Russian Grammar For Intermediate To Advanced Learners

Go beyond the basics to master Russian grammar, pronunciation, and conversational speaking to improve your fluency!

What you'll learn

Improve understanding of how the Russian cases work

Learn everyday conversational grammar that you do not find in textbooks

Better utilize verbal prefixes to enhance your speaking abilities

Reduce one's accent through a deep understanding of Russian's pronunciation rules

Tackle tricky topics such as declension after numerals, collective numerals, distribution, stress shift, the subjunctive, animacy, and much more

Requirements

A basic understanding of Russian declensions is required, as well as the ability to read Cyrillic.

Description

This course covers some of the trickier aspects of Russian grammar and pronunciation that you often won't find in textbooks. Created by a native English speaker who has studied Russian for over 14 years, Russian Grammar for Intermediate to Advanced Learners offers unique insights to improve your Russian fluency through 30+ lectures as well as practice exercises. In this course we start by covering various grammar topics such as the subjunctive mood, declining numbers, verbal prefixes, when to use у меня vs. у меня есть, as well as covering conversational ways of speaking to make your speech sound more natural, and much more. In the second section we'll work on improving pronunciation by diving into hard and soft consonants, voicing and devoicing, and vowel reduction and silent letters. After these lectures you will be equipped to reduce your accent and rid yourself of pesky pronunciation mistakes. Lastly, we will go over the nuances of the cases, covering topics such as negation, special adjective declensions, animacy vs. inanimacy, partitive genitive, the special locative case, and many more. Designed by a long-time student of Russian for other students of Russian, Russian Grammar for Intermediate to Advanced Learners is meant for the serious learner ready to take their Russian understanding to the next level.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Grammar Topics

Lecture 2 Сам

Lecture 3 Свой

Lecture 4 Себя

Lecture 5 У меня vs. у меня есть

Lecture 6 -то, -нибудь, and -либо

Lecture 7 Нечего, некого…

Lecture 8 The Conditional Mood

Lecture 9 The Subjunctive Mood

Lecture 10 Declining Numerals

Lecture 11 Collective Numerals

Lecture 12 Distribution

Lecture 13 Adding Prefixes to Verbs

Lecture 14 Stress Shift to the Preposition

Lecture 15 Possessive Adjectives with Diminutive Names

Lecture 16 Conversational Grammar

Lecture 17 Grab Bag

Section 3: Pronunciation

Lecture 18 Voicing and Devoicing

Lecture 19 Hard and Soft Consonants

Lecture 20 Vowel Reduction and Silent Letters

Section 4: Cases

Lecture 21 The Nominative Case

Lecture 22 Declining Adjectives After Numerals in the Nominative

Lecture 23 The Accusative Case

Lecture 24 The Accusative Case - Prepositions

Lecture 25 Animacy vs. Inanimacy

Lecture 26 The Genitive Case

Lecture 27 The Genitive Case - Prepositions

Lecture 28 The Dative Case

Lecture 29 The Dative Case - Prepositions

Lecture 30 The Prepositional Case

Lecture 31 The Instrumental Case

Lecture 32 The Instrumental Case - Prepositions

This is intended for learners who already have a basic grasp of Russian grammar and declension. Equivalent of third semester Russian or higher.