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Learn another language the way you learnt your own! As a child, you learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Russian in the same way. There's no books and no writing, and you will achieve confidence - in hours. With the "Michel Thomas Method", you learn the language in small steps, building it up yourself to produce ever more complicated sentences. The Method works as it breaks down the language into its component parts, enabling learners to reconstruct the language themselves - to form their own sentences, to say what they want, when they want. On the recording you will hear two students being taught in real time and in a classroom situation, so you are learning with others. You enjoy their success and learn from their mistakes. You, as learner, become the third student and participate actively in the class. In a very short time you will be able to manipulate Russian structures to express what you want to say. You can use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas. The Method works WITH your brain, helping you to build up your Russian in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself. You learn through listening and speaking - the way you learnt as a child. You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably. These all-audio courses are accompanied by an index, where the Russian words are printed in Roman script and translated, for easy reference. If you want to learn it, the Cyrillic alphabet is taught on a dedicated audio track and shown in the booklet; but you don't have to know the Cyrillic script to learn Russian with the Michel Thomas Method. This 8-hour "Russian Foundation Course" is one of the Michel Thomas Method Russian courses published by Hodder Arnold, the others being the 5-hour "Advanced Course", the 2-hour "Foundation Review" and the 1-hour "Advanced Review".

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Anyone can speak Russian, just follow the MT method.  
This new Russian course is a great addition to the Michel Thomas series. Although the great man is no longer here. Natasha Bershadski provides almost ten hours of excellent teaching for those learning the language for the first time. She spends a lot of time reinforcing pronunciation to the two students, stressing the importance of soft and hard consonants, in that way you as the 3rd student pick up the Russian accent along the way. The later part of the course deals with the Cyrilic alphabet and goes through the formal construction of spoken Russian.

Along with the Advanced course, a great introduction to spoken Russian.
For a wholesome intro to Russian, this is the way to go!  
The teacher here has found novel ways of interpreting Russian words as vivid images which stick in your mind. The learning process comes naturally as if uncovering a Russian tongue you never knew you had. References to Russian culture as well as etymology of certain words further aid the memory.

Having taken a few Russian classes for beginners some years ago, these CDs were a very useful refresher for me and I wish they'd been made earlier! I found the pace comfortable as you're constantly learning and practicing what you learn at each stage. You're encouraged to revisit words and constructions already learnt by building them into new sentences.

To the extent that your mistakes are similar to the 2 students, you learn from their mistakes as if you yourself are being corrected. Common pitfalls are pointed out and gentle reminders flag points to watch yourself on.

As a native English speaker, I didn't appreciate the importance of tone and pitch in spoken Russian at first. You learn how stress can affect the meaning of a sentence or word depending on where it falls. Through examples and repetition you become accustomed to this as well as the subtleties of "hard" versus "soft" sounds. I found sounds much easier to distinguish by listening to the CDs than I did learning in the classroom.

Although primarily a spoken course, it also touches on how to read the Russian Cyrillic script and the small booklet has a vocab list along with the alphabet. Grammar is explained in lay man's terms to make it easy to use. You learn to use all three tenses with ease which is a pretty remarkable for a short course.

The course is fun and really facilitates learning. It's less demanding than real classes in that you're free from homework and have no time/place commitment. That being said, you can't treat it lightly: it's not something to listen to in your sleep or while cooking a new recipe. It deserves more attention so needs uninterrupted time. You have to focus on what you're listening to and picture yourself sitting at a table with the teacher and two other students. I used the 30 min commute to work to listen to this and it worked well although my vocal practice was somewhat limited!

Overall, it's a superb introduction to Russian and achieves what is stated on the box with great success. For me personally it only served as a boost to my existing knowledge as it covered familiar territory. I'm left wanting more and am eagerly awaiting delivery of the advanced course so I can follow up and learn more Russian using this amazing technique!
You can even learn Russian at 70 with Michel Thomas  
I first heard about the Michel Thomas method when I found myself in the car picking up the Italian my wife was learning by his method. I wanted to learn Russian but at 70 years the last two years have been a dispiriting slog. Then I saw that there was a Russian course by the Michel Thomas method. The years have dropped away and I'm galloping along. Many, many thanks.
Still good, even after Michel Thomas  
As with the other Michel Thomas courses (only this time without him) this is an excellent language learning tool. You very quickly find yourself able to express quite complex ideas in Russian.
The course easily gets to grips with the strangeness (to an English ear) of the Russian emphases in pronunciation, of intonation in questions (utterly different to the English), and of the soft sound.
Sometimes you might feel like shouting at the two students Natasha Bershadski is working with - but that all adds to the fun!
My only regret is that we are going to have to wait so long for the Advanced course (scheduled for March 2008 I think).
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