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Beginning phonetic course

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The intensive beginning phonetic course is supposed to be 72-80 academic hours and made up for foreign students who want to learn Russian language under teacher’s supervision.

This Russian course consists of 12 lessons which include phonetics and lexical material for beginners; it focuses on teaching students everyday spoken Russian and basic reading skills.

Phonetic course for beginners is aimed at teaching students to distinguish and pronounce Russian sounds correctly:
- Correctly pronounce Russian words, (being aware of word stress and word rhytmics)
- To use a correct intonation in order to make statements in Russian;
- To be phonetically correct  while reading words, groups of words, sentences, or small texts;
- To understand oral speech in the range of covered material.
- To reproduce words, word phrases, sentences of covered material.

12 lessons include the system of exercises which help students to form a basis for reading, listening and speaking skills. The lexical material of the course consists of more than 800 words and word phrases connected with household situations and real events occuring in our daily lives.

• Lesson 1

  Vowel sounds: [а], [э], [о], [у], [ы], [и]
  Consonant sounds: [п], [б], [м], [т], [д], [н]
  Syllable. Disyllabic words with the accent on the second syllable. Model таТА
  Quantitative reduction
  Intonational construction - 1
  Work at home

• Lesson 2

  Consonant sounds [г], [к], [р], [л]
  Qualitative reduction
  Reduction of sounds [а] and [о]
  Intonational construction - 1
  Work at home

• Lesson 3

  Consonant sounds [ф], [в], [с], [з]
  Disyllabic words with the accent on the first syllable. Model ТАта
  Intonational construction - 1
  Work at home

• Lesson 4

  Consonant sound [й´]
  Letters е, ё, ю, я at the beginning of the word and after letters ъ and ь
  Trisyllabic words with the accent on the last syllable. Model татаТА
  Intonational construction - 3
  Work at home

• Lesson 5

  Consonant sound [x]
  Soft consonants [п´], [б´], [м´]
  Trisyllabic words with the accent on the second syllable. Model таТАта
  Intonational construction - 3
  Work at home

• Lesson 6

  Consonant sounds [ш], [ж]
  Soft consonants [т´], [д´], [н´]
  Trisyllabic words with the accent on the first syllable. Model ТАтата
  Intonational construction - 2
  Work at home

• Lesson 7

  Consonant sound [щ´], comparison of sounds [ш], [щ´]
  Soft consonants [к´], [г´], [х´]
  Pronouncing of the voiced consonants like unvoiced
  Stress in the combination of the words with prepositions
  Moving of the intonation's centre in intonational construction - 2
  Work at home

• Lesson 8

  Consonant sound [ч’], comparison of sounds [ч’], [щ’] and [ч’], [т’]
  Consonant sounds ш, ж
  Soft consonant [р’]
  Work at home

• Lesson 9

  Consonant sound [ц], сomparison of sounds [ц]-[ч´], [ц]-[т], [ц]-[с]
  Soft consonant [л´]
  The words with the constant and unsteady accent
  Intonation of the interrogative question, intonational construction-3 with the disjunctive conjunction И´ЛИ
  Work at home

• Lesson 10

  Soft consonants [ф’], [в’], comparison of sounds [ф’]-[п’], [в’]-[б’]
  Pronouncing of the voiced consonants like unvoiced
  Pronouncing of the unvoiced consonants like voiced
  The days of the week
  Intonation of interrogative sentence with adversative conjunction “a” (IC-4)
  Work at home

• Lesson 11

  Soft consonants [с’], [з’]
  Numbers – Time and Age
  Months of the year
  Intonation of exclamation sentence with the interrogative word in the beginning (IC-5)
  Work at home

• Lesson 12

  Alphabet
  Intonation of the sentences with comparison
  Intonation of the sentences with contraposition
  Table of numbers from 1 to 1000
  Work at home

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Beginning grammar course

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The beginning grammar course is supposed to be 144-160 academic hours and made up for foreign students who want to learn Russian language under teacher’s supervision.

The course consists of 24 lessons which include the main types of Russian simple sentences; moreover, it includes such aspects of Russian grammar as parts of speech, plural number, verb forms and tenses, and the use of cases and complex sentences.

Beginning grammar course is aimed to teach:
- the main aspects of Russian grammar
- a lot of phrases in the sphere of "every day" lexicon
- to sustain conversations on different topics in the range of covered material

24 lessons include the system of exercises which help students to learn grammatical rules and develop reading, listening and speaking skills. The lexical material of the course consists of more than 1200 words and word phrases.

• Урок 1

  Text - Комната, Dialogue
  Noun - singular number
  The gender of nouns
  Personal pronouns
  Work at home

• Урок 2

  Text - Фотография, Dialogue
  Noun – plural number
  Gender of the numeral "Один"
  Possessive pronouns
  Work at home

• Урок 3

  Text – Школа, Dialogue – Чьи это вещи?
  Cases
  Speech model: Чей это?
  Genitive case singular - how to find out to whom something belongs
  Work at home

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