Learning Russian is not as difficult and tiresome as you may perceive. Many starters think that Russian language is a super tough-to-learn language but the reality says opposite. The suspicions mostly comes from the Cyrillic alphabet which Russian language is based on. For many westerners, it looks like a bunch of alien writing, but in reality you can start pronouncing any Russian word, or short phrase in a few days after learning the Cyrillic letters and their sound equalities in English.
Russian is the most widely used and popular Slavic language and it is spoken as first language by approximately 164 million people. Add 120 million people to this number as secondary language. Overall, it is one of the most popular languages of Eastern Europe and almost all upper Asia. Russian is one of the six officially accepted languages of UN.
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Many people think that Russian language is so hard to learn. Well, I will tell you the truth. Learning Russian is not hard, you would be speaking and understanding Russians after at most 2, 3 months of normal study of elementary material. The hardest part is to become really fluent (It is not actually a need though). Surely, it will need more live Russian video chat with your partner. I am fluent in Russian language and had studied several material in the learning process. I will suggest only two of these endless books and language sets that I had chance to review. You can learn more than enough Russian just yourself with them. Buy both of them. The first one will give you the best grammar skills. The second one is pure audio which is needed to really talk and understand with the correct grammar from the first book. Both of them will cost you not more than $20
- The New Penguin Russian Complete Course for Beginners
- Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs
Read the reviews at Amazon store. You will understand why they are #1 for Russian language learning.
