Russian - In Two Counts: A Textbook for Learning Russian as a Foreign Language for English-Speaking Students

The textbook is an intensive course in Russian language, its main task is to help foreigners immerse themselves in the Russian-speaking environment in Russian as quickly and effectively as possible with a minimal level of language proficiency. The sequence of... presentation of grammatical and lexical material is determined by communicative necessity: the more needed a lexical unit or grammatical structure is in real communication situations, the earlier it is introduced in the course. The textbook contains numerous authentic dialogues, texts with interactive tasks, exercises, a large number of jokes and anecdotes, as well as some information about the history of the language (in the form of comments).
The book is aimed at foreigners for whom English is their native language or a lingua franca and who have not previously studied the Russian language.