Customer Reviews

Russian: Levels 1, 2 & 3 (Learn in Your Car S.) - By: , 05 Jan 2006
One of the most difficult aspectsin learning any foreign language is developing listening & response skills. This course so far has enabled words, phrases & native dialect to sinkin somehow without drills & repetition. I haven't tried to figure out the logic of this course, but there seems to be an effective progression of word acquisition which I find both curious & pleasing. Without any rigorous effort - I have found myself repeating & pre-empting the course vocabulary -in much the same way one remembers the words to a song on the radio?!

My only criticism of this course is a very obvious one. I believe that the Cyrillic alphabet & Slavonic grammar probably don't lend themselves easily to such intuitive learning to native English speakers. The accompanying booklets, whilst easy to understand & completely sufficient for the objectives of this course, can only touch upon the real complexities of this language. For me, there's no escaping the fact that a lot of discipline & patience are required to drumin the 'hard bits'.

This CD course fills a big holein learning material for me & is easy to use. I would recommend this course as an excellent & surprisingly effective supplementin language learning.