The culture of the Russian speech

The book is devoted to the norms of the modern Russian literary language and the functional styles of the modern Russian speech. Practical tasks promote improvement of vocabulary and develop grammar and syntactical skills. It is designed for the students with the basic language level. The main aim of this unique book is to give an idea of the modern Russian language and its written and spoken etiquette. This book deals with the rules of pronunciation, considers morphological, word forming, lexical and syntactical norms of the modern Russian language. The book also contains information about various functional styles of the Russian language. The main focus is the Russian everyday speech and language of official documents.

The book is divided into eleven topics. Each topic contains the necessary minimum of theory and practical exercises to develop language skills. Every chapter has a block of exercises. At the end of the book keys are provided.

A test book is attached to the teaching book. It contains revision exercises to every chapter of the book. The keys can be found in the attachment.