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Making Progress in Russian: A Second Year Course

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I had this textbook last year until I unfortunately lost it in the spring. It is an incredible book. It goes into great detail on the grammer and has explained some of the concepts like none of the other sources I have used have (I also have schaum's outline to russian grammer, and back to the basics, russian grammer.) This book is probably the best book I have had in russian language, and I only wish I had had it when I studied in Russia this fall. Right now I am ordering it again immediately to keep fresh on my russian now that I am back in teh states, and I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in maintaining grammatical proficiency in the language. It is amazing.

I bought this book in order to audit a Russian class and I found it to be very helpful. The grammar explanations are clear and well-spaced out, and the description of 'verbs of motion' is fairly good. The only things I didn't like is that some of the vocabulary words are first given without definitions in the text (presumably so that a teacher gives you them in class), and that the phrases and words you learn don't always seem to be the most useful thing to learn, even for the theme of the chapter! This isn't going to be the most useful book for self-learning, but it's a solid choice (and probably mandatory!) for your classes!

This book has been very helpful in filling in gaps in my knowledge of Russian.