Russian in Three Months

Description

Now learning a foreign language can be enjoyable as well as challenging, and not require a trip back to the classroom. These Three-Month Language Courses are outstanding self-study programs designed for the individual seeking to acquire a good working knowledge of a language in a short amount of time. Devoting just over an hour daily to the course, the program provides grammar lessons, contextual conversion drills, relevant word lists, and graded exercises, giving you an immediate and practical grasp of the language. In addition, pronunciation is made easy with Hugo's unique "imitated pronunciation" system, which represents foreign sounds with English syllables. Whether you are a businessman tackling an international account, a student preparing for an adventurous holiday, or simply a lover of new languages, the Three-Month Language Course makes learning easy, satisfying, and more fun than ever before. Cover The Russian alphabet Title page © 1988 Nicholas J. Brown CONTENTS Introduction Lesson 1 - The Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet Lesson 2 - More on Russian pronunciation. Lesson 3 - Reading practice Lesson 4 - More reading practice Lesson 5 - Asking for information (questions), Lesson 6 - Accusative case. Going places. Lesson 7 - Possessives: ‘my’, ‘your’ etc. Lesson 8 - How to make plurals Lesson 9 - Counting. Lesson 10 - Counting with adjectives, Lesson 11 - More on verbs Lesson 12 - Making arrangements and plans: Lesson 13 - Completed and uncompleted events in the past Lesson 14 - Imperfective future. Lesson 15 - Asking people to do things. Imperative. Lesson 16 - Instrumental. Russian names Lesson 17 - Ordinal numerals. Times and dates. Lesson 18 - Conditional mood. Comparative. Lesson 19 - Filling in forms, writing notes and letters. Telephoning Lesson 20 - Reading Russian. Participles. ‘Gerunds’. Key to exercises Russian-English vocabulary Spelling rules Russian handwriting Grammar tables Index Further publications from Hugo Back Cover