Title: Useless course in Russian
Product review: This set has 3 CD's, a Russian coursebook, and a Russian dictionary. The coursebook does have information in it but the book is not put together in a way that aides learning.The first lesson is 5 pages long. Part A is titled The Letters and Sounds of the Russian Language but tells you that the letters and sounds will be learned in another chapter. Part B gives a list of people's names and Part C lists geographical names.Lesson 2 is just another list of words and names.Lesson 3 gives a list of the Cyrillic alphabet and the names of the letters but not the sounds!The dictionary might be ok but since I don't know Russian, how would I know. The front of this book gives a 4 page pronunciation chart.I do think the coursebook would be ok for a phrase book.I don't think the CD's are very useful except the parts that conjugate verbs.Overall, this is not worth paying full price.
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