Continue developing your beginner Russian fluency and confidence with our Beginner Russian: A1.2 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Russian: A1.1 Course or have approximately 20 hours of prior study. You will learn to ask for information about timetables, talk about your studies and weekend activities, discuss your likes and dislikes, and describe your home and apartment.

You will develop your Russian grammar through useful everyday structures, including the accusative and nominative plural forms, possessives, the past tense and basic ways of expressing possession and destinations. Alongside this, you will build vocabulary for schedules, education, leisure and home life while strengthening your pronunciation of key Russian sounds, including voiced and voiceless consonants and the hushing sounds Ж, Ш, Ч and Щ.

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

TEXTBOOK

• Beginners Russian with Interactive Online Workbook 2nd Edition (Hippocrene: 2022), ISBN: 9780781814409

Suggested Textbook Suppliers: Abbey's Bookshop · Intext Book Company / Language International Bookshop · The Language People

The textbook is not included in the course fee. Please check textbook availability with the supplier and wait until your course is confirmed before purchasing. WEA Sydney cannot accept responsibility for textbook purchases if a course is cancelled. Courses are confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days before the start date.

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Getting information about schedules
• Talking about what you study
• Talking about how you spend your leisure time
• Talking about where you live

Grammar

• Using the singular accusative case with nouns and adjectives
• Using the singular accusative case with days of the week
• Using the plural accusative case with inanimate nouns and adjectives
• Using the nominative plural with nouns and adjectives
• Using possessive forms
• Using the demonstrative этот (this)
• Conjugating common verbs including читать (to read), делать (to do), слушать (to listen), писать (to write), любить (to love), ходить (to walk) and смотреть (to watch)
• Using the past tense of verbs
• Expressing possession using у + genitive forms of personal pronouns
• Answering the question Куда? (Where to?)

Phonetics

• Pronouncing е correctly in syllables before stress
• Distinguishing voiced and voiceless consonants
• Pronouncing the hushing consonants Ж, Ш, Ч, Щ

Vocabulary

• Schedules and days of the week
• Academic subjects and educational institutions
• Numbers up to 1000
• Likes and dislikes
• Weekend activities
• The home and apartment

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Exchange information about their studies, leisure activities, home and everyday routines, including asking and answering simple questions.
2. Understand and use basic Russian structures for talking about schedules, likes and dislikes, past activities, possession and destinations.
3. Read and pronounce familiar Russian words and phrases with greater confidence, including voiced and voiceless consonants and the Russian hushing sounds.