Thread: В пути

Has anyone seen this book? What do you think of it if you have?
http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academi ... 04,00.html

It looks expensive

It is used by many universities. I haven't seen it myself.
why do you ask?

Начало and Голоса are equally good for the first two years of study. I believe all three have a text, a workbook, and at least an audio CD. Close your eyes and pick one.

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It is the book that I am required to use for this terms Russian class. I was hoping that someone would tell me that it is worth the money they want for it. I have already bought the book and the exercise book that goes with it. So far, I think it is just like Golosa and I hated that book. Too bad that schools don't use New Penguin!!!

DDT, I'm curious what you finally decided about V Puti? We are using it in my course this semester.

I hated the book. I still think a used copy of New Penguin Russian for 5 bucks is better value. I don't know if ANY of the college Russian textbooks have answers to exercises in the back. Without them it is impossible to self study. Perhaps that is a college textbook conspiracy!

Oh well, it's going to be an interesting semester....Thanks for the feedback!

Originally Posted by Winifred

Oh well, it's going to be an interesting semester....Thanks for the feedback!

If you have never used any other book you won't notice anything. (Ignorance is bliss)
I self studied Russian for a year and a half before I started a college program, therefore I was stunned at the stupidity (and price) of the text books they used, Golosa and V Puti.

Well, I used another book about 30 years ago, but didn't study. It was very functional, dry as toast, but lots of info. I still refer to it.

Over the summer, I used a textbook called Troika to (try to) catch up to the intermediate class offered this term.

I'll write reviews elsewhere, when I have a little more time.

I'm finding V Puti confusing, and the glossary is incredibly disorganized. On the other hand, I like the paragraph - sized reading, the oral work on computer at their website, http://www.prenhall.com/vputi/ and, as an English literature grad student, I love the literary excerpts: Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, etc....