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The book is very good, in fact, it is really the only good Russian book I have seen that helps you make rapid progress. The problem is that is WEAK on phonetics.
As much as I dislike your textbook Nachalo, I think that it was your teachers who were to blame for not correcting your pronounciation. I saw this time and time again in University Russian classes. I went into a class one term with third year Russian students that I could not understand. At first I thought that it was my lack of vocabulary that was the problem but I quickly realized that I knew every Russian word spoken. I just didn't recognize them due to the atrocious pronounciation.
But what really amazed me was my teacher's complete failure to correct them. I actually feared that just listening to them would hurt me learning. The teacher was native Russian, too!
As I said before I did not like Nachalo or their web site. I also did not like the Golosa series that I used before that butbut I think that their web site
is worth bookmarking There are exercises that you can do with the answers and videos to watch.
Go
to this and click away...er..hmm..