Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL!

[Anyse Joslin]

OK, now the subject is closed.

I am reminded of Mayakovsky's "Past one o'clock"

It's past one o'clock
you must have gone to bed . . .

As they say,
the "incident" is closed
and life's boat
has smashed against the daily grind . . .

Why bother then
to balance
mutual sorrows
pains
and hurts . . .

Take care and I hope we shall get back to this some other time.

Now, for my query about Russian! I am very interested in books on  
"Verbs of Motion." I am sincerely working on a document on verbs of  
motion myself (in spite of my own lack of knowledge or certificated  
expertise). I have four perspectives that I would like to put together  
that can be used as a teaching tool to help American students to  
understand the two "types" of motion verbs, how to read/interpret  
them, how to determine prepositions to use with each verb/prefixed  
verb of motion. I already have the book "Verbs of Motion in Russian"  
by Muravyova as well as Mahota's "Russian Motion Verbs for  
Intermediate Students." I also have Terrence Wade's "Oxford Russian  
Grammar and Verbs," "Russian Grammar" and "The Russian Grammar  
Workbook"; Patricia Davis' "Making Progress in Russian"; "В Пути"  
by Kagan and Miller, et al.; "Большой Толковый  
Словарь Русских Глаголов" (this has some of the  
very best material on verbs of motion presented in an interesting  
manner); Offord's "Using Russian"; the Russian edition of Russian  
grammar through pictures; "Большой Грамматический  
Словарь; Timberlake's Russian Grammar; Miller's Russian  
preposition book, and many more. Books specifically addressing verbs  
of motion as the single topic are so few (I only know of the two that  
I mentioned above) and only one is currently in print. Muravyova's  
book is out of print and Ohota's is written for a certain level of  
learning. Also, the perspectives offered are pretty narrow as well.  
What I would like to do is to present each verb set for each type of  
motion in a "wheel" graphic as did Dr. Alexander Pronin in his book  
"15 Russian Verbs a Day," in tables for each verb set, as graphics for  
each verb set, and then the "standard" academic description. Providing  
students with helpful presentations with a number of perspectives will  
at least give them a variety of which at least one will "click" in  
their minds. Of course, I would also like to present students with a  
great number of exercises to go with the presentations as well: from  
translation to interpretation, from "fill in the blank" to "describe  
the reason" why this verb rather than that verb is used here, and from  
prefixes and ascribed meaning due them as well as the prepositions  
used with them and "making sense" of those prepositions and the cases  
used with them.

If you can steer me toward any resources that I can get a hold of,  
please, let me know. I would like to see as much of what is out there  
as possible.

You have all been more than kind and I thank you.

Anyse

Anyse Joslin
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Sacramento, CA   95827
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