The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners

Front
 Cover......Page 1
Author biography
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Title Page
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Printer's Imprint
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Dedication
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CONTENTS
......Page 9
Notes on Russian Prices
......Page 12
Introduction
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Acknowledgements
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1. Learning To Read Russian
......Page 17
2. Russian Handwriting: More On Pronunciation
......Page 28
3. Everyday Phrases; Basic Grammar
......Page 40
4. Doing Things - Verbs; Personal Pronouns
......Page 52
PLATE: Map of Russia
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5. Asking Questions; The Prepositional Case
......Page 62
6. Possession; Going Places; The Accusative Case
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7. Describing Things: Adjectives
......Page 84
PLATE: Map of Moscow City Centre
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8. Plurals; Spelling Rules; Buying Things
......Page 97
PLATE: Map of Europe
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9. Numbers; The Genitive Case
......Page 108
10. 'To Have'; More On The Genitive
......Page 123
11. The Past; Reflexive Verbs
......Page 138
12. The Future; Aspect; The Dative Case
......Page 149
13. Aspect In The Past; Use Of Tenses
......Page 165
14. Aspect In The Future; Impersonal Constructions
......Page 178
15. Requests And The Imperative
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16. The Instrumental Case
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17. Time, Date, Age; Ordinal Numbers
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18. The Comparative; Superlatives; Relative Clauses with КОТОРЫЙ
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PLATE: Map of Siberia
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19. The Conditional; Obligation (ДОЛЖЕН); Prefixes
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20. Verbs Of Motion: Going, Running, Bringing
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21. Possession (СВОЙ)); Purpose ((ЧТОБЫ)
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22. Fun With Numbers
......Page 285
23. Time Expressions
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24. Negation; Place of _HE_
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25. Diminutives; Proper Names; Politeness
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26. Indefinite Pronouns; Word Order; Writing Letters
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27. Participles: Types And Stress
......Page 348
28. Verbal Adverbs
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29. ‘Bookish’ Style; Active Participles; Punctuation; Short-Form Adjectives
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30. Abbreviations; Names Of Russian Letters; Particles
......Page 384
Grammatical Tables
......Page 394
The Four Spelling Rules
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Russian-English Vocabulary
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English-Russian Vocabulary
......Page 444
Key to Exercises And Translation Of Texts
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Glossary Of Grammatical Terms
......Page 519
Index
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Rear Cover
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