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Title: Worst way to learn a foreign language!!!!
Review: We used this text for our Beginning Russian class in college and let me say that it's the worst text to use. The WHOLE CONVERSATIONS ARE IN RUSSIAN and EVEN THE WRITTEN TEXT IS IN RUSSIAN!!!.....There are no English translations and since Russian is a difficult language to learn you need the translations side by side with the Russian. By using this book it really discouraged me from continuing Russian! Quite a few students felt the same as I did about this text. This text states it's for beginners, but no way, it's far for the intermediate-advanced student or a student who has background in the language. If you are looking to learn Russian on your own try Pimsleur's Russian Quick & Easy or Pimsleur Russian: Basic. for audio only. Then once you've mastered that, then try Living Language Ultimate: Russian in order to learn the reading and writing. They provide translations for you (text only, not on tapes)
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