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Title: Russian in 10 Minutes a Day by Kristine K. Kershul ISBN: 0-944502-47-4 Publisher: Bilingual Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Big book, pretty pictures, not much to learn.
Comment: This book might be okay for kids, but it's not really a serious learning tool. Learning a language in ten minutes a day may be a fun fantasy, but the resources available in this book won't do much to help you learn Russian.
On the surface the book looks great - big pictures, stickers, activities, flash cards and a laminated "pocket pal" with a short list of phrases and such. The problem with these resources is that they all fall short when scrutinized individually. There aren't enough flash cards, and the words that are chosen are sort of odd. Some are obvious for the beginner, but many just leave me scratching my head as to why they picked them. The activities in the book are the best part, but as a workbook, it's only average. The stickers are a good idea in theory, but are you really going to put stickers on objects all around your house? The "pocket pal" phrasebook would be a decent idea, but it's a real pain to get out of the book (I had to cut it out with a razor knife), and it's too big to fit comfortably in your pocket when folded up. Because this book tries to be everything to everyone it falls short on all counts.
If you want to learn Russian and can only buy one text, buy yourself the Penguin Russian Course if you want an inexpensive beginners textbook and then make your own flash cards. If you can afford a little more, get the ready made Russian cards from Vis-ed. For a workbook try the Berlitz Basic Russian Workbook, and then a decent phrasebook like the one from Lonely Planet. These products are all available from Amazon and may cost a little more in total, but will take you much farther.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't bother
Comment: This book gives absolutely no insight into the complexities of Russian grammar, and the 'phonetic transcription' will help you do nothing other that get laughed at by native Russian speakers if you try to use it on them. Basically, a good waste of money.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't
Comment: If there were a way to put zero stars and still post a review, this book wouldn't have even gotten one.
Over time I have aquired 6 languages. This book is the worst language book I have ever seen.
1. It does not provide accent marks, so....so why bother even having it? You will have to get another book to learn how to pronounce the words...so...again, why bother with this?
2. It as a cool idea to learn Russian in 10 minutes a day (with this book, 10 minutes a day for the next 15 years still wouldn't teach you to do anything but to go around hoping to find magic vocabulary stickers.)
It does not provide, cogent explanations, or examples for syntax and grammar points. There is some vocabulary, but without real explanations of how to use the language, the book is pointless.
3. I recommend a travel phrasebook if that is all you want. Get a real text, Penguin's course isn't bad, or the "Ultimate Russian: Basic-Intermediate (Living Language Ultimate. Basic-Intermediate Series (Manual & Cassettes)) Nancy Novak / Crown Audio Cassettes / April 1998" if you really want learn, aquire, and use Russian.
4. "10-minutes.." is too big to carry around, too vapid for any real learning, and too disorganised to make any progress on any single topic.
5. The book is snake oil. I doubt the author had any intention of really trying to be usefull. It was easy to write, cheap to print, a quick money maker for a lazy author.
Get something else.
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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: 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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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:Instant Immersion Russian 2 CD-ROM Set (Jewel Case) ASIN: B00005RIQ5 Publisher: Topics Entertainment Pub. Date: 29 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook: With Two-Way Dictionary (Russian Phrasebook, 3rd Ed) by James Jenkin, Inna Zaitseva ISBN: 1864501065 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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