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Barron's 501 Verbs is an excellent tool for help with conjugating verbs - one of the major challenges in learning the language. If you are unfamiliar with grammatical terms such as "past prefect" or "preterite" then you might want to brush up on that first... using the quick overview of the grammatical terms in the beginning of this book. If you find it isn't enough to make things clear, and if English is your first language, English Grammar for Dummies will bring you up to speed on your grammar.

Colloquial Complete Course for Beginners is designed to provide real life phrases and explanations of the language. You won't find yourself learning things that people never actually say with this book. And here is the second level...Colloquial 2: The Next Step in Language Learning.

Russian For Dummies simple approach may well be the best book for you, if you're willing to admit that you don't know much of the language!

Phrases For Dummies also provides a simple approach to learning some phrases. If you like the Dummies series this could be the phrasebook to take you on your travels.

Hugo "In Three Months" (with Cassettes) provides a very grammatical approach to the language. If you prefer this approach to learning, this is the book for you. However if you don't like to get knee deep in grammar as soon as you start learning, choose something else, like the Dummies course.

Living Language Complete Russian: The Basics is a good value exercise book that comes with supplementary CD audio material.

Internet freebies:

You really really really need to concentrate on learning the alphabet before you try to get too far in this language. Knowing the alphabet helps get your head around the different sounds that you'll be hearing, and needing to pronounce. Here is our absolute favorite online tutorial and by far the most effective tool for learning the alphabet. Keep playing the game at the end of the exercise, until you've got it!

This website is a good guide for fans of grammar.

Check out this free phrase tool by Lingvosoft:

The LingvoSoft PhraseBook has been specially designed for those who enjoy traveling but do not speak the local language. You can also begin studying a foreign language by learning the PhraseBook topics. The PhraseBook includes about 3000 frequently used phrases, organized into 15 major topics, with several options for practicing each phrase! From: Albanian Arabic Arabic_romanization Armenian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian ChineseC ChineseM Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Farsi Farsi_romanization Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hebrew_romanization Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swedish Tagalog Thai Turkish Ukraine Vietnamese Topic: Basics Traveling Hotel Local transport Sightseeing Bank Communication means In the restaurant Food/Drinks Shopping Repairs/Laundry Sport/Leisure Health/Drugstore Beauty Care Calling for police To: Russian online electronic translation tools

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