Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage
by Derek Offord
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 491.7782421
EAN: 9780521547611
ISBN: 052154761X
Label: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2005-07-14
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Summary: An excelent purchase
Comment: I just wanted to join previous comments about this book. It is an excellent purchase.
Now I'm buying some extra copies for my classmates.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good - not the best
Comment: This book is really good, as it does everything it says it will do and covers some quite complicated parts of russian grammar that most do not, however I found it to be quite difficult to find my way around. Definitely an essential buy for degree-level, but could maybe have been a little clearer. Good explanations of key grammatical points.
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Summary: Exceptional
Comment: As a Russian student, I would like to say that, for all you other students of Russian out there, this is a really good book for getting you from quite good in the language to really good. It's easy to use, there are polytonal registers and I am also fortunate to be taught by the author at the University of Bristol. He's also an excellent Russian history teacher!
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Summary: This is essential reading for those doing a Russian degree.
Comment: I bought Using Russian when I was browsing in a bookshop for another language, as I already speak Russian, but when I looked at a few pages it immediately appealed as an excellent update to the way the language has developed since I did my degree.
Sections in the book refer to different problems that face the English speaker in particular, such as faux amis. There are also sections on homonyms and other confusing aspects and they act rather like a checklist of what you need to have got right in your head in order not to make too many 'howlers' in translations or in conversation.
One particular plus in this book and as I found out in the whole series of 'Using' books that this is part of is the focus on register. If there is one thing that separates the wheat from the chaff among language students. it is the understanding and application of the idea of register, and this applies to Russian perhaps more than most European languages, as this is a language in which not only the vocabulary, but also the syntax, grammar and phonetics are all subject to complex nuances.
This book was not available when I needed it. Now that it is I urge you to make use of it. It is the book about Russian that I would have liked to have written myself. If I thought there was demand for it, I'd offer to do a sister volume for Polish. In any event it made me go out and by the sister volumes already in existence for French, German and Spanish. They are of a similar quality to this volume, the weakest is probably the German one, the Spanish one I would put as second favorite.
It can be read cover to cover, or simply dipped into as a work of reference. It is not material for learning the language from scratch, but would be a very useful second step after completing any of the standard self-instruction books such as the Colloquial series, the Teach yourself series or the Linguaphone course.
Either A-level or degree level students of the Language will profit from it and find it enjoyable because of its good presentation and readable style.
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