Which would you recommend, the one written by Fennell or the one by Brown? I have about a semester's worth of college russian using Nachalo if that makes a difference (had to switch to german due to scheduling conflicts unfortunately). I'm also thinking about Duff's Russian for Beginners. I swear they don't write text books like that used to. It's a money grab now-a-days.

So in the meantime, it's tschuss instead of Пока.