Russian level 4

In the Russian level 4 course, you will expand your basic Russian skills. After this course you will, among other things, be able to:

• distinguish specific information while listening, even without the help of text or pictures
• answer written questions about yourself
• tell what you do and do not like

Who is it for?

The Russian level 4 course is right for you if you have already mastered the basics of Russian. For example, you have a basic vocabulary, you can understand long sentences that contain mainly familiar and international words and you know the particular use of reflexive verbs.

What will you learn?

During Russian level 4, you will improve your Russian reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Grammar and vocabulary are an important part of the course.

After this course you will be able to conduct a conversation with a doctor, tell your symptoms and describe how you feel. You will also be able to give someone advice, recommend something or forbid it. Besides this, you will be able to conduct a simple conversation about dreams, holiday plans and your interests. You will be able to understand essential information in simple texts containing mainly familiar and international words, and write short stories and essays based on photos, maps, diagrams and pictures, and make up and write down an end to an unfinished story.

And grammar?

The grammar you learn during this course includes:

• forming nouns, personal pronouns and adjectives in the dative and instrumental cases, in singular and plural
• the imperative
• the meaning of the prefixes used in verbs of motion (по-, в-, вы-, при-, у-, пере-, за-)