AndrewL Newbie United States Joined 6662 days ago 26 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 1 of 7 26 January 2011 at 8:57pm | IP Logged |
Hi, I'm currently at Lesson 57 in Princeton Russian (including all story segments up to that point), and I was wondering where I could find a good Russian graded reader. What I'm looking for is basically Lingua Latina or this Spanish reader. I checked Amazon.com and the only one I could find on there that had reviews was this 60 page one for $20, and it didn't even have all that good of reviews either. There was also this other one that had screwed up constructions on the first page (Я имею instead of у меня for I have.)
So, if anybody knows of anything, post it here.
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Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5117 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine)
| Message 2 of 7 28 January 2011 at 11:12am | IP Logged |
The Easy Readers collection publishes graded readers in Russian and have 3 levels: A (vocab of 1000 words), B (vocab of 1800 words) and C (vocab of 2400 words). I had a look on Amazon and you can for sure find some level 1 and 3. Grant and Cutler also have a range of them in all levels and at decent prices.
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LuisFox Tetraglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5052 days ago 11 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian
| Message 3 of 7 28 January 2011 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
Here are some suggestions as well:
https://www.eurobooks.co.uk/languagebooks/series/RUS/m4/c21/ 6/ERRU
http://www.ruslania.com/context-193/entity-1/sortby-12/perpa ge-10/category-71/page-1.html
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AndrewL Newbie United States Joined 6662 days ago 26 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 4 of 7 28 January 2011 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
Admittedly, even though those will probably be helpful in the future, they're not exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for the suggestions, though.
Basically, I'm looking for a book that introduces reading in a step by step fashion, starting out with simple sentences, much like the first parts of the books I mentioned up above. The Spanish example for instance starts out with "This is a chair. This is a man. The man is in the chair" and moves on to more complex constructions a little at a time. Admittedly, that would be a bit more complicated in Russian with the case system, but would be doable.
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LuisFox Tetraglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5052 days ago 11 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian
| Message 5 of 7 28 January 2011 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
I can suggest Russian, by Ovsienko:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?paratrk=&isbn= 9788170070306<rec=t&bi=
It's a textbook, and begin with simple texts and sentences + grammar & vocabulary list, then progressively add new words and more advanced texts
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leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6553 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog
| Message 6 of 7 29 January 2011 at 3:36am | IP Logged |
AndrewL wrote:
Basically, I'm looking for a book that introduces reading in a step by step fashion, starting out
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If you've gotten that far with the Princeton program, why wouldn't you want something more
challenging/interesting?
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MmeFleiss Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5985 days ago 58 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog Studies: Japanese, French, Spanish
| Message 7 of 7 29 January 2011 at 5:40am | IP Logged |
Maybe something like this book?
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