Product Description

Delightful learning aid contains 15 scenes of home, school, farm, beach, park, classroom, and other common environments--with more than 500 objects labeled in Russian. Complete list of Russian words and English translations included at back of book. Fun-filled, effective way for students of Russian to build and strengthen their vocabulary skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15473 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780486426716
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Makes a Nice Coloring Book
To be fair to Rogers, I probably should not have tried to use this book anyway; I know I'm a phonics learner, not a word-recognition learner. But my problem with this book started even before I tried learning the words.

The pictures are not in a Russian setting.

In the school classroom, for example, the letters above the blackboard are Roman, not Cyrillic. Nothing in the book looks different than it would in a US or Canadian household.

I can think of a small, dwindling class of people who need to quickly learn Russian words for American items: US parents adopting Russian orphans (I say "dwindling" due to changing Russian laws making it more difficult for Americans to do this). The rest of us need to learn about Russian culture while we're learning about Russian words. Why slow us down?

I gave the book 1 star above 1 because it does do what it's supposed to do...barely. But that's not much. And for that, I could just look up words in an English-Russian dictionary.

For Russians only
This paperback book appears to be a coloring book because it is done totally in blackline print, although I see nothing on the book that says it is a coloring book. But that's not my problem with it. My problem with it is that it is obviously written to the English-speaking person (cover and back cover), but is totally done in Russian. Unless you can read Russian, this book will do nothing for you.

Dissappointed
This is a great book for people who can already read Russian, ecspecially for my kids because they can color in the objects as they're learning the words. (It's like a coloring book - so deffinitely more kid oriented.) However there aren't any translations into English nor are there any pronunciation guides, making it difficult to learn to actually say the words correctly.