Russian

Russian Course Levels

Please see an approximate list of topics below.  There is a focus on developing listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in addition to learning grammar.  Vocabulary building is approached from a number of angles.

Russian Beginner A 

• Introduction to the Russian language
• Russian alphabet and pronunciation
• Introductory alphabet writing
• Greetings and good-byes
• Grammatical Gender – Introduction
• Possessive pronouns
• Basic nouns
• Introduction of cases in Russian

Russian Beginner B

• Nominative and prepositional cases
• The verb, to be, in Russian present-tense sentences
• Naming common objects
• Greeting friends at the airport, (passport, visa, & documents)
• Grammatical gender: continuation
• Nominative plural of nouns
• Nominative cases of adjectives
• Verb, to have

Russian Beginner C

• Discussing ethnic and national backgrounds
• Talking about where and what people study
• Talking about daily activities and schedules
• Asking and telling time
• Prepositional cases of singular and plural nouns
• Conjunctions
• Verbs: to study and to learn
• Accusative case
• Personal pronouns
• Basic verbs

Russian Beginner D

• Texting and talking on the phone
• Days of the week
• Reading and writing notes & letters
• Talking about homes, rooms and furnishings
• Verbs; to go, to do, and to want
• Continue to work on basic questions
• Accusative case for directions
• Expressing necessity; must, should
• Expressing existence and presence
• Genitive case of pronouns, question words, and singular modifiers and nouns
• Continue working on verb conjugations and adjectives.

Russian Intermediate A 

• Our Family; naming family members, talking about people, names, ages, professions, where they were born, and where they grew up
• Verbs: to born, to grow
• Dative case of pronouns
• Genitive plural
• Introduction past tense
• Specifying quantity in expressions of age
• Expressions related to “My family”
• Verbs: to like, to love
• Introduction of new adjectives and adverbs
• Accusative case of pronouns and nouns

Russian Intermediate B

• Shopping; making simple purchases, Birthday greetings, Presents and gift giving
• Making plans to go to restaurants
• Conjugation of verbs: to eat, to drink
• Past tense verb: to be, to have
• Dative case of modifiers and nouns
• Use of dative case
• Indirect objects
• Expressing necessity and possibility
• Likes and dislikes

Russian Intermediate C

• Continue working on the theme, “Shopping and Restaurants”
• Hospital and doctor visits
• Introduction instrumental case
• Exploring new verbs: to help, to need
• The future tense
• Expression would like
• Perfective/imperfective verbs
• Question words and pronouns

Russian Intermediate D

• Telling more about yourself and your family
• Reading, listening and giving an oral presentation on short biographies
• Expressing resemblance and location
• Time expressions
• Review of motion verbs
• Verbal aspect: past tense
• Present tense in have been doing constructions
• Introduction to the Participle
• Introduction to new conjunctions
• The imperative mood
• Reviewing past, present and future tenses
• Emphasis on speaking, reading and writing