Everything The Learning Russian Book with CD: Speak, write, and understand Russian in no time!

Bought this for a relative, it's nicely explained, with a great CD too. Very happy with this purchase.

I think the book is great, and the CD is not bad, I have seen people complaining about the CD but I have heard another Russian audios for learning and definitely the one that comes with the books is way better!, But I recommend the people that you should do some research about the Russian language before buying it, so it would be easier to understand, please don't start to read the book when you don't know anything because that would make it confusing.

A good starter Russian text book.

I have done several Russian courses including Pimsleur, Michel Thomas and Rosetta Stone, which were all excellent. I got this book as an afterthought, to get the free shipping. What a surprise. Usually with the Russian courses the books immediately get into some incomprehensible discussion about the case system which is pretty much unusable. And you end up not learning anything else. In my opinion, most courses that are for beginners in Russian are not for true beginners as the case system is just too hard to learn. You can memorize the rules, maybe, but how will you use them when speaking? This book did not do this. It is probably the most usable intro book I have seen. It has tons of recordings (92), and all are very clear. The grammar is covered but there is so much more in this book that was useful. Someone really knew what they were doing when they selected the content. I should mention that it is not really a full course but provides some excellent references that are grouped together conveniently. It was an excellent supplement to my Russian studies.Here is an example of how useful and well thought out the recordings are. There is a table of words with and without palatalization (the soft sign). One column would be a word with the soft sign, the second column, the same spelling without the soft sign. This is obviously needed yet amazingly this is the only place I have seen it.

Useful exercises. Will need to read again a few times and complement with other resources.