Zhivaya rech: As Spoken: Russian for Everyday Usage - Elementary A1

The coursebook (Elementary level А1) aims to build an enabling communication, linguistic foundation, expounding the basic functions of three cases (nominative, prepositional, accusative). The material of this level is the necessary linguistic minimum. Without it the passage to the next stage, where the verbal aspects and the genitive case are introduced (А1+), is impossible. The teaching material has a simple structure: English lexicogrammatical comments; examples with translation; practice exercises; Big grammatical topics are divided into blocks, which are comfortable to conceive and to include into the active communication. There is a key to all exercises at the end of the coursebook. The coursebook contains 10 units, calculated at 60 academic hours, and an introductive phonetics course (specifics of the Russian articulation; reading rules; phonetic phenomens , related to the grammar).
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