501 Russian I
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This will be a continuation of Russian I offered in the Winter/Spring term of 2025. We will continue to use The New Penguin Russian Course by Nicholas J. Brown (ISBN 978-0-140-12041-7); it’s available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books A Million, and the local BAM can order it. I recommend students also buy a verb book (e.g. (e.g. 501 Russian Verbs or The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs) and English Grammar for Students of Russian by Edwina J. Cruise, and perhaps a grammar reference (e.g. Russian Grammar by I.S. Milovanova or Essential Russian Grammar by Brian Kemple), but these are not necessary.may also want a Russian English dictionary; I recommend the Oxford dictionary.who have access to the Internet will be directed to resource sites.
We will have covered the Cyrillic alphabet and pronunciation; basic grammar concepts; present tense verb conjugations; prepositional and accusative cases of nouns and pronouns; and question words. If a student is comfortable with those, they are welcome to join us.
Karen Davis
Karen Davis worked for the federal government for 42 years. All of that time she was spent speaking or translating Russian or Ukrainian. For the last 12 years she has taught languages to DOD personnel. She scored 4s in reading on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale (near-native) in both languages.