Elementary Russian Grammar (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Prokosch, Eduard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440066183 ISBN 13 : 9781440066184

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Master Russian quickly with a practical, phonetic primer

In this beginner‑friendly guide, you’ll learn pronunciation, basic grammar, and reading through a hands‑on approach. The program uses phonetic transcription to mirror Russian speech and builds a foundation you can apply to real texts, without relying on direct translation. The book focuses on sounds, structure, and a core vocabulary, guiding you from the alphabet to simple sentences and readings. While it acknowledges limits on vocabulary development, it offers a clear path to confident pronunciation and an intuitive feel for Russian grammar.

• Phonetic transcription that maps closely to Russian sounds for accurate speaking and listening practice
• Foundations of grammar, including noun declensions, pronouns, and verb forms, with practical exercises
• Structured lessons and readings designed to progress from simple to more complex material
• Strategies to read foreign texts without translation, building reading fluency over time

Ideal for readers who want a solid, readable start to Russian and a practical route toward reading original texts.

A propos du livre

Reseña del editor

Excerpt from Elementary Russian Grammar

While I undertook the interesting task with some eagerness, I was well aware of its difficulty. It would have been easy indeed to compile a satisfactory tabulation of rules and paradigms for cursory study and systematic reference, and such a booklet might have proven fairly useful for the needs of traditional reading by means of translation. But my ingrained conviction of the limitations of such a study of a modern foreign language turned me from that line of least resistance and made it incumbent upon me to embody even in this modest booklet the most essential features of what is generally termed the direct method, representing both my theoretical views and the results of twenty years' experience in the teaching of several foreign languages, Russian among them. This implied a number of peculiar complications.

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A bout a year ago the University of Chicago Press invited me to write a brief elementary grammar of Russian with the prime object of introducing the students in a reasonably short time to the reading of simple texts, such as are accessible, for instance, through Harper sadaptation of Boyer-S peranski sR ussian Reader. While I undertook the interesting task with some eagerness, I was well aware of its difficulty. It would have been easy indeed to compile a satisfactory tabulation of rules and paradigms for cursory study and systematic reference, and such a booklet might have proven fairly useful for the needs of traditional reading by means of translation. But my ingrained conviction of the limitations of such a study of a modern foreign language turned me from that line of least resistance and made it incumbent upon me to embody even in this modest booklet the most essential features of what is generally termed the direct method, representing both my theoretical views and the results of twenty years experience in the teaching of several foreign languages, Russian among them. This implied a number of peculiar complications. The first requirement consisted in an exposition of Russian pronunciation on a phonetic basis, unavoidably connected with phonetic transliteration. The elusive elasticity of Russian articulation on the one hand, and the need of the greatest simplicity attainable on the other hand, involved many embarrassing problems and demanded considerable deviations from the standard of the Association phonetique, which I should have preferred to adopt in its entirety. A nother feature of the direct method, the inductive presentation of grammatical principles, though apparently beset with serious difficulties in the study of Russian, resulted in some rather interesting simplifications of traditional grammar, especially in the virtual elimination of the
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440066183
• ISBN 13: 9781440066184
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 152
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