2000 Most Common Russian Words in Context: Get Fluent & Increase Your Russian Vocabulary with 2000 Russian Phrases (Russian Language Lessons) Paperback – October 8, 2019

I just got this book two days ago and I have already been through the entire thing! I love the context sentences, although some are beyond my level, they are another wonderful way to expand vocabulary. I highlighted all of the words that I already know and will now concentrate on those that I don't. The only thing that would be helpful to me, would be to have the stressed vowels bolded. I don't care for the way the stress marks are notated in this book. Also, eliminate the cursive font in the introduction. Russian is hard enough to read without adding cursive! Otherwise, I highly recommend this book if you are studying the beautiful Russian language.

This is a practical guide for learning/improving Russian vocabulary. I love that it starts with words you'll use/see more often and works up to the ones less frequently used. I have a guide to 800 commonly used words, and the first page includes words like 'adjustment', 'angle', and 'apparatus'. I'm sure these words are good to know, but they're not the most helpful for someone just starting in the language. This book has words like 'and', 'in', and 'he' on the first page. Rather more useful than my other guide. I also like that this book has sample sentences using the words. The sentences also seem to get more advanced throughout the book. Overall, this seems to be a helpful, practical guide.

Good for what it is. The description fits it well. Won't teach you the language but some key phrases are there.

Like the other Lingo Mastery books for languages such as French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese, 2000 most common words in Russian is a great addition to any program of language study whether one is taking a course, learning with a tutor or roughing it out in self-study. Because these words are presented and learned in the context of real (and useful in their own right!) sentences, you end up learning way more than the 2000 words in the title and also are exposed to and pick up Russian grammar through reading simple comprehensible input (a well researched and frequently recommended way to acquire languages). Highly recommend!!

I just bought this book on Kindle and I'm already so happy with it. I really believe that learning the 2,000 most common words is going to help me a lot. And I love the way the book is laid out. It has the example sentences for each word in Russian and in English, and the word itself is boldfaced in both sentences, so you can see the word order. The Kindle version was inexpensive too.

Excellent book to use to build a solid working vocabulary. However, it is necessary to know the basics of Russian grammar in order to gain from using the book, so you will need a companion grammar book. I happen to like The New Penguin Russian Course

Very useful list, with pronunciation and sample sentences. In the intro the authors explain the reasoning behind focusing on a language's most common words as a way to quickly delve into reading and/or listening to materials written/spoken by native speakers. Looking forward to this same publisher's "Easy Russian Phrase Book."Also the publisher has a nice website, frequent giveaways, etc.

I like the idea of this book. It's a nice reference for basic words. That said, the layout is weird. I'm not sure there's an order to it. There's no appendix or vocabulary list in the back of the book like I'd expect. Also, the "ell" sound that I'd previously learned as Л instead shows in this book as an upside-down V shape, which isn't in any of my other books or programs. Maybe a different dialect? If so, it should be stated in the book description.Also, it would have been nice to have an appendix or intro page with your letter pronunciation.