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Title: Everyday English-Russian Conversations
Review: The Nov/13/2008 reviewer of Leonid Kossman's textbook misses the obvious fact that this book wasn't written for native speakers of English who are trying to learn Russian; it was written for _Russians_ learning English! It can certainly be used as a Russian textbook by English speakers, but that wasn't the author's intent. The print is small because Dover reprinted it from a 1970s edition, which had been extremely successful with Russian students of English in the USA and--after the fall of the Soviet Union--in Russia.
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