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Title: 501 Russian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses Alphabetically Arranged (501 Verbs Series) by Thomas R., Jr. Beyer ISBN: 0-7641-1349-6 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Learn your Conjugations!!
Comment: If you are serious about studying a foreign language, the most important thing you can do is learn to conjugate verbs correctly. Russian is no exception to this rule. This book is an excellent tool for anyone who has trouble with conjugation. Each verb is fully conjugated with perfective and imperfective forms, as well as past and future tenses. More than any other reference book this one will help you to drastically improve your speaking abilities.
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful mostly for the beginner
Comment: As an earlier reviewer quite rightly states, once the rules of verb conjugation are learnt, this books usefulness becomes more of a "lazy persons russian verb conjugator".
However, I still purchased it, primarily because of helping me master conjugation by "visualizing" the tables. Russian Verb conjugation isn't Rocket science, but it's still a pain to learn.
If this book consisted of totally irregular verbs it would be extremely useful though and perhaps a better choice for an intermediate russian student.
Thus definitely recommended for a beginning serious Russian student but will be outgrown once you gain confidence.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent reference for Russian verb
Comment: 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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Title: English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary by Kenneth Katzner ISBN: 0471017078 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Oxford Russian Dictionary: Russian-English English-Russian by Della F. Thompson ISBN: 0425160130 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $2.67 |
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Title: The New Penguin Russian Course by Nicholas J. Brown ISBN: 0140120416 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar by James S. Levine, Schaum ISBN: 0070382387 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 31 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Essential Russian Grammar by Brian Kemple ISBN: 048627375X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 26 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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