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Title: Master the Basics: Russian (Mastering the Basics) by Natalia, Phd Lusin, Susan Follett Lusi ISBN: 0-8120-9164-7 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Reference for Use with Other Learning Tools
Comment: If you're looking for an introduction to Russian, with dialogues and lessons, this book is not for you. It is, however, the clearest book I've found to explain the grammatical concepts. If you're self-teaching with tapes or software programs, you will most likey come to a point where you've learned an expression or a change in word endings without fully understanding the grammar behind it, this is where to look to quickly get the explanation. It does not contain much vocabulary, or full sentences, it is made up of chapters explaining particular grammatical structures and rules, so you're not going to learn to speak using this book alone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent reference
Comment: I agree completely with the reviewer from Oregon. I am starting to learn Russian from a cassette series (Learn in Your Car, which I also highly recommend) and this book is a very well-organized, valuable reference. In fact, it is one of the best organized special-purpose reference books I have seen anywhere. It has plenty of tables, and very clear descriptions of things like 'Why do Russian nouns have so many cases?' After teaching myself Spanish, Russian is my next goal, and it is quite a challenge. I think I would have given up by now without this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent backup reference
Comment: I bought this book as an additional reference to my class textbook. I use it constantly to review key concepts. Most language textbooks are not organized to make good reference material, but this one (inexpensive) book makes up for such a shortcoming completely.
You can use Master the Basics to quickly zero in on a particular concept whether it be the parts of speech, pronouns, verbs, case declension and the concepts are presented in a very concise and straightforward manner. I especially like the well-organized charts scattered throughout as they make a clear summary with graphical-style impact that makes things easier to remember.
If you intend to pursue Russian seriously at any level, then this is a must-have book, handy and gets right to the point. Do svidannya!
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Title: The New Penguin Russian Course by Nicholas J. Brown ISBN: 0140120416 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Oxford Russian Dictionary: Russian-English English-Russian by Della F. Thompson ISBN: 0425160130 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $2.67 |
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Title: First Thousand Words in Russian (Picture Word Books) by Heather Amery, Katrina Kirilenko, Stephen Cartwright ISBN: 0860207692 Publisher: E D C Publications Pub. Date: February, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Essential Russian Grammar by Brian Kemple ISBN: 048627375X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 26 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Easy Russian Phrase Book : Over 690 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use by Dover ISBN: 048628669X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 29 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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