Russian Lessons: Time Schedule

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Matt Sundakov 
 
 
ENJOY YOUR RUSSIAN 
 
TWO IMPORTANT NOTES 
 
1. The suggested book is not a conventional course of the Russian language, and it is 
not only about the language but also about many other things. The Reader of this book 
will study the language in a practical and entertaining way with emphasis not on 
grammar but on real life situations. 
The book will provide the Reader with a lot of fascinating information on the various 
sides of life in the former Soviet Union as it was seen and felt by myself prior to my 
emigration to the West in 1979.
Many radical changes have happened in that country since then. Therefore, some 
descriptions and situations might seem to be obsolete. However, my book does not 
pretend to be an updated guide to the post-communist Russia. What this book will do is 
giving the student a rare opportunity to learn and enjoy at the same time; to combine 
learning of Russian with a valuable insight into the recent history of the people speaking 
this language, their culture, traditions, customs and habits. My book will put the student 
in different practical situations, as if he or she were living in that country.
2. Dear readers, from some point of this book, I will begin to give you longer Russian 
examples (sometimes much longer!) than in the beginning. In these circumstances, 
constant interruptions of the Russian text for translations of individual sentences, as 
well as providing some of these sentences with my comments, would become a major 
inconvenience for you. Therefore, wherever we deal with the longer Russian passages, 
I will first present you with the whole Russian text. Only after that you will find an English 
translation of the text in question followed by comments and explanations (if required). 
For convenience, either individual Russian sentences or whole paragraphs will have 
consecutive numbers, and these same numbers will be repeated for the corresponding 
English translations and then for the comments. Thus, it will be equally easy for you 
either to use or omit all or some of these translations, and also to determine to which 
sentence (or paragraph) any particular comment refers.