Learn Russian with Fairy Tales: Interlinear Russian to English (Learn Russian with Interlinear Stories for Beginners and Advanced Readers) Paperback – December 24, 2016

This book is one of the very best ways to learn Russian. It is easy to follow, clear, fun. I recommend it to everyone learning this language! Great book!

Great for beginners

I do like the concept of fairy tales being translated from one language to another, however, this version of this concept may need a huge revision before publishing. The sentences translated from Russian make absolutely no sense to English speaker.So, I will not use the version provided, on contrary, this inspired me to do some editing instead!

I have been joyfully reading this Hyplern series in various languages. I find the French, Spanish, Italian books are very easy to follow. So I ordered two Russian books last year to try. But the Russian alphabet was difficult, so it didn't work out. Recently I went through the FSI FAST course, and finally knew the Russian alphabet. I didn't listen to the recording this time, as I usually did. I just want to go through the book. I did finish it from cover to cover, with a 95% comprehension rate. The progress is very slow (almost word by word), but it works!I highly recommend this as a good way to "swim" in original language. This interlinear method could be ideal if the objective is to have a deep comprehension of stories in original - it slows me down, and read line by line.One review below says that the translation is not native accurate. I think the translation is based on Google translation with some manual correction and editing - that is actually the beauty of this method: It forces you to re-read the original sentence and figure out the true meaning in context by yourself. The goal is total comprehension of the original text, so the word-for-word accurate translation is actually not preferred. So with this method, the "exercise" has been built-in with a natural reading flow.

I bought this book for my son who speaks very little Russian. Translation in the book is way off ( I speak Russian very well, so I know), plus I didn't like the idea that English translation is right under the Russian text, which doesn't give my son a chance to try to translate it. I had to return it.

Very stark. Good price but you get what you pay for. Don’t expect any list of vocabulary words or explanation of grammatical points. There’s nothing.

This "kindle book" cannot be read either on the cloud reader or on my kindle.

The English translations are not accurate