Continue developing your beginner Russian fluency and confidence with our Beginner Russian: A2.1 Course, suitable for learners who have completed our Beginner Russian: A1 Conclusion course or have approximately 100 hours of prior study. This course helps you expand your ability to communicate in everyday situations while strengthening your understanding of essential Russian grammar and vocabulary. It is ideal for learners who want to use Russian for travel, cultural interest, or personal enrichment in a supportive and interactive learning environment.

You will practise everyday communication such as greeting and introducing people, discussing family relationships and personal interests, describing people and experiences, and expressing opinions, agreement, or encouragement in conversation. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in context to help you form more complex sentences, talk about past events, and describe people and relationships using a wider range of grammatical structures. Phonetics is integrated throughout the course, with focused practice on stress patterns, key consonant sounds, and common pronunciation features of Russian to help you develop clearer and more confident spoken Russian.

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

TEXTBOOK

• Russian: From Novice High to Intermediate (Routledge 2021), ISBN: 9780367137137

Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. In the event of a course being cancelled, WEA Sydney cannot be held responsible for the purchase of any textbooks. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date.

COURSE OUTLINE

Communication

• Using first names and patronymics
• Addressing on ты and вы
• Shortened and diminutive first name forms

Grammar

• Speaking and writing in complex sentences: the conjunctions потому́ что, та́к как, and кото́рый in the prepositional case
• Conjunctions: что, где, как, когда́, and кото́рый in the genitive case
• Review of the prepositional case functions and endings for nouns, adjectives, and pronouns
• Nominative case functions and endings for nouns and adjectives
• Genitive case functions and endings for nouns, adjectives, and pronouns
• Practicing using the reflexive pronoun СЕБЯ́  oneself (myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, themselves) and reflexive possessive pronoun СВОЙ (one’s own) in nominative and genitive cases
• Review of first/second conjugation verbs
• Present and past tenses of verbs
• Verbal expressions in past tense

Phonetics

• Practicing pronunciation of unstressed and stressed vowels
• Pronunciation of hushers (Ж, Ш, Ч, Щ)
• Pronunciation of СЧ
• Pronunciation of -ТЬСЯ and -ТСЯ
• Learning grammatical structures of Russian words (roots, suffixes)

Vocabulary

• Biography, interests, personal appearance and personal traits, likes and dislikes
• Family members, their relationships and family history
• Practice communicating situations on greeting, farewells, introductions, and asking for clarifications
• Expressing happiness, giving advice, expressing positive and negative attitudes, agreement and disagreement, offering support and encouragement

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

1. Participate in everyday conversations in Russian such as greeting others, introducing people, and discussing family, interests, and personal experiences.
2. Describe people, relationships, and past events while expressing opinions, agreement, and simple advice in familiar situations.
3. Communicate with greater accuracy in spoken Russian by applying key grammatical structures and improving pronunciation of important sound patterns.