Title: Great Challenge to Begin Reading Russian
Review: The title and introduction are written in English. There is also a three-page glossary at the back that contains cyrillic Russian and roman English. Besides that, it is 55 pages of cyrillic, with some simple pictures drawn in.There is absolutely no help in reading this--you need to either possess this vocabulary already or have a dictionary handy. This is what I needed--a book that doesn't contain a cheating transliteration 1 inch away. I was thrown to the wolves, and had to read on my own in this book.One thing I should point out is that this book was written for teenagers from the perspective of teenagers. I felt like I was reading "Dick and Jane" in Russian. Be prepared that this is a very simple book, and not something an adult with pride would want to be seen reading in public. However, pride comes before the fall, and this book was valuable to me in learning to read Russian.
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