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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6353 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 15 27 March 2011 at 5:28pm | IP Logged |
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I'm also curious to know people's recommendations. Anybody?
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5496 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 3 of 15 27 March 2011 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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Disclaimer: I haven't studied Russian myself. However, besides the Princeton course, what I hear people raving about the most is the Penguin Russian course.
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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6722 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 15 28 March 2011 at 1:03am | IP Logged |
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I own pretty much every Russian grammar/textbook that exists and I would say that for you as a beginner, and assuming you want to spend as little as possible and get the most books, the following would be your best bets in terms of usefulness, price and overall value. They are also typically found in American book shops. In no particular order:
New Penguin Russian Course Russian for Beginners Complete Russian (cheaper version is available without the audio) Russian: A Self Teaching Guide Russian Dictionary: Words and Expressions Schaum's Russian Grammar Berlitz Essential Russian Everything Learning Russian I would stay away from Russian for Dummies as it does not use the Cyrillic alphabet. This one is expensive, but perhaps you could find a used copy: Russian Grammar in Illustrations Enjoy your trip to the U.S.A. Edited by translator2 on 28 March 2011 at 1:07am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5359 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 6 of 15 28 March 2011 at 7:52pm | IP Logged |
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@translator2
"Russian Grammar in Illustrations" looks great - thanks for the tip (I'm a sucker for fun pictures). I've already ordered a copy (new 2006 edition, £16). :) Edited by Teango on 28 March 2011 at 7:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6329 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 7 of 15 29 March 2011 at 5:21pm | IP Logged |
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I think there are a lot of books you don't really need, and won't end up helping you an
awful lot. I would recommend getting: A small summary of Russian grammar (barrons do a good one, forget the name) Penguin Russian Course (very good intro to pronunciation, if I remember correctly) A couple of courses with beginners dialogues The Modern Russian course with it's audio (excellent grammar explanations and drills) A few bilingual novels with audiobooks. Search the forum for these. If you want a dictionary, I suggest a 'learners' dictionary, or else a collins gem etc. If you can't find a word there, you probably shouldn't bother with it as a beginner. I have a few heavy duty grammer manuals, vocab books, 'Using Russian', big dictionaries, conjugation books, but I haven't used them. The Russian DLI course looks useful too. There are links in the forum in a topic called 'DLI links', I think. If you want to get better at reading newspapers, check out http://gloss.dliflc.edu/ That should keep you busy for a while :-). Edited by DavidW on 29 March 2011 at 5:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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