I forgot to recommend "Pimsleur" to this visitor. After listening to the whole thing (50 hours!!!!!) I guarantee that it covers all the vocabulary he needs for his purposes...
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Pimsleur "Я американец..." "У меня очень много долларов...." "Где бы вы хотели поужинать вместе со мной сегодня вечером?" "Что вы хотели -- вина или пива?" "Ещё водки!" Two weeks later: 'Это моя жена Анна, она русская.... "
No doubt the Russian ladies will fall instantly in love after hearing these eloquent phrases
and they will live happily ever after...
Hehe....
NOTE: Please rest assured that the
only reason I stuck with Pimsleur is because I always like to finish what I have started... Plus 50 hours of learning material is pretty good. But the sentences and phrases are terrible and the accent of the narrator is driving me nuts.
If you want an audio course in Russian for beginners, choose 1) Michel Thomas' Russian 1+2 OR 2) "Assimil, Le Russe sans peine" instead! So my flashcards had about a thousand sentences of nonsense in it, that I didn't even have the audio for. They had moved around the lessons and changed the language a bit.
Oh, the other reason I stuck with it was because I entered ALL the Pimsleur sentences into my flashcard application. Unfortunately I only discovered later that my audio version was different from the on that "Grogs" had (that's the guy who transcribed Pimsleur here on MR).
For example, instead of saying "Вы хотели бы поужинать со мной сегодня вечером?" they say "Вы хотете поужинать вместе со мной вечером..." Basically every sentence was changed a bit. No idea why.