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501 Russian Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) | Thomas R. Beyer Jr. Ph.D. | Helpful For Beginners, But Not a Necessary Study Tool
 
 


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501 Russian Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Guides)
Thomas R. Beyer Jr. Ph.D.

Barron's Educational Series, 2007 - 624 pages

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Pretty good but a few problems

On the whole, this is a good reference for beginning or intermediate students of Russian to have. However, in keeping with Beyer's teaching methods (he's a professor at my college), it often ignores complexities of the language for fear of confusing the reader. In most cases, this is not a problem, but there is at least one exception. There are russian imperfective verbs which have multiple perfective forms, and he only lists one, which might make you think it was the only one. People in one of my classes tried to use it to say that they'd cut themselves shaving and burnt their tongues drinking coffee, and instead ended up saying that they'd completely chopped themselves up while shaving and burnt their tongues to a crisp. So there are problems with the book. But it is certainly a useful reference.


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Helpful For Beginners, But Not a Necessary Study Tool

The supposed value of this book lies in the fact that it lists verbs in all their conjugations and tenses. Whereas this may be helpful for beginners, the fact of the matter is that once you learn the grammar rules governing verbs, you won't need this book!

However, in all fairness I must write two good things about this book. First, seeing all the conjugations and tenses of a verb laid out on one page is helpful in making sense of the various verb forms, especially in terms of keeping them distinct from each other. And second, this book provides a list of some of the most useful verbs that you can study as a beginning student of the language.

My advice is to examine your own personal learning style and ask yourself if you really need this book, because once I learned the rules of verb formation, this book did little more than gather dust on my shelf.


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Usefull for learning and memorizing russian verbs

This book is usefull for learning russian verbs. I recommend it, inspite of some things missing like other people wrote.


A Valuable Reference Book

I have owned this book for several years, and have often found it invaluable. It provides complete conjugations, and is easy to use. It is only limited to 501 verbs, but it contains most of the commonly used verbs. It does not, however, give any examples of verb usage, which would often prove helpful. Still, it is a valuable book to have.


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