Status Updates From The Penguin Russian Course

A nice easy chapter, as we'd already covered the prepositional case in the very first chapter of the other book!

Ironically, two of the words I had to learn for this chapter (смелый, courageous and горло болит, my throat hurts) both subsequently turned up in YouTube videos yesterday: virtue rewarded! (As, oddly enough, did представитель, министерство and торговля, albeit all in separate contexts - one phrase I *never* thought was going to be useful outside the context of the Soviet 1960s!)

"The stress tends to be capricious in the short form of many adjectives. The reader should not worry about this unduly at the present stage. He may even be comforted to know that in some cases Russians themselves fail to agree on the stress of the short form of the adjective" - always nice to see a textbook with a sense of humour!

This has become my warm up book. One lesson before Russian work

10 hoofdstukken op een klein jaar tijd. Ik ga even een pauze nemen en me beperken tot het herhalen van de woordenschat en vervoeging van werkwoorden. In het begin ging het vlot, maar het gaat nu heelwat trager vooruit.