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William Camden
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17 December 2010 at 7:04pm | IP Logged

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2008/10/simple-means.html

This is about a German-Russian vocabulary booklet prepared for German soldiers occupying or fighting in the USSR (it was published in 1942, following on from an earlier edition published the previous year just before the start of the ultimately ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union). The foreword states the experience of the German soldier in occupied territory revealed that grammar was not necessary. So no delving into the mysteries of the Russian case system, perfective and imperfective verbs etc. Later, grammars of Russian were brought out by the German authorities for self-instruction in the language, which suggests they backed away from "vocabulary only", presumably reinforced with blows from a rifle butt.

Re the OP message, it did seem to me to ask whether you could get by with just vocabulary.

Edited by William Camden on 17 December 2010 at 7:06pm

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