Russian Reader - Classic Reprint Author:Paul Boyer The study of Russian offers to the beginner difficulties in — many respects comparable to those which make the classical lan- — guages so difficult of access - numerous and complicated inflec- — tions for nouns and pronouns; a verbal system of rare flexibility; — a syntax simple in its principles, but very different from the syn- — tax of the modern ... more »languages of western Europe; a freedom of
construction which is in striking contrast to the rigid framework
of the English, French, or German sentence; and a vocabulary
of incomparable richness. To help him surmount these many
difficulties, the student finds at his disposal grammatical sum-
maries, collections of texts, and dictionaries. But much time will
be lost before he has acquired enough grammatical knowledge to
master texts which have no commentary to explain them, and his
patience will suffer by this study of theoretical grammar, which
keeps him at a distance from the language itself.
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