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Usborne First Thousand Words
First Thousand Words in Russian
Colorful and humorous pictures illustrate the meanings of the basic vocabulary of the Russian language
63 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1985
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Heather Amery
634 books33 followersHeather Amery was born and brought up in Bath, Somerset. Heather has written over a hundred books for children, including alphabet books, science and history books, craft books, classical fairy tales, a series for beginner readers called Farmyard Tales, Usborne Bible Tales, and Greek Myths.
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September 15, 2013
Celebrity Death Match Special: Usborne's First Thousand Words in Russian versus A Clockwork Orange
I'm out with my droogs and things are a bit skoochni and Dim says, Why don't we go crash a vecherniker? Horrorshow, I reply, there's one just down the ulitser. So we go in. Hello, malchiki and devochki, I say. No one says anything, they just look at me with these big scared glazers. I'm feeling a bit golodni, I say, mind if I have a couple of booterbrod? I help myself and my droogs do as well, then I look around. There's this little devochka, no groodi of course but quite krasivi all the same, so I put my rooker up her platyeh by way of introducing myself. But she starts placking, and then they all start placking and things get a bit out of hand. We figure it's time to hodeet.
When I get back to the doma, the babooshka is waiting for me. So have you been reading the Usborne? she says. Da, I say, I've learned fifty slovoes already. I love that horrorshow kniger. Don't you mean horrorshooyoo knigoo? she says before she can stop herself. I knock her down on the pol and kick her a couple of times in the gulliver to make sure she gets it. Fuck gender agreement and fuck the accusative case, I say. Basic signifier/signified correspondences, that's what I'm after.
No result: match abandoned after referee retired hurt.
I'm out with my droogs and things are a bit skoochni and Dim says, Why don't we go crash a vecherniker? Horrorshow, I reply, there's one just down the ulitser. So we go in. Hello, malchiki and devochki, I say. No one says anything, they just look at me with these big scared glazers. I'm feeling a bit golodni, I say, mind if I have a couple of booterbrod? I help myself and my droogs do as well, then I look around. There's this little devochka, no groodi of course but quite krasivi all the same, so I put my rooker up her platyeh by way of introducing myself. But she starts placking, and then they all start placking and things get a bit out of hand. We figure it's time to hodeet.
When I get back to the doma, the babooshka is waiting for me. So have you been reading the Usborne? she says. Da, I say, I've learned fifty slovoes already. I love that horrorshow kniger. Don't you mean horrorshooyoo knigoo? she says before she can stop herself. I knock her down on the pol and kick her a couple of times in the gulliver to make sure she gets it. Fuck gender agreement and fuck the accusative case, I say. Basic signifier/signified correspondences, that's what I'm after.
No result: match abandoned after referee retired hurt.
October 9, 2018
This is a fabulous starter book for children interested in learning Russian. It covers a wide variety of words, meaningfully grouped, and accompanied by colorful cartoony drawings. There is a pronunciation guide and glossary at the end. I believe strongly in learning foreign language through repetition, pairing oral instruction with visual aids. This a is a great starting point and a хорошая книга!
February 4, 2013
This books them is how to speak Russian and the first thousand of it and some of the words are funny and some of them are long and some are short.I Los one of the reasons that I like it is because I can say some things to my friends and they do not know what I am saying.
November 19, 2009
Though I'm not sure how useful this is as a tool to teach children Russian, I loved it for a refresher for the most basic and common words. My Russian vocabulary is pretty lacking and it is fun to see the pictures and associated words. Our girls have fun looking at the very busy illustrations and they love looking for the little ducky on each page. We also have this book in Japanese.
March 4, 2025
The illustrations are all very nice.
This book covers a wide range of topics, including common everyday words. However, every topic has at least one word/phrase that was incorrect (as I was informed by 2 native Russian speakers). Each word/phrase has an English transcription, but there is no syllable breakdown or stress notation, so I didn't find it helpful. Without something like this, it is very easy to mispronounce a word.
This book covers a wide range of topics, including common everyday words. However, every topic has at least one word/phrase that was incorrect (as I was informed by 2 native Russian speakers). Each word/phrase has an English transcription, but there is no syllable breakdown or stress notation, so I didn't find it helpful. Without something like this, it is very easy to mispronounce a word.
April 11, 2020
A great book on proper pronunciation of Russian words!
August 25, 2021
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