Getting by in Russian
B E S Pub Co, 1986.
Item #25658
ISBN: 0812027213
Paperback, 75 pp.
II you plan to visit the Soviet Union on vaca¬tion or business, this book—in as little as a week—will help you pick up enough Russian to "get by”. ■ You'll learn how to get around in the cities, instruct a taxi driver, ask tor directions, go shopping, order dinner at a restaurant and do the many other things connected with travel. ■ Just as important, you'll be able to work out what others are saying to you. ■ Getting By In Russian includes helpful dialogues, a pronunciation guide, a Key to the Cyrillic alphabet plus some Romanized translations, exercises, and a quick-reference word list.
Thomas R. Beyer Jr was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York where he attended Xaverian HS. he is a graduate of Georgetown University (1969) and the University of Kansas (1974). For the past 45 years he has been a Professor of Russian at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of over a dozen books to learn Russian, several translations of the Russian writer Andrei Bely. Considered an expert on Russian writers in emigration in Germany and the United States, Professor Beyer has lectured extensively in Russia, Germany and the United States. For the past few years he has offered seminars on the works of Dan Brown designed to permit students and readers separate fact from fiction.
Price: $15.00
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