Colloquial Russian: The Complete Course For Beginners (Colloquial Series) [Audiobook, CD] [Audio CD]

Svetlana le Fleming (Author), Susan E. Kay (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415486297 | ISBN-13: 978-0415486293 | Publication Date: December 2, 2009 | Edition: 3

These two CDs, recorded by native speakers, are an invaluable component of the Colloquial course. While reinforcing material from the book, the CDs also contain a variety of additional exercises, including role-playing, designed to perfect your speaking and listening skills.

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Text: English, Russian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Routledge; 3 edition (December 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415486297
• ISBN-13: 978-0415486293
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #576,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • #33 in Books > Books on CD > Children's Fiction > Language

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A user-friendly book even without the accompanying disk, April 22, 2011

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This review is from: Colloquial Russian: The Complete Course For Beginners (Colloquial Series) (Paperback)

As a foreign language teacher, I am always picky when choosing materials to teach myself a new foreign language. I was pleasantly surprised with this book. Many books just spend a lot of time repeating random words or tediously try to explain the very complicated Russian grammar BEFORE you even get to start speaking the language. What I liked about this book is that it teaches you these things but through a realistic, written dialogue. They use many cognants (words that sound the same in both langauges) to start you off and have a handy vocab key next to the dialogue in case you cannot figure something out. The grammar and reading comprehension activities following the dialogue are thorough. I also like how the chapters of the book are divided up by theme or topic rather than grammatical concepts. You will, however, get much more out of the book if you have the accompanying cds.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, useful Russian, April 22, 2011

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This review is from: Colloquial Russian: The Complete Course For Beginners (Colloquial Series) (Paperback)

This book does a very good job of condensing the Russian Language into practical, usable dialogue. It includes enough grammar to aid in accurate speech, but not so much as to be imposing, which is one of the greater challenges of the Russian language.