
Explore nuances of Russian grammar, including the case system with prepositions, verbal prefixes, the conditional and subjunctive moods, conversational non textbook grammar, and pronunciation improvements for intermediate to advanced learners.
Discover the particles то, нибудь, либо for expressing some, anywhere, anyone, or anything, and learn when to use many options versus something definite, noting либо’s comeback.
Explore the Russian subjunctive mood, a past-tense construction for expressing doubt, with stress patterns on neuter, masculine, and feminine endings and phrases like da and no matter what.
Explore the complex Russian numeral declension, including irregular patterns across cases, how two-part numerals decline in both parts, and the animate versus inanimate and compound-number rules.
Discover how Russian possessives use the genitive case and how diminutive name forms express possession, with endings guided by the possessed noun's gender and number.
Examine how after numerals in the nominative, adjectives decline: masculine/neuter pair with genitive plural, feminine with nominative plural, nouns with genitive singular; five through twenty use genitive plural.
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.