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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Web pronunciation guide makes this a winner,
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This review is from: First Thousand Words In Russian: With Internet-Linked Pronunciation Guide (Russian Edition) (Hardcover)
The online pronunciation guide makes this book worth every penny! The pronunciation guide is the piece that is missing from almost every book on learning Russian I've purchased. I finally went to Pimmsleur's language CD's because nothing else had anything but text. (They're excellent, by the way, but they lack the text.) The online guide uses a native female speaker. She speaks clearly and distinctly, which is what you'll need to get it right. The 'push button' links to hear the word work well, although sometimes you have to click twice to get it to play. Yes, it would be nicer to have flash cards, etc. But for $10, it's a steal. Go Internet!The book contains 1000 very useful words, like pillow, soap, kitchen, etc. Not many verbs, but many (if not most) of the nouns you will need for day to day conversation. It is certainly not a book to learn to converse in Russian but it does a great job of giving you the basic words to make this possible. Regardless of your age, this book will be useful for the beginner in the Russian Language. I'd love to see the authors do a similar book for verbs and introductory conversation, complete with online pronunciation. Buy this book so they'll make more! :)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A lozhka, a spoon, a thousand words of Russian,
By Almelle (Virginia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: First Thousand Words In Russian: With Internet-Linked Pronunciation Guide (Russian Edition) (Hardcover)
How can a student of Russian learn that a "lozhka" is a spoon? On each two-page spread of this dictionary, small sketches border a modern scene. Below each sketch a Russian word and an English transliteration are printed. Amery and Kirilenko aim to make Russian easy to read and learn for children and older students alike.Yet older language learners may find themselves reading little of real substance. The dictionary primarily depicts nouns--only two of the fifty-some pages show verbs--and hardly mentions greetings or grammar. Students using The First Thousand Words in Russian will need more than these thousand words to learn Russian well. Students may also have trouble interpreting some of the smaller sketches: which rectangle is the carpet, which is the rug, and which is the pillow among the pictures that surround a house scene? The Russian meaning may remain unclear even after finding that yellow or purple rectangle lying around in the larger scene. Still, the book has advantages for the browsing reader: the pictures are expressive and the layout encourages casual vocabulary-building. Because it is organized by scenes, any location is an opportunity for learning: look around your kitchen, hospital, or house, and match the picture of the lozhka to the spoon in your hand. The First Thousand Words In Russian is a great introduction for children or an enjoyable diversion for the serious student of Russian.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
great tool,
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this is a great resource to have for anyone learning Russian. The website with pronunciations is great!
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