Based on the Speech Plasma Method, this book for beginners has proved to be ideal for students of Russian who would like to start to speak the language fluently at a very early stage. Each topic contains the most essencial Russian grammar that correspond to simple grammar structures with be, can, have, there is and the most frequent verbs in Present Simple and Past Simple in English. The stories are told in simple, everyday colloquial style, and for easy reference the English text is printed alongside.