Russian courses

Conversational Russian

Private and group lessons with professional native teachers

Course introduction

This Conversational Russian Course seeks to provide an intensive speaking immersion to students of all levels, starting from everyday situations and moving on to formal communication.

Course details

A1 Level (30 hours)

A1 Level of Conversational Russian Course covers following topics:

How can I provide personal information about me and other people;
How can I describe some events in the past;
How can I give and receive a phone number and an address;
How can I describe my family;
How can I describe the weather;
How can I speak about my hobbies.

A2 Level (30 hours)

A2 Level of Conversational Russian Course covers following topics:

How can I describe my flat;
How can I order food in a restaurant;
How can I buy food in a supermarket;
How can I describe my daily routine;
How can I buy food;
How can I talk about date and time;
How can I describe my health;
How can I describe a person;
How can I describe basic emotions and states.

Level B1 (40 hours)

B1 Level of Conversational Russian Course covers following topics:

How can I ask the way;
How can I buy a metro ticket;
How can I buy a plane ticket;
How can I speak on the phone;
How can I book a room in a hotel;
How can I buy tickets to the theatre, cinema and circus;
How can I describe objects;
How can I describe a trip;
How can I speak with a doctor;
How can I buy medicines;
How can I send a letter or a parcel;
How can I describe natural phenomena;
How can I describe emotions and states in detail.

Level B2 (40 hours)

B2 Level of Conversational Russian Course covers following topics:

How can I handle a job interview;
How can I describe the school and university system in Russia and in my country;
How can I describe technical problems at home or in a hotel and ask for help;
How can I describe my favorite food and understand recipes;
How can I open a bank account;
How can I choose a tour in a tourist agency;
How can I give a detailed description of a person;
How can I describe computer problems and ask for help.

Level C1 (30 hours)

C1 Level of Conversational Russian Course covers following topics:

How can I describe a person, an object or a situation using some slang words and expressions (everyday Russian words and expressions and phraseology);
How can I describe and analyze a specific historical or a literature phenomenon;
How can I speak on the phone (advanced level);
How can I describe a business situation.

Level C2 (30 hours)

C2 Level of Conversational Russian Course covers following topics:

How can I describe and compare a political or an economic situation;
How can I give my opinion about different events and phenomena;
How can I organize a debate and participate in it.

Class materials used

Караванова Н.Б. Говорите правильно! – М.: Русский язык. Курсы, 2004;
Говорим по-русски без переводчика. – М.: Флинта, Наука, 2009;
Максимова А.Л. Месяц в России. – СПб: Златоуст, 2011;
Одинцова И.В. Что Вы сказали? – СПб: Златоуст, 2003;
Аннушкин В.И., Акишина А.А., Жаркова Т.Л. Знакомиться легко, расставаться трудно. – М.: Флинта-Наука, 2004;
Короткова О.Н., Одинцова И.В. Загадай желание. – СПб: Златоуст, 2006;
Попова Т., Юрков Е. Поговорим. – СПб: Златоуст, 2000;
Володина Г.И. А как об этом сказать? – М.: Русский язык, 2003;
Videos, texts and images from the Internet;
Blog materials: www.learnrussianweb.com.

Teachers of the course "Conversational Russian"

Our online Russian school Russificate is made up of a collective of highly experienced Russian teachers who believe in using cutting edge technology to facilitate language learning. Our teachers strive to provide high quality yet affordable Russian lessons.

Viktoria
Speaks: English, Finnish, French
Viktoria is a professional tutor of Russian as a foreign language with 10 years’ experience in teaching students of different read CV
Pavel
Speaks: English, French, Polish, Spanish
Pavel is a certified Russian language teacher with pedagogical education and extensive teaching experience. He offers both live and online read CV
Yulia
Speaks: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Yulia has been offering Russian classes via Skype since 2005. In 2005-2013 she worked in the Spanish Embassy in Moscow, giving read CV
Tatiana L.
Speaks: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
Tatiana is a qualified teacher of Russian as a foreign language with a wide work experience in the field. She read CV
Tatiana R.
Speaks: English, German, Spanish, Swedish
Tatiana is a certified Russian language teacher with extensive teaching experience. She has been teaching Russian for 7.5 years in read CV
Tatiana S.
Speaks:
Tatiana is a teacher of Russian language and literature with 24 years of experience as a school teacher. Tatiana worked as read CV

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Testimonials of our students

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Steinar Dyrnes,
Norway

Tatiana Ryndak has been my personal Russian tutor since July 2011.
I know her as a teacher with an extremely good command of the Russian language. She is also a dedicated teacher and a very good educator. She individually adapts her lessons according to the specific needs of the different students.
To cater to my unique requirements as a journalist, she has used a book specially designed for people in my field. In addition, she is always careful to monitor students' weaknesses, focusing on them until they are fully resolved.
I strongly recommend her.

Steinar Dyrnes

Moscow Correspondent

Aftenposten, Norway’s number one newspaper

Patrick,
France

I was a student of Svetlana during 3 years, first when I was working in Moscow, and then with Skype lessons.
The contribution from Svetlana as teacher of Russian language has been very productive and efficient. I was a complete beginner, and without being very fluent, I am now able to communicate in this language.
This is a great achievement for me.

She has always demonstrated a strong motivation to perform, a strong perseverance, with patience and high level of technical competency for teaching language.
But above all, I have been very impressed by her ability to understand several foreign languages, her continuous desire to learn and to improve her knowledge and her working capacity.

No need to say that her attachment to Russian literature was very communicative.
Finally, it was a pleasant moment to converse with her in French language, my mother tongue, as she also speaks this language.
It was a great pleasure and satisfaction to work with her.

Marguerite,
France

Mikhail Yurievich was my tutor of the Russian language in 2014 during the first semester at the MSU in the name of Lomonosov. With him we studied the grammar rules and the spoken language at the same time; he understood that the grammar rules- are one thing, but the way that the Russian people speak, in which mode you can interact in Russian, which cliché phrases the Russians use, how to quickly deal with basic, political and philosophical situations, when you need to express your opinion and which songs all the Russian people know and sing- are completely different things and are very important.
We did written exercises and checked them during the lessons. Mikhail Yurievich always gave us dialogues- which in turn established discussions on many different topics, and so in this way all of the students in the group got the opportunity to speak their mind out loud, ask each other questions and so on. Mikhail Yurievich has achieved his goal; no-one was embarrassed or afraid to speak and, in my opinion, this is most important. Every student felt enough confidence to speak freely and to understand that it is possible! In conclusion, I believe that Mikhail Yurievich is a great tutor!

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Prices for the course "Conversational Russian"

Private lessons

Lesson duration	1 lesson	10 lessons	20 lessons
30-minute lessons	10 €	95 € 9.5€ per lesson Save 5€	170 € 8.5€ per lesson Save 30€
45-minute lessons	14 €	135 € 13.5€ per lesson Save 5€	250 € 12.5€ per lesson Save 30€
60-minute lessons	18 €	175 € 17.5€ per lesson Save 5€	330 € 16.5€ per lesson Save 30€
90-minute lessons	25 €	245 € 24.5€ per lesson Save 5€	470 € 23.5€ per lesson Save 30€

Group lessons

Lesson duration	1 lesson	10 lessons
45-minute lessons	6 €	55 € 5.5€ per lesson Save 5€
60-minute lessons	7 €	65 € 6.5€ per lesson Save 5€
90-minute lessons	10 €	95 € 9.5€ per lesson Save 5€