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Igenlode Wordsmith
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Ironically, two of the words I had to learn for this chapter (смелый, courageous and горло болит, my throat hurts) both subsequently turned up in YouTube videos yesterday: virtue rewarded! (As, oddly enough, did представитель, министерство and торговля, albeit all in separate contexts - one phrase I *never* thought was going to be useful outside the context of the Soviet 1960s!)
— Feb 03, 2026 04:46PM
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Igenlode Wordsmith
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Alas, this book is now almost totally disintegrated...
— Oct 15, 2026 02:29AM
Igenlode Wordsmith
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A far simpler version of gerunds than the 'Colloquial Russian' chapter... which doesn't drill you anything like so hard on the irregularities. Ideally one would probably have done this one first to get a grip on the basics, then the other one for all the myriad exceptions!
(Also, they are not including the passive but only the active gerunds- splitting them across multiple chapters really makes more sense.)
— Sep 30, 2026 07:51AM
(Also, they are not including the passive but only the active gerunds- splitting them across multiple chapters really makes more sense.)
Igenlode Wordsmith
is on page 198 of 384
I thought I'd heard enough dates flying past to have a handle on this. Turns out that I haven't... and it doesn't help that I can rattle off тысяча девятьсот девяносто by rote, but struggle to construct dates in the 21st century :D
— Sep 23, 2026 07:27PM
Igenlode Wordsmith
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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
Igenlode Wordsmith
is on page 114 of 384
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