What will I learn in Russian Beginner 3?

Designed for students with some prior knowledge of Russian, this course builds on the topics and communication skills taught in Beginner 1 & Beginner 2 courses.

Please note that the prerequisite for Russian Beginner 3 is Russian Beginner 2 or equivalent proficiency.

In addition to the cumulative material, at the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Describe your skills and abilities 
  • State your nationality (or that of another person)
  • Talk about your language skills (or those of another person)
  • Present information about a country/ region/ place 
  • Describe their daily routines/ lifestyle in the present and in the past 
  • Name the foods that they love or do not love 
  • Describe various diets 
  • Name the clothing items that they have/ love 
  • Name the colors 
  • Ask about the size, the color, and the price of goods at a store 
  • Talk about their room or office and what they have in it 
  • Talk about their house 
  • Name various means of transportation and how to get between places
  • Describe where they went on vacation and what they did there 
  • Talk about food, historical figures or sports based on pictures or photos 

In addition to the cumulative material, the topics covered are:

  • Countries 
  • Vacationing
  • Languages and nationalities
  • Food 
  • Colors 
  • Clothing 
  • Interests 
  • Housing 
  • Transportation

In addition to the cumulative material, the grammatical topics covered are:

  • Irregular/ special verbs and their conjugations 
  • Modal expressions 
  • Impersonal sentences 
  • Russian cases (Nominative, Prepositional, Accusative) 
  • Ordinal numbers 
  • Basic motion verbs