"A First Russian Reader" and other helpful texts.

[UDUT, KENNETH]

I just came across _A First Russian Reader_ - Anna H. Semeonoff, 1935
(reprinted 1960) and _Forbes' Russian Grammar_, 3rd Edition, J. C.
Dumbreck, and have found them quite helpful.  [I have them with me at
work, and I glance at them from time to time, and carry them with me]

_A First Russian Reader_ has poems and short stories, the nature of
which contain short words, and should prove easy enough to memorize, and
to use to check against the grammar that I am struggling to learn.

This weekend, I read a book by Mario Pio, the name of the book I do not
remember (as I am at work), but it gives a basic overview of language
learning in general, and things to watch out for, things to do, which
languages are generally best for which subjects, etc., and it is aimed
at the learner of language.  I have been very happy with it.

-Kenneth