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A studio can teach the class. It cannot replace the pencil. Buy used if you like. Mark a book when you have actually worked in it, not when it arrives. Search the title and publisher — there is no checkout here, on purpose.
Coursebook · Penguin
Nicholas J. Brown
The opening lessons on the alphabet, greetings, gender, and the present tense. Do them beside First Voice, not instead of speaking.
Workbook · Routledge
Robin, Evans-Romaine, Shatalina
Buy the workbook, not only the textbook. Use the units on introductions, family, and daily routine. The workbook is the homework a classroom would assign.
Coursebook · Zlatoust
Stanislav Chernyshov
If you want the book language schools in Russia actually use. First units: greetings, family, the city.
Coursebook · Routledge
Svetlana Le Fleming and Susan E. Kay
Dialogues and audio for yesterday, plans, transport, and the phone. Shadow the audio, then swap in your own life.
Workbook · Routledge
Sarah Smyth and John Murray
Case endings and verb drills. This is the repetitive work a live class never has enough time for. Do it with a pencil.
Workbook · Routledge
Robin, Evans-Romaine, Shatalina
Motion verbs and daily situations once Book 1 feels easy. Keep the answer key closed until you have tried the page.
Coursebook · Pearson
Olga Kagan, Frank Miller, Ganna Kudyma
The intermediate coursebook for aspect, чтобы, and telling a real story. Pair each studio class with the matching grammar section.
Workbook · Routledge
John Murray and Sarah Smyth
Aspect pairs. A full page of читать / прочитать and писать / написать is worth more than another word list.
Reading · Search the exact title
Olly Richards
Graded reading once you can tell a weekend story. Read without translating every word. Note only the verbs of result.
Coursebook · Routledge
Olga Kagan, Anna Kudyma, Frank Miller
Argument, paraphrase, and longer texts. Use it while you are disagreeing, reading news, and writing email in this course.
Workbook · Routledge
John Dunn and Shamil Khairov
Buy it with the Practical Guide by the same authors. Participles: recognize them here, produce который in your own sentences.
Workbook · Wiley-Blackwell
Terence Wade
Conditionals with бы and clause work. The comprehensive grammar by Wade is the reference you keep; this is the one you write in.
Reference · Cambridge University Press
Derek Offord and Natalia Gogolitsyna
Particles, register, and the difference between what is grammatical and what people say. Read the particle chapters aloud.
Reference · Routledge
John Dunn and Shamil Khairov
Look up government: which case a verb demands. At this level, guessing a case is the remaining beginner habit.
Reading · Public domain
Anton Chekhov
Read «Дама с собачкой» or «Человек в футляре» slowly. You are not performing literature. You are staying with a long thought in Russian.
Reference · Wiley-Blackwell
Terence Wade
You no longer read it in order. You look up the construction that just failed in a real conversation.
Reading · Your life
A newspaper, a contract, a novel, a family chat
One real text a week. Repair the sentences you cannot say, using the stranger module. This is the workbook nobody can sell you.
English Grammar in Use, the verb be.
English Grammar in Use, have and the articles.
English Grammar in Use, present simple.
English Grammar in Use, imperatives and requests.
English Grammar in Use, past simple, regular and irregular.
English Grammar in Use, going to.
English Grammar in Use, questions with do and present simple -s.
English Grammar in Use, can and may.
English Grammar in Use, past simple and past continuous.
English Grammar in Use, think that and negation with do.
English Grammar in Use, present simple negatives and can.
English Grammar in Use, present perfect and as.
English Grammar in Use, but and however.
English Grammar in Use, the second conditional.
English Grammar in Use, reported speech with say.
English Grammar in Use, present continuous and to plus infinitive of purpose.
English Grammar in Use, questions with be.
English Grammar in Use, it is and need.
English Grammar in Use, about and it is.
English Grammar in Use, the first conditional.
English Grammar in Use, register. There is no tu and vous. Tone does the work.
English Grammar in Use, may and fixed phrases.
English Grammar in Use, present continuous and adverbs.
English Grammar in Use, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them.
Complete Spanish Step by Step. Llamarse, and vivir en.
Complete Spanish Step by Step. Gender of the person and the job.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. The present of dormir and salir.
Complete Spanish Step by Step. Usted: disculpe and puede.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. The past fui and estuve, and the a before a person.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. Ir a, and the a before a person.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions. Por for a route, against para.
Complete Spanish Step by Step. Ser for who you are, estar for being there.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. The ongoing past and the finished moment, in one sentence.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. No creo que, and llueva.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions. La and lo on the end of the verb.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. Hice for what you already finished today.
Easy Spanish Step-by-Step. Pero, and puedo.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. Si with viviera and the would-form vería.
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish. Dice que, with the ordinary verb, not the wished-for one.
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions. Te for tú, le for usted.
Easy Spanish Step-by-Step. O sea, and the question ¿me equivoco?
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. Quiero que, and escuches.
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish. No es… es que…
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses. Si with the present, for a condition that can still happen.
Complete Spanish Step by Step. Quiere for usted, quieres for tú, and hay.
Complete Spanish Step by Step. Por for a toast, and que te vaya.
Easy Spanish Step-by-Step. La sé, and ¿cómo se dice?
No page to copy. Say the four blanks about a real choice. If a form fails, go back to the class that taught it.
Easy French Step-by-Step, greetings and venir.
Easy French Step-by-Step, avoir and possessive adjectives.
Easy French Step-by-Step, present tense and reflexive verbs.
Easy French Step-by-Step, besoin and negation.
Easy French Step-by-Step, passé composé with avoir and être.
Easy French Step-by-Step, the near future with aller.
Easy French Step-by-Step, à, en, au, and y.
Easy French Step-by-Step, pouvoir and phone phrases.
Easy French Step-by-Step, imparfait and passé composé in one story.
Easy French Step-by-Step, the subjunctive after ne pense pas que.
Easy French Step-by-Step, negation and pouvoir.
Easy French Step-by-Step, comme and the passé composé as a result.
Easy French Step-by-Step, mais, cependant, and être d'accord.
Easy French Step-by-Step, si with the imparfait and the conditional.
Easy French Step-by-Step, dire que and selon.
Easy French Step-by-Step, vous as object and pour plus infinitive.
Easy French Step-by-Step, donc and se tromper.
Easy French Step-by-Step, c'est plus adjective plus à, and besoin.
Easy French Step-by-Step, s'agir de.
Easy French Step-by-Step, si with the present.
Easy French Step-by-Step, tu, vous, and register.
Easy French Step-by-Step, à, que plus subjunctive, and fixed phrases.
Easy French Step-by-Step, repair lines and pouvoir.
Easy French Step-by-Step, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them.
Hammer's German Grammar, the present of heißen and kommen.
Hammer's German Grammar, nominative and accusative of the articles.
Hammer's German Grammar, separable verbs.
Hammer's German Grammar, the formal imperative.
Hammer's German Grammar, the Perfekt with haben and sein.
Hammer's German Grammar, verb-second and separable verbs in the present.
Hammer's German Grammar, two-way prepositions in and the dative after mit.
Hammer's German Grammar, können and modal verbs.
Hammer's German Grammar, Perfekt word order in a short story.
Hammer's German Grammar, dass and verb-final clauses.
Hammer's German Grammar, nicht and modal questions.
Hammer's German Grammar, als and the accusative.
Hammer's German Grammar, aber, formal Ihr, and separable vorschlagen.
Hammer's German Grammar, würde and verb-final wenn.
Hammer's German Grammar, dass clauses in reported speech.
Hammer's German Grammar, um … zu and dative Ihnen.
Hammer's German Grammar, modals and the particle also.
Hammer's German Grammar, dative mir and zu plus infinitive.
Hammer's German Grammar, gehen um and the accusative.
Hammer's German Grammar, wenn and verb-final order.
Hammer's German Grammar, du, Sie, and register.
Hammer's German Grammar, auf with the accusative, and fixed phrases.
Hammer's German Grammar, über and the accusative, and können.
Hammer's German Grammar, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, essere and greetings.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, avere and possessives.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, reflexive verbs.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, bisogno and non.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, passato prossimo with avere and essere.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, present for a scheduled future.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, a and in.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, potere.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, imperfetto and passato prossimo.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, the present subjunctive after pensare che.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, non and potere.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, come and the passato prossimo.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, però and essere d'accordo.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, se with the congiuntivo imperfetto and the condizionale.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, dire che.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, formal le and per plus infinitive.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, quindi and sbagliare.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, è plus adjective and bisogno.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, trattarsi di.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, se with the present.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, tu, Lei, and register.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, a, che plus subjunctive, and fixed phrases.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, repair lines and potere.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Greetings and ser.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Ter and gender. Brazilian.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. The present tense.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Precisar.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. The pretérito perfeito of -ar verbs.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Ir plus infinitive.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Em, para, and a pé. Brazilian.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Poder and phone phrases.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Imperfeito and pretérito perfeito.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. The present subjunctive after não acho que.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Não and poder.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Como and the pretérito.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Mas and concordar.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Se with the imperfect subjunctive and the conditional.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Dizer que.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Para plus infinitive, and se plus the future subjunctive.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Então and entender.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. É plus adjective and precisar.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Tratar-se de.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Se plus the future subjunctive.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Register: você, o senhor, a senhora.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. A, que plus subjunctive, and fixed phrases.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Repair lines and poder.
Practice Makes Perfect: Portuguese. Brazilian, not European. Copy the four lines in pencil, then say them. Brazilian.
Genki I, then Genki II, greetings and hiragana. Write the line by hand, then say it.
Genki I, then Genki II, family words and います. Write it in hiragana.
Genki I, then Genki II, the polite non-past and time.
Genki I, then Genki II, てください. Say the repair ten times.
Genki I, then Genki II, the polite past and を, に, で. Kanji starts here. The reading under the line is not the sentence.
Genki I, then Genki II, つもりです.
Genki I, then Genki II, へ, で, and the て-form of manner.
Genki I, then Genki II, phone phrases and いらっしゃいます.
Genki I, then Genki II, ていました and the て-form chain.
Genki I, then Genki II, plain form plus と思います.
Genki I, then Genki II, ません and the potential.
Genki I, then Genki II, として and ています.
Genki I, then Genki II, でも and できません.
Genki I, then Genki II, たら and でしょう.
Genki I, then Genki II, hearsay そうです. Not the appearance そう.
Genki I, then Genki II, humble お〜します and までに.
Genki I, then Genki II, つまり and ということ.
Genki I, then Genki II, づらい and ではありません.
Genki I, then Genki II, の and ではありません.
Genki I, then Genki II, the ば conditional. Not たら.
Genki I, then Genki II, には, では, and plain versus です/ます.
Genki I, then Genki II, fixed phrases. Copy them, do not invent a speech.
Genki I, then Genki II, potential えます and まだ.
Genki I, then Genki II, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, greetings and hangul. Write the line by hand.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 있다 and family words.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, the formal polite present and 에.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 아/어 주십시오.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, the formal past and 에 versus 에서.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 려고 하다 and 께.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 으로/로 and 아/어서.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, phone requests with 시겠습니까.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 고 있었다 and 아/어서.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, indirect quotation 다고 and 이라고.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 안 and (으)ㄹ 수 있다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, (으)로 and 고 있다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 하지만 and (으)ㄹ 수 없다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 더라면 and 았을 것이다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 에 따르면 and hearsay 다고 하다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 까지 and 부탁하다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 즉 and 다는 말씀.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 기 어렵다 and 이 아니다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 의 and 이 아니다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, (으)면. Not 더라면.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, 에게는, 에서는, and 해요 versus 합니다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, fixed phrases. Copy them.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, repair lines and (으)ㄹ 수 있다.
Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning, then Intermediate, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them.
Integrated Chinese, the first lesson. Write the characters, not only the pinyin.
Integrated Chinese, 的, 有, and measure words.
Integrated Chinese, time words. No 了 yet.
Integrated Chinese, 请 and 一点.
Integrated Chinese, perfective 了.
Integrated Chinese, 要 and 给.
Integrated Chinese, 去, 怎么, and 坐.
Integrated Chinese, 吗 and phone phrases.
Integrated Chinese, 着 and 了 in one story.
Integrated Chinese, 觉得 and 不.
Integrated Chinese, change-of-state 了 and 能.
Integrated Chinese, 已经 and result complements.
Integrated Chinese, 但是 and 不.
Integrated Chinese, 如果…就 and 得.
Integrated Chinese, 说 and 太…了.
Integrated Chinese, 为了 and 在…之前.
Integrated Chinese, 也就是说 and resultative 错.
Integrated Chinese, 难, 不是, and 的.
Integrated Chinese, 不是…是.
Integrated Chinese, 如果…就 for a real condition. Not 会.
Integrated Chinese, 跟, 在…上, and 你 versus 您.
Integrated Chinese, 为, 祝, and fixed phrases.
Integrated Chinese, 得 and 还.
Integrated Chinese, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, the first dialogues. Write the Devanagari, not only the roman line.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, gender and हैं.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, the present habitual.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, चाहिए and the आप imperative.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, the past with ने.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, को and का इरादा.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, कैसे, से, and the आप form.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, क्या and सकती है.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, the progressive past and agreement.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, लगता है and कि.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, नहीं, को, and सकते हैं.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, का and चुकना.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, में, लेकिन, and हूँ.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, अगर … तो.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, कहना and कि.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, के लिए and तक.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, यानी and चाहते हैं.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, infinitives, में, and चाहिए.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, की and नहीं.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, अगर … तो for a real condition.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, के साथ, पर, and तुम versus आप.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, के लिए, the आप wish, and fixed phrases.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, में, सकते हैं, and अभी.
Complete Hindi, Rupert Snell, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, the first dialogue. Write the letters with the short vowels until they are boring.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, family words and the feminine ة.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, the present prefix for I.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, إلى and the imperative. Say both تكلم and تكلمي.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, the past suffix for I.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, the سـ future and بـ.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, إلى and the feminine verb.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, هل and أستطيع.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, كان plus the present.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, أظن أنّ and agreement.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, لا and the prefixes.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, في and the past.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, لكن and the accusative.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, لو … لـ.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, إنّ and the subjunctive after أن.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, لـ plus the subjunctive, and قبل.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, إذن and هل.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, ليس and the accusative.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, بـ and لا.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, إذا and لم. Not لو.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, مع and في. Register stays Modern Standard.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, fixed phrases. Copy them.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, عن and بـ.
Mastering Arabic 1, then Mastering Arabic 2, copy the four lines in pencil, then say them. Modern Standard.