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Summary: A remarkable resource for anyone trying to learn Russian
Review: This is a unique book for anyone learning Russian language. The title says it all. When it comes to Russian verb conjugation, this book does it all, perfectively!!
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Summary: A must for students of Russian
Review: This is an indispensable guide to the conjugations of Russian verbs. While Russian isn't as difficult as it seems to the outsider the grammar is certainly difficult if only because of the number of conjugations and the number of exceptions to each rule. It's enough to frustrate a beginner. This book goes quite a long way towards helping guide you through the maze of verbal conjugations.If you're studying Russian grammer or are seriously interested in the language you should not be without this. Along with other reviewers here I'd agree, this is a lifesaver.
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Summary: Necessity
Review: To get beyond basic alphabet and numbers in Russian, you need a comprehensive dictionary, an intermediate textbook, and THIS BOOK. The dictionary defines, but it can't do much when lyou want to use the word in a sentence. Russian is a language that requires native English-speakers to think differently than English, French, or Spanish. It does not come naturally-- there are no shortcuts to conjugation, no consistencies in the grammar "rules". Make your life easier and invest in this book.
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Summary: Excellent reference for Russian verb
Review: Unlike Turkish or Japanese (in which the irregular verbs can be counted on the fingers of one hand, at least in the case of Japanese), Russian, like Latin, Spanish, German, and many other languages, has lots of both regular and irregular verbs. Spanish, which I know better than Russian, has 22 commonly used verbs that are irregular in the present indicative tense, and the same 18 are also irregular in the present subjunctive. But 12 of those have the same pattern in the present indicative, so once you get this idea, the situation is not as bad as it at first seems. There are similar patterns in Russian, and it helps to have them laid out for you and explained, which this book does. As someone pointed out, the hundreds of pages of regularly conjugated verbs really aren't needed once you get the pattern for the regular ones, and this book could have been reduced to a few pages that way, but for beginners it's still useful to have that. Considering that language learners now have the choice of getting handheld language translation computers like the well-known models from Franklin, which aren't that much more than this book, and which will give you the definitions of 60,000 words, along with other notes on the grammar, games, word completion, and other features, it's interesting to see that these books are still surviving so well. One useful feature is the section where the colloquial uses of various verbs are explained, which is useful too, and the Spanish version of this book has the same feature. This section focuses on commonly used verbal phrases that are not unlike the ones in use in English that cause so many problems for foreign speakers. These are phrases like "run away from, or come up on," in English. But since English has done away with case markers and now mostly relies on word order, there are many more thousands of them in English than in Russian or Spanish. NTC's recent dictionary of English verbal phrases and phrasal verbs listed 12,000. But getting back to this book, this is still an excellent reference for the beginner to intermediate speaker and I can recommend it for that.
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