Russian Pro Beginner Course Content
This course consists of 23 units divided into 115 mini lessons.
👩🏫40+ hours of video lessons
✍️300+ exercises
The knowledge and skills you get after the course are equal to those after 8-10 months of weekly one-to-one or group classes. With this course you can get those skills in less time and with way less investment.
Lesson 1 (bonus for absolute beginners):
Alphabet, Basic Reading rules and reading&writing practice
Lesson 2 (bonus for absolute beginners):
Vocabulary: Greetings, My names is, Names in Russian
Grammar: Gender of Nouns
Lesson 3
Vocabulary: Professions, Common Adjectives
Grammar: Personal Pronouns, Plural of Nouns, how to use adjectives
Lesson 4
Vocabulary: Basic verbs, Очень vs много (much, a lot)
Grammar: Verbs in the present, How to say There is/ there are, It is…, How to say I’ve got
Lesson 5
Vocabulary: Most practical and helpful Question word (что значит, что такое, кто, что, как, куда, как по-русски etc), Linking words (и, но, а, тоже. или, а ещё etc), Adverbs of time, I’m from
Lesson 6
Vocabulary: Colors, Words around us, how to say “I like”
Grammar: Это, demonstrative pronouns
Lesson 7
Vocabulary: Cloths
Grammar: Possessive pronouns
Lesson 8
Vocabulary: Family members and closest circle
Grammar: Introduction to Russian cases, Prepositional case
Lesson 9
Vocabulary: Adverbs of time
Grammar: Past tense of the verbs, Future tense
Lesson 10
Vocabulary: Days of the week
Grammar: Accusative case, Adjectives vs adverbs
Lesson 11
Vocabulary: Food, common verbs used with accusative case
Grammar: accusative case
Lesson 12
Vocabulary: numbers, how to ask for price, extended family, how to say “have a good day/ great trip”, etc
Grammar: Genitive case, prepositions with genitive case
Lesson 13
Vocabulary: seasons, directions, weather, idioms about the weather, months, regions of Russia
Phonetic: tips that will help you improve your pronunciation
Lesson 14
Vocabulary: vacation, travel vocabulary, transport, nature, hobbies vocabulary
Grammar: verb to go 101
Lesson 15
Vocabulary: I can, I must, I should, I need, how to ask permission
Grammar: modal verbs conjugation, Dative case, prepositions with dative case
Lesson 16
Vocabulary: frequently used verbs, useful everyday words
Grammar: aspects of verbs: perfective vs imperfective verbs, imperative mood
Lesson 17
Vocabulary: seasons and parts of the day, how to wish happy holidays, frequently used reflexive verbs, commonly confused words (to start, to finish), verbs used with instrumental case
Grammar: Instrumental case, how to conjugate reflexive verbs
Lesson 18
Vocabulary: to go идти- ходить - ездить - ехать, to come, to arrive, to come back, to leave, how to say “to come over”
Grammar: to go - detailed explanation how to use them, prepositions with words of motion
Lesson 19
Vocabulary: words from listening practice
Grammar: Plural of nouns in all cases
Lesson 20
Vocabulary: свой vs мой, how to say “what is it called?”, all and whole
Grammar: Plural of adjectives in all cases, personal pronouns recap in all cases
Lesson 21
Vocabulary: how to say “some & several, something”, more ways to say “thank you” and “you’re welcome”, common prepositions
Grammar: prepositions + cases
Lesson 22
Vocabulary: rooms and furniture
Grammar: practicing prepositions
Lesson 23
Practice everything we’ve learned in the course by writing, translating, reading, listening, quiz, playing games and more. This section is constantly being updated.