Ruslan 1 Student Book by John Langran and Natalya Vesnyeva. Fourth edition 2008. 140 pages. B5.
A communicative Russian course for adults and teenagers.
This is the basic book for beginners. New fourth edition in full colour. Alphabet introduction. 10 lessons. Dialogues with an exciting story line. Vocabularies. Clear grammar explanations. Background information. Lots of exercises. Communication activities. Listening and reading exercises. 1000 word vocabulary. Key to the exercises.

This is the basic book for the course, but you should also consider the Ruslan 1 Audio CD, Workbook, Reader, and interactive CDRom.

An excellent course. My students start to speak straight away! Ruslan breaks down people’s expectations that Russian will be difficult.
Elena Cooper. Atlas Language Centre, Paignton.

If you want to learn Russian properly, for work, holidays or pleasure, then look no further!
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