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RUSSIAN ITHIRD EDITION

READING BOOKLET

PIMSLEUR

SIMON & SCHUSTERS


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Graphic Design: Maia Kennedy

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Reading Booklet 2001 Simon & Schuster, Inc.Pimsleuris an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio,a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Mfg. in USA.

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VOICES

English-Speaking Instructor. . . . . . . . . Ray Brown

Russian-Speaking Instructor . . . Dmitry Kukunov

Female Russian Speaker . . . . . . . . Lena BurtsevaMale Russian Speaker . . . . . . . . Rustem Safronov

COURSEWRITERS

Sergei Poletayev Christopher J. Gainty

EDITORS

Mary E. Green Beverly D. Heinle

EXECUTIVEPRODUCER

Beverly D. Heinle

PRODUCER& DIRECTOR

Sarah H. McInnis

RECORDINGENGINEERS

Peter S. Turpin Kelly Saux

Simon & Schuster Studios, Concord, MA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


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For more information, call

1-800-831-5497 or visit us at

www.Pimsleur.com


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Reading Lessons

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Cyrillic Alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Lesson One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Lesson Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Lesson Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Lesson Four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Lesson Five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Lesson Six . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Lesson Seven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Lesson Eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Lesson Nine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Lesson Ten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Lesson Eleven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Lesson Twelve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Lesson Thirteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Lesson Fourteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Lesson Fifteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Lesson Sixteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

TABLE OF CONTENTS


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Reading has been defined as the decoding of

graphic material which represents the phonemic

patterns of the spoken language. Or to put it another

way, reading consists of coming back to speech

through the graphic symbols. In short, meaningis contained in the sounds of the spoken language.

As the written form of any language does no more

than represent these sounds visually, speaking a

language is the necessary first step to reading and

understanding anything written in the language.

Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

This means that you will need to learn to

associate Russian sounds with what is

probably a new system of symbols. A com-

plete listing of the Cyrillic alphabet andthe sounds of its letters follows, starting on

page 4. You should use this for reference only,

however, as all the information you need to do

the readings is contained on the audio along with

the reading lessons.

There are sixteen reading lessons forRussian I,

Third Edition, all contained, along with instruc-

tions, at the end of the program. You may choose

to do the readings along with the lesson units,

after every other unit or so, or you may want to

Introduction


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wait and do them all together, after completing the

rest of the course. Feel free to repeat the reading

lessons as often as needed for practice with the

Cyrillic alphabet and its sounds.

Written Russian appears in the Cyrillic alphabet,

the invention of which is traditionally credited

to Saint Cyril, a ninth-century Russian monk.

Today, the Cyrillic alphabet is also used to repre-

sent many of the (mainly Slavic) languages spoken

in Eastern Europe, ranging from Belorussianto Macedonian. Derived from the Greek alphabet,

Cyrillic is a phonetic system, with some symbols

added or altered to represent sounds unique to

these languages.

If you are not familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet,

you may first find that it takes some time to associate

the appropriate sounds with each letter and/or group

of letters. Therefore, we recommend that you take

the Reading Lessons at your own pace, repeating

each until you feel comfortable proceeding with thenext. With a little effort, you will be astonished at

how quickly you are reading Russian.

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The Cyrillic alphabet comprises 33 letters, listed

in order, along with a guide to the sounds represented

by each letter. You will note that many Russian

letters (mostly vowels, but also some consonants)

have more than one sound, depending on the amountof stress given to the letter or its position in the word.

The pronunciations listed in the following Guide

to Pronunciation are APPROXIMATE English

equivalents and, as in any language, the sounds will

vary slightly in different letter combinations.

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Cyrillic letter(capital / small)

Guide to Pronunciation

aas infather(when stressed);u(h)as in mumps(whenunstressed)

bas in betpat the end of a word

vas in vandalfat the end of a word

gas in gasolinekat the end of a wordsometimes vwhen in -combination

das in deeptat the end of a word

yeas inyesterday(whenstressed); sometimes eas inme(when unstressed)

yoas inyore zhas in the middle of the

word treasure

zas inzoosometimessat the end of a word eas in eagle(when stressed);

ias in big;or eas in beg(when unstressed)

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the yat the end of grey kas in Kafka

las inLenin mas inMoscow nas in next o as in blow, but shorter (when

stressed); o as in ostrich (when

unstressed); sometimes u(h)(when unstressed at the end of aword)

pas in Peter rolled r

sas in so tas in top ooas in tool fas infind aspirated h

tscombination, as inpits chcombination, as in cheese

shas in shoe longer, softer shsound

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hard sign- indicates thatpreceding letter should be

pronounced wih a distinct sound fast euh-eecombination soft sign- indicates that

preceding letter should bepronounced with more breath

e(h)in extra fast ee-oucombination, like

-eau-in beauty

yainyawnbut shorter (whenstressed);uhin grumble(whenunstressed)

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