Title: Better Than Nothing - Good Start, Needs Work
Product review: As a beginning student of Kazakh, I find the book only marginally useful. There appears to be a fairly high number of errors (I usually find out in class when I am corrected by my Kazakh teacher!). I've also found it lacking in its depth of coverage, causing me to default to a pocket Kazakh-Russian/Russian-Kazakh dictionary I picked up along the way.On a positive note, the author was breaking relatively new ground (in 1994), so it is only right to compliment his efforts. But come on, it's been 11 years since its publishing! Isn't there anyone out there to continue the work? It begs for a revision (of its errors), an update (inclusion of new words/phrases), and an English-Kazakh section (reverse look-up).Only barely adequate. I would have preferred to give it 2 1/2 stars..., but that choice was not available.
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