20 Must Know in Russian Level A1-A2

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Week 1: From zero to beginner
Learn the basics and your first 500 words

  • Меня́ зову́т My name is…
  • У меня́ есть I have …
  • У меня́ был I had…
  • У меня́ бу́дет I will have…
  • У меня́ нет I don’t have …

Let’s learn Russian together! This is stage 1, where you will start from zero and reach a vocabulary of 500 words. After completing this first stage you will acquire basic reading, listening and speaking skills. You will be able to communicate in simple situations (family, friends, work, everyday activities,…).

You have completed …% of this stage

Course Content

Lessons Status
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Lesson 0: The Russian alphabet. How to read Russian
Hello / Привет! Welcome to our Russian course. We hope you enjoy learning with us. Our first challenge is the Russian alphabet. We will learn the pronunciation of each letter, practice their sounds and also, read your first Russian words.

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Lesson 1: Hello student
Grammar contents: Personal pronouns in the nominative and accusative case. The construction “My name is…”.
New Vocabulary: Greetings and farewells. Simple introductions.

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Lesson 2: This is my friend
Grammar contents: Genders of Russian nouns. Possessive pronouns in singular.
New Vocabulary: More about introductions, greetings and farewells.

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Lesson 3: My family
Grammar contents: Possessive pronouns in plural. Review of all the grammar points learnt so far.
New Vocabulary: Talking about you and your family.

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Lesson 4: Professions
Grammar contents: Plural of Russian nouns. The prepositional case. Verb conjugation: “to work” and “to study”.
New Vocabulary: Talking about people, their jobs and their workplaces.

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Lesson 5: I am Russian, and you?
Grammar contents: Special endings of the prepositional case. The verbs “to be” and “to live”. The past tense. Endings of adjectives in the nominative case.
New Vocabulary: Nationalities. Countries. Describing your town.

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Lesson 6: Languages
Grammar contents: Different verbs in the present and past tenses: “to speak”, “to read”, “to write”, “to know”,… The difference between the verbs учиться and изучать. Adjectives and adverbs describing languages.
New Vocabulary: Talking about the languages you speak and your language skills.

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Lesson 7: What are you doing?
Grammar contents: Further learning of verbs in the present and past tenses. The two types of Russian verb conjugation. The special endings of the word дом in the prepositional case.
New Vocabulary: Talking about everyday activities.

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Lesson 8: A difficult lesson
Grammar contents: All possible endings of adjectives in the nominative case. The question word “which?”. The construction “What a nice…!”.
New Vocabulary: General topics using different adjectives (cheap, expensive, short, poor etc.).

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Lesson 9: Days of the week and time
Grammar contents: The accusative case with the days of the week. Introduction to numbers. The endings of the word “hour” after numbers. Further learning of verbs in the present and past tenses.
New Vocabulary: Using the time and days of the week to explain what we do.

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Lesson 10: My day
Grammar contents: The usage of the accusative case when expressing a motion. The instrumental case with parts of the day. Conjugation of verbs regarding everyday activities in the present and past tenses.
New Vocabulary: Adding temporal expressions (“always, often” etc.) to give more information when talking.

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Additional Exercises Stage 1
These exercises are a summary of all the grammar concepts studied in Stage 1. Try to do them without checking the grammar tables. All the necessary information should be stored in your mind by now 😉
Have you finished them without a single mistake? Congratulations! You are now a real Stage 1 expert.