 | Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar by James Levine
Buy used from: $7.95 Whether you are studying by yourself or augmenting a formal course, get this book. Explanations, exercises, answer key, vocabulary.
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 | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Russian by Christopher Froehlich
Buy used from: $0.55 This is a fun, easy-to-understand overview of basic conversational Russian.
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 | The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs: 555 Fully Conjugated Verbs (Big Book of Verbs Series) by Jack Franke
Buy new: $8.06 / Used from: $7.60 I prefer this volume over others because it has more entries, plus all the perfective forms, so you get closer to 1200 verbs. It also uses them in sentences to illustrate the context.
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 | Teach Yourself Russian Language Life and Culture by Stephen Webber
Buy used from: $5.66 Light reading, strong on the life and culture angle, not so much on language. At the end of every chapter is a list of vocabulary and book/internet references that are really interesting.
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 | Essential Russian Grammar by Brian Kemple
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.70 I love this book. Grammar, quick, concise, clear, can't beat it.
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 | 5000 Russian Words: With All Their Inflected Forms and Other Grammatical Information : A Russian-English Dictionary With an English-Russian Word Ind by Richard L. Leed
Buy new: $18.88 / Used from: $13.82 Can't spell? Can't remember that irregular declension and you have a letter to write to your 'svekrov' or 'tyosha'? This book can save you.
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 | Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used (Russian Edition) by Edward Topol
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $3.23 This book is hysterically funny. On a practical note, you'll never know how not to insult someone if you don't know what their insults are.
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 | NTC's Dictionary of Russian Cognates Thematically Organized by Rose Nash Ph.D.
Buy used from: $59.95 Great book for building conversational vocabulary. In many ways it starts with what you already know and builds on that. You might know more than you think!
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 | The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary by Jessie Coulson
Buy used from: $0.76 Can't go far without one of these.
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 | Random House Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms by Random House
Buy used from: $76.51 Very academic study of Russian idioms, gives all possible contexts, whether or not the idiom is in common use... This is a heavy hitter. Find it used, new is pricey.
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 | A Phrase and Sentence Dictionary of Spoken Russian: Russian-English, English-Russian by U. S. War Department
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $1.89 Oldie but goodie. Rather than using whole idioms, this book locks onto key words at the heart of idioms, great for a broader understanding of useful expressions.
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 | 2001 Russian and English Idioms (2001 idioms series) by Agnes Arany-Makkai
Buy new: $17.24 / Used from: $6.90 This one was recommended to me by one of my Russian friends. She said these are good idioms to know, I take her word for it.
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 | Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $4.95 This is also a favorite of my Russian friends, because it is written in both languages it is easy to check for understanding.
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 | Roots of the Russian Language: An Elementary Guide to Wordbuilding (NTC Russian Series) (English and Russian Edition) by George Z. Patrick
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.38 If you are into details, which I am, this is a neat book, it goes into prefixes, suffixes, how they change root words, influence grammatic structure... Meaty stuff.
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 | Russian Complete Course: Basic-Intermediate, Compact Disc Edition (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses) by Living Language
Buy used from: $6.99 Cheap, the pronounciation isn't always correct, but it taught me how to read Russian and basic pronounciation. Some things you can't get from a book, find an audio that works for you.
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