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ISBN
9780140120417

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140120416
ISBN-13
9780140120417
eBay Product ID (ePID)
733163

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
528 Pages
Publication Name
New Penguin Russian Course : a Complete Course for Beginners
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Subject
Vocabulary, Russian, Word Lists
Type
Language Course
Author
Nicholas J. Brown
Subject Area
Foreign Language Study, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-232400
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Illustrated
Yes
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
491.782/421
Table Of Content
The New Penguin Russian CourseIntroduction Acknowledgments 1. Learning to Read Russian Alphabet and Pronunciation; Transliteration; Street Signs 2. Russian Handwriting; More on Pronunciation 3. Everyday Phrases; Basic Grammar Naming Things; Basic Grammar; Gender; Map of Russia 4. Doing Things - Verbs; Personal Pronouns Present Tense; Conjugations; Word Stress; Nouns and Cases; Conversation in the Metro 5. Asking Questions; The Prepositional Case Indeclinable Nouns; Dialogues 6. Possession; Going Places; The Accusative Case Russian Personal Names; Dialogues 7. Describing Things: Adjectives Masculine, Feminine and Neuter Adjectives; "What kind of...'"; "This" and "That"; Prepositional and Accusative Cases of Adjectives; Adverbs; Moscow Street Map 8. Plurals; Spelling Rules; Buying Things Spelling Rule 1; "Is There...'"; Spelling Rule 2; Map of Europe 9. Numbers; The Genitive Case 1-5,000; Genitive Singular and Plural; Quantities; Roubles and Dollars; Buying Things; Street Market 10. "To Have"; More on the Genitive Genitive Pronouns; "There Isn't"; Prepositions Taking the Genitive; Genitive of Adjectives; "Whether"; Dialogues 11. The Past; Reflexive Verbs The Founding of St. Petersburg 12. The Future; Aspect; The Dative Case Imperfective and Perfective; "To Want"; Dative; "To Give"; "To Please"; Spelling Rules 3 and 4; Prepositional Plural; In the Restaurant; Visiting Friends 13. Aspect in the Past; Use of Tenses Aspect of the Infinitive; Reported Speech; More about "Whether"; Dialogue 14. Aspect in the Future; Impersonal Constructions Dialogue 15. Requests and the Imperative Summary of Aspect Use; Two Lost Tourists; Phoning a Bureaucrat 16. The Instrumental Case TOT and TÓT; Declension of Surnames; A Family at Home; Volodia and the KGB 17. Time, Date, Age; Ordinal Numbers Months; Years; The Daily Life of Chaikovskii (Tchaikovsky) 18. The Comparative; Superlatives; Relative Clauses with ("Who," "Which"); Victor Wants to Meet Mary; Siberian Superlatives; Map of Siberia 19. The Conditional; Obligation; Prefixes Mary Seeks an Absent-Minded Professor 20. Verbs of Motion: Going, Running, Bringing Travelling Around; Tania in Motion 21. Possession; Purpose Mr. Thornwaite Doesn't Like His Hotel; Was Turgenev a Revolutionary? 22. Fun with Numbers Declension of Numbers; "Both"; Collective Numerals; Fractions; Soviet Divorce Statistics 23. Time Expressions "When?"; "How Long?"; Vadim and Eva; Mr. Kuznetsov and Mr. Pope 24. Negation; Place of He Nothing, Nobody, Never; A Pineapple, but No Bananas 25. Diminutives; Proper Names; Politeness "The Fox and the Rolling-Pin" 26. Indefinite Pronouns; Word Order; Writing Letters A Letter to Mrs. Pope 27. Participles: Types and Stress A Classic Film 28. Verbal Adverbs Peter the Great; A Recipe for Mushroom Solianka 29. "Bookish" Style; Active Participles; Punctuation; Short-Form Adjectives Vladivostok; The Winter Palace 30. Abbreviations; Names of Russian Letters; Particles A Complete Chekhov Story; Fat and Thin Grammatical Tables The Four Spelling Rules Russian-English Vocabulary English-Russian Vocabulary Key to Exercises and Translation of Texts Glossary of Grammatical Terms Index
Synopsis
Whether you're learning alone or attending classes, you'll find this complete Russian language course for beginners both accessible and indispensable. Designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equivalent of A' level standard) the book features thirty lessons punctuated by revision exercises to ensure you have fully understood what you have learned. The emphasis is on acquiring vocabulary, experiencing conversational language and learning useful grammar. The book also includes a vocabulary of 1,500 words and a glossary of grammatical terms.
LC Classification Number
PG2129.E5B76 1996

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    This is not a recent publications, and contains the occasional anachronism, but it is overall a really nice little textbook that is easy to follow and use. I am quite pleased with this good coursebook, good value.

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