Designed for students with a basic knowledge of Russian, this course focuses on the development of fluency.
Please note that the prerequisite for Russian Intermediate 1 is Russian Beginner 3 or equivalent proficiency.
In addition to the cumulative material, you will be able to:
- Be the first to start a conversation
- Ask for information, details, and explanations during a conversation
- Express ‘having’ or ‘not having’
- State the date
- Make a reservation at a hotel
- Talk about vacation
- Describe a place they have visited or want to visit
- Readily recognize and use the numbers from 1 to 1,000,000
- Express quantities
- Talk about social networking
- Ask how much things cost
- Talk about Russian public holidays and culture
In addition to the cumulative material, the topics covered are:
- Leisure time and virtual world
- Basic biographical information (continued)
- Traveling and hotels
- Vacationing
- Numbers 1 – 1,000,000
- Quantities, expressing dates
- Social networking
- Life in Russia/ Russian culture
- Public holidays
In addition to the cumulative material, the grammatical topics covered are:
- Reflexive verbs
- Prepositions & cases
- Genitive Case (singular & plural)
- Expressing “having” & “not having” in the present & in the past
- Motion verbs (un-prefixed)
- Adjectives and their agreements with nouns