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

An accessible and complete Russian language course for beginners

Designed to provide an excellent command of basic Russian, this 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.

This essential guide includes:
• An answer key to all exercises
• English translations of all the Russian texts
• More than 1,500 vocabulary words
• Common expressions and full explanations of essential grammar
• A glossary of grammatical termsThe 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 lã