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Michel Thomas Method: Russian Foundation Course
Natasha Bershadski
£69.99 (inc VAT)
ISBN:
9780340948415
Series:
Michel Thomas Series
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Summary:
Learn another language the way you learnt your own
You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Russian in the same way.
You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it
· Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.
· This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Russian in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.
· You learn through listening and speaking – without the pressure of writing or memorising.
· You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.
The NEW Russian Foundation Course
An eight-hour, 100% audio method for learning Russian. Join teacher Natasha Bershadski and two students in a live lesson and within the fi
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- Learn another language the way you learnt your own
Effective method - the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain - Motivating - live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
- All-audio - the way you want to learn
Pronunciation is gently - but effectively - corrected - Reference booklet - accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Russian (transliterated script)
Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced, and Vocabulary - Sales record - the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Russian.
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Table of Contents:
 Introduction. How to use this course. Similarities between English and Russian
eto bank = ‘this (is) (a / the) bank’ – no word for ‘is’, ‘a’ or ‘the’ in Russian
ya toorist = ‘I (am) (a) tourist’ – no word for ‘am’ or ‘a’ in Russian
Form a question by inflexion: say the word that you are questioning at the highest pitch of your voice
Soft consonants
Saying ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘not’
-tsiya in Russian is ‘-tion’ in English
vy = ‘you’
Question words ‘what?, where?’
mozhno = ‘possible’ so ‘I / you / he/ one etc. can / may’
Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
Using infinitives (the 'to' form of the verb) after mozhno = ‘possible’: mozhno koopit’? = ‘Possible to buy?’
Making words plural (more than one)
n’el’z’a = ‘not possible’ so ‘I / you / he/ one etc. shouldn’t, I / you / he/ one etc. am / are / is not allowed’
Using infinitives after n’el’z’a = ‘not possible’: n’el’z’a koopit’ = ‘not allowed to buy’
znat’ = ‘to know’; ponimat' = ‘to understand’; doomat' = ‘to think’; ooznat’ = ‘to find out’; ‘I’ form of these verbs
ya (n’e) khochoo = I (don’t) want (it); yest’ = ‘to eat’, pit’ = ‘to drink’; d’elat’ = ‘to do’
Asking politely
‘you’ form of verbs
‘me’, ‘you’ as object of verb (‘I understand you’)
Question word ‘how?’
‘I / you have’ in Russian = ‘by me / you (is)’
byt’ = ‘to be’
Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
Using infinitives after mozhno = ‘possible’: mozhno koopit’? = ‘Possible to buy?’
Making words plural (more than one)
n’el’z’a = ‘not possible’ so ‘I / you / he/ one etc. shouldn’t, I / you / he/ one etc. am / are / is not allowed’
Using infinitives after n’el’z’a = ‘not possible’: n’el’z’a koopit’ = ‘not allowed to buy’
znat’ = ‘to know’; ponimat' = ‘to understand’; doomat' = ‘to think’; ooznat’ = ‘to find out’; ‘I’ form of these verbs
ya (n’e) khochoo = I (don’t) want (it); yest’ = ‘to eat’, pit’ = ‘to drink’; d’elat’ = ‘to do’
Asking politely
‘you’ form of verbs
‘me’, ‘you’ as object of verb (‘I understand you’)
Question word ‘how?’
‘I / you have’ in Russian = ‘by me / you (is)’
byt’ = ‘to be’
ya boodoo = ‘I will (be)’; ya boodoo yest’ = ‘I will eat’; vy bood’et’e = ‘you will (be)’
Question word ‘why?’
rabotat’ = ‘to work’
‘he / she’ and form of verbs; ‘we’ and form of verbs
nado = ‘necessary’; mn’e nado = ‘to me necessary’ so ‘I need’; mn’e int’er’esno = ‘to me (it is) interesting’ so ‘I am interested’; vam nado = ‘to you necessary’ so ‘you need’; ‘will need’
‘they / it’
masculine, feminine and plural endings for short adjectives (adjectives used after the word that they describe)
Question word ‘when?’
vot = ‘here (is)’
Possessive adjective ‘my’ in masculine, feminine, plural and neuter forms; ‘at home’
Past tense of verbs: ‘I / he / she / we / you / they knew / thought’
Russian ‘will’ for English ‘would’ when talking about the past
Past tense of ‘to be’ (‘was, were’); past tense of ‘have’: ‘at me was problem’; past tense of ‘need’: ‘to me necessary was’
zabyt’ = ‘to forget’; yest’ = ‘there is / are’; ‘us, to us, our’
‘i’ verb sp’eshit’ = ‘to hurry’; explanation of ‘ye’ verbs learned previously; vid’et’ = ‘to see’
‘nothing’ and double negatives
govorit’ = ‘to speak’; khot’et’ = ‘to want’; skazat’ = ‘to, say, tell’
Russian ‘am’ (omitted) for English ‘was’ when talking about the past
Reading the Russian alphabet
verb forms for ‘they’
‘you / he / I can’ + infinitives
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About the Author(s):
Natasha Bershadski studied at the Moscow State Linguistic University and taught English in Moscow before moving to London, where she has taught Russian for 15 years at King's College, UCL, LSE, Middlesex University and the Foreign Office.
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Readership:
Self-access course for adult beginners
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Reviews:
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"A great way to learn; it's fast and it lasts".
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The Daily Telegraph
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"Five minutes into the first CD, you already feel like you're winning."
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Time Out
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"Michel Thomas is a precious find indeed."
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The Guardian
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"Thomas makes it simple"
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Sunday Times
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"Michel's methods will teach you effectively and easily"
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Daily Star
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"Hugely inspiring"
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Red
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"Ideal for any business traveller who needs to be able to get around confidently."
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Sunday Business
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