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Originally Posted by kwatts59
I doubt you will have any problem learning Russian from a 40 year old book (mabye a 200 year old book). Languages don't change very much year to year. Of course words like "Internet", "email", and even "computer" were not used back then, but who cares. On the beginning level there should be no problem.
Well, not completely true
A 200 year old book *would* be outdated
out alphabet has changed (we threw away some letters) for instance. :)
that happened a little more than 100 years ago, if I recall correctly