Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian Script

Excellent starter book to learn from.. Have used more than anything else to learn to speak short conversations with older russian patients. Able to communicate much more than I thought. The only thing that I can sayy negative about book is that I wish the print was a little bigger, as, I have poor sight and the print is kind of small. Great content!!!!!

I am taking a beginning Russian class and have found this book to be very helpful in preparing me for the initial classes. I would have been lost without it.

The Russian alphabet can be offputting however, after only a couple of days with this text, I was able to read in Russian and often even understood what I was reading. Of course, this book is only helpful if you spend time with it but that's not hard because it's well written and well organized. I highly recommend it.

I just purchased this book today, and now wish I'd spent more time thumbing through it in the book store. From the title, I assumed that it would teach how to read and write the Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet. I have a hard time memorizing something by just looking at it, so I wanted a book that concentrated on how to write the alphabet as well. Although this book does include a section on Cyrillic cursive, I did not feel comfortable writing either Cyrillic block letters or cursive based on the information in this book. There is no stroke order or direction given, so the reader is left to guess how to replicate the given character.
Other than that, this is a cute little book, well priced, that will get you through reading the Cyrillic alphabet and some beginning vocabulary.

I was delighted with this book, and thrilled at how quickly I picked up the skill of reading Russian typed print. I was even more impressed when I used the book to teach my hisband in 10 minutes the rudaments of the Russian Alphabet and he can now point out the letters to me. All from 10 minutes of study.

Short simple lessons with excercises at the end of the chapters and each chapter builds on the previous one. Highly recomended book.
**Will not teach HOW to write the Script**

Most Russian language instruction books cover the script in a few pages in the intro or first chapter. "Look at them, and memorize them" is the tacit instruction, because after that, you move forward as if the Russian alphabet is second nature.

But these books don't account for the various ways that the cyrillic script can confuse and blunt the actual learning of Russian. While in reality the alphabet is not that difficult to learn, most people taking up Russian are very used to a different alphabet, which can make reading Russian more confusing than if you knew no alphabet at all.

So here we have this book, which covers the script and various points of Russian language thorougly and easily. You learn capital letters, script, and typed versions of each letter. There is even reading comprehension.

Spend a few weeks with this book and it is not possible that the Russian script can be an obstacle to learning Russian, which is exactly what this book aims to cure.