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Russian Face to Face: A Communicative Program in Contemporary Russian (Bk. 1) (English and Russian Edition)

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I found both this book, and the Level Two edition (called Intermediate on amazon) to be very good. I lived in Russia for about 6 monthes, and before and after this I used these books to self-study Russian. I tried a number of other books, both easier and harder, and found this one worked the best for me. It is a good mix of vocubulary, grammer, and a holistic approach to Russian which I enjoyed. It is easier than the college textbooks I worked with, and provides more stand-alone exercises to drill in the material. With the more advanced textbooks I tried, they provided too many rules too quickly and not enough drills to force you to memorize them. In a classroom environment this might be ok, but for me this approach worked much better. The book is geared to a young audience, probably mostly high school students, but not annoyingly so. You can also get tapes with both books. These are a bit pricey, but useful for doing the listening and pronunciation drills.

I bought this book for my Russian language course and am very pleased with the ease of the content.I had some self study in Russian but was unable to make alot of progress,with this book and the workbook I find it very easy to learn Russian.However,I must say that if you are not comitted to learning and spending the time to do so it will be aggrivating,so believe in yourself work hard and you can have alot of fun.I made flash cards of the cyrillic alphabet with the english sounds on the back to help learn pronunciation.Good luck.

This book is a little dated. It can be useful for a begginer with zero russian, but my friends in Russia laughed when they saw it and asked why americans were learning vocabulary that has not been used in Russia since communism ended.

This is a good book for beginners. It seems to be aimed toward a younger audience, but it's still good for adults. The book focuses on the overall language itself, not just vocabulary or grammar.

I use this book for an independent study course, and found it easy to use. However, it is somewhat out-dated. It lacks the ability to give you the knowledge to have a very nice conversation. Also, the book was published in 1995 and is slightly tacky. It is full badly drawn illustrations and lacks any real good pictures. One is left with the idea that Russians don't like photos taken of them, or that only rather odd looking people pose for photos. But, it is still a good book to learn the basics of the Russian language. In fact, the way the material is presented and learned is almost flawless. I would reccommend this book to beginners that want to learn the bascs at more than a travel level.

I ordered a stiudent textbook. I received a Teacher's edition, which not mentioned in the blurb and is not what I wanted. My other order with the same vendor is taking forever.

Great service. Received it right away and am putting it to good use learning Russian.
Thank you for your wonderful service. You outshine all the major book stores!

If you are trying to learn a language-on your own- like russian, this is a perfect help. I was lucky to find the accompanying teacher's textbook- although listed a 'used' it was in near perfect condition. Forget a $500 Rosetta program- this workbook was great.