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[femme-boheme.livejournal.com]

Hello. this is my first post here. At the school I currently attend russian is not offered, though i have been intregued by it for as long as i can remeber. thus, I've been taking french classes for years but have always dreamed of learning russian, however basic, on my own. I managed to come across some old text books and language cassettes, but am really overwhelmed by it all, and seeing as how i am going at this alone, i'm not quite sure where to start. i can even seem to get a handle on the cyrillic alphabet. any suggestions for an absolute beginner would be much appreciated. also perhaps if you knew of any resources that have helped you, recommendations would be wonderful.

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[dalai-lahme.livejournal.com]

Get the basic illustrated grammar by Pekhlivanova. I am surprised to see that Amazon has it. Great work, very instructive, used in beginner to advanced beginner level courses at uni in Europe. Printed in Moscow, cyrillic, so you need basic knowledge or at least a dictionary. Great illustrations.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0828537356/t/103-0529926-8906200

Or get it used from www.addall.com/used or else.

About textbooks I can´t help as I dont know what is on the english market.

[chaizzilla.livejournal.com]

http://langintro.com/rintro/