Crystal Hunters (Japanese - Natural): Book 3

Whether you're learning alone or attending classes, you'll find this complete Russian language course for beginners both accessible and indispensable. Designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equivalent of A level standard) 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 book also includes a vocabulary of 1,500 words and a glossary of grammatical terms. Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Learning to read Russian -- Russian handwriting more on pronunciation -- Everyday phrases basic grammar -- Doing things -- Verbs Personal pronouns -- Asking questions the prepositional case -- Possession going places the accusative case -- Describing things: adjectives -- Plurals spelling rules buying things -- Numbers the genitive case -- "To have" more on the genitive -- The past reflexive verbs -- The future aspect the dative case -- Aspect in the past use of tenses -- Aspect in the future impersonal constructions -- Requests and the imperative -- The instrumental case -- Time, date, age ordinal numbers -- The comparative superlatives relative clauses with -- The conditional obligation prefixes -- Verbs of motion going, running, bringing -- Possession purpose -- Fun with numbers -- Time expressions -- Negation place of he -- Diminutives proper names politeness -- Indefinite pronouns word order writing letters -- Participles: types and stress -- Verbal adverbs -- 'Bookish" style active participles punctuation short-form adjectives -- Abbreviations names of Russian letters particles -- Grammatical tables -- The four spelling rules -- Russian-English vocabulary -- English-Russian vocabulary -- Key to exercises and translation of texts -- Glossary of grammatical terms. Whether youre learning alone or attending classes, youll find this complete Russian language course for beginners both accessible and indispensable. Designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equivalent of A level standard) the 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. The book also includes a vocabulary of 1,500 words and a glossary of grammatical terms. Features a Russian language course for beginners. This book is designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equivalent of A level standard). It features thirty lessons punctuated by revision exercises. It places an emphasis on acquiring vocabulary, experiencing conversational language and learning useful grammar. This updated version of the Penguin Russian Course introduces the learner, through translation extracts, to the culture and life of the modern (post Glasnost) Soviet Union that was, as well as to the Russian language.