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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Kaufman, PhD, is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University, and he has recognized success as both a published scholar and an innovative, award-winning teacher of Russian language, literature, and culture at some of the country's top universities. To learn more about Dr. Kaufman, please visit his website at www.professorandy.com. Serafima Gettys, PhD, earned her doctorate degree in Foreign Language Education from Gertzen State Pedagogical University, Leningrad, USSR. She is currently a Coordinator of the Foreign Language Program at Lewis University, where she also teaches Russian. Prior to coming to Lewis University, she taught Russian at Stanford University. Gettys is also a member of a number of professional language associations. Nina Wieda is a doctoral student in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University in Chicago. A trained linguist with an MA in Social Sciences, Nina also has a book of poetry published in Russian, and a number of scholarly articles on Chekhov and contemporary drama published in English. Klappentext Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertipsSpeak Russian - instantly!Traveling to Russia but don't know Russian? Need to kick up your conversation skills? This handy little phrasebook will jump-start your comprehension and have you speaking basic Russian in no time.Andrew Kaufman, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. Serafima Gettys, PhD, is a Coordinator of the Foreign Language Program at Lewis University. Nina Wieda is a doctoral student at Northwestern University.Discover how to:Get directions, shop, and eat outTalk numbers, dates, and timesChat about family and workDiscuss sports and the weatherDeal with problems and emergencies Zusammenfassung Traveling in a foreign country such as Russia suddenly becomes a lot more exciting when you can engage in elegant small talk with the locals. Russian Phrases For Dummies is your handy guide to everyday words and phrases you can start using immediately to make your visit more rewarding and a whole lot easier. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Where to Go from Here 4 Chapter 1: I Say It How? Speaking Russian 5 Looking at the Russian Alphabet 5 From A to Ya: Making sense of Cyrillic 5 I know you! Familiar-looking, same-sounding letters 10 Playing tricks: Familiar-looking, different-sounding letters 10 How bizarre: Weird-looking letters 11 Sounding Like a Real Russian with Proper Pronunciation 12 Understanding the one-letter/one-sound principle 12 Giving voice to vowels 12 Enunciating consonants correctly 15 Surveying sticky sounds 17 Chapter 2: Grammar on a Diet: Just the Basics 21 Making the Russian Cases 22 Nominative case 22 Genitive case 22 Accusative case 22 Dative case 23 Instrumental case 23 Prepositional case 23 Building Your Grammar Base with Nouns and Pronouns 24 Getting the lowdown on the gender of nouns 24 Checking out cases for nouns 24 Putting plurals into their cases 27 Picking out pronouns 34 Decorating Your Speech with Adjectives 39 Always consenting: Adjective-noun agreement 39 A lot in common: Putting adjectives into other cases 41 Nowhere to be found: The lack of articles in Russian 43 Adding Action with Verbs 43 Spotting infinitives 43 Living in the present tense 43 Keep it simple: Forming the past tense 44 Past again: Perfective or imperfective?...
