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| Camusartre Newbie Peru Joined 4257 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 10 18 October 2013 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
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Good afternoon, about nature method I think it is possible to find the book with this
title: Русский язык по методу Натура. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6349 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 10 of 10 10 November 2013 at 1:54pm | IP Logged |
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If you google for “Russisch nach der Naturmethode” you’ll find an Austrian Language Institute which offers correspondence courses for several languages “ by the Nature Method” (in Europe only). They are not meant for complete self-study. Although you work through the material on your own, you send them your homework, get corrections and you have a tutor for asking questions.
But for Russian there is quite a good substitute, which is available through libraries or second hand bookshops: “Russian through Reading” by Kenneth Brooke and James Forsyth, 1962 As an example (I omitted the stress marks), here is the first of 66 chapters: 01 КАРТА Вот карта. Это карта СССР. Тут столица СССР, Москва. Это болшой, красивый город. Вот Балтийское море. Здесь Ленинград и Финляндия. На севере город Архангельск. Вот Украина. Столица Украины – Киев. Там степь, реки Днепр и Дон. Киев на Днепре. На юге – Чёрное море, Крым и горы Кавказа. Город Одесса на Чёрном море. Река Волга втекает в Каспийское море. На Волге города Горький, Сталинград и Астрахань. На восток от Москвы Урал, и за Уралом – Сибирь. Там леса, сибирские горы, реки Обь, Енисей, Лена, и озеро Байкал. На Дальнем Востоке Камчатка, остров Сахалин, большая река Амур, и город Владивосток. Там Тихий океан. На юг от Урала – степь и пустыни Казахстана и Туркестана. Здесь города Ташкент и Самарканд, а за границей – Иран, Афганистан, Китай и Монголия. Translation: The Map Here is a map. It is a map of the USSR. Here is the capital of the USSR, Moscow. It is a large, beautiful town. Here is the Baltic Sea. Here is Leningrad and Finland. In the north is the town Arkhangelsk. Here is the Ukraine. The capital of the Ukraine is Kiev. There are the steppe, the rivers Dnieper and Don. Kiev is on the Dnieper. In the south is the Black Sea, the Crimea and the mountains of the Caucasus. The town of Odessa is on the Black Sea. The river Volga flows into the Caspian Sea. On the Volga are the towns Gorky, Stalingrad and Astrakhan. To the east of Moscow is the Ural, and beyond the Ural, Siberia. There are forests, the Siberian mountains, the rivers Ob, Yenisei, Lena and Lake Baikal. In the Far East is Kamchatka, the island Sakhalin, the great river Amur, and the town Vladivostok. There is the Pacific Ocean. To the south from the Ural is the steppe and the deserts of Kazakhstan and Turkestan. Here are the cities Tashkent and Samarkand, and beyond the border, Iran, Afghanistan, China and Mongolia. The reader should now compare the Russian passage with the English translation which follows- Each passage with its translation will enable the reader to deduce various facts about the Russian language, although not all the possible deductions will be discussed in each lesson. We shall rather select a body of facts from each lesson in order to construct a picture of the language step by step, and certain matters in each lesson will be offered ‘on trust’ for discussions at a later stage. We hope, in this way, to avoid overwhelming the learner with too much material, and at the same time, to give real texts instead of the elementary sentences which other methods must employ. §1.1 Russian does not (normally) have words corresponding to our articles the, a, an. §1.2 Russian does not (normally) have any word corresponding to our is, are. §1.3 Various names of things (nouns in grammar) appear in more than one form: we have река Волга the river Volga, but реки Обь, Енисей, Лена the rivers Ob, Yenisei, Lena. Here the distinction is between singular and plural (note that пустыни deserts is also plural). Here is a fact of grammar: some plural nouns end in –и. Our passage shows another kind of plural: compare город Архангельск the town Archangel with города Горький, Сталинград и Астрахань the towns Gorky, Stalingrad and Astrakhan – here is a second fact: some plural nouns ends in –а. We could show this with a simple grammatical table thus: Singular –а (one type), No vowel (another type) Plural –и (one type) –а (another type) This is a very incomplete grammatical statement, but it is true as far as it goes; having learnt that реки means rivers we might have deduced correctly that пустыни was a plural word. §1.4 Various names (nouns) appear in more than one form where it is clear from the translation that we are not dealing with a plural: compare Урал thе Ural, за Уралом beyond the Ural and от Урала from the Ural. As we grow accustomed to reading we shall come to expect after such words as на on (also in and to), за beyond, other forms of a noun than the one we find when that noun is simply the subject of a statement. We will save discussion of this for later lessons. §1.5 The English word of also appears to be omitted. горы Кавказа and пустыни Казахстана translate the mountains of the Caucasus and the deserts of Kazakhstan. Let us note in passing that –а at the end of a Russian word often indicates the idea of of. This need not be confused with the –а which shows plural, because usually the context will make this matter clear. Note that город Одесса is not an example of the ‚of‘ construction – it is a peculiarity of English to say the town of Odessa – an idiom – and we have not reproduced this idiom in our translation the town Odessa. §1.6 It will be noticed that на is translated in different places by in, to, and on. We often find that words in other languages do not correspond exactly in sense to English words, they may have a wider or narrower range of meaning. This is particularly the case with such words which indicate position and relation, like на and за and в. These words, and the corresponding English words are called prepositions, because they are usually placed before nouns. §1.7 There are slight differences of meaning between вот and здесь, both translated here but the former used particularly when pointing things out (вот may often mean there (is) also). тут and там (here and there) differ in similar fashion. и and а both mean and, but а normally directs attention to another, often contrasting center of interest while и merely marks an addition. §1.8 The reader who makes careful comparisons of the Russian and the English version will have noted Чёрное море beside на Чёрном море болшой город beside большая река на восток beside на Дальнем Востоке, but he is asked to take these on trust for the present; we shall list similar features in each lesson and hold them in reserve for discussion later. §1.9 СССР stands for Союз советских социалистических реепублик i.e. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Résumé: First acquaintance with a piece of printed Russian. Certain English words not represented in the Russian sentence, 1.1, 1.2; variation in forms of Russian nouns to indicate plural, also after other words to indicate e.g. the idea of – these variations are called grammar inflexions 1.3-1.5; Russian word does not always have a one-word English equivalent, 1.6 or vice versa, 1.7. 8 persons have voted this message useful |
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