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IN THIS CHAPTER

Approaching the Russian alphabet

Looking at grammar in a new light

Getting started with some useful words and expressions

Putting Russian to use in common social situations

Taking Russian on the road

Russian has a reputation for being a difficult language. Is it? We would say that different is a better word to describe the experience of studying Russian. Russian actually is a distant cousin of English. Both languages belong to a huge Indo-European family of languages — unlike, say, Arabic, Chinese, or Japanese, which belong to completely different language-family clans.

This chapter provides you a taste of Russian. Get ready to study this fascinating language!