Everyday English-Russian Conversations

The Nov/13/2008 reviewer of Leonid Kossman's textbook misses the obvious fact that this book wasn't written for native speakers of English who are trying to learn Russian; it was written for _Russians_ learning English! It can certainly be used as a Russian textbook by English speakers, but that wasn't the author's intent. The print is small because Dover reprinted it from a 1970s edition, which had been extremely successful with Russian students of English in the USA and--after the fall of the Soviet Union--in Russia.

I love the concept of this book and I have no complaints about the contents. Conversations about a variety of topics are presented side by side in English and Russian. My only complaint is that the printing is spotty and in some cases the letters are hard to make out.