Language course Russian for beginners (A1)

This course takes place from 1 October until 26 November 2024. There is no class in the week of 21 October because of the Autumn Break.

Class day and time: Tuesdays from 6.00 - 7.30 pm 
Number of participants: min. 6 - max. 16

There will be eight meetings:
- 5 online meetings (2, 3, 4, 6 and 7) and
- 3 on-site meetings (1, 5 and 8).

Approach and content 

Russian is spoken as much as possible during classes, with Dutch as the supporting language. This means you cannot take this course if you do not speak Dutch.

You should count on about three to four hours of individual study per week.

What do the classes cover?

Skills

• You will learn to read, write and question simple short sentences and texts
• You will learn to describe your profession or study or someone else’s profession or study
• You will learn how to help someone at the airport
• You will learn to read information on labels
• You will learn to talk about your family, work or study, where you live, hobbies, what you do in your free time, what languages you speak and what you like and dislike
• You will learn to write your story.

Grammar

We cover a range of topics in this Russian A1 course, including:

• The case of singular nouns
• Fourth (accusative) case and second (genitive) case of personal pronouns and of singular nouns
• The noun first and fourth case plural
• The demonstrative pronoun 1 and 4 n.v singular and plural
• Sixth case of nouns with endings on -У; - Ю
• Using уже/ещё и тоже/ещё.

Course material

Materials will be handed out in class.