The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners [Paperback]

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.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
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