Russian Step by Step Beginner Level 1: with Audio Direct Download

I have now had the opportunity to use all three of the books in this series and I have started using the excellent 2 books dedicated to Verbs of Motion, which could be used on their own as a separate course as indeed these verbs of motion in Russian are quite complex. (The 2 separate books have a summary of the verbs of motion and uses and then a lot of exercises with answers in the back of the book, so would be suitable for intermediate and advanced students only).The Russian Step by Step books are quite a different format to most books on Russian language, and may be pitched more at the younger learner than the adult, but nevertheless, they were enjoyable to use even for an oldie! There are three sections, the first section '`Main Course' is entirely in Russian (some English explanations in the first book) with dialogue, grammar exercises and vocabulary in reasonable sized chapters to learn and answer. The middle (second) part of the book is titled "Grammar" and is the English key to the first part of the book. Here you will find the translations and explanations of the grammar in the first 'Main Course'. The last third of the book is a transcript of the Audio script which at first I had great trouble finding. The instructions for accessing the audio script are at the beginning of each book, but for some reason I was unable to make these available to me; I contacted the publisher who very quickly responded with apologies and instructions for access and further communication with them couldn't have been better. They went all out to help me, which impressed me greatly. The only other addition here is that the books have a condensed grammar section and dictionary/vocabulary also at the rear of the third section/end of the books, and that there is also a selection of books by the same publishers/authors for children and for writing the cursive Cyrillic script, which athough might be thought of as a cash cow, are really useful if you want to impress your Russian friends or take notes down in your notebook and refer back to them later without wondering if your small cursive 'ч ' was actually a 'г ' or ' ъ ' and was that an ' л ' or an ' и ' or indeed the start of an ' м '. Likewise, how does your tail grow on your small cursive ' ц' it should not resemble a ' у ' or run into ' щ' and where do you place your link for the ' о' and the ' а ' when they look so similar? Of course, you may know all of this already ! :)I would like to thank the author and publishers for their help and for my enjoyable journey along a long road of Russian language learning.