Russian for beginners.
This is an elementary Russian course designed for the adult beginners. It can be studied both with and without a teacher. To make it suitable for an independent study, the theoretical explanations, the notes on Russian history, geography and culture and assignments for the exercises are given in English.
The course is designed to help the students to communicate with Russians on topics studied in the course, to express their thoughts in Russian on the basis of the grammar and vocabulary studied, to understand oral speech, to read and retell simple texts, to translate more difficult texts and prepare oral or written reports on given topics.
The book consists of six chapters: a short phonetic course, a pictorial dictionary of concrete vocabulary units; the main part consists of 33 units, Russian conventional speech clichés, keys to the exercises and a general Russian-English vocabulary.