Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide
Russian

a self-teaching guide

Learn Russian at your own pace

How do Russian letters differ from English letters? How do you choose the correct form of specific verbs? What are some useful, everyday Russian words? With Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more about this challenging language.

This thorough primer presents an easy-to-follow, proven method for grasping the basics of Russian, complete with helpful tips on writing and pronouncing Cyrillic characters and building your Russian vocabulary. You get lively dialogues and reading exercises, concise lessons on grammar and usage, notes on Russian culture, and a compact Russian-English glossary. The clearly structured format of Russian makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview for everyone from students to business and leisure travelers to Russian culture mavens.

Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Russian allows you to build gradually on what you have learned--at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for anyone who wants to improve his or her understanding of basic Russian.
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Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide
Russian

a self-teaching guide

Learn Russian at your own pace

How do Russian letters differ from English letters? How do you choose the correct form of specific verbs? What are some useful, everyday Russian words? With Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more about this challenging language.

This thorough primer presents an easy-to-follow, proven method for grasping the basics of Russian, complete with helpful tips on writing and pronouncing Cyrillic characters and building your Russian vocabulary. You get lively dialogues and reading exercises, concise lessons on grammar and usage, notes on Russian culture, and a compact Russian-English glossary. The clearly structured format of Russian makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview for everyone from students to business and leisure travelers to Russian culture mavens.

Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Russian allows you to build gradually on what you have learned--at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for anyone who wants to improve his or her understanding of basic Russian.
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Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide

Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide

by Kathryn Szczepanska
Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide

Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide

by Kathryn Szczepanska

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Russian

a self-teaching guide

Learn Russian at your own pace

How do Russian letters differ from English letters? How do you choose the correct form of specific verbs? What are some useful, everyday Russian words? With Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more about this challenging language.

This thorough primer presents an easy-to-follow, proven method for grasping the basics of Russian, complete with helpful tips on writing and pronouncing Cyrillic characters and building your Russian vocabulary. You get lively dialogues and reading exercises, concise lessons on grammar and usage, notes on Russian culture, and a compact Russian-English glossary. The clearly structured format of Russian makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview for everyone from students to business and leisure travelers to Russian culture mavens.

Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Russian allows you to build gradually on what you have learned--at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for anyone who wants to improve his or her understanding of basic Russian.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470247297
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Publication date: 08/10/2007
Series: Wiley Self-Teaching Guides , #196
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

KATHRYN SZCZEPANSKA is a professor of Russian at Hunter College,New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

1. The Russian Alphabet.

2. The Noun.

3. The Accusative Case.

4. The Adjective.

5. The Verb.

6. The Prepositional Case.

7. Present Tense Verbs.

8. The Dative Case.

9. Aspect of Verbs.

10. Future Tense and Imperative Mode.

11. The Dative Case (continued).

12. The Genitive Case.

13. The Genitive Plural.

14. The Instrumental Case.

15. Verbs of Motion.

16. The Prepositional, Dative, and Instrumental Plural.

17. Participles.

Russian-English Vocabulary.

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