503 Russian II
Language | Registration opens 12/2/25 9:00 AM EST
This will be a continuation of Russian 1 offered in the Fall 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. "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; I recommend the Oxford dictionary. Students who have access to the Internet will be directed to resource sites.
We will have covered past and present tenses and aspects of verbs; accusative, prepositional, genitive, and dative cases of nouns and adjectives; reflexive verbs. 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 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.