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Question aimed towards people who have already taken Russian in college:

Is there a particular textbook that you would recommend to someone who wants to teach himself a years worth of Russian? I've been studying Russian for a while now and I've got most of the basics down for sure, and I'm sure that if I went into Russian in college I'd have enough knowledge to get through the first semester pretty easily. I'm looking for a book that I can use to go through it and make sure that's true, as well as to go further.

A few things i like in books: plenty of examples, conversations, stories/translations, no more than 30 vocab words introduced each chapter, and even that is pushing it, teaches the stress of each word... etc etc. and readibility is very important to... I don't want a textbook that sounds like a biology book, but i also don't want it to be written for people with a low IQ level lol.

Thanks if anyone can help me out with this ^_^