Elementary Russian Grammar #268286

While I undertook the interesting task with some eagerness, I was well aware of its difficulty. It would have been easy indeed to compile a satisfactory tabulation of rules and paradigms for cursory study and systematic reference, and such a booklet might have proven fairly useful for the needs of traditional reading by means of translation. But my ingrained conviction of the limitations of such a study of a modern foreign language turned me from that line of least resistance and made it incumbent upon me to embody even in this modest booklet the most essential features of what is generally termed the direct method, representing both my theoretical views and the results of twenty years' experience in the teaching of several foreign languages, Russian among them. This implied a number of peculiar complications.