The manual is addressed to tourists, students of short-term courses of Russian as a foreign language and to all foreigners who want to learn to read in Russian.The main purpose of the manual is to quickly and in a relaxed manner teach foreigners to read without frightening them with the turdiness of the Russian language. Learning is carried out using humorous texts and dialogues presented in the form of comics, which makes the learning process emotionally attractive.The manual is structured according to the principle from the whole to the particular: from a drawing that evokes a positive emotion, to a short word and sound letter. The student first listens and looks, then reproduces the words independently. The most important thing is that the memorization process takes place against the background of a pronounced emotion.Includes a disc with audio recordings of texts in Russian.