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    Russian For Dummies

    By Andrew D. Kaufman, Serafima Gettys and Nina Wieda

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    About this ebook

    Russian is spoken by nearly 450 million people, and demand for Russian-speakers is growing. This introductory course includes an audio CD with practice dialogues-just the ticket for readers who need basic Russian for business, school, or travel.

    Serafima Gettys, PhD (Newark, CA), is Coordinator of the Foreign Language Program at Lewis University.
    Andrew Kaufman, PhD (Charlottesville, VA), is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia.

    Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateMay 23, 2011
    ISBN9781118052884
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    Russian For Dummies
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    Andrew D. Kaufman

    Andrew D. Kaufman, internationally recognized Russian literature scholar at the University of Virginia, is the author of Understanding Tolstoy and coauthor of Russian for Dummies. An award-winning teacher of Russian language, literature, and culture, he is a featured Tolstoy expert on Oprah.com and is frequently invited to discuss Russian literature and culture on national and international television and radio programs.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing book! Very useful. I think i am better at my russian now!
    • 1/5
      All of the vocabulary is in the Latin alphabet. I already know some Russian and was hoping for some additional grammatical insights. Trying to read words transliterated into Latin letters is actually more confusing. If you want to learn Russian you will need to learn it in its proper alphabet. The whole idea behind cyrillic in the first place was to express the sounds of Old Church Slavonic, sounds that do not exist in English and cannot be properly replicated by Latin letters. If you attempt to speak Russian as indicated by Russian for dummies you will most certainly be viewed as a dummy.

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