_Russian Grammar in Illustrations_ by Pekhlivanova and Lebedeva

[Kenneth E Udut]

_Russian Grammar in Illustrations_ by Pekhlivanova and Lebedeva
Russky Yazyk Publishers 1994
ISBN: 5-200-02190-1

Excellent, excellent, excellent book!

Go to: http://www.bookfinder.com or
your favorite used bookseller (I found it
at Powellsbooks).

If you are studying Russian on your own, or
need good illustrations of Russian grammar
for your students,
this is it.

I paid $18.95 - you may find it for less or more.

It is entirely illustrated, and has diagrams,
charts, and every page has many many cartoon
illustrations explaining the points shown.

It is also no-nonsense, and in 351 pages [9"x 11" book]
seems to cover just about everything.

It is in Russian and English.  [the book appears
to be intended for English speakers]

 From the Foreword:
...is intended for all beginners and
Russian language students at the
intermediate stage who learn
their Russian outside Russia, and
have a limited number of lessons
at their disposal, i.e. students
of technical or vocational schools,
institutions of higher learning, especially
non-linguistic ones, and those who
attend Russian Courses of the Friendship
Society, various language circles,
as well as those who follow lessons of
Russian on the radio or TV.  It will also
be useful to those who are learning
the language without the guidance of a teacher.
[...] end quote [...]

I am thrilled, to say the least!

The front cover has an illustration of
a Rubix Cube with Russian prepositions
on it going in all directions, with a skeleton key going
into the side of the cube, with a garden of flowers
growing underneath.

The combination of no-nonsense, detailed
coverage of grammar, and the hundreds of illustrations
throughout the book, makes me very hopeful
that this will be an important step in my Russian
learning, since it is especially certain grammatical
points that keep me behind.

I like the fact that it does not
appear to have any exercises in it.  It is
a descriptive text.  And the illustrations
do a lot of the explaining for you.

Thanks for listening :-)

-Kenneth

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