I liked the Pimsleur tapes when I first took an interest in Russian Language. They were fun to listen to and helped with pronunciation. But they have no written dialogue to use with the tapes and so you can't see the words you are saying. This became a problem later on when I started taking Russian classes. I could say lots of phrases and simple sentences but I got confused when it came to writing these on paper and could not translate them correctly. It also caused confusion with cases and verb conjugation. I think it is better to get a grammer text that has a companion CD and a workbook. My school uses Golosa and it is fairly simple and straight forward.