Learning and enjoying Russian

The list author says:
	"An excellent beginners/brush up book, great concept and carefully made - teaching listening, speaking, reading and writing. Good for self-study."

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	"Interesting technical concept with various activities that could make it more fun to learn - for instance crosswords with a selection of words at your choise.  Advanced level, not for beginners!"

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	"Popular beginners book, also my first - but I found it interesting as a culture introduction but not easy to learn the language from."

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	"Relax with some beautiful paintings! Not all from Russian painters, but many are, and with interesting historical and cultural analyses."

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	"Many words for all situations - in the USA! This is mostly for Russians learning US English; no stress marks, very American situations and things. But a nice book!"

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	"Advanced grammar with a not too logical structure. Don't start here, but buy this one when you have reached a good level."

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	"Buy this with the grammar book - it will help you spend enough time on the subjects to actually learn them."

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	"If you want order and structure in your study approach, then - after an initial course - you could start building up vocabulary, and this book will help you find relevant words to study."

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	"This one (or a similar one) is worth its weight in gold - very useful as a verb dictionary, but also as a basis for a structured verb study approach."

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	"Your first grammar book when moving on from the initial language course - it is small but full of information with a good structure and useful explanations."

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	"A dictionary/phrase book read and recorded at a slow pace... As background sounds in your car it will over time teach you something, but, honestly, a very thin approach to language learning."

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	"Wonderful book with real short texts about various historical issues. Not too advanced, useful directly after a beginners course - but more advanced excercises can be made as needed."

The list author says:
	"Well... terrible layout of book, very fast pace on the CDs, but many subjects covered, lots of grammar and about 2000 words. Extra CDs for use in the car! Beginner's book!"

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	"Not for beginners! No stress marks, no answers to questions, no combined vocabulary - if you have some skills and a Russian speaking person around, it can be a good platform, though."

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	"Perfect for intermediate students who need to work with adapted texts in a structured way."

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	"Nice, with vocabulary in the back specially for intermediate students, covering the "old" and advanced words in the ancient short stories"

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	"Amazing (but demanding and off-center) movie. Watch as many russian language movies as possible to get used to the language and way of thinking."

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	"Lots of value in this box! Amazing music and, at times, composer's comments to the orchestra. Listen to this while reading Russian textbooks."

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	"Listen to this great poet - and whatever Russian pop music you can find - to improve your listening skills while having a good time."

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	"Studying language is more fun when adding history to it - this history book is among the best!"

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	"The second part - they have an overlap from 1855 to 1917 with identical text."

The list author says:
	"Who are the Russians? This wonderful book will tell you!"

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	"A good overview of Russian literature."

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	"Good Russian literature!"

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	"Good overview of current political concepts and institutions of Russia. Helps understand some of the things happening there - it is not all happening at a dictator's will, as the news often tell."