Course Overview

Online Russian Levels 1&2 is a Beginners Russian course for students who have never studied the Russian language before. This is an intensive Russian course allowing you to take two Russian levels in 10 weeks and progress more quickly. If you’re unsure of your level, then take our quick Russian language level test here or check our levels chart.

Our Online Russian language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.

Course Content

Communication points

• Greetings, farewell 
• Forms of getting acquainted/introduced 
• Russian male and female names/patronymics
• Speaking about family ties/tree 
• Talking about your age 
• Speaking about countries and languages; nationalities 
• Asking and telling the time 

Grammar points

• Principles of reading 

• Animate and inanimate nouns 
• Gender of nouns 
• Demonstrative pronouns «этот, эта, это, эти» 
• Personal pronouns in Nominative and Accusative cases; special questions «Кто это?», «Кто он/она?», «Как его/её зовут?» 
• General questions «Это …?» 

• Special questions «Кто это?», «Что это?», «Где он/она/они?» 
• Present tense of imperfective verbs of the first conjugation («знать, думать») 
• Present tense of imperfective verbs of the second conjugation («говорить»)  

• Possessive pronouns «мой/моя/моё», questions «Чей? Чья? Чьё?/Чьи?» 

• Genitive «У кого? есть что?» 
• Forms of genitive case construction «Откуда Вы…?» – «Я из …» 
• Dative construction «Сколько лет…?», «Мне … год/года/лет» 
• Numerals 2, 3, 4 changing the case of nouns (Genitive) 
• Verb combination «говорить по-русски», question «Как вы говорите по-русски?» 

• Special questions «Почему? Когда?» 

Vocabulary

• Alphabet 

• Professions (difference by gender) 
•  Adverbs of manner; adverbs of place 
•  Numbers 0-100 

•  Names of personal items 
• Group verbs «говорить/читать/понимать по-русски; изучать/знать/понимать русский язык» 
• Adjectives: antonyms «старший – младший» 

• Adverbs «уже-ещё», «много-мало» 

Course Information 

• Average class size: 8 (maximum 12) 
• Students must be 18+ years old 
• Existing language ability: this is a course for complete beginners 
• Classes will take place via Zoom 

Class Schedule 

• The classes are 2.5 hours per week 
• The course runs for 10 weeks 
• The course takes place on Sundays 10:30 – 13:00 
• The possible study options for this course are as follow: 

6th February – 10th April 2022

8th May – 17th July 2022*

31st July – 2nd October 2022

16th October – 18th December 2022

*Due to the Bank Holidays there are no classes on 5th June. The course still consists of 10 classes however, spread over 11 weeks.

What do you need for an online class?

To get the most from this course you will need:

• A reliable internet connection
• A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
• A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
• An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
• The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom

This language course includes: 

• Access to our Moodle platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources 
• Support and advice from Russian language teachers 
• Russian language study tips