Russian Made Easy Level 1: An Easy Step-By-Step Approach To Learn Russian for Beginners (Textbook + Workbook Included)

I am an absolute beginner in the study of the Russian language, and I absolutely love Lingo Mastery’s “Russian Made Easy Level 1.” I have been learning the Russian alphabet from Lingo Mastery’s “Russian Alphabet Made Easy,” and this book is an excellent follow-on. Before continuing with another Lingo Mastery book for the Russian language, I did preview other language books, but I found that although they claimed to be beginning Russian language books, they were more conducive to students who already had some Russian language experience. I even tried a language app, but I found the app disappointing, because I was not retaining what I learned. Given my success in learning the Russian alphabet through Lingo Mastery and after previewing “Russian Made Easy Level 1,” I decided to try the book.I am extremely pleased with my choice. While Russian is not an easy language to learn, and one must work hard to learn it, I do not feel overwhelmed by this book. I genuinely enjoy studying a language at my own pace. The book offers vocabulary words with translations that are practical in everyday conversation, and the words are grouped in specific topics, such as family, daily activities, traveling, describing things, and buying things. I think the vocabulary topics are excellent, and the lists are useful for making vocabulary cards. The book introduces some very basic grammar and provides written exercises to practice what you have learned. I especially like the written exercises, because I have been studying the Russian alphabet and like the opportunities to apply what I have learned. The book provides a link to audio files that are easily accessible. If you want to learn Russian but are hesitant, I highly recommend the books from Lingo Mastery!

This book is great, this is my 4th language I’m learning, and so far so good. However this does not contain the alphabet or explanation of the alphabet as well as no romanization so if you don’t know how to read Russian, or the alphabet then don’t buy this book yet. I learned the alphabet and numbers in a few days, however the audios are helpful but it’s important for you to know on your own how to pronounce and read. I love the book tho, I’m able to most words of the songs I listen to.

Excellent book. Just what I wanted and needed

Very easy to learn from. The audio with it was nicely accessible as well. I've introduced this brand to multiple friends as well. Will be using it more in the future

This will be a decent learning tool after I have learned the basics (which are NOT INCLUDED), but this absolutely, positively NOT for beginners. I had read that in quite a few reviews and should have listened. A true beginners would start with the alphabet, which is not easy to grasp for English speakers, and some basic words or phrases. Rather, it starts with "to be" verb conjugations.Beware if you are truly starting.

Whether new to your Russian language journey or dropping back in for a little review, LingoMastery has you covered. As I get further from my 3 yrs in Ukraine and 1 yr in Russia, I find a review is necessary to sharpen things up. I was lucky enough to get an advance peek and loved it so much I bought a copy to have in my hot little hands. Here is everything you need for a great foundation in the Russian language. With crucial conversation, the necessary grammar (w/out being overwhelming) and audio access to boot, you will master a mountain of key vocabulary when you complete this material. Russian Made Easy Level 1 is a great addition to available resources and, in my opinion, stands out in the crowd!

This book is probably fantastic, but there is no pronunciation guide. You can put all the Russian letters in front of me you want, but if you don't tell me how to pronounce them, then this is useless.Very disappointing.

Maybe this is an unfair review, and I wish I didn't have to give stars! But it's listed as "#1 for Children's Russian Language," and there's a cartoon on the cover, and there's really no other options, so I was hoping this would work for my young sons who speak a tiny bit of Russian but not really.However, this is a very intense book that assumes the reader knows Cyrillic and what the "nominative case" is. Example words are things that would be useful to a tourist or a business person. I think it would be a demanding but rewarding book for a disciplined adult, but it's clearly inappropriate for a child - even a teenager.

Ajuda bastante no aprendizado do manuscrito de letras nunca vistas previamente!

Most of the other reviews declare how good this book is for beginners. I agree with much of that assessment, and I also add that intermediate students will find this book useful to DRILL basic vocabulary and pronunciation. Here's what I mean: intermediate students often have considerable passive knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, but find themselves embarrassingly tongue-tied in conversation---they lack FLUENCY training. Lots of repetitive drilling at the beginner's level, of the most common conversational items, which is what this book contains, will improve the student's fluency.This workbook covers the CEFR A1 "beginner's level, first half" in about 200 pages of text, plus about 107 MB of mp3 Audio files. The audio files are available as either: a single long YouTube video, or as a downloadable zip-archive containing about one hundred mp3 Audio files, totaling 107 megabytes of disk space. I strongly recommend downloading the mp3 files, and playing them with an audio player that allows playback speed control (such as VLC Media Player, and many other players you can find by searching on the internet). I find that slowing down the audio to about 75% of normal speed is what beginners (and many intermediate students) need to get a firm grasp of Russian pronunciation. The two speakers in the audio files are both native speakers of Russian, with relatively clear enunciation of words, so students can profitably listen to them, over and over again, to acquire a "good ear" for Russian vowel sounds (especially the unstressed vowels, which are the majority of vowel sounds in typical speech).In case this book's 200 pages of text and 107 MB of mp3 files doesn't impress you, let me compare this workbook with another popular course. Consider Daphne West's "Complete Russian" in the Teach Yourself book series. It contains about 300 pages of text, plus 110 mp3 files totaling 147 MB of disk space. It covers the CEFR A1 level in about 100 pages and one-third of the mp3 files (totaling about 50 MB of disk space). Another 100 pages, and 50 MB of audio, covers the CEFR A2 level, "beginner's level, second half". And the final 100 pages, and the remaining 50 MB of audio, covers a blend of CEFR B1 and B2 levels, "intermediate levels, both halves". So the pace in Daphne West's book is twice as fast as the pace in this Lingo Mastery book. Except for the few students lucky enough to have exposure to another Slavic language in their upbringing, most students will greatly benefit from the slower pace in this Lingo Mastery workbook in order to develop their fluency.Now that you know what I like about this book, let me describe what's obviously missing: this book does NOT provide any printed marks to identify the single stressed vowel in each Russian word. I think that providing such marks is invaluable when the student is reading the texts, especially those texts that don't have an accompanying audio recording. In Daphne West's book, the marks are "acute accents" placed over the stressed vowel in each word. In the 4-book series by Mark Pettus, "Russian through Propaganda", the stressed vowels are marked by underlining them. This 4-book series, with accompanying YouTube videos, provides the equivalent of a 2-year university level course (300 pages each, and 50 videos per book), where each book covers one semester. Another popular course is the "New Penguin Russian Course" by Nicholas Brown, about 500 pages, which prints each stressed vowel in boldface. This course covers the British secondary school A-level curriculum in Russian, so I guess it is roughly equivalent to the first 2 semesters of a university-level course.If you aren't sure yet that you want to commit to buying further Russian courses, like the 3 mentioned above, you should at least buy an inexpensive portable paperback beginner's dictionary. I strongly recommend the Russian-English Dictionary by the Langenscheidt-Editorial-Staff, about 600 pages in length, for CDN $12.99 and US $9.99. Like all other Russian-English dictionaries, it marks the stressed vowel in each word with an "acute accent". But by far the best feature, with regards to pronunciation, is a very detailed pronunciation guide, from pages 13 through 19, which concisely explains almost all the rules of Russian pronunciation, covering about 95% of typical speech. The remaining 5% of pronunciations, are certain exceptions (just as English has plenty of spelling-vs-pronunciation exceptions) plus some lesser-known rules, which you eventually learn about by listening to the audio recordings of native Russian speakers, like the mp3 files provided with this Lingo Mastery book. Once you have this dictionary, look up every word in the "Russian Made Easy Level 1" workbook, and mark the stressed vowels with a pencil. Doing this exercise will help you remember the stressed syllable in each word (sometimes several words form an "expression" and only one word in the expression has a stressed vowel, and the other words use unstressed vowels; you will encounter such multi-word expressions in the audio recordings).

L’ho iniziato una settimana fa.Apprezzo molto che parta dicendo alcuni modi di dire comuni, come “come va la vita” o altre piccole frasi e parole che si usano nel quotidiano.È impaginato bene e gli spazi grandi sono coli per scriverci dentro.Non ho ancora avuto modo di sentire gli audio, ma direi che per un imparare gli audio sono fondamentali quindi è sicuramente un punto in più.

helps with listening comprehension, as well with reading comprehension of the Russian language. yes, it does have answer sheets at the back of the book.

Letters are very thin and barely visible. Very many almost blank pages. Pictures are of very bad quality as well as contents. It is not a text-book. It more likely a very bad phrase-book. The cover gives impression that it is the book for children, but it is not for children, but for adults. It is absolutely not possible to use this book for any purposes. Price is awfully high!