The New Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners

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This version of the pdf differs from the files uploaded to date in so far as: (i) it has the missing pages, (ii) bookmarks have been included, (iii) a mixed EN/RU OCR searchable text layer has been added via Tesseract (not perfect but enough for most searches). Front Cover......Page 1 Author biography ......Page 3 Title Page ......Page 5 Printer's Imprint ......Page 6 Dedication ......Page 7 CONTENTS ......Page 9 Notes on Russian Prices ......Page 12 Introduction ......Page 13 Acknowledgements ......Page 16 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 ......Page 50 5. Asking Questions; The Prepositional Case ......Page 62 6. Possession; Going Places; The Accusative Case ......Page 72 7. Describing Things: Adjectives ......Page 84 PLATE: Map of Moscow City Centre ......Page 94 8. Plurals; Spelling Rules; Buying Things ......Page 97 PLATE: Map of Europe ......Page 106 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 ......Page 187 16. The Instrumental Case ......Page 204 17. Time, Date, Age; Ordinal Numbers ......Page 217 18. The Comparative; Superlatives; Relative Clauses with КОТОРЫЙ ......Page 231 PLATE: Map of Siberia ......Page 244 19. The Conditional; Obligation (ДОЛЖЕН); Prefixes ......Page 246 20. Verbs Of Motion: Going, Running, Bringing ......Page 256 21. Possession (СВОЙ)); Purpose ((ЧТОБЫ) ......Page 273 22. Fun With Numbers ......Page 285 23. Time Expressions ......Page 299 24. Negation; Place of _HE_ ......Page 310 25. Diminutives; Proper Names; Politeness ......Page 321 26. Indefinite Pronouns; Word Order; Writing Letters ......Page 336 27. Participles: Types And Stress ......Page 348 28. Verbal Adverbs ......Page 359 29. ‘Bookish’ Style; Active Participles; Punctuation; Short-Form Adjectives ......Page 371 30. Abbreviations; Names Of Russian Letters; Particles ......Page 384 Grammatical Tables ......Page 394 The Four Spelling Rules ......Page 403 Russian-English Vocabulary ......Page 404 English-Russian Vocabulary ......Page 444 Key to Exercises And Translation Of Texts ......Page 469 Glossary Of Grammatical Terms ......Page 519 Index ......Page 524 Rear Cover ......Page 532