Russian vocabulary for English speakers - 9000 words (American English Collection)

My daughter loves it. Easy to read.

A list is a list? Well, not always because sometimes, like in the case of vocabulary lists, some are more helpful than others. In russian the importance is on the accentuation because from it's position you can access to a lot of information about the meaning, the value of the other vowels, and, very important, how the word is grammaticaly working...So this book will help you with that for a very decent amount of words covering a very good level for both reading and speaking'Just noticed that the Kindle version freezes all the time, I have a Kindle Keyboard 3 G, and when it doesn't many parts are pictures wich you. can elarge, sure, but what a drag...The iPad edition of the Kindle app makes provides a much better experience. So, please update the Kindle edition and the e book version will deserve 5 stars...

I use this text in addition to others. It is very useful for building vocabulary, which is essential to any language learning.

non-alphabetical dictionary

Good for review and studying specific groups of words.

I have a Kindle Dx and all I see instead of Cyrillic text are question marks "?" I have already had this issue with the following other titles: Slovoed Deluxe English-Russian dictionary (Slovoed dictionaries), Russian Vocabulary for English Speakers - English-Russian - 9000 Words, Russian-English Dual-Language Book based on the World Masterpiece Classical Short Story by Anton P. Chekhov "Gooseberries": Story and Grammar (Russian Noun Cases) (Dual-Language Russian-English Books), Russian Vocabulary Flash Cards (For Kindle 3): The 1000 Most Common Words with Definitions, and I have received a refund for the following title that also failed to work: A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Blackwell Reference Grammars) Indeed, the only two content files I have purchased that worked were the following: Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar, Second Edition (Schaum's Outline Series), The Dance of the Caterpillars Bilingual Russian - English.

The trouble with this book is that (a) the vocabulary is not chosen with Russia or Russian particularly in mind; selected under topic, it is often too specialized, too American, and some very common words (e.g. 'mashina' = car) are left out; (b) no grammatical information is provided, with the result that, in order to learn any of these words properly, you would need to check it in a good dictionary - to discover any shifts of stress in varying grammatical forms, and the perfective form of each verb. A far better vocabulary book is "Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 words in frequency order", which has grammatical notes on most words, and covers what are genuinely the 10,000 most used words, on the basis of thorough and scientific Russian research.

it is an excellent source with IPA phoneticswell chosen vocabulary

This book illustrates the disadvantages in having the same format for vocabulary books in quite different languages. It would work for languages with a very simple grammar, but Russian is not one of these. All Russian verbs have both a perfective and imperfective form, and one of these can't be guessed from the other. So a vocabulary has to give both; but this book gives only the imperfective. Also, very many Russian words change the position of the stress in different grammatical forms; this book only gives you the stress in a single form for each word. So to learn each word properly, you would have to look it up in a good dictionary. It would be more sensible to go straight to a dictionary in the first place. Secondly, this is not, as it claims, a list of the 9,000 'most useful' words, because much of the vocabulary provided (which is set out under topics) is too specialized. And the coverage (e.g. on food, politics and religion) reflects American life and interests rather than Russian. You will find the word for 'electic chair'; you won't actually find 'mashina', the Russian word for a car. This book would be more useful for a Russian visiting America than for an Englishman visiting Russia.