MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 1.23 GB | Duration: 2h 54m
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.