--- product_id: 3633359 title: "Pimsleur Russian Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs" price: "€ 127.97" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/3633359-pimsleur-russian-conversational-course-level-1-lessons-1-16-cd store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # 8 hours audio immersion Audio-only, hands-free learning Native speaker pronunciation Pimsleur Russian Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs **Price:** € 127.97 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🗣️ Speak Russian like a local—no grammar headaches, just real conversations! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Pimsleur Russian Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs - **How much does it cost?** € 127.97 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/3633359-pimsleur-russian-conversational-course-level-1-lessons-1-16-cd) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Flexible CD Format:** Compatible with all CD players and easily transferable to digital devices like iTunes and Windows Media Player. - • **Proven Learning Method:** Pimsleur’s scientifically backed approach ensures you speak and understand Russian quickly and confidently. - • **Daily 30-Minute Lessons:** Perfectly paced for busy professionals to fit language learning into your commute or lunch break. - • **Authentic Russian Voices:** Hear real Moscow and St. Petersburg accents for genuine conversational fluency and cultural insight. - • **Practical Conversation Focus:** Skip grammar overload—master everyday phrases for travel, socializing, and real-life interactions. ## Overview Pimsleur Russian Level 1 Lessons 1-16 offers 8 hours of expertly designed audio lessons that get you speaking and understanding Russian through daily 30-minute sessions. Featuring native speakers from Moscow and St. Petersburg, this course emphasizes pronunciation and practical conversation skills, ideal for professionals seeking efficient, on-the-go language learning. Compatible with all CD players and digital platforms, it’s the perfect starter kit to join the global Russian-speaking community. ## Description Pimsleur® equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program. This course includes Lessons 1-16 from the Russian Level 1 program - 8 hours of audio-only effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. Topics include: greetings, numbers, meals, shopping, telling time, scheduling activities, and asking and giving directions. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Russian. The Russian Language Russian, one of the six official languages of the United Nations, is the official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Krygystan, with an estimated 150 million native speakers around the world. Pimsleur's Russian uses speakers from Moscow and St. Petersburg, which accounts for slight pronunciation differences between speakers, but accurately depicts contemporary spoken Russian. Tech Talk - CDs are formatted for playing in all CD players, including car players, and users can copy files for use in iTunes or Windows Media Player. Review: A fun course, especially for men! - I got this course for my teenage son because my previous efforts to teach him Russian by providing him with a Russian mom (ME!), trying to have him meet other Russian-speaking kids who live in the US, and even hiring an American teacher with near-native fluency in Russian and a great sense of humor, failed miserably. So, we read the reviews and decided to try. A few minutes in the car each day seemed like a possibility with his busy schedule at school and tons of homework. We're about half way through these disks, and he is learning to say basic things and is getting more comfortable saying them. Of course, Russian is hard. Really hard. But what this course does well is that it ignores a lot of grammar issues and focuses on conversation. Russians slur and mumble the endings of their words, so perfect grammar might not be appreciated, especially if the circumstances of your Russian conversation are the same as these disks create. Now we get to the fun part. The first couple of lessons focus on the general tourist stuff: where is the Red Square, where is the metro, where is the ticket office, stuff like that. But by about lesson three, I was getting a little worried because most of the conversations go something like this (remember, I bought this for a teenage boy): "Imagine that you just met a Russian woman. Ask her what she would like to drink. Ask her where she would like to drink it. Ask her if she would like to go to a restaurant." My son and I were both laughing. When a later lesson was all about the "your place or mine" discussion, I wondered if I struck a bargain with this one. A Russian course and sex education wrapped all in one. Definitely worth the money. Our current lesson focuses on telling time. And, as my son put it, "it's amazing how many things you can learn, and all of them started with getting a drink." A profound point and a great cultural insight. If you ever go to Russia, you'll know what I mean. But seriously, a good course. Yes, it's repetitive, but there's no way to learn a foreign language without repetition. And you will impress your friends at your next party when you ask them in Russian if they prefer beer or wine. Review: Superbly designed all-audio course (introductory) - If you want to start learning Russian while driving your car this is probably the best system available. It is completely audio and gives you 6 hours of very well-designed tutorial. You hear the English first, then the Russian, two or three times times, then you repeat it. Another sentence. Then the first one again. Amazing how quickly you forgot. But by the mix of new things and repeating, it starts to stick. The lessons are very well paced - at least they were for me - so that you only rarely have to stop the CD to go back, while it is also rare for it to feel slow or boring. The Russian is spoken by two native speakers giving you a good idea of correct pronunciation (intriguing how sometimes they pronounce the same word differently!). By the end of the course you have learned about 150 words and can speak and understand several dozen everyday sentences. There is even a little bit of grammar here and there. What you don't get: anything about the alphabet or the written language. Please do realize that the strength of this program is also its weakness: The 8 hours of teaching can very easily be accomodated, one 30-minute lesson at a time, on a daily commute. But doing that means you will be done in 3 weeks (they don't recommend more than one lesson a day). And then what? The program is so good that you have, in fact, learned all there is on these CDs and so repeating them is pretty useless. I guess you'd have to buy the next course... But all in all, this was the perfect introductory course for me wanting to learn while driving to work. Hope it works for you, too! PS I read some negative reviews here that say you only learn to say one or two things over and over again. That's hogwash. I suspect they only listened to the first lesson. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #410,127 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #750 in Books on CD #1,226 in Foreign Language Instruction (Books) #14,391 in Schools & Teaching (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 162 Reviews | ## Images ![Pimsleur Russian Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61wK-DeU0hL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fun course, especially for men! *by W***S on August 17, 2013* I got this course for my teenage son because my previous efforts to teach him Russian by providing him with a Russian mom (ME!), trying to have him meet other Russian-speaking kids who live in the US, and even hiring an American teacher with near-native fluency in Russian and a great sense of humor, failed miserably. So, we read the reviews and decided to try. A few minutes in the car each day seemed like a possibility with his busy schedule at school and tons of homework. We're about half way through these disks, and he is learning to say basic things and is getting more comfortable saying them. Of course, Russian is hard. Really hard. But what this course does well is that it ignores a lot of grammar issues and focuses on conversation. Russians slur and mumble the endings of their words, so perfect grammar might not be appreciated, especially if the circumstances of your Russian conversation are the same as these disks create. Now we get to the fun part. The first couple of lessons focus on the general tourist stuff: where is the Red Square, where is the metro, where is the ticket office, stuff like that. But by about lesson three, I was getting a little worried because most of the conversations go something like this (remember, I bought this for a teenage boy): "Imagine that you just met a Russian woman. Ask her what she would like to drink. Ask her where she would like to drink it. Ask her if she would like to go to a restaurant." My son and I were both laughing. When a later lesson was all about the "your place or mine" discussion, I wondered if I struck a bargain with this one. A Russian course and sex education wrapped all in one. Definitely worth the money. Our current lesson focuses on telling time. And, as my son put it, "it's amazing how many things you can learn, and all of them started with getting a drink." A profound point and a great cultural insight. If you ever go to Russia, you'll know what I mean. But seriously, a good course. Yes, it's repetitive, but there's no way to learn a foreign language without repetition. And you will impress your friends at your next party when you ask them in Russian if they prefer beer or wine. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superbly designed all-audio course (introductory) *by R***N on April 27, 2009* If you want to start learning Russian while driving your car this is probably the best system available. It is completely audio and gives you 6 hours of very well-designed tutorial. You hear the English first, then the Russian, two or three times times, then you repeat it. Another sentence. Then the first one again. Amazing how quickly you forgot. But by the mix of new things and repeating, it starts to stick. The lessons are very well paced - at least they were for me - so that you only rarely have to stop the CD to go back, while it is also rare for it to feel slow or boring. The Russian is spoken by two native speakers giving you a good idea of correct pronunciation (intriguing how sometimes they pronounce the same word differently!). By the end of the course you have learned about 150 words and can speak and understand several dozen everyday sentences. There is even a little bit of grammar here and there. What you don't get: anything about the alphabet or the written language. Please do realize that the strength of this program is also its weakness: The 8 hours of teaching can very easily be accomodated, one 30-minute lesson at a time, on a daily commute. But doing that means you will be done in 3 weeks (they don't recommend more than one lesson a day). And then what? The program is so good that you have, in fact, learned all there is on these CDs and so repeating them is pretty useless. I guess you'd have to buy the next course... But all in all, this was the perfect introductory course for me wanting to learn while driving to work. Hope it works for you, too! PS I read some negative reviews here that say you only learn to say one or two things over and over again. That's hogwash. I suspect they only listened to the first lesson. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pimsleur Russian *by R***R on August 25, 2009* I bought these CDs as a way of working on basic speaking and listening skills. In addition to these CDs, I'm using a text book to learn grammar and writing. If you are using a different approach, this review might not be very useful. Working on the Pimsleur CDs definitely has improved my speech and listening skills quite a bit. They also have some useful vocabulary on them, although that wasn't a primary goal. I would give this product 5 stars, but I think they should add more indexing to the CDs. There are two tracks per CD, and fast-forwarding and moving backwards are a lot more annoying than they should be. I haven't used any competing products, so I can't do any comparisons. I don't think that these CDs would work well as a substitute for a text book, but that's just my opinion. ## Frequently Bought Together - Pimsleur Russian Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs (1) - Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs (1) - Pimsleur Arabic (Modern Standard) Conversational Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-16 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Modern Standard Arabic with Pimsleur Language Programs (1) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/3633359-pimsleur-russian-conversational-course-level-1-lessons-1-16-cd](https://www.desertcart.at/products/3633359-pimsleur-russian-conversational-course-level-1-lessons-1-16-cd) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-09-01*