Customer Reviews:
 Russian: Levels 1, 2 & 3 (Learn in Your Car S.) January 5, 2006
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
One of the most difficult aspects in learning any foreign language is developing listening and response skills. This course so far has enabled words, phrases and native dialect to sink in somehow without drills and 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 and pleasing. Without any rigorous effort - I have found myself repeating and 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 and Slavonic grammar probably don't lend themselves easily to such intuitive learning to native English speakers. The accompanying booklets, whilst easy to understand and 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 and patience are required to drum in the 'hard bits'. This CD course fills a big hole in learning material for me and is easy to use. I would recommend this course as an excellent and surprisingly effective supplement in language learning.
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