Good supplemental study tool.
For anyone who wants to begin learning Russian, I wouldn\'t recommend relying on this book exclusively - you\'ve got to have some language tapes or other means of aural study - but it makes for a nice compliment to more traditional texts. Of course, the "10 minutes a day" concept is silly. However, when study time comes around,I find myself turning to this book more than any other, especially when I only have a little time to study or when I\'ve had a particularly draining day and don\'t feel up to more serious endeavors. The stickers are great, and I\'ve found the pronunciations to be pretty accurate. It is a definite flaw that they don\'t show you the stressed vowels, but the individual pronunciations do account for the differences between stressed and unstressed vowels. On its own, this book isn\'t going to teach you Russian, but it is a fun and accessible supplemental study tool.
For anyone who wants to begin learning Russian, I wouldn\'t recommend relying on this book exclusively - you\'ve got to have some language tapes or other means of aural study - but it makes for a nice compliment to more traditional texts. Of course, the "10 minutes a day" concept is silly. However, when study time comes around,I find myself turning to this book more than any other, especially when I only have a little time to study or when I\'ve had a particularly draining day and don\'t feel up to more serious endeavors. The stickers are great, and I\'ve found the pronunciations to be pretty accurate. It is a definite flaw that they don\'t show you the stressed vowels, but the individual pronunciations do account for the differences between stressed and unstressed vowels. On its own, this book isn\'t going to teach you Russian, but it is a fun and accessible supplemental study tool.
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The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East (Eastern European Studies (College Station, Tex.), No. 21.) by Sharon Hudgins
Award-winning author Sharon Hudgins takes readers on a personal adventure through the Asian side of Russia-from the "high-rise villages" of Vladivostok and Irkutsk to Lake Baikal and the Trans-Siberian Railroad route. Join her as a guest confronted with exotic dishes at Christmas parties, New Year\'s banquets, Easter dinners, and Siberian festivals-and discover what daily life is really like on Russia\'s "other side."
"Sharon Hudgins has written a vivid and engrossing book about a part of the world that\'s both geographically and ethnically complex. She\'s done much to make the unfamiliar familiar."--Larry McMurtry
"Rare is the person who can step into the wonderland of Siberia and capture the culture and the spirit of its people. Sharon Hudgins has done that and more. . . . This is a warm, considered, and completely engaging work from start to finish. For those seeking a window into the soul of Siberia, you need look no further."--James A. Cramer, President & CEO, World Learning
". . . an animated examination of grim, grimy, and unpredictably gracious ordinary life in the extrordinary place she calls Absurdistan."-Alfred Friendly, Jr., coauthor, Ecocide in the USSR, and former Newsweek Moscow Bureau Chief
"Sharon Hudgins has written a vivid and engrossing book about a part of the world that\'s both geographically and ethnically complex. She\'s done much to make the unfamiliar familiar."--Larry McMurtry
"Rare is the person who can step into the wonderland of Siberia and capture the culture and the spirit of its people. Sharon Hudgins has done that and more. . . . This is a warm, considered, and completely engaging work from start to finish. For those seeking a window into the soul of Siberia, you need look no further."--James A. Cramer, President & CEO, World Learning
". . . an animated examination of grim, grimy, and unpredictably gracious ordinary life in the extrordinary place she calls Absurdistan."-Alfred Friendly, Jr., coauthor, Ecocide in the USSR, and former Newsweek Moscow Bureau Chief
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