Library Lexicon

[ulvesang.livejournal.com]

How would one best ask "to do/perform an inter-loan" по-русски? I.e. a service (sometimes with a fee) where the library locates a book not in its own catalogue but in another library and transfers it to the inquiring library so that one can read it?... or can Russian libraries even do such a thing?

спасибо опять

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[upthera44.livejournal.com]

How do you say "late morning", "early afternoon", "early evening"? How would you say, "I will be at the cafe until early evening"? Thanks!

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[badmadnad.livejournal.com]

Hello everybody!
I am fairly new here and absolutely delighted to have stumbled across this community. I started learning Russian in May and unfortunately, only have 1 lesson per week (plus I was away for 2 months), so my knowledge is still very basic. My current job currently doesn't allow me to study a great deal but I am changing jobs soon and plan to take my studying a lot more seriously then.

Anyway, my question is: is there any grammar book for Russian that you'd recommend? Like something that includes all the basics with examples (conjugations of verbs etc.) but explained in another language? I speak English (ehm, obviously), German and Spanish, so any of these languages would be fine. Our teacher is Czech (I am half Czech myself) and he explains everything through Czech, which is great because there are similarities between those languages but all he provides us with is photocopied pages from an exercise book, which I don't find enough. I would like to be able to look up things I don't understand without having to ask him.

Also, are there any rules about the pronunciation of the letter "o" in Russian? Sometimes it is pronounced like an "o", sometimes like an "a" - and it's driving me up the wall ;o) My teacher hasn't provided me with a satisfying answer... but maybe there are no real rules?

And finally, what about stress in Russian? At the moment our exercise texts have marks on the syllables that stress the word but we've been told that once we know more vocabulary, they won't provide them anymore. Are there any basic rules or aren't there any at all? Like in Spanish, for example, you can say that when a word has 3 syllables, the stress would be on a certain syllable.

That's all... for now:) Hope it's ok to ask such questions here! Thanks in advance for your help!