Not very useful at all - Can't search for a verb
935433
The kindle edition of this book really excited me.  I live in France and often use my paper edition to help with conjugations.  I was really excited about getting this product and being able to not have to carry around my book anymore but just my kindle.  Unfortunately, when I try to search for a verb, it won't even find it in the list of results.  I search for "Avoir" for example and it will return several pages where the verb is referenced but none that I can see where the actual conjugation can be found.  I'd like to return this book but it doesn't appear that is possible.  Also, on the older kindle, you can increase the font size of the actual conjugation.  Unless there is an update to the format, I would avoid purchasing this book.
4685730
I regretted buying this book immediately after opening it. I wouldn't have bought if there was preview available. Lack of preview is making me suspicious now. Seems this guy doesn't know what 'fully conjugated verbs' means. There are only present, past and future tenses (three columns for each word). And no subjunctive, imperative or other tenses like present perfect, past perfect, past continuous etc. I'm giving one star to provide the author/seller an incentive to be honest to the readers/buyers and to make improvement if possible.
1930581
Here they are... Poor, Bad, Stupid, worthless, don't, "what?," blah, free, meh, glag. (ok, so Amazon has a minimum word requirement which is why I kept going on. Just don't get it even if it's free.)
1009922
This is not a grammar book, but a grammar exercise book. It has almost no description of English grammar, just jumps to the exercises in each chapter and has really little description. I'm not sure why all these reviewers actually gave 5 stars to it. I bought it for my brother, who has basic English, and I was hoping he could use this book to learn on his own, but, how can he do exercises when the grammar isn't explained at all.

I'm truly disappointed. Buy this book, if you want a grammar exercise book, but not if you want a grammar explanation book.
1992295
Good  for basicvocabulary,but watch out verb formsnot given
4525486
I rented 501 French Verbs from the library.  For each verb it had examples of usage.  The French book also had idiom phrases, quizzes, etc...  Liked it so much I bought it from Amazon.

So I rented 501 Russian Verbs from the library expecting similar content as the French version.  What a difference.  If you really need a book that shows you how to conjugate 501 Russian verbs without context and without examples, this book is for you.

Honestly how can you have a Russian verb book that covers verbs of motions with one or two word English translations.  Completely worthless for learning how to use the verbs.

The differences between perfective and imperfective require examples to begin to make any sense of the usage.

The only reason I can think of for the positive reviews is that it must have been a classroom assignment for extra credit.
3333421
I find that I learn much better when I'm introduced to new vocabulary in the context of a story or dialog.  I was hoping that this CD would have songs or rhymes that would help me remember new words better, but it's just a random list of words read in Spanish and English with music in the background.  I was quite disappointed, and would have given it zero stars, but 1 is the lowest.  If you learn can subliminally, maybe you can pick up Spanish by listening to this over and over, but I got bored with this very quickly and found it irritating after the first 20 minutes.
4432972
I got my hopes up thinking this would be loaded with lots of practice questions I could work on all day long. Well, it is loaded with questions... but they are written by somebody who probably speaks English as their 3rd language. I spend more time trying to figure out the verbage and sentence structure and what the question is actually asking than I do anything else. I rarely write reviews on Amazon but this program is absolutely worthless. I got through about 50 questions on the first practice quest and then uninstalled the program because the poor English and typos were just too much to handle.
4155716
It seems that they tried hard to cover all the ways that a word can take in Spanish, but they failed. They should have keep it simple with fewer words and less time configurations. I bought it as a gift for my girlfriend so she could learn some Spanish, but it was very hard even for me to form any coherent sentence (I'm native Spanish speaker).
After a week or so, we didn't use it any longer.
2696213
Bought this because it says it's "straight forward" but it's anything but. When you first click on an activity- it's all in Italian- you're just supposed to figure it out! There's no activity that oulines what a word in Italian means in English- if you want to know you better have written it all down from the dictionary they provide. Otherwise it's a complete mess- I have no idea how people are supposed to learn with this product.
3184684
I really don't know why this book is getting good reviews from so many other people, besides maybe the fact that it's cheap. I like that the price is low, but that doesn't make it a good product. Let's start with the description on the back: "Void of all nonessentials." Well, by the end of this book, you still won't know how to make small talk or book a room at a hotel, but you WILL know the words for "sailboat" and "industrious." When was the last time you used "industrious" in English?

Then there's the teaching method. Every section contains a long description of a series of events, followed by a selection of vocabulary and a grammar unit. Sounds fine in theory, except that the vocab seems chosen at random and the descriptive passages are almost entirely useless for getting by in a German-speaking country. For example, there is a description of a scene where someone's car breaks down. The passage simply lists the fact that someone stopped to help and fixed the tire, rather than making any attempt to train the reader as to what to say if their car breaks down in Germany. Another reading piece has the characters going to a restaurant, and then just says "Alle bestellten irhe Lieblingsgerichte/everyone ordered their favorite dishes" with no dialog whatsoever. Great, very helpful.

I guess if your ultimate aim in learning German is to read a lot of novels in the language, this is the book for you. If you want to use it to actually speak to a normal person, look elsewhere.
1814830
I have been doing crosswords most of my life. I was looking for medium ability so I wouldn't have to tote around a dictionary. Nothing would help me with the answers because they were so out in left field I could not even make the connection from the hint. A waste of money.
4799790
I have to disagree with the other review.  I found this book very unhelpful.  The main problem is that there is no way to use what you have learned, or be sure what you are learning. The book consists almost solely of dialogues (each one written in greek lettering, transliterated into english lettering, and translated, all on the same page). There is also information on sentence structure and grammar, and each dialogue chapter includes a vocabulary list.

What the book lacks is any sort of interactive component.  There are no exercises. No passages to translate or questions to answer to demonstrate your understanding.  The book basically expects the learner to memorize the stuff by rote, a VERY outdated method of learning languages.

While very basic, "Teach Yourself Beginner's Greek Script" is much more useful, providing plenty of exercises (most of them fun and imaginative) to support the information in each lesson.

Off to find another more advanced 'teach yourself greek' book, I guess.
1825352
Nothing new or informative, just do an internet search
4444946
Way too hard for all but advanced students-and even then it's still no fun. Why wouldn't it be translated into easy Latin just as the English is simple? It seems the translator is more concerned with pedanticism than readability.
1322897
Get a thesaurus! The words and phrases repeated in this book are startling. I'm glad I'm not the only one disappointed with his attempt. I want to read to the end, but, I can't bear another "blazed" or "tears" or "maw". Seriously, not even worth the two bucks I paid.
4027114
You would think that most bilingual dictionaries are about the same, more or less. You'd be wrong. This dictionary is way, way less.

What were the editors thinking when they organized this dictionary? It is completely counterintuitive. As someone who is learning Spanish, I look up a word because I don't know what it means. Instead, I'm presented with a cursory English definition and more Spanish words that I don't know. The abbreviations identifying the word's part of speech (such as noun, adjective) or if it's a regular or irregular verb, etc. -- they are in SPANISH! And the key that identifies what the abbreviations mean, it's in Spanish too. I don't know Spanish -- yet -- so I don't understand how this is supposed to help me. And as a previous reviewer pointed out, English definitions do not tell if a noun is masculine or feminine in Spanish; for that information, you need to look up the word in the Spanish half. Additionally, there are numerous text boxes explaining grammatical concepts and other subjects interspersed throughout the dictionary, but, again, they are in the wrong language (in Spanish in the English-Spanish half, and in English in the Spanish-English half). Exactly the opposite of what would be helpful. If I'm looking up a Spanish word, that's because I don't know what it means. Don't give me an explanation about it IN SPANISH -- I can't understand it!

In short, I returned this dictionary. I assumed I'd get used to its strange layout, but I can't. (On top of that, the font they use is horrible. It looks really cheap and is hard to read.) I'm going to try Larousse because they make a good French dictionary and I assume they do a similar good job with Spanish.