Learn To Read Russian Fast

Learn To Read Russian Fast
Author: Jon Adams
Publisher: Green Mountain Computing
Total Pages: 147
Release:
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Learn to Read Russian Fast: A Dual Language Learning Adventure Dive into the world of Russian with "Learn to Read Russian Fast," a revolutionary dual language learning book designed to immerse you into the linguistic treasures of Russian with ease and speed. Crafted for learners at all levels, this book stands as your ultimate guide to mastering Russian reading skills, leveraging a unique format that promises to enhance your comprehension and fluency. Why Choose This Book? Innovative Dual Language Format: Experience the future of language learning. Our pioneering approach presents materials in both English and Russian, allowing your brain to adapt naturally and swiftly to Russian. This method not only simplifies learning but ensures that you grasp the nuances of the language, setting a solid foundation for advanced proficiency. Rich Content Variety: "Learn to Read Russian Fast" is not just a book; it's a comprehensive learning experience. It features an array of short stories, real-life conversations, and situational exercises that make learning engaging and applicable to everyday life. This variety ensures that you're not just learning the language, but also experiencing it in its full context. Structured Learning Journey: Navigate through meticulously organized chapters that cover everything from basic grammar essentials to complex narrative understanding. Each chapter is designed to build upon the previous one, ensuring a smooth learning curve and a rewarding educational journey. Chapters Overview: Introduction to the Book: Start your journey with an overview of what to expect and how to maximize your learning experience. Grammar Fundamentals: Lay the groundwork with essential grammar rules, made easy through direct comparisons and explanations in both languages. Engaging Short Stories: Dive into a selection of short stories that entertain as they educate, enhancing your vocabulary and comprehension skills. Real-Life Conversations: Practice reading through dialogues and conversations that reflect everyday situations, improving your ability to understand and respond in Russian. Situational Understanding: Master the art of reading Russian in various contexts, from formal to informal, through targeted exercises and scenarios. Transform Your Reading Ability: With "Learn to Read Russian Fast," you embark on an educational journey that is as exciting as it is enlightening. By reading consistently, your brain will adapt to this new dual language format, empowering you to understand and read Russian quickly. Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to enhance your proficiency, this book promises to be an invaluable resource in your language learning arsenal. Embrace the challenge and joy of learning Russian. "Learn to Read Russian Fast" is not just a book; it's your passport to a world where language barriers are broken, and cultural doors are opened wide.

Anatomy of a Short Story

Anatomy of a Short Story
Author: Yuri Leving
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441142630

A unique anthology devoted to a single story–“Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov–which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories.

Russian Grammar & Phrasebook (Russian for Beginners)

Russian Grammar & Phrasebook (Russian for Beginners)
Author: Darya Gunay
Publisher: Darya Gunay
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2022-09-07
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Do you want to communicate with your Russian-speaking family members, colleagues or friends? Or maybe you want to read blogs and journals in Russian? Are you preparing for university studies or an exciting trip to one of the Russian-speaking countries? The purpose of this book is to give you a head start for your Russian language journey, as it covers reading rules, essential grammar, and basic vocabulary – everything you need to get on your feet fast when learning Russian for business or for pleasure. In short, this book explains how the Russian language functions and gives plenty of examples with English translations for each rule explained. Even if you already speak some Russian, this book will give you an abridged program of the beginner level in Russian. Keep it handy and refer to it later when you need to refresh your knowledge. The 1st part of this e-book features the Russian alphabet including handwritten letters; pronunciation rules, including cases when vowels and consonants change their sound. The 2nd part covers essential topics of Russian grammar, such as genders, plurals, cases, conjugations of verbs, and tenses. This will help you “unlock” the Russian sentence structure – you will be able to understand/translate phrases you see or hear and construct your own. The 3rd part - the phrasebook - features the most common Russian words and phrases for daily speaking (organized by topics). All words and phrases are given with stress marks, transcription, and English translation. Start learning Russian the simple way!

How to Read a Poem

How to Read a Poem
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 111830621X

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poemis designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends thesubject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personalpossession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relationto content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the presentday and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closesanalysis. Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton,Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson,W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon,and many more. Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.

Cognitive Psychology and Reading in the USSR

Cognitive Psychology and Reading in the USSR
Author: J. Downing
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0080867030

The ideas of Soviet specialists on the psychology and teaching of reading are here made available in English.The volume gives an overview of psychology and education in the U.S.S.R., and presents translations of the work of major Soviet authors, such as Elkonin and Luria. The contributions offer many valuable proposals for teaching literacy which are quite unique outside of the Soviet Union. A concluding chapter provides a commentary, tracing the links between these specialist contributions and the general cognitive theories of Vygotsky.The result of ten years of research, this book was completed by Professor Downing shortly before he passed away in June 1987.

The Poetics of Early Russian Literature

The Poetics of Early Russian Literature
Author: D.S. Likhachev
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2014-03-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0739186434

This translation of Likhachev’s Poetika Drevnerusskoy Literatury (The Poetics of Early Russian Literature), provides a description of the basic themes of early (tenth to seventeenth century) Russian literature. Likhachev compares literary narrative with narrative used in the representational arts. Furthermore, Likhachev stresses the genre-based character of medieval Russian literature and shows how choice of style in medieval times depended on a genre with its own specific etiquette and how innovation was discouraged. The text contrasts medieval abstraction and modern realism, as Likhachev shows how realisticness gradually breaks through in specific situations—such as those of princely crimes. Likhachev draws contrasts in three different areas: the basic stock of symbols and comparisons used in early Russian literature with those used in modern literature, artistic time in folklore and early Russian literature, and artistic space in folklore and early Russian literature. Likhachev traces the gradual development into modern artistic time through a comparison of the chronicle, the first Russian play, the seventeenth century writer Avvakum, and three modern authors, Goncharov, Dostoevsky and Saltykov-Shchedrin. Finally, the text gives a justification for studying early literatures. This book will be invaluable for students of Russian, medieval and comparative literature.

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape
Author: D. Gorter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230360238

Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.

Earthly Signs

Earthly Signs
Author: Marina Tsvetaeva
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1681371634

A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life buffeted by political upheaval. The essays collected in this volume are based on diaries she kept during the turbulent years of the Revolution and Civil War. In them she records conversations of women in the markets, soldiers and peasants on the train traveling from the Crimea to Moscow in October 1917, fighting in the streets of Moscow, a frantic scramble with co-workers to dig frozen potatoes out of a cellar, and poetry readings organized by a newly minted Soviet bohemia. Alone in Moscow with two small children, no income, and a missing husband, Tsvetaeva struggled to feed her daughters (one of whom died of malnutrition in an orphanage), find employment in the Soviet bureaucracy, and keep writing poetry. Her keen and ruthless eye observes with compassion and humor—bringing the social, economic, and cultural chaos of the period to life. These autobiographical writings not only give a vivid eyewitness account of Russian history but provide vital insights into the workings of Tsvetaeva’s unique poetics. Includes black and white photographs.

The Intercultural Performance Reader

The Intercultural Performance Reader
Author: Patrice Pavis
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1996
Genre: Intercultural communication
ISBN: 9780415081542

Views on intercultural exchanges within theatre practice from contributors including: Peter Brook, Clive Barker, Jacques Lecoq and Rustom Bharucha.

The Russian Reading Revolution

The Russian Reading Revolution
Author: S. Lovell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2000-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230596452

Of all of Soviet cultural myths, none was more resilient than the belief that the USSR had the world's greatest readers. This book explains how the 'Russian reading myth' took hold in the 1920s and 1930s, how it was supported by a monopolistic and homogenizing system of book production and distribution, and how it was challenged in the post-Stalin era; first, by the latent expansion and differentiation of the reading public, and then, more dramatically, by the economic and cultural changes of the 1990s.