Level Up Your Russian - A Course For Intermediate Learners

Dive into a russian dialogue about settling in, using the vocabulary list and pdf worksheet to practice new words and complete exercises for intermediate learners.

Explore the sound like a native lesson on the phrase 'nae nae' used to express surprise, note gender-based meanings, and practice by writing three dialogues.

Master the 'it's better not to' construction to advise not to do something. Explore examples and polite tone via imperatives and flexible word order.

Master Russian word вроде, learning its two uses: as sort of or similar to, requiring a genitive, and as it seems or as if based on incomplete information, with examples.

Practice using заодно to sound native by expressing actions done at the same time, with examples and a matching sentence-building exercise.

Explore the Russian must have to construction: должен, должна, должно, должны, used for duties and responsibilities with infinitives, with practical examples and exercises.

Master movement and location in Russian by using kuda for direction. Use the prepositional case for location, the accusative for movement, and genitive, instrumental, or dative with prepositions.

Listen to the Russian dacha text and complete the PDF worksheet exercises. Practice new vocabulary, translate key words, and answer questions to reinforce listening for intermediate learners.

Listen to the dialogue, download the vocabulary list and pdf worksheet with translations, and practice with the exercises to reinforce Russian at the intermediate level.

Master the Russian grammar of принято / не принято + инфинитив to express what is customary or not, with examples like taking off shoes, gifting, and smiling at strangers.

Explore two polite Russian constructions for asking questions, with dialogue examples and phrases for admitting uncertainty. Practice creating three dialogues for each construction as homework.

Practice native-sounding Russian phrases from a dialogue, match meanings, and learn how to add new information using linking phrases to improve comprehension and diction for intermediate learners.

Explore how mal and mala decline across six cases with prepositions to refer to living beings and non-living nouns, and replace ninja with mala in dialogues and exercises.

Listen to the dialogue and download the lesson's vocabulary list and pdf worksheet to practice. Consider rewriting the exercises into a notebook to reinforce phrase meanings and dialogue practice.

Explore how Russian verb aspects distinguish repeated versus single actions, using imperfective infinitives with adverbs for general evaluation and perfective infinitives to express doubt about a one-time action.

Learn the native concession phrase так-то оно так, да только…, repeating a word from the interlocutor in any part of speech to signal partial agreement and noting punctuation.

Explore Russian verb aspect through одалживать / одолжить, distinguishing imperfective for repeated actions from perfective for completed actions, and practice the lend and borrow constructions across past, present, and future.

Explore the Russian conditional mood (zero, first, second, third conditionals) with examples, formation using бы and past tense, and usage for unreal, possible, and polite requests.

Explore Russian verbs related to clothing, including reflexive forms for dressing oneself, verbs for dressing others, wearing vs putting on, and how case usage (accusative and prepositional) affects meaning.

Listen to the dialogue and download the vocabulary list and worksheet from the lesson resources to practice theatre terms like the Mariinsky Theatre, opera and ballet, scene, and act.

Master essential Russian phrases to sound native by matching expressions to meanings, confirming questions, signaling timing and sincerity, returning to topics, and practicing rewriting and translating sentences.

Listen to the dialogue before you start. Download the vocabulary list from the lesson resources and complete the worksheet exercises to practice by rewriting them into a notebook.

Explore how Russians handle compliments and learn practical phrases across appearance, personality, and professionalism, with examples from dialogue and prompts to write five compliments.

Level up your Russian for intermediate learners by mastering the nuances of druzhny and droujinsky, distinguishing non-conflict and friendly usage through dialogue and practice.

Master a native-sounding Russian concession construction to express partial agreement, study the instrumental case through dialogue examples, and practice translating and creating dialogues using this pattern.

Explore the Russian instrumental case, learning how it denotes tools and instruments, an occupation or passion, and its noun declensions with varying prepositions and example usage.

Learn three verb pairs and phrases for talking about holiday traditions, including tradition plus infinitive and it is tradition that, with examples like gift giving and pinata, plus practical exercises.

An in-depth look at the construction plus infinitive plus the infinitive of a verb, comparing imperfective and perfective verbs through dialogues and practice sentences.

Explore five Russian idioms with meanings to help you sound more like a native speaker, including delight is muy slana and the couple vardi.

Explore the concept of the Russian national character through listening practice, covering literature, philosophy, culture, religion, and geopolitics, and examine themes such as Christian asceticism, maximalism, extremism, and patriotism.

Practice dictation in Russian by listening to a text, transcribe what you hear, then review with a self check, while learning punctuation cues like full stops, commas, dashes, and ellipses.

Engage in pronunciation practice for Russian through repeated prompts, with papu and papa sounds and repeat after me guidance to build speaking accuracy.

Explore a Russian dialogue from a party, learn key phrases and meanings, and practice matching expressions for requesting information, confirming consent, expressing doubt, signaling secret information, and indignation.

Master the demonstrative pronoun plus accusative noun plus instrumental adjective construction to express impossibility in Russian, including animate versus inanimate forms and practice sentences.

Explore Russian slang words and expressions, hear dialogue fragments, and practice matching meanings while learning when to favor polite, formal language over casual slang.

Practice using native-sounding Russian phrases to ask for reasons, such as 'why aren’t there many girls here,' with examples that require empathy and continued conversation.

Learn how the Russian phrase za signals indignation, anger, annoyance, or a request for clarification, with dialogues, practice exercises, and note the z particle before objects of interest.

Master the Russian comparison construction: object in the accusative with an agreeing adjective, 'e' plus an imperfective infinitive, and a noun in the instrumental after a preposition, and practice sentences.

Master the genitive case by identifying genitive forms in dialogue, using it to show possession after negation and with quantifying words, and practicing endings and prepositions.

Explore the Russian interrogative construction а какой/какая/какое без чего and practice its gendered forms and genitive usage through embedded examples and a guided exercise.

Learn how the conjunctive word katori means which or who. It agrees in gender and number with its referent and uses the correct case to connect two independent clauses.

This lecture introduces five Russian idioms, including 'deal of slap' meaning it's in the bag and 'to kill two birds with one stone' to achieve two goals.

Listen to the famous Russian song Podmoskovye Vishera while reading the lyrics, then learn its history and new vocabulary, and listen again to reinforce understanding.

Listen to the dialogue in Russian set in a bar, download the vocabulary list and worksheet, and practice matching phrases to their purposes to boost comprehension and conversational skills.

Learn to form Russian questions using the be after the question word and ne before the verb, in any tense, with examples like kagda and theatre phrases.

Explore russian double negation and learn how ne, ni, and nilsa form negations, stack them, and express emphasis in sentences with practical examples.

Learn several Russian negation phrases for daily use, including nitchevo, not half bad, not yet, pachi, sachem, toot, and ah ni ah, with examples.

Practice a Russian dialogue about going to a concert, study the included vocabulary and worksheet, and match phrases with meanings while exploring music genres.

Learn how to use the 'one thing... another' construction to compare actions in Russian, understand its emphasis on difficulty or importance, and practice with example sentences and flexible word order.

Explore the Russian time phrase с тех пор как, meaning since, with examples and punctuation rules for compound conjunctions and comma placement.

Learn how the Russian word похоже expresses certainty as 'probably' or 'seems like', and master its introductory word punctuation, including comma placement rules.

Explore the Russian verb aspect, perfective and imperfective, and learn how they mark completed versus ongoing or repeated actions, with their respective tense forms.

Watch a cartoon about music, listen attentively, and take notes, then complete the accompanying exercises and download the full transcript and new words list for practice.

Practice listening to iconic Russian songs, notably Katyusha, to grasp mood, lyric imagery, and cultural references. Download the PDF worksheet and complete the exercises for this lesson.

Explore how music communicates and shapes emotion, linking evolution, neurobiology, and anthropology to illuminate emotional coding and cultural responses.

Listen to the Russian song 'Shto Osin' by DDT to explore autumn melancholy and reflections on homeland, and download the PDF worksheet with new words.

Engage in a pen-and-paper dictation: listen to a text at normal speed, then again slowly, write everything you hear, and self-check against the on-screen text.

Explore a Russian dialogue set in a bookstore to practice literature vocabulary and common book discussions. Learn phrases for recommending, reading, and analyzing texts through worksheets and exercises.

Learn to use the phrase похоже, что to mean it seems like, through examples, and master Russian adjectives in masculine, feminine, neuter, and plural forms, including short forms and synonyms.

Level up your Russian by mastering three uses of the infinitive with the particle бы: to express wishes, to denote possible outcomes, and to form contemplative questions expressing indecision.

Explore Russian participles (причастия) in grammar corner 1/2, including active and passive forms, present and past tenses, long and short forms, and formation from imperfective and perfective verbs.

Practice Russian participles by exploring active present, passive present, active past, and passive past participles. Complete the pdf worksheet and exercises to reinforce concepts and improve usage.

Begin the first listening practice by hearing the dialogue and completing the exercises from the lesson resources. Use the dialogue's vocabulary list to study all new words.

Explore a dialogue about Dostoyevsky's museum in Petersburg, download the vocabulary list and worksheets, and rewrite exercises in your notebook to study the formal stylistic innovations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Explore the Russian accusative case, including animate versus inanimate endings, declension groups, and preposition use, and practice forming direct objects, directions, times, and manners.

Explore the Russian verb писать with prefixes, turning its imperfective meaning into actions like to write on, to autograph or sign, to record or document, and to finish writing.

Explore how the Russian verb читать forms new meanings through prefixes, from imperfective to perfective aspects. Learn reflexive and other prefix variants, including pro as a completed reading action.

Learn to express doubt in Russian using вряд ли, meaning it is unlikely, with example sentences such as I doubt you'll be interested and the weather is unlikely to change.

level up your russian with five idioms and their meanings, helping you sound like a native; learn idioms like mere Tyson, nae nae, and sarafan with practical examples.

Practice listening to the traveling frog story, Liga Veneta, by Garshin, with downloadable exercises and a vocabulary list to boost Russian comprehension.

Listen to the dialogue and download the vocabulary list for this lesson. Rewrite the worksheet into your notebook to practice Russian with Pushkin and Eugene Onegin.

Explore the comparative and superlative degrees of Russian qualitative adjectives, including simple and compound forms, suffix patterns, and exceptions, with practical examples and practice prompts.

Explore a library dialogue in Russian, download the lesson's vocabulary list and worksheet, and rewrite the exercises in your notebook to reinforce identification and registration phrases.

Learn how the Russian word лишь functions as a particle or conjunction meaning only or just, used to highlight limits and connect clauses in examples.

Explore how diminutive forms in Russian express affection and social nuance. See examples like Mashenka and Sashenka and learn their use in formal and informal settings.

Listen to Tolstoy's three bears cartoon to improve listening and comprehension, then download the full transcript and word list to reinforce vocabulary and complete the lesson exercises.

Explore Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy through a guided listening practice, featuring War and Peace and Anna Karenina, with downloadable exercises and a new-words list from Yasnaya Polyana.

Do a hands-on dictation to improve Russian writing: listen, transcribe what you hear, and self-check, with focus on Russian punctuation such as full stops, commas, and dashes.

Engage in pronunciation practice to master Russian sound patterns using the caption's repeated names and words to refine articulation and phonetic awareness for intermediate learners.

Explore the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, tracing impressionists and post-impressionists through baroque to neoclassical galleries, with Rastrelli architecture, portraits of emperors, and masterworks across its collections.

Level up your Russian by studying can, must, need, and not allowed with infinitives and dative pronouns, focusing on the modal words можно, нужно, надо, нельзя.

Explore the Russian imperative mood, its multiple forms across second, first, and third persons, with imperfective and perfective verbs, including requests, orders, and prohibitions.

Listen to the dialogue and download the vocabulary list and worksheet to practice. Rewrite the exercises in your notebook to reinforce impressions from the excursion and Russian literature topics.

Explore how the Russian conjunction чтобы expresses purpose, with examples where the subject differs or is the same, and how verbs switch between past tense and infinitive in different clauses.

Identify ten Russian verbs that require the instrumental case, learn their present tense forms with examples, and practice using a downloadable pdf worksheet from the lesson resources.

Explore adverbs derived from qualitative adjectives and their simple and compound comparative and superlative forms. Practice by crafting sentences using these adverbs to compare actions.

Level up your Russian shows how to use the word quartet as a predicate meaning that's enough, with imperfective and perfective forms across past, present, and future.

Engage with a history-focused dialogue, download the vocabulary list and worksheet, and rewrite the exercises in your notebook to practice and explore Russian history and culture.

Expand your Russian history vocabulary by learning key historical terms from a dialogue about Catherine the Second, with a downloadable PDF of more words and practice exercises.

This lecture explains Russian participles: imperfective forms express simultaneous action using ar or ya on the present-tense stem; perfective forms express preceding action using ve or she.

Master Russian time expressions, describing simultaneous actions, moments, and periods, with constructions for preceding and following actions and quick changes. Learn how imperfective and perfective usage shapes these forms.

Master Russian time expressions, using v plus accusative for moments and na plus prepositional for time periods, and explore duration, boundaries, and repeated actions.

Master Russian time expressions that precede another action, using do to plus a verb constructions, verbal nouns from verbs, and infinitive and conjugated forms, with practical examples.

Learn to denote time in Russian by showing actions that follow or precede others. Use genitive with prepositions for after and since, plus adverbial participles for perfective verbs.

Explore how to express quick changes of actions in Russian using time conjunctions and phraseological constructions, like as soon as, coordinating clauses to show instantaneous sequences.

Explore five Russian idioms and their meanings to help you sound like a native speaker, with examples like Bias of Galloway and to take French leave.

Listen to the text carefully, complete the exercises, and review the new words list to build Russian vocabulary, exploring names like imperatrice and Ekaterina Velikaya.

Practice Russian dictation by listening to a text at normal and slow speeds, write by hand using pen and paper, then self-check with Hermitage vocabulary from Saint Petersburg.

Listen and repeat a stream of words and names to practice pronunciation, featuring Mille, Sukh, Billiet, Balliett, Luk, Nuss, Ros, Droog, Krug, Atlas, and Clichy.

Listen to the dialogue before you start, download the lesson vocabulary and worksheet, and rewrite the exercises into a notebook to practice your Russian dialogue skills.

Learn essential Russian cinema vocabulary for film crew roles, production terms, and visual effects. Describe movies in Russian, covering genres, release details, and awards.

Examine the colloquial speech style used in everyday conversations, focusing on colloquial words, jargon, diminutives, and simple, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences.

Explore the multifunctional Russian word hoyts, a conjunction or particle meaning although, even at least, or depending on context; study examples, usage nuances, and complete a five-sentence practice.

Describes how the preposition pro means about, regarding, or with respect to the object of a story, and usually conveys superficial information, while it always requires the accusative case.

Explore participles in Level Up Your Russian as blends of verbs and adjectives, covering tense, aspect, voice, active and passive forms, gender, number, and the six Russian cases.

Listen to the dialogue, download the vocabulary list and worksheet, rewrite exercises in your notebook to practice, and explore how humor and drama shape film in this lesson.

Learn to express contrary statements in Russian using a particle that signals conjecture from incomplete information, practice with Julia and Christian dialogues, and craft sentences that contrast parts.

Explains the Russian phrase несмотря на (despite) with the accusative, contrasts it with the ni na adverbial participle, and uses examples of fatigue and bad weather to guide practice.

Listen to the dialogue, download the vocabulary list and worksheet, rewrite exercises into a notebook to practice, and explore Tarkovsky's Stalker and the camera symbolism, montage, and atmosphere.

Explore the word zotto, a conjunction that expresses compensatory contrast by balancing negative situations with something positive, with theatre examples and everyday scenarios.

Master the instrumental case with verbs that take it, like следить за чем, and practice using it to describe monitoring trends, behavior, and situations.

Listen to the dialogue and download the lesson vocabulary and worksheet. Rewrite the exercises in your notebook to practice the galactic mission themes in an imax thriller context.

Master the six Russian cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional; learn the three declension groups, and how nouns, adjectives, and pronouns decline and agree with prepositions.

Listen to a dialogue about a film festival, download the vocabulary list and worksheet, and practice through exercises tied to international festivals and an online New York festival.

This lesson introduces five Russian idioms with meanings and examples to help you sound native, including split, fish in water, go with the flow, and changing decisions.

Develop intermediate Russian listening skills by examining Moskvitch cars in cinema, film references, and related cultural themes.

Watch a soviet animated cartoon Cheburashka to practice listening and comprehension. Take notes, then complete the lesson exercises and download the full transcript and word list from the resources.

Practice dictation by listening to a short text at normal and slow speeds, then write every heard word with pen and paper, and perform a self-check using punctuation cues.

Practice Russian through a dialogue about reading newspapers, with a vocabulary list, exercises, and true/false questions drawn from gazette and internet news sources.

Explore verbs of trust in Russian, including верить and its imperfective and perfective pairs, and learn to use them with the dative case (кому? чему?) through dialogue examples.

Engage in a first listening practice with a dialogue about newspapers, followed by word explanations and downloadable exercises to reinforce journalism and photography vocabulary.

Listen to the dialogue and download the lesson's vocabulary list and worksheet to practice; then match Lara's lines to newspaper headlines about Saint Petersburg and Odessa.

Explore how compound nouns decline across six Russian cases, including unchangeable elements, cases where only one word changes, and key exceptions with guidance to consult a dictionary.

Learn how to use следить за with the instrumental case to watch, observe, or stay aware of events, people, or topics, including the proper declension endings.

Learn how Russian word order stays flexible yet purposeful, with direct order as the norm and inversion used to emphasize new information or emotion.

Explore how the particle g strengthens meaning, emphasizes emotion, clarifies ideas, and links clauses in Russian, including its shortened form g and usage for contrast and emphasis.

Practice weather vocabulary and listening skills for intermediate learners by analyzing a Russian forecast, learning words like prognosis, forecast, promise, and follow the forecast to avoid freezing.

Practice Russian with dialogue 3: новости Санкт-Петербурга by using vocabulary list and worksheet, then rewrite exercises in a notebook to reinforce transport, architecture, and winter bike trip to Saint Petersburg.

Level up your Russian with this lesson on new vocabulary from the dialogue, including word-by-word explanations and a downloadable pdf with exercises to reinforce learning.

Master how to form, pronounce, and spell Russian abbreviations, including initialisms, acronyms, and mixed types, with guidance on capitalization, gender, and when to avoid overuse.

Learn when Russian prepositions take a final vowel 'o' in pronunciation and how to use variants of bs, v, vo, k, not, nada, or, ob, and ot before different cases.

Learn to distinguish something from something else in Russian using отличить with the accusative and от + genitive, and explore the reflexive отличаться with practice sentences and a pdf worksheet.

Explore the Russian word бывает as a particle, introductory word, and predicative to express 'sometimes', and its link to быть in present, past, and future forms.

Discover how Russian uses double negation with negative pronouns and the particle ne, and learn about nishto and nitchevo forms that decline across six cases.

Engage with a university-themed Russian dialogue, study a downloadable vocabulary list and worksheet, and practice via true/false questions about conferences, ecology, theatre, and library services.

Explore the distinction between personal and impersonal Russian verbs for intermediate learners; learn when impersonal verbs lack a subject and master their forms and usage.

This lecture explains when negation governs the genitive versus the accusative in Russian, highlighting intensifying particles, verbs of perception or thought, pronouns, infinitives, and set phrases.

Explore five Russian idioms and their meanings to sound like a native speaker, including be married to the job, pull out of the air, pagoda, and hamster wheel.

Explore the Russian summer celebration Scarlet Sails, a graduation holiday in Saint Petersburg, through a listening article. Download the exercises and new word list to reinforce comprehension.

Practice Russian dictation by listening to a text at normal speed, then write what you hear as it’s read slowly, and perform a self-check.

Explore the official business style in Russian, including three sub-styles—legislative, administrative, diplomatic—learn key phrases and standard expressions for official letters, emails, and documents.

Open your understanding of banking through dialogues about opening a bank account, plastic debit and credit cards, credit limits, and bank deposits.

Explore a dialogue about Dmitri Mendeleev, the periodic table, and elements, and practice with the included vocabulary list and worksheet for Russian intermediate learners.

Master Russian active and passive constructions, learn to form passives with reflexive verbs or short participles, and understand subject and object case shifts to emphasize action.

Explore how Russian uses equivalents for English tag questions, learn translation strategies, and practice common examples across conversation and imperatives, including разделительные вопросы.

Engage with a science conference dialogue in Russian, practice identifying key terms such as artificial intelligence, renewable energy, climate, solar energy, and energy optimization through a vocabulary list and exercises.

Discover how to decline geographical names with generic nouns, when to decline or leave them indeclinable, and how compound toponyms behave. Explore rules for adjectives and foreign toponyms.

Learn how the prefix воз- expresses upward movement, the start of an action, and restoration, with examples of verbs, nouns, and adjectives that convey revival, renewal, and restoring balance.

Practice science vocabulary in russian through dialogues about Dmitri Mendeleev, the periodic table, atoms, and physics, and learn terms across chemistry, meteorology, economics, and technology.

Listen to the dialogue about Yuri Gagarin and the cosmos, download the vocabulary list and worksheet, and practice by rewriting exercises in your notebook.

Practice Russian listening with a cosmos-themed dialogue, including a vocabulary list of new words, downloadable exercises, and references to planets, meteorites, and asteroids.

Level up your Russian with five idioms: ruku nuskhuri ruku, beluga, cuba, beat börklüce, veiligheid duraka. Learn quick effort, loud crying, luxury, idle time, and pretending not to understand.

Watch a cartoon about the cosmos and the stars, take notes, and download the transcript with a list of new space terms to build Russian vocabulary.

Build listening skills with aviation-themed Russian text, complete the lesson exercises and study the new words list, and explore how virtual reality and simulators support pilot and aviator training.

Practice Russian listening and writing through a dictation exercise: hear a text read aloud, write everything you hear, then check your work against the text.