Online Group Russian Class

This level helps you start communicating in Russian in everyday situations. You will learn how to introduce yourself, ask simple questions, talk about your surroundings, and describe people and places using basic grammar.

Unit 1: What is your name? What is your name?

What you will achieve:
Introduce yourself and provide basic personal information.

In this unit, you will learn to:

• Identify yourself: name, nationality, profession, and address
  
• Asking a simple question
  
• Describing objects using the pronouns "мой" (my) and "ваш" (your), and adjectives
  
• Using the prepositional case

Unit 2: Learning Russian

What you will achieve:
Discussing languages, hobbies, and media, while expanding your grammar usage.

In this unit, you will learn to:

• Mention what languages you master
  
• Talking about television and newspapers
  
• Asking more questions
  
• Using personal pronouns
  
• Conjugate verbs in the present tense
  
• Make the nouns plural
  
• Adverbial form
  
• Use a wide variety of adjectives

Unit 3: At the hotel (At the Hotel)

What you will achieve:
Asking for directions and utilizing services such as hotels.

In this unit, you will learn:

• Asking for directions
  
• Find out about hotel services and facilities
  
• Using accusative case
  
• Using various forms of possessive pronouns and adjectives
  
• Use numbers 1–30

Unit 4: Typical Day

What you will achieve:
Ordering food, describing your day, and using key grammar structures.

In this unit, you will learn to:

• Ordering food
  
• Using genitive case
  
• Using short adjectives
  
• Describe your daily routine
  
• Use ordinal numbers 1–30

Unit 5: Family (Family)

What you will achieve:
Introducing others, discussing family, and using more complex grammar.

In this unit, you will learn to:

• Making an introduction
  
• Learning names and addresses in Russian
  
• Talking about your family, their characters, hobbies, and jobs
  
• Using personal pronouns in the accusative and genitive cases
• Forming expressions for "must" and "all"

Unit 6: Let's go visit (Visiting a Friend)

What you will achieve:
Hosting and being a polite guest in social situations.

In this unit, you will learn to:

• Hosting and being a good guest
• Talking about clothes
• Naming the days of the week
• Mentioning a person's age
• Using reflexive verbs
• Using dative case

Unit 7: Sports (Sports)

What you will achieve:
Talking about sports and careers with broader grammar.

In this unit, you will learn to:

• Talking about sports
• Talking about careers
• Using the imperfective past tense
• Using instrumental case
• Using whose (whose is it?)

Unit 8: Favorite Vacation (Favorite Vacation)

What you will achieve:
Discussing weather and holidays while expanding your use of adjectives and pronouns.

In this unit, you will learn to:

• Talking about the weather
• Talking about holidays
• Listing the months of the year
• Using adjectives, possessives, this, that, all, and one in cases other than the nominative case
• Using their own

Unit 9: Holidays (Holiday)

What you will achieve:
Describing festivals and celebrations using more advanced tense forms.

In this unit, you will learn to:

• Describing festivals and celebrations
• Using the imperfective future tense
• Stating dates

This course continues from A1.1 with topics on visiting friends, sports, holidays, and festivals, closing with a new topic: phone conversations and making appointments.

Chapter 6: Let's go visit some friends! (Visiting a Friend)

• Hosting and being a guest, talking about clothes, days of the week, and age
• Using reflexive verbs and dative case

Chapter 7: Sports (Sports)

• Talking about sports and careers
• Using the imperfective past tense and instrumental case

Chapter 8: Favorite Vacation (Favorite Vacation)

• Discussing weather and holidays, naming the months of the year
• Using adjectives and possessives in cases other than the nominative

Chapter 9: Holidays (Holiday)

• Describing festivals and celebrations
• Using the imperfective future tense and stating dates

Chapter 10: Arbat (Arbat)

• Making a phone call
• Making an appointment
• Using verbs of motion

This course expands your skills for everyday situations like renting a place to live, traveling, and buying tickets, with more complex grammar structures.

Unit 11

• Talking about renting an apartment
• Using the perfective past and future tenses

Unit 12

• Talking about different media
• Forming nominative, accusative, and genitive plurals
• Using the imperative, adjectives with numerals, and asking questions

Unit 13

• Discussing weather and holidays, naming the months of the year
• Using adjectives and possessives in cases other than the nominative

Unit 14

• Buying train or plane tickets and describing a trip
• Using prefixed verbs of motion

Unit 15

• Booking theater tickets and talking about the theater
• Stating the time and using comparative forms

This course deepens your ability to discuss real-life topics like health, education, and social issues, while introducing more advanced grammar structures.

Unit 16

• Talking about health and doctor visits
• Using superlative forms and negation

Unit 17

• Writing letters and stating dates
• Using more numerals and the subjunctive/conditional forms

Unit 18

• Discussing Women's Rights in Russia
• Forming present and past active participles

Unit 19

• Discussing Education in Russia
• Forming passive sentences and present and past passive participles

Unit 20

• Discussing environmental issues
• Using verbal adverbs (gerunds) and conjunctions

This course revisits the basic structures of Russian grammar while expanding into topics on history and travel.

Unit 1

• Learning about some facts of Russian history
• Reviewing the basics of Russian grammar, including case and verb aspect

Unit 2

• Discussing train travel in Russia
• Using the imperative, forming comparatives, more on prepositions на, and words sharing the root -put-

Unit 3

• Discussing travel by ship
• Using verbs of motion and prefixed verbs of motion
• Distinguishing also/too and words sharing the root -step- and -езд-

This course covers topics on migration, sports, and Russian culture while deepening your grammar.

Unit 4

• Discussing migration to and from Russia
• Asking questions with li, reflexive verbs, ordinal numbers and dates
• More on prepositions в, words with roots -run/running-, and nouns ending in -tion becoming -cia

Unit 5

• Discussing the politicization of sports and sports facilities in Russia
• Using which for clauses and superlative forms
• More on prepositions c, from, and from, and verbs with the dative case

Unit 6

• Discussing Russian national character and traditions
• Alternative ways to translate "to become," verbs with the instrumental case
• Forming and using active participles, more on prepositions о and about

This course covers Russian media, culture, and social issues while introducing more complex clause structures.

Unit 7

• Discussing mass media and the internet in Russia
• Using what and who as a relative pronoun, time and causal conjunctions
• Choosing between -that and -something, and using each other

Unit 8

• Discussing modern trends and Russian cultural heritage
• Passive participle in the past tense; more on prepositions for, words with roots -kaz-

Unit 9

• Discussing Russia's demographic issues
• Forming and using numerals, using needed meaning "to need"
• Root words -gen-, -male-, -female-, -dead-, -marriage-

Unit 10

• Discussing the Current Challenges in Education in Russia
• Forming and using present passive participles, more on prepositions по
• Root words -uch-/-uk-

This course covers Russian society, economy, religion, and politics with advanced grammar structures.

Unit 11

• Discussing the Structure of Russian Society
• Forming and using the subjunctive, building conditional clauses

Unit 12

• Discussing the economic situation in Russia
• Various impersonal expressions, negative pronouns and adverbs

Unit 13

• Discussing Religious Diversity
• Forming and using perfective and imperfective gerunds, writing negative sentences

Unit 14

• Discussing Russian domestic and foreign policy and its relationship with the West
• More on word formation, prefixed verbs, and distinguishing certain verbs