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Title: "Russian" is a marketing gimmick?
Review: I do not rate here quality of the exercises; I rate my dissatisfaction with the author's advertising scheme.The author (or publisher) cleverly sells his creation under variety of names: for Russian speakers, for Chinese speakers etc. In fact, very little about this kit told me that it is customized for Russian speakers.The introductory letter, book of examples, and mouth-shape pictures are the same for everyone. To "tailor" the product to Russians, they left out half of the sounds on the cassettes, leaving only 24 supposedly difficult for us.There are no parallels between Russian and American sounds, no explanation of what is it that Russians do wrong with those sounds, even the word "Russian" is not mentioned anywhere except the front cover. Everywhere else it is "your language", so that the same kit can be sold to anyone.Do not choose this product in hope that it is made specially for us, Russians.
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