Russian Learner's Dictionary: 10, 000 Russian Words in Frequency Order

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Excellent (1/1 people found this helpful)

This is by far and away my favourite Russian study aid. I used this throughout my year in Russia and my honours year. Every day I would try and learn 20 new words as they appeared in frequency order- and it was amazing when reading a Russian magazine or newspaper - they literally sprang out the page the day you learnt them.

I would say that this book is ESSENTIAL if you are to study Russian even remotely seriously. It is invaluable.

Recommended for all serious students (5/5 people found this helpful)

This book is both fascinating and a boon for any serious student of the language.

Some of the words in the earliest sections of the book will be surprising, and some of those that don't appear will also surprise you.

As a learning tool, I can say from personal experience and from the experience of friends, thoroughly learning the high frequency words and working your way through will increase your reading fluency in leaps and bounds.

As a fascinating linguistic study it will be of interest to any Russian learners who wonder how things such as communism, glasnost, perestroika etc have affected the language.

It isn't a book for beginners, it's a bit heavy for anyone just starting out (literally as well as metaphorically ;)) as well as not being especially cheap (though it's good value). This isn't a dictionary in the "I-want-to-know-the-word-for-bread-now" sense, and anyone expecting that would be disappointed. But for any student who wants a structure to vocab learning, or wants to improve reading fluency, etc, it is a godsend and well worth the money.

A tool that should be replicated for other languages (4/4 people found this helpful)

Learning Russian is a difficult task due to the unfamiliarity of vocabulary compared with most European languages. I have been using this book since my first year of university and have found it to be the most useful weapon for tackling the language. Work through the book, restesting yourself regularly and you should be able to build up a formidable vocabulary with a bit of effort. Exemplary sentences are given for the first 600 words; it's a shame that this couldn't be done for all 10,000 but would make the book a lot larger. Language learning would be a lot simpler if more works like this could be produced.

Very very useful book for university Russian studies! (12/12 people found this helpful)

I used this book revising for my finals, so I had something to focus on. It's always hard to know what vocabulary to learn, but with this book I just carried on until the end of the book, knowing that by the time I reached 10,000 words the chances of meeting that word were just one in a million! It was a great confidence builder.

Good book for understanding what to learn (23/24 people found this helpful)

Bought this book because I was trying to learn Russian, and didn't have any idea which words were most important. Found that many of the words I had learned were rarely used. On the other hand, many of the most common words, I had never heard.

This book then allowed me to focus on words that I needed the most. Since I now live in Russia, (while still using the book) I find that as I learn the more frequently used words, I hear them almost daily. It's been a big help.

On the other hand, it's not a good 'first book' for people who want to learn Russian. You still need grammar, sounds, etc. It's probably better as a second or third book.

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