Russian Picture Word Book: Learn Over 500 Commonly Used Russian Words Through Pictures (Dover Bilingual Books For Kids) Paperback – June 20, 2003

A great coloring book to help someone to learn nouns in Russian!The book is black and white on a sturdy paper.The words are only available in Russian, but because they are paired with pictures the meaning is clear, what is more---the words are nouns, so there is no confusion at all.

Exactly what I expected. I am excited to get started on more vocabulary. I saw some people mention the lack of stress symbols being present to help pronounce the words. I see this as opportunity for you to look it up in dictionary or online and place the stress symbols appropriately yourself to reinforce the material to an even greater degree! Do not get if you cant pronounce the alphabet as this is just words over pictures with translations in the back. Very simple and exactly what i was looking for.

Here's another kids book that adults could use. Compared to the book "First Thousand Words", it's not as attractive, but I bought it for fun. It has 15 2-page black and white drawings of themed scenes. My husband said "Oh! I see you have a coloring book!". I guess one could color the pictures...what the heck.Each theme is labeled, and items in the scenes are labeled. Unlike "1,000 Words", it does NOT have pronunciations (that's dumb..there isn't even a phonetic guide), but like the "1,000" it does have a translation glossary in the back.I liked it as a diversion from text-only Russian lessons.

Love the book, but the only thing is that it is more for an older child because the pictures are so tiny. Makes coloring difficult for a little kid.

The idea of learning with pictures is a good one. Pictures really do aid memory. The biggest problem with the book is the lack of a pronunciation guide. The Russian language is very irregular in its stress patterns. Therefore, the glossary in the back of the book should have some way of indicating which syllables are stressed. This would be a simple fix. In subsequent editions, authors could print the stresses syllables in bold type.I suggest that future editions either be sold with a CD or with a pronunciation guide.If the authors make this change, the book will be an excellent teaching tool.

Great vocabulary booster! I'm in my first year of Russian and this is really helping me memorize the words that we use everyday in class. It has a lot of common words that you would use in your everyday life and there's a dictionary in the back to help with translation. I like that I can color in the pages because it gives me an excuse to focus on the words. I love it.

I was very unhappy with this book. Trying to self teach myself some Russian words and the alphabet for vacation. The pictures are in black and white - there are so many objects on a page and the translation is small font. Confusing to me. I've found better Russian aids to learn from.

Look, the Cyrillic alphabet isn't that hard to learn. I just watched a video on YouTube several times and learned it in a couple of days. You can also just go on google translate and see where the accent of each word is. I like that this coloring book doesn't have pronounciation suggestions using the Roman alphabet, because those are a crutch if you really want to learn Russian.What I have done with my daughter is practice each word, and then when we have the word down we color it in. We are also using other resources to learn other parts of speech (this book just has nouns) and grammar, including the declensions of the nouns we learn in this book. (You have to do that unless you just want to know how to point stuff and say the names).This book is such a fun component of learning Russian. Highly recommend.