{"product_id":"the-new-penguin-russian-course-isbn-9780140120417","title":"The New Penguin Russian Course","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn accessible and complete Russian language course for beginners\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesigned 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis essential guide includes:\u003cbr\u003e• An answer key to all exercises\u003cbr\u003e• English translations of all the Russian texts\u003cbr\u003e• More than 1,500 vocabulary words\u003cbr\u003e• Common expressions and full explanations of essential grammar\u003cbr\u003e• A glossary of grammatical termsThe New Penguin Russian CourseIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Learning to Read Russian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlphabet and Pronunciation; Transliteration; Street Signs\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Russian Handwriting; More on Pronunciation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Everyday Phrases; Basic Grammar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaming Things; Basic Grammar; Gender; Map of Russia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Doing Things - Verbs; Personal Pronouns \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresent Tense; Conjugations; Word Stress; Nouns and Cases; Conversation in the Metro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Asking Questions; The Prepositional Case \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndeclinable Nouns; Dialogues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Possession; Going Places; The Accusative Case \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRussian Personal Names; Dialogues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Describing Things: Adjectives \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasculine, Feminine and Neuter Adjectives; \"What kind of...?\"; \"This\" and \"That\"; Prepositional and Accusative Cases of Adjectives; Adverbs; Moscow Street Map\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Plurals; Spelling Rules; Buying Things \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpelling Rule 1; \"Is There...?\"; Spelling Rule 2; Map of Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Numbers; The Genitive Case \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1-5,000; Genitive Singular and Plural; Quantities; Roubles and Dollars; Buying Things; Street Market\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. \"To Have\"; More on the Genitive \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenitive Pronouns; \"There Isn't\"; Prepositions Taking the Genitive; Genitive of Adjectives; \"Whether\"; Dialogues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. The Past; Reflexive Verbs  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Founding of St. Petersburg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. The Future; Aspect; The Dative Case \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImperfective and Perfective; \"To Want\"; Dative; \"To Give\"; \"To Please\"; Spelling Rules 3 and 4; Prepositional Plural; In the Restaurant; Visiting Friends\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13. Aspect in the Past; Use of Tenses \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAspect of the Infinitive; Reported Speech; More about \"Whether\"; Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14. Aspect in the Future; Impersonal Constructions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15. Requests and the Imperative  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummary of Aspect Use; Two Lost Tourists; Phoning a Bureaucrat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16. The Instrumental Case \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTOT and TÓT; Declension of Surnames; A Family at Home; Volodia and the KGB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17. Time, Date, Age; Ordinal Numbers \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonths; Years; The Daily Life of Chaikovskii (Tchaikovsky)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18. The Comparative; Superlatives; Relative Clauses with  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(\"Who,\" \"Which\"); Victor Wants to Meet Mary; Siberian Superlatives; Map of Siberia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19. The Conditional; Obligation; Prefixes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Seeks an Absent-Minded Professor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e20. Verbs of Motion: Going, Running, Bringing \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTravelling Around; Tania in Motion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e21. Possession; Purpose \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Thornwaite Doesn't Like His Hotel; Was Turgenev a Revolutionary?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e22. Fun with Numbers \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeclension of Numbers; \"Both\"; Collective Numerals; Fractions; Soviet Divorce Statistics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e23. Time Expressions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When?\"; \"How Long?\"; Vadim and Eva; Mr. Kuznetsov and Mr. Pope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e24. Negation; Place of He \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing, Nobody, Never; A Pineapple, but No Bananas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e25. Diminutives; Proper Names; Politeness \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Fox and the Rolling-Pin\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e26. Indefinite Pronouns; Word Order; Writing Letters \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to Mrs. Pope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e27. Participles: Types and Stress \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Classic Film\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e28. Verbal Adverbs \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter the Great; A Recipe for Mushroom Solianka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e29. \"Bookish\" Style; Active Participles; Punctuation; Short-Form Adjectives \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVladivostok; The Winter Palace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e30. 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