Thread: What's the best book to use to learn Russian?

Originally Posted by Marcus

But the description of the pronunciation is awful, you should use another source to learn Russian phonology and graphics.

I don't remember the pronunciation section to be honest, but these days with the amount of audio/ visual resource available on the internet you'd be a fool to try to learn pronunciation from a written description in any book.

Originally Posted by zedeeyen

I don't remember the pronunciation section to be honest, but these days with the amount of audio/ visual resource available on the internet you'd be a fool to try to learn pronunciation from a written description in any book.

Wrong concepts become undestroyable quickly. It was impossible to explain to you that hard and soft consonants were important for understanding and that one could replace a soft consonant with the hard consonant and "y".

Originally Posted by Marcus

Wrong concepts become undestroyable quickly. It was impossible to explain to you that hard and soft consonants were important for understanding and that one could replace a soft consonant with the hard consonant and "y".

No, it was impossible for me to explain to you the difference between the statements "X is less important than Y" and "X is not important".

So I gave up, and I'm not about to start again because I care even less now than I did at the time.

Toodle pip.