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Title: Hugo Language Course: Russian In Three Months (with Cassettes) by Nicholas J. Brown, Hugo's Language Books ISBN: 0789435861 Publisher: Hugo Book & Audio Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent value
Comment: This course is an excellent value. It has four cassettes with very good audio quality. The book in combination with the cassettes helps you see how the words are written as well as how they are pronounced. It would be nice if there were more repetition with the tapes -- but considering the price you are getting a lot for your money. I have also purchased Pimsleur tapes which are excellent but which are very expensive. This course also provides grammar and pronunciation rules that are very helpful and which make this course better in some ways than Pimsleur because many of the sounds in Russian are very subtle and are difficult to pick up when only listening to audio tapes. I highly recommend this Hugo course. I would also supplement it with other materials like Pimsleur.
Rating: 5
Summary: It worked for me
Comment: Three months after starting this course I went to live in Moscow. I bought food, travelled on public transport, had simple conversations with strangers, read newspaper headlines, spoke to my neighbours and went out to nightclubs.
I've read a lot of Russian language course books and this is easily, easily the best value.
To improve your Russian after this book - there's one 'Verbs of Motion for Intermediate Students of Russian', which is also fantastic. Also buy Offord's guide to Russian grammar if you're going to Russia. There are also a couple of great books published by Strathclyde University's Professor of Russian, do check these out. Don't buy any textbooks written by a Russian (unless it's from MGU), they're all terrible!
Rating: 4
Summary: A simple way of learning Russian...
Comment: Even though I have not finished the book as of yet, I thought I'd still comment. Obviously with Russian you are forced to learn almost twice the amount as compared to an alternative European language due to the fact that you have to grasp the intracies of the Cyrillic alphabet. Once you've translated a word from Russian to English, the meaning could still be unknown. Anyway, the author realises this and has spent a fair deal of time on making the alphabet clear, and the first few chapters are dedicated to giving you a thorough understanding of it, including some basic rules, and of course letter pronunciations. The imitated pronunciation, which is present in all of Hugo's language books, is once more very helpful. Once you start repeating certain words with the pronunciation guidelines, you realise that what you're saying does sound like authentic Russian, or at least if you have heard Russian before anyway. Personally I may find it easier because I possess books by the same publisher in Swedish and Spanish, but even so, the explanations are clear and comprehensive. It's the little additions, like idiosyncracies and other tidbits which supplement your understanding. For example at the back of the book the author has included a section on how Russian handwriting is done, showing you how some of the alphabet changes when written rather than printed. Unfortunately the version I bought was without the cassettes which come with the book, and I feel that these would greatly assist me in learning the language. The cassettes do a lot for giving the student a real 'feel' for the sound of the language. If you are prepared to do a little bit of work and revision, you can easily master the basics of the language. I do and will continue to use Hugo's language courses exclusively. (And not just because they are nicely colour-coded...)
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Title: Essential Russian Grammar by Brian Kemple ISBN: 048627375X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Roots of the Russian Language by George Z. Patrick ISBN: 0844242675 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Moscow (Moscow, 2nd Ed) by Mara Vorhees, Lonely Planet ISBN: 1864503599 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet st Petersburg (St Petersburgh, 3rd Ed) by Steve Kokker, Nick Selby ISBN: 1864503254 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook: With Two-Way Dictionary (Lonely Planet Language Survival Kit) by James Jenkin, Inna Zaitseva ISBN: 1864501065 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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