Series: Michel Thomas Series
Audio CD
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 26, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071547479
ISBN-13: 978-0071547475
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.5 x 9.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #2,800,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #45 in Books > Books on CD > Languages > Language Instruction > Russian #19249 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Foreign Languages #574640 in Books > Reference
Good points:1. The pronunciation is slow and clear.2. Lots of varied reinforcement is given to help you remember. It's hard to forget what you learned!3. It's fun!4. Doesn't contain repetitive drills. The material progresses at a nice rate.5. Some basic grammar is covered. You will get a good feel for guessing whether a noun is masculine, feminine, or neuter.6. Some longer sentences are taught e.g. "I wonder if it's possible to buy tickets here?"Bad points:1. The vocabulary is very small. You won't learn how to say "hello" or "goodbye", nor will you learn numbers (so you can't tell the time). You won't learn adjectives, although some adverbs are taught.2. The vocabulary is spotty. I think the vocab which is relatively easy to remember (based on English words) has been chosen rather than systematically learning normal basic vocab. For example, you'll learn I/me/my, you, we/us, but you won't learn his or her.3. The accusative case isn't explained (it's explained in the Advanced course). Instead the nouns used as direct objects (apart from "me", "us", "you") are either inanimate masculine, neuter, or plural, so no noun ending changes are required. This isn't pointed out to the listener.4. Indeclinable nouns aren't pointed out and the gender of nouns ending in the soft sign are not treated. The listener is likely to think that all nouns can easily be classified as either masculine, feminine, or neuter.5. The teacher points out pronunciation mistakes but just listening to the CDs won't explain how to form the sounds correctly. You might therefore learn an incorrect way to pronounce the sounds.
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