instructor: Why the rave reviews? June 21, 2008
Linguist
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
I chose to use this book as the textbook for my Russian class because it was cheaper than Golosa or Nachalo. That was a mistake. The book includes all the grammatical information that you need to speak Russian, but a beginning Russian student needs more than just grammar. I don't know the author of this book, but I'm guessing that he doesn't place much importance on teaching. It seems he still adheres to the grammar-translation approach to teaching Russian. The organization of the book is confusing, neither thematic nor grammatical. The exercises are brief, and could have easily been lifted from a Russian textbook that was printed in the 50's or 60's. Frankly, I don't know why this book has gotten such rave reviews, unless it's being compared to not having any book at all. It's a lot cheaper than a real textbook, but there's a reason why it's cheaper. If you want a cheap way to learn Russian, check out the Berlitz Self-Teacher from the library.
Comprehensive, Manageable, Cheap February 9, 2008
Patrick M. Pfeffer (Panama City Beach, Florida)
This is a great book to learn russian from the ground up. Every lesson is comprehensive in its theme and there are exercises at the end of each chapter and solutions in the back. There are also consolidated grammar tables in the appendix for quick lookup and a 1500 word vocabulary. I bought 6 russian language course books on Amazon and this one is by far the best.
EXCELLENT February 7, 2008
Gen (Colorado)
This book is EXCELLENT in my opinion. When I don't fully grasp grammar points from my russian textbook, I refer to this. It would be nice if it came as a cd course though.
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