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.
Author(s): Nicholas J. Brown
Series: Penguin Handbooks
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 514
City: London
Tags: Russian language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English;Russian language -- Grammar;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.
