First Russian Reader for Beginners: Bilingual for Speakers of English A1 / A2 Level (Graded Russian Readers Readers) - Softcover

Zubakhin, Vadim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8366011291 ISBN 13: 9788366011298

Publisher: Language Practice Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Are you interested in learning Russian, but you're not sure where to begin? Does the idea of a new language seem daunting, difficult, and time-consuming? Do you want to find a simple handbook to help you get to grips with this wonderful language? Then this book is for you!

The book consists of Beginner and Elementary courses with parallel Russian-English texts. There are simple and funny Russian texts for easy reading. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The method utilizes the natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. With the translation on the same page, you can effortlessly learn what any unfamiliar words mean. You can quickly pick up new vocabulary and phrases that are used over and over in the book. As you read the book, your brain begins to remember words and phrases simply because you are exposed to them several times. You don't even realize, until you have to recall what you've learned, that you have already learned the new words and phrases. The audio tracks are available inclusive online. With the help of QR codes, call up an audio file without manually entering web addresses. This book has already helped a lot people to discover their true language potential. Twenty minutes a day is the rule for success!

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Review

I had been looking for a book like this to learn Russian with for quite some time. I have a book on Ancient Greek called Athenaze which dumps you right into reading actual paragraphs of text instead of simple sentences, and I found it much easier to stay interested in than most language books, which give you a sentence or two at a time. I could never find such a text for learning Russian until I came across this gem. It doesn't really teach grammar directly, and Russian grammar is complicated, but for building vocabulary it is leaps and bound ahead of traditional self teaching books. Now that the publisher has added all of the audio files to their website, the resource is even more phenomenal. 

A smooth introduction to reading Russian texts. The author uses progressively more difficult readings and brings in new vocab at a reasonable pace. Also (I was not aware of this when I bought it) there are MP3 audio files on their website to accompany the book and allow you to hear the sections read by a native speaker. A great deal for the price and I've found it very helpful in my Russian studies.

Now that the audio is available, I can say that this is the best beginner's reading/listening book I have found. It has full audio, it has side-by-side text translations, and each writing uses only basic vocab which it then adds to with about 30 new words per lesson and accompanying definitions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Language Practice Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8366011291
• ISBN 13: 9788366011298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220