501 Russian I
Language | Registration opens 8/5/25 9:00 AM EDT
This will be a continuation of Russian I offered in the summer 2025 term. 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.
Other recommended books are a verb book (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. Students may also want a Russian-English dictionary – Oxford dictionary. Students who have access to the internet will be directed to resource sites.
Past and present tenses and aspects of verbs; accusative, prepositional, genitive, and dative cases of nouns and adjectives; reflexive verbs; and numbers will have already been covered. If you are comfortable with those, you are welcome to join this class.
Karen Davis
Karen Davis worked for the federal government for 42 years. All that time she was spent speaking or translating Russian or Ukrainian. For the last 12 years she taught languages to DOD personnel. She scored 4s in reading on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale (near-native) in both languages.