Product Description

Developing on the success of his widely–acclaimed textbook, A Comprehensive Russian Grammar , Terence Wade now provides a workbook for English–speaking students of Russian. The book is designed to be used both as a companion volume to the reference grammar, and independently. Exercises range from substitution drills, and multiple choice to grammatical quizzes and translation exercises, with every important grammatical point illustrated and explored. The large–format workbook includes a key for students working on their own and suggestions for following up particularly difficult areas in more detail. A Russian Grammar Workbook offers a structured and stimulating approach to the study of Russian at all levels.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #253447 in Books
• Published on: 1995-12-07
• Original language: Russian, English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
"The technical presentation of the Workbook is excellent, and the amount of information and scope for practice and self–assessment is considerable. Not only is there something here to satisfy most pedagogical approaches, but nothing is presented dogmatically .... We have to be grateful to the author for the sensible and challenging volumes which he has produced particularly in the last four years, not only because of their intrinsic value but because they provide a readily available core on which the teaching and learning of the Russian language can be ready, to ′lift off′ once more. J. Ian Press, Dept of Russian, University of St. Andrews

"This book will be particularly usefl for post–A–level or post–Higher students at university, because it will help them systematise and deepen their knowledge of grammar, while at the same time widening their Russian vocabulary .... All in all, Terence Wade′s A Russian Grammar Workbook is an extremely interesting and useful textbook, and I shall recommend it to all my students. Irish Slavonic Studies, No. 17

"An outstanding contribution to Russian studies .... I am sure it will quickly become an essential handbook for all serious students of Russian in the English–speaking world and beyond." Dr Margaret Tejerizo, University of Glasgow

"Terence Wade′s A Comprehensive Russian Grammar rapidly became a standard text for students after its publication in 1992. The present volume complements the Grammar but can be used either in conjunction with it or independently. Over 230 exercises reflect every grammatical point and include grammatical quizzes and translation texts. The book is well set out with clear, largish print for ease of perusal." British East–West Journal

From the Back Cover
Building on the success of his widely–acclaimed textbook, A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, Terence Wade provides a workbook for all English–speaking students of Russian. The book is designed to be used both as a companion volume to the reference grammar, and independently. Exercises range from substitution drills and multiple choice to grammatical quizzes and translation exercises, with every important grammatical point illustrated and explored. The large–format workbook includes a key for students working on their own and suggestions for following up particularly difficult areas in more detail.

A Russian Grammar Workbook offers a structured and stimulating approach to the study of Russian for learners at all levels.

About the Author
Terence Wade was Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow in Russian Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow until his death in 2005. His previous books include Prepositions in Modern Russian, Russian Etymological Dictionary, The Russian Language Today (with Larissa Ryazanova–Clarke) and A Russian Grammar Workbook, companion volume to A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Blackwell Publishers). He was a past Chairman and President of the Association of Teachers of Russian and a former editor of the Journal of Russian Studies.

Customer Reviews

an useful workbook
Russian is hard to learn, but a beautiful language when you get the hand of it! I fell in love with Russian writers such as Gogol and Dostoevsky and then decided to learn the language. I am enrolled to a course and we use "A Comprehensive Russian Grammar" as our main textbook. I guess it is considered as the standard reference in many courses alike. What many people do not realize is that there is a grammar workbook by the same author that acts as a companion to this textbook. In the workbook, there are several substitution drills and they do tend to get boring after a certain point, but as you know the more you repeat, the better you learn that language. I found out that the translation exercises were extremely helpful. As you struggle to form sentences in Russian, you use several different tenses, suffixes etc. and things start to make sense. Your vocabulary builds as you try to translate from Russian to English. All of these exercises also show you which parts of that specific subject you did not understand. Several times, I work on an exercise in the workbook and realize that I should go back to the textbook and read that section again. If you already bought or planning to buy "A Comprehensive Russian Grammar," definitely get this workbook. They complement each other nicely. I strongly believe that you will get the most out of the textbook when you have this workbook with hundreds of exercises. You probably realized that there are not many good resources for learning Russian. Terence Wade certainly did a fine job by writing these text and workbooks. Another similar text/workbook that I highly recommend is "Basic Russian: Grammar and Workbook" by John Murray and Sarah Smyth. It was optional and I am glad that I bought it.

Terence Wade of course.
Terence Wade is renound for having the best books for Russian Grammar. This book was recomended by my Russian teacher, and now we use it all the time. Alongside the comprehensive grammar book that Terence Wade has also produced, it is easy to learn grammar, and to use it. However if one is self-teaching, one definately needs the other book to go with this one, as this one alone will not teach you.
Great workbook!