With carefully structured method targets, this book introduces only the most important Russian vocabulary and grammar and gets you speaking straight away. The learning programme aims to take only 45 minutes a day for six weeks and has fewer than 500 words to be learnt. The grammar has been pared down to the bare bones and is explained in simple English so you will not get bogged down by unnecessarily complicated structures that you will not need. flashcards provided at the end of the book and memorizing the sentences in the learn by heart section, you should find that you are speaking in whole sentences and with confidence right from the start. The rules of pronunciation are simplified and are available separately on an accompanying CD or cassette, so you have a model to follow rather than trying to follow written instructions.