Re: 501 Verbs

For my part, I find "501 Russian Verbs" very helpful, as an intermediate
student of that language (that's my technical designation, based on how many
courses I've had -- I think I'm more leaning towards "advanced," at least in
terms of my reading skills, thanks to my devotion to the Russian versions of
Star Wars and Harry Potter ^_^)  They basically picked out the most common
words, and since so many of THOSE are irregular, it helps.  Also, it isn't
like there's just one way to conjugate *regular* Russian verbs; they teach
you two right from the beginning (it' and at' type verbs) and there are
apparently several more (my grammar books are in the car) that are pretty
regular.

I should point out, also, that my nature works against rote memorization and
a ton of filling-out-forms type activities; I still have problems
remembering some of my conjugations and many declensions in Russian.  I also
rely heavily on my "5000 Words in Russian" book...

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Arthaey Angosii
>
> follow to spur a conlanger to invent more words.  But are these books
> really helpful to foreign language learners past the 101 stage?  Unless
> irregularity is the rule <coughmaggelcough> I don't see how having
> pre-conjugated verbs is helpful since so much is predictable repetition.
>
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