The First Thousand Words in Russian

This is a colorful, beautifully illustrated hardcover book for children age 3 and up to learn Russian. There are trusted websites that it gives for children to listen and hear the words. It is broken up into category and groups and they are able to hear the words, see the words, and see the picture which gives added re-enforcement to their learning. Learning a 2nd language when they are young is very helpful in learning other languages as they go to school. It is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it.

Finally a language book that teaches practical vocabulary that isn't always found in the textbooks. With large comic book style pages, vocabulary items are depicted in a color drawing that covers most of the page. On the page borders are small individual depictions of the vocabulary items with the name beneath it in Russian, there are no English translations (except in the glossary) because none are ever needed. For example; the first page shows a color drawing of various rooms in a house. One room is the bath. The border of the page will have a picture of a toilet and its name beneath in Russian, then it is shown in the context of the bathroom without a label so the reader can self quiz. An excellent resource!, good for beginner to intermediate level readers.

My husband is a native Russian speaker and speaks only this language to our 2 yr. old. This book has ended up being our son's FAVORITE book. He loves the illustrations (so do I) and will look at one page for a good 10 minutes. I helps me brush up on my Russian also. I must add, however, that if you are a BEGINNER to the Russian language this book won't teach you how to correctly pronounce the words. Words are spelled out phoenetically but do not include any clues as to pronunciation.

As an adoptive mother and founder of Building Blocks Adoption Service,Inc. I highly recommend this book to keep your newly adopted child into his/her own language. This book is great for children who want to rekindle their former language as well or parents wanting to communicate with their older adopted children. We highly recommend this wonderful book.

I found that learning a new languange is easies when learned as I did in school. This book has humorous full page color pictures of everyday life. The outside boarders of every page picks a list of single items from that page, and gives you the russian word, and the translitteration. I thought it was quite helpfull, and cute. [email protected]