Russian Classes at our Language Door School in the heart of the San Fernando Valley in Encino. Serving students in Burbank, Calabasas, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Tarzana and Woodland Hills California.
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Language Door offers small interactive Russian classes!Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning Russian fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
Please check the schedules:
For the beginning and
intermediate classes, we use "Ultimate
Russian
Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language (please contact us at our Language Door School San Fernando Valley in Encino to discuss
further). There is also an optional eight cassette package that accompanies the
book. For the advanced classes, we
provide handouts at no charge.
"Ultimate Russian Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language
Beginning A (chapters 1-4)
Topics - Getting acquainted, at the airport, at
a hotel, and exchanging money.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, alphabet, absence of "to be", articles, personal
pronouns, simple negation, questions, formal versus informal speech,
"umbrella" spelling rule, gender, plurals, "to have", present tense verb
conjugation, numbers, nominative case, locative case, prepositional case, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 5-9)
Topics - At work, renting an apartment, talking
about home and family, at a concert, renting a car, and getting gas.
Grammar and usage - "To live", "to write", accusative case and direct objects, days of
the week, last names, adjectives, "to want", additional present tense verb
conjugation, family and relationship words, genitive case, complex
sentences, commands and requests, location versus direction, reflexive
verbs, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 10-14)
Topics - At the post office, going to a movie,
buying a train ticket, symptoms and medicine, and describing oneself.
Grammar and usage - The dative case, additional nominative and accusative
cases, possibility and permission, past tense, "to like", telling time,
verbs of motion, months and dates, future tense, instrumental case,
expressing obligation, irregular nouns and verbs, etc.
Beginning D (chapters 15-19)
Topics - Education and schedules, at a
restaurant, the news on television, planning a trip, and domestic services.
Grammar and usage - Cases of plural nouns, adverbs of place, time, and
frequency, quantifiers, languages and nationalities, the partitive genitive,
impersonal expressions, reported speech, additional instrumental case, verb
aspect, etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 20-24)
Topics - Public transportation, dentistry,
expressions of gratitude and compliments, domestic activities, and filling
out forms.
Grammar and usage - Expressing need, adjectives used as nouns, ordinal
numbers, perfective verbs in the future tense, irregular verbs, aspect
pairs, past tense of unidirectional verbs, "Let's", collective numbers,
expressing "to ask", etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 25-29)
Topics - Shopping in a department store,
wedding, popular culture, folk music, shopping for food, and at leisure.
Grammar and usage - Expressing opinions, verbs with constant
mutations/stress shift, additional cases, additional aspect, compass points,
zodiac, comparative, "love" and "hate", etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 30-34)
Topics - At a museum, cooking, medicine, a job
interview, shopping for souvenirs and presents.
Grammar and usage - Superlative, declension and number of surnames, command
form, expressing "while", perfective and imperfective imperatives, "again",
past and future tense with impersonal expressions, verbs of position,
conversational fillers, etc.
Intermediate D (chapters 35-40)
Topics - History, posters, and newspapers,
politics, at the hairdresser's, sports, exploring the city, and literature.
Grammar and usage - Slogans, the "unreal" conditional, the indirect
imperative, adverbial prepositions, temporal conjunctions, "can", particles,
short-form past passive participles, spoken versus written Russian, gerunds,
active participles, long-form passive participles, etc.
Advanced Classes
Topics - Discussion of articles, issues,
literature, etc.
Grammar and usage - As appropriate related to conversation topics.
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us at our Language Door School San Fernando Valley in Encino.
Feedback from Students
"Very good - motivates students, effective teaching methods, very concerned about student's learning,"
Anonymous.
"Great teacher, taught very very effectively and listened to students' needs,"
Anonymous.
"Excellent course
and pace...Anya [the teacher] is very patient and teaches precise pronunciation and
reading abilities. This is one of the best language courses I have ever
attended. I can read and understand Russian faster than I expected,"
Bob.
Language Description
Russian
language belongs to the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the
Indo-European family of languages. There are about 167 million Russian
speakers in the world, and 153 million of them are in the republics of the
former USSR.
Further Information
For further information about San Fernando Valley Russian classes, San Diego Russian classes, Los Angeles Russian classes or Orange
County Russian classes, please follow the links on the navigation bar on the right. Thank you!
Learning a Language can be Fun
We currently offer the opportunity to learn Spanish, French, Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Korean, Russian and many more languages in language class programs at our San Fernando Valley Language Door School in Encino or our West Los Angeles Language Door School. Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning the language of your choice fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
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