Russian course ; A Complete Course for Beginners

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Includes index. This updated version of the Penguin Russian Course introduces the learner through translation extracts to the culture and life of the modern (post Glasnost) Soviet Union that was as well as to the Russian language. Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Learning to read Russian -- Russian handwriting; more on pronunciation -- Everyday phrases; basic grammar -- Doing things -- Verbs; Personal pronouns -- Asking questions; the prepositional case -- Possession; going places; the accusative case -- Describing things adjectives -- Plurals; spelling rules; buying things -- Numbers; the genitive case -- "To have"; more on the genitive -- The past; reflexive verbs -- The future; aspect; the dative case -- Aspect in the past; use of tenses -- Aspect in the future; impersonal constructions -- Requests and the imperative -- The instrumental case -- Time date age; ordinal numbers -- The comparative; superlatives; relative clauses with -- The conditional; obligation; prefixes -- Verbs of motion; going running bringing -- Possession; purpose -- Fun with numbers -- Time expressions -- Negation; place of he -- Diminutives; proper names; politeness -- Indefinite pronouns; word order; writing letters -- Participles types and stress -- Verbal adverbs -- 'Bookish" style; active participles; punctuation; short-form adjectives -- Abbreviations; names of Russian letters; particles -- Grammatical tables -- The four spelling rules -- Russian-English vocabulary -- English-Russian vocabulary -- Key to exercises and translation of texts -- Glossary of grammatical terms. Whether you're learning alone or attending classes, you'll find this complete Russian language course for beginners both accessible and indispensable.

xiv, 514 pages ; 21 cm Russian language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English. Russian language--Grammar. Text