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[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

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 ^_^

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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I again need to ask about some differences...

between штука and вещь

And between the usage of бы and должен in the context of..., well, something like "You should read this book"

Ты бы прочитал эту книгу.
Ты должен прочитать эту книгу.