Everyday Russian Course



Online lessons

Details

Find an easy way to learn the language you need for most everyday situations.

The 10 online lessons of this course include everything to enable you to to start speaking right away: dialogues, vocabulary lists, interactive exercises and tests.


Features

  • Work with realistic dialogues recorded by native speakers
  • Various interactive exercises
  • All words and phrases are accompanied by audio and transcription
  • Basic vocabulary and essential grammar constructions that you need to converse with locals
  • Step-by-step learning, from simple words to full sentences
  • No background in Russian is needed

Overview

This online course will give you an opportunity to experience conversational language and learn the vocabulary for introductions, finding your way, shopping, using telephone and internet etc. Every lesson in this course is devoted to a definite topic. The topics cover typical situations which a person visiting Russia may get into.

Short description of each lesson

Lesson 1. In the airport

Here you can learn expressions which Russians use to introduce themselves, how to address a stranger and some basic terms of courtesy
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Lesson 2. Transport

In this lesson you will learn words and expressions on the topic "Transportation", how to say in Russian that you need something, how to ask about the cost of things, numerals from 1 to 10, and tens from 10 to 100 in Russian.
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Lesson 3. At the hotel

Here you can learn words and expressions on the topic "Hotel", Russian equivalents to constructions "I have" and "There is", numerals from 20 to 99.
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Lesson 4. In the street

This lesson contains words and expressions on the topic "City", forms of imperative mood of several Russian verbs, expressions which can be helpful to state your knowledge of language, and you will learn how to make a polite request.
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Lesson 5. Sightseeings

In this lesson you will learn words and expressions on the topic "Sights", how to ask for advice, how to ask for permission to do something, expressions to tell about the time, numerals from 100 to 1000
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Lesson 6. Shopping

Here you can learn Russian words and expressions on the topic "Shopping", how to say in Russian that you are looking for something, and how to say that you like something, numerals over 1000.
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Lesson 7. At the restaurant

Here you will work with the vocabulary related to the topic food and you will learn how to say that you like something or dislike something.
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Lesson 8. At the drugstore

This lesson will teach you words and expressions on the topic "Health", how to say in Russian that you have pain, and words and expressions to tell about the frequency of actions.
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Lesson 9. Currency exchange

In this lesson you will learn words and expressions on the topic "Money", how to say politely that you would like to do something, how to say that some office or institution is closed and does not work.
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Lesson 10. Internet & Telephone

This lesson contains words and expressions related the topic "Means of Communication" and also exercises and test to revise basic constructions which were introduced in previous lessons.
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Additional information

Every lesson includes the following types of exercises:

Dialogue. Dialogues contain main words and expression related to the topic of the lesson. In order you could understand the content of the dialogue there is a preliminary descriptions of the situation and the translation of all phrases of the dialogue. It is not necessary to learn the phrases from the dialogue. The work with the dialogue consists in repeating phrases after speaker and reading with/without the transcription.

Exercises with new words. These exercises contain the most important words related the topic of the lesson. As a rule, while doing tasks of the exercises, it is required to use the expressions studied in the previous lessons. Some tasks come with right answers, so if your answer does not agree with the right version you should find the mistake in your answer and repeat the correct variant.

Exercises with new expressions and constructions. These exercises contain various constructions which can be used to build phrases related to different topics. Besides, they may be accompanied by grammar comments.