Elementary Russian for English Speakers

Course Description

Elementary Russian for English Speakers online course helps you deal with native speakers in daily situations. Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Introduction to the Cyrillic alphabet
• Basic Russian words
• Differences in the pronunciation of Russian and English sounds
• Practice of Russian basic intonation patterns
• Introduction to the Russian speech etiquette
• How to ask and answer several types of questions

After completion of this online course, you’ll be able to -

• Read simple texts
• Feel more confident when communicating with the speakers of Russian
• Use Russian in everyday situations at a basic level
• Become more aware of the Russian culture

Elementary Russian for English Speakers online course package:

• 12 LIVE interactive online classes + Access to class recordings
• Course Timings in ICT: Monday through Friday 7 AM - 11 AM
• Courseware: Audio + PPTs + PDFs
• 1 online test

Elementary Russian for English Speakers online course outline:

• Introduction to the Cyrillic alphabet.
• Vowels (a, o, y, э, и, ы).
• Consonants (л, м, н, п, б, ф, в, т, д)
  
• Syllable division, word stress. Vowel reduction
• Sentences “This is, Here is”.
  
• Personal pronouns (He, she) in Nominative case
• Dialogue “Talking over the phone“
• Voiced and Voiceless consonants
  
• [a], [o] in stressed and unstressed syllables
• Introduction to Parts of Speech
  
• Gender of nouns
  
• Animate and Inanimate nouns
• Interrogative sentences with “Who”
• Letters я, ю, е, ё at the beginning of words and after vowels
  
• The rhythm of multi syllable words
• Personal pronouns
  
• Possessive pronouns in singular
• Compound sentences with the conjunction “a”

Who should Enroll

This course is suitable for the students with no previous experience of learning Russian.