"There truly is something for everyone in this most handy volume...Using Russian is an excellent and most useful tool, a credit to the high level of British scholarship in this area" Del Phillips, Slavic and East European Journal
1. Varieties of language and register; 2. Passage illustrating register; 3. Problems of meaning: Russian words; 4. Problems of translation from English into Russian; 5. Vocabulary and idiom; 6. Language and everyday life; 7. Verbal etiquette; 8. Word-formation; 9. Inflection; 10. Prepositions; 11. Syntax; 12. Stress.