Designed for students with no prior knowledge of Russian, the Beginner I course teaches how to communicate in simple everyday situations.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Say hello and good-bye to different types of people (someone the same age as you and someone older or more senior)
- Introduce themselves and others and provide basic personal information
- Respond to an introduction
- Ask and respond to basic yes/no and either/or questions
- Respond to who, what, when, where questions
- Ask who, what, when, where questions
- Spell their name and other simple nouns
- Tell someone what you study or what your job is (or those of someone else)
- Ask questions to gather basic information about someone else
- Say or write something about the members of their family and ask about someone’s family
- Say or write something about friends/classmates/coworkers
- Answer questions about what they like and dislike
- List their favorite free time activities and those they do not like
- Answer questions about what they are doing
- Readily recognize and use the numbers from 1 to 100
- List items they see every day
- Give their phone number, home address, and e-mail address
The topics covered are:
- Greetings and Introductions
- Basic biographical information
- Alphabet
- Numbers 1-100
- Professions
- Personal things/ possessions
- Family
- Hobbies
- Likes/dislikes
- Cities
- Languages
The grammatical topics covered are:
- Gender and Number of Russian Nouns
- Question words
- Personal Pronouns
- Possessive Pronouns
- Verb Conjugation (Types I and II)
- Present Tense
- Russian cases: Nominative, Accusative
- Introduction to Adverbs