What does this mean?Highlights
Quality
And it seemed good quality when i wrapped it.
I also bought the audiobook, which is of excellent production quality.
Being a non native russian i can't vouch for the quality of the language though it seems fine it does seem to be written by som... Read More
The absolute strength of this, as with the whole series, is the approach with vocabulary.
Competitiveness
Incidentally, even at a higher level, i've found this volume to be a superb brushing-up exercise for my russian!
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
russian, good, level, first and intermediate. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 483 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 8 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I could read through each chapter in one go and completely understand the gist of the story whilst not understanding every single word
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Obviously the deliberate construction of the stories renders them slightly stilted at times i think but then its very hard to balance accessibility and authenticity when writing learners materials
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If youve not tackled russian prose at all before then this will be a challenging but not impossible introduction
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It really helps me to feel that i am progressing and i can understand the gist of the story without having to check the dictionary every other word
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is organised into eight stories with each split into chapters and included a glossary of new words a summary of the text and some questions to test your comprehension
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unfortunately i found quite a lot of mistakes far too many for a book of this kind
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Specifically i found 22 words incorrectly stressed 20 words without wordstress when they should have it 2 spelling mistakes and one grammar mistake confirmed by several native speakers
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im reporting the list of mistakes i found at the end of this review i hope they’ll be useful to other users
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