College French Book

For someone learning Russian on their own, this book is indispensable. I used this alongside websites such as Livemocha and Busuu as well as book resources such as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Russian. While Livemocha and Busuu were helpful in learning vocab words, they explained almost no grammar; that's where this guide stepped in. I referenced it when I couldn't figure out which case to use when, when I first learned verb conjugations, when the declension of a word didn't make sense. Organized in an easy-to-find manner, the numbered sections deal with everything from Russian letters to numbers to declensions in all six Russian cases. I've recommended this resource to a number of language learners over the years; on my own, I learned a semester's worth of Russian while studying at my university. No doubt my success can be attributed to the usefulness of this guide.