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"The stress tends to be capricious in the short form of many adjectives. The reader should not worry about this unduly at the present stage. He may even be comforted to know that in some cases Russians themselves fail to agree on the stress of the short form of the adjective" - always nice to see a textbook with a sense of humour!

— Feb 02, 2026 06:49AM

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In Lesson 19 (of 30) we *finally* get an extremely cursory introduction to perfective and imperfective verbs, as opposed to the far more confusing verbs of motion, which were introduced back in Lesson 11...

— May 23, 2026 04:33PM

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— May 04, 2026 05:09PM

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Aarrgghh, numbers!

— Apr 23, 2026 06:20PM

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You can't help but admire a textbook that contains sample sentences like "He was killed by a tiger" or "My uncle is in hospital and my aunt is in prison. Unfortunately it is not possible to visit my aunt" - so much more entertaining than that dull Spanish course book about the type of souvenirs to be bought in South America!

— Apr 20, 2026 04:22PM

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I have zero recollection of this negative-genitive business, but there is a logic to it: one has a thing, but none OF a thing :-)
(And likewise много, which I do know and which they haven't mentioned yet...)

— Apr 19, 2026 08:27AM

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Pairs of prepositions: виз, нас, and кот :D

— Apr 15, 2026 07:17AM

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— Apr 14, 2026 01:37AM

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— Mar 30, 2026 02:12AM

Igenlode Wordsmith is on page 72 of 384

Oops! I found an obvious typo in the exercise: приятно ездить нам отоцикле... (на мотоцикле)

— Mar 09, 2026 05:26PM

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