Course Overview

Online Russian Levels 7&8 is an Elementary Russian course course for students who are already in the process of learning Russian. This is an intensive Russian course allowing you to take two Russian levels in 10 weeks and progress more quickly. Online Russian Levels 7&8 requires that you have previously studied Russian Level 6 or a course of at least 72 class hours. 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 

• Talking about school subjects  
• Discussing university departments 
• Planning holidays/vacations 

• Speaking about appearance and character 

• Expressing needs 

Grammar points

• Verbs of perfect and imperfect form; the past tense of the perfect form of verbs (process – result) 
• Difference in the use of imperfective and perfective aspect verbs (repeatability of action – once/result; parallelism – sequence of actions) 
• The use of imperfective and perfective aspect verbs in a complex sentence (parallelism – sequence) 
• Constructions with the verbs «мочь, должен, уметь» 
• Dative singular  

• Dative case of personal pronouns 
• Demonstrative pronouns «этот – тот»  
• The future tense of perfective verbs 
• Constructions of time «зимой, летом, весной, осенью» 
• Sentences with a generalized subject (impersonal sentences) 

• Motion verbs with prefixes «при-, у-» of the perfective aspect in the past and future tenses 
•  Dative case in direction constructions «к кому?» 
• Genitive case in direction constructions «от кого?» 

• Genitive case of nouns with prepositions of place («около, слева от, справа от, напротив») 
• Motion verbs with prefixes «при-, у-» of imperfective aspect 
• Purpose expression (a complex sentence of the goal, with a conjunction чтобы) 
• The instrumental case of nouns and personal pronouns in the singular 
• Complex conditional sentences 

• Imperative mood of the verbs of the 1st and 2nd conjugation 

Vocabulary

• Perfective aspect verbs 
• Verbs governing the dative case 
• Verbs «смотреть – видеть» and «слушать – слышать» 
• Modal words «надо, нужно, можно, нельзя» 

• Colours 
• Clothes 
• Gifts 
• Names of months, seasons, natural phenomena 
• Adverbs of place and direction 
• Verbs governing the instrumental case «быть, работать, знакомиться, встречать-ся, советоваться» 

Course Information 

• Average class size: 8 (maximum 12) 
• Students must be 18+ years old 
• Existing language ability: 72 class hours of previous Russian language study required
• 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 Saturdays 10:30 – 13:00 
• The possible study options for this course are as follow: 

15th January – 19th March 2022

9th April – 25th June 2022*

9th July – 10th September 2022

1st October – 3rd December 2022

*Due to the Bank Holidays there are no classes on 16th April and 4th June. The course still consists of 10 classes however, spread over 12 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