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Our Courses

Your Program is broken down into 4 Courses:

  • Beginner’s Course
  • Lower-Intermediate Course
  • Upper-Intermediate Course
  • Advanced Course

Each Course consists of 5 Levels. Each Level consists of a 6 week intensive program (3 hours of Lecture time per week) or a 12 week regular program (1.5 hours of Lecture time per week).

Our classes are intentionally small, with a maximum class size of 10-12 students. This provides an opportunity for frequent and meaningful student-to-teacher and student-to-student interaction

and immersion. Our classes are offered on a rolling basis so once we determine your skill level, you can enrol in any class that suits your schedule. All you have to do is provide us with a series of times and weekdays that you are available and we will do the utmost to accommodate your schedule. What further distinguishes our school from other online schools is that we provide hand-in assignments and tests throughout each course, and will provide you with online face-to-face feedback on each test or assignment to ensure that you fully understand the material we have covered. Once you complete our Program, you should be proficient in Russian.

BEGINNERS LEVEL 

Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 1


Introducing people

You will learn the following themes:

  • Greeting people
  • Introducing people 
  • Inquiring about someone’s profession
  • Asking yes-or no questions.
  • Describing people with adjectives of nationality and quality
  • Describing foreign language skills
  • Making compliments    
You will learn the following grammatical structures:es: 
  • Gender of nouns and adjectives
  • Personal pronouns (subject and object forms) 
  • Possessive pronouns 
  • Formal and informal addresses
  • Asking yes-or-no, “who” questions
  • Verb conjugation
  • Conjunctions и, а, но
  • Adverbs
   
Module 2
Possessions and your home city

You will learn the following themes will learn the following themes

  • Asking for and expressing opinions
  • Talking about possessions
  • Describing the size of your family
  • Describing your city
  • Asking for directions
  • Expressing location
  • Describing things in the plural
  • Describing your house or apartment
You will learn the following grammatical structure
  • Adjective agreement
  • Что это?   versus Что такое?
  • Verbs думать and знать
  • Dependent clauses
  • Equivalents of the verb to have: у меня есть
  • Accusative case: Preview
  • Demonstrative pronouns этот and это
  • Verbs находиться, называться and знать
  • Prepositional case of singular nouns
  • Nominative plural of nouns and adjectives
  • Plural of possessive and demonstrative pronouns
Module 3
Work, going to school, and the country where you live


You will learn the following themes

  • Asking for and expressing opinions
  • Talking about possessions
  • Describing the size of your family
  • Describing your city
  • Asking for directions
  • Expressing location
  • Describing things in the plural
  • Describing your house or apartment

You will learn the following grammatical structures: 

  • Adjective agreement
  • Что это?   versus Что такое?
  • Verbs думать and знать
  • Dependent clauses
  • Equivalents of the verb to have: у меня есть
  • Accusative case: Preview
  • Demonstrative pronouns этот and это
  • Verbs находиться, называться and знать
  • Prepositional case of singular nouns
  • Nominative plural of nouns and adjectives
  • Plural of possessive and demonstrative pronouns
Module 4
Literature, music, sports
You will learn the following themes
  • Describing your country 
  • Expressing location
  • Making comparisons
  • Telling where you live and used to live 
  • Talking about working and going to school
  • Filling out applications
  • Days of the week
  • Talking about work and study schedules 
You will learn the following grammatical structures
  • Prepositional case of nouns and adjectives
  • Comparative of adjectives
  • Superlative of adjectives
  • Nouns with numerals год, года, and лет
  • Time expressions давно, сколько лет, and всю жизнь
  • Past tense of the verbs: Introduction
  • The verbs работать and учиться
  • Prepositional case of adjectives and pronouns
  • Time expressions
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Module 5
University life, free time activities

You will learn the following themes:

  • Telling time
  • Literature, music, sport
  • Describing mealtimes
  • Talking about daily activities
  • Saying where you are going
  • Expressing frequency of actions
  • Talking about hobbies 
  • Talking about literature and art
  • Expressing emphasis and preference
  • Talking about sports
  • Talking about music

    You will learn the following grammatical structures:

  • Reflexive verbs
  • Conjugation of verbs
  • Accusative case: Inanimate nouns
  • Accusative of adjectives, possessive and demonstrative pronouns
  • Expressing direction with accusative
  • Verbs of motion: идти versus ходить

LOWER INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 1
Holidays, TV and movies, Talking on the phone,

You will learn the following themes:

  • Talking about eating and drinking
  • Counting money
  • Talking about things you have and do not have
  • Comparing quantities and measurements
  • Comparing prices
  • Shopping for food
  • Describing future activities
  • Talking about TV and movie schedules
  • Making invitations
  • Talking on the telephone
  • Going to the theater 

You will learn the following grammatical structures:

  • Genitive case with numerals and to express possession
  • Genitive case with negatives and with quantity and measurement
  • Verbal aspect in the past tense
  • Verbal aspect in the consecutive actions
  • Verbal aspect in the future tense
  • Animate accusative
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Module 2
Holidays, TV and movies Talking on the phone

You will learn the following themes:

  • Buying presents
  • Asking for advice and making decisions
  • Discussing likes and dislikes
  • Planning for parties and making invitations
  • Discussing ages and dates of birth
  • Talking about holiday
  • Expressing congratulations

You will learn the following grammatical structures:

  • Dative case: overview
  • The possessive pronoun свой
  • Verbs requiring the Dative case
  • Time expressions: Days, months, and years
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Module 3
Weather, weather related activities, Travel

You will learn the following themes:

  • Talking about the weather
  • Describing weather related activities
  • Making travel plans
  • Packing your suitcase
  • Discussing modes of transportation and travel routes
  • Arriving at your destination 

You will learn the following grammatical structures:

  • Impersonal versus nouns + adjectives construction 
  • Irregular comparative of adjectives and adverbs
  • Impersonal constructions of physical and emotional states
  • If clauses
  • Soft adjectives
  • Conditional mood,
  • Genitive plural of nouns
  • Animate accusative plural 
  • Time expressions: через and на
  • Verbs of motion with prefixes
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Module 4
Going out and, discussion love and marriage

You will learn the following themes:

  • Talking about food
  • Table manners and setting the table
  • Deciding where to eat and drink
  • Making reservations 
  • Ordering food
  • Talking about your plans and interests
  • Discussing love and marriage
  • Discussing family plans 

You will learn the following grammatical structures:

  • Instrumental case of nouns, adjectives, and possessive, demonstrative and personal pronouns
  • Substantivized adjectives
  • Short adjectives
  • The construction хотеть + чтобы
  • The reciprocal pronoun друг друга
  • Feminine nouns ending in a soft sign
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Module 5
Going to the doctor and physical appearance

You will learn the following themes:

  • Describing your physical appearance
  • Complaining about your health 
  • Making health recommendations
  • Expressing feelings and empathy
  • Going to the doctor
  • Describing personality traits 

You will learn the following grammatical structures:

  • Expressing resemblance or similarity
  • The reflexive pronoun себя
  • Impersonal constructions хочется
  • Impersonal constructions with надо, нужно, можно, and нельзя
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UPPER INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 1
Life in a city

You will learn the following themes:

  • Reading and discussing stories by Soviet and Russian authors about 
  • Life in a city
  • City architecture, 
  • Famous sites 
  • Historic buildings
  • Going to the theater 
You will practice the following grammatical structures:   
  • Чтобы + infinitive   
  • Нужно + infinitive
  • Не только ..., но и ... 
  • The pronoun свой 
  • The short adjective согласен, согласна, согласны 
  • Dative case with нравиться
  • Dative case with age expressions 
  • Model words можно, нужно, нельзя, надо
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Module 2
Job, career and vocation

You will learn the following themes

  • Reading and discussing stories by Soviet and Russian authors about 
  • Job, career, vocation 

You will practice the following grammatical structures:   

  • The difference between знать, мочь, and уметь
  • Irregular comparative of adjectives and adverbs 
  • The construction чем, ... тем 
  • Unprefixed verbs of motion 
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Module 3
Science

You will learn the following themes

  • Talking about directions 
  • Reading and discussing stories by Soviet and Russian authors about:
  • Scientific discoveries 
  • Geographic discoveries 
  • Exploration of space 
  • Russian climate, culture and traditions 

You will practice the following grammatical structures:

  • Using the prefix по- with verbs of motion 
  • Prefixed verbs of motion при-, у-, в-вы-, до-, про- за-, пере-, под-, от- а-, пере-, под-, от- 
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Module 4
Personal relationship

You will learn the following themes

  • Talking about dating and personal relationships 
  • Cultural differences 
  • Immigration 
  • Superstitions and customs 
  • Tourism, sports 

You will practice the following grammatical structures:   

  • Reflexive constructions 
  • Impersonal negative constructions 
  • Constructions with нечего, некогда, негде etc 
  • Long and short forms of adjectives 
  • Use of short form adjectives 
  • Using aspect in imperative forms 
  • Third-person imperative: пусть
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Module 5
Theatre, music and ballet
You will read and discuss text about Russian culture
  • Reading about theatre 
  • Reading about music 
  • Reading about ballet 

You will practice the following grammatical structures: 

  • Formation and use of active participles: present and past tense 
  • Formation and use of passive participles: present and past tense (long and short forms) 
  • Formation and use of verbal adverbs 
  • Complex sentences with dependent clauses introduced by то
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ADVANCED LEVEL

Conducted in Russian, this course uses interactive approach and offers advanced practice in oral work and written composition. The goal is to raise the linguistic skills of the students to the intermediate-advanced threshold and maximally enrich students’ vocabulary. 

 Variety of resources are used in the course to facilitate the understanding of cultural complexities, including folk, classical and modern literature, music and song lyrics, poetry, art, drama, newspaper, magazine, radio and Internet reports, film and cartoons. 


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