Advanced Russian

by Alexander D. Nakhimovsky, Richard L. Leed

Advanced Russian is intended for students who have had at least two full years of Russian, and can be used in third, fourth, or fifth-year classes. Its strongest features are good, colloquial Russian, solid, up-to-date grammatical analysis, considerable cultural information, and a wealth of varied exercises. The book is divided into twelve lessons, each consisting of Text, Comments, Analysis, and Exercises. Each lesson will take about two weeks to cover properly. The First Edition received very favorable reviews and was widely used for seven years. This is the final volume of the integrated sequence of textbooks produced by the Cornell-Colgate team of Beginning Russian, and Intermediate Russian precede it, although Advanced Russian can be used after any intermediate course. The Glossary at the end of the book contains morphological and syntactic information. The Appendix contains the rules on which the morphological specifications in the Glossary are based, and it may be used as a reference for information on the inflectional morphology of Russian.

Genres: Russia

262 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Azaghedi]

Шрифт используется в этой книге -- Курьер. Ужасно... Такой уродливый шрифт!

[Alan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book lost a star for 2 reasons: the font (as mentioned by the other reviewer), and the errors. The font makes you feel like you're reading a student's thesis paper rather than a published book. As for the errors, there are 3 1/2 pages of errors (largely words showing the incorrect stress) at the very end of the book showing the page number and the correction, and a line thanking the "many readers " who have contributed to the list. Maybe there was a good reason why the errors weren't simply corrected within the book back in 1980, but such really wouldn't fly today.

The saving grace of this book is the layout and information. It went a long way in helping me fine tune my Russian.