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Summary: Need some quick revision? Get this!
Review: As I am currently studying for my university Russian exams, this book is an absolute goldmine for practice exercises and simple explanations into noun endings, cases, numerals, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. Very helpful!
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Summary: Great supplement to college instruction
Review: I am only giving this book 4 stars instead of 5 because the front cover says "Ideal for independent study" and I think an individual who wants to begin learning the Russian language will have a hard time with this book. It is hard to find a stopping point in the chapters.
If you are taking university classes this will help you understand anything you might miss in class. The MANY drills and exercises help your brain convert its thinking into a different alphabet.
Also, the binding and page size make it easy to photocopy if you don't want to write in the book or you want extra copies for yourself.
Overall, this book is great.
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Summary: If your studying Russian, this will your best friend!
Review: I can't rave enough about this book. I've gotten several grammars and do-it-yourself courses, but this book lays it all out on the line in simple, easy to follow language. The accents are marked, exceptions are explained, and rules are given in a format ideal for memorization. Combine that with the vocabulary that can be gleaned from the text, and you have your key to the russian language. I just wish that Professor Levine had writted the vocabulary guide, then the accents would have been marked. I wish I could give it 6 stars!
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Summary: If your studying Russian, this will your best friend!
Review: I can't rave enough about this book. I've gotten several grammars and do-it-yourself courses, but this book lays it all out on the line in simple, easy to follow language. The accents are marked, exceptions are explained, and rules are given in a format ideal for memorization. Combine that with the vocabulary that can be gleaned from the text, and you have your key to the russian language. I just wish that Professor Levine had writted the vocabulary guide, then the accents would have been marked. I wish I could give it 6 stars!
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Summary: A "must have" for all student of Russian!
Review: I frequently refer back to my copy of Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar. It is an outstanding source of information. I have owned, borrowed and used a plethora of Russian language study/text books, this one undoubtedly takes the cake! It covers everything that a beginner to an advanced student of Russian could ever need. I have used this book for independent study of Russian and while attending class... It proved to be the best for both! I would highly recommend this book to everyone who has an interest in Russian!
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Summary: perfect resource!
Review: I have been studying Russian independently for two years now, and this is the best book I have found. It explains all aspects of Russian grammar very clearly, and is perfect for all levels of study. If I had one book other than my dictionary (I recommend Katzner for American students, Oxford for English), this would be it.
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Summary: Excellent Teacher Resource
Review: I teach Russian at the high school level.The Schaum's Russian Grammar outline has the clearest explanation of the difficult subject of Russian motion verbs that I have ever seen. The author, Dr. James Levine, divides the Russian subjunctive into The Conditional (260) and The Subjunctive (262). I think this approach is very helpful for students because it is less confusing. The discussion and exercises of the difficult Russian Indefinite Pronouns (134-136) was well-organized and highlighted when the particles "to" or "nibud" should be used. The text is careful to use a vocabulary that is remarkably consistent with what students are learning in their main text. The explanations and the exercises in the text can be used as a supplement to a regular text. Many high school and university texts today have video and audio materials, but the grammar analysis is not as developed as it might be. This modestly-priced text is an excellent way to bridge this gap. The grammar explanations are clearer for an English-speaker than the Russian-published texts. The rules for Russian grammar are very carefully and logically explained; the words are accented; and the exercises have an answer key that is helpful for students studying independently. This is the best Russian grammar book on the market.
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Summary: Excellent just like the math outlines
Review: I'd used quite a few of Schaum's other Outline series titles in various math courses, ranging from statistics to calculus and differential equations, but this is the first one I've tried in a non-quanititative area, and I was pleased to see the quality shines through here also. This is a great outline and review of Russian grammar. Russian has some major pitfalls for the English language speaker, such as the complex case system, which has six cases just like Latin; three genders, male, female, and neuter; and a verb classification system that is foreign to us. This is the concept of directed vs. non-directed motion. For example, in Russian there are two words for walking. If you were just strolling aimlessly around, such as walking in a park, you would use one verb. But if you were walking with a specific goal in mind, such as you were heading somewhere and had a specific destination in mind, you'd use the other verb. Many Russian verbs have this dual feature, which means you have to learn two verbs to do what in English you'd do with one verb and an adverb. The other major way the Russian verbal system differs from English and many other Indo-European languages is that it is built primarily on the concept of aspect rather than tense. This means Russian verbs are more concerned with whether the action was complete or is incomplete, rather than whether the action took place at a certain point in time, as in the familar past, present, and future tenses. In grammar this is known as the perfective-imperfective dimension, "perfective" referring to completed action, and "imperfective" referring to an action that is still going on or hasn't been completed yet. An example in English of the perfect indicative is "I spoke." An example of the imperfect indicative is "I was speaking." In this context I'm reminded of the example of Japanese, which doesn't have a very detailed tense system either, and in fact lacks the future tense, and has to use the progressive present to express that, if I remember correctly. However, it has instead a complex system of moods or modal verbs, which express such notions as the probability of an action, doubt, the attitude of the speaker toward the subject or person, and so on. This book discusses these complex features of Russian grammar along with many others, and has some of the clearest explanations on these topics that I've seen. I thought I'd mention one more aspect of Russian grammar, actually phonetics, that I didn't see in the book, since it's very interesting too. This is the phenomenon in Russian of a consonant tending to assimilate the sounds that come before it, as in the sentence, "Ya yedu va gorody," where the "g" sound affects the prononciation of "va" word in front of it. English has just the opposite tendency, as in word, "dogs," where the "s" sounds like a "z" instead of the normal "s" sound because of the affect of the voiced g. Hence, English has forward or anterograde assimilation of consonants, and Russian has the opposite, or regressive assimilation of consonants. Overall this is another outstanding study outline from Schaum that I can recommend especially to first year Russian students, or anyone needing a quick review of this subject.
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Summary: An excellent comprehensive and easy-to-understand book.
Review: Russian Grammar, by James Levine, and a Rusian dictionary should be the next books a beginning student should buy after a primary textbook. It is well organized and complete; it will be useful for advanced students, as well as beginners. The clear presentation is supported by side-by-side examples of Russian and English sentences illustrating each point. There are also exercises, with answers in the back. It is a good choice for students at all levels.
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Summary: An excellent comprehensive and easy-to-understand book.
Review: Russian Grammar, by James Levine, and a Rusian dictionary should be the next books a beginning student should buy after a primary textbook. It is well organized and complete; it will be useful for advanced students, as well as beginners. The clear presentation is supported by side-by-side examples of Russian and English sentences illustrating each point. There are also exercises, with answers in the back. It is a good choice for students at all levels.
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