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A nice easy chapter, as we'd already covered the prepositional case in the very first chapter of the other book!

— Feb 15, 2026 04:59PM

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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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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

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

— Mar 09, 2026 05:26PM

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