Russian Language: Real Breakthrough

Russian Language: Real Breakthrough

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Russian Language: Real Breakthrough episodes

  • B2-C2. RU-EN Konstantin Simonov. On The Eve Of Victory.
    Listen to a powerful poem of Konstantin Simonov, written on the eve of the end of World War II in Europe.
    Simonov is a Soviet author and a war poet.
    Check your listening understanding with parallel  English translation in full and line by line.
    !!! This poetry consists from 53 words, 14 (26%) of them are in instrumental case!
    Learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova
    Grammar: Instrumental case of Adjectives and Participles, "тот, что", "та, что", "то, что" in all cases.
    Не той, что из сказок, не той, что с пелёнок,
    Не той, что была по учебникам пройдена,
    А той, что пылала в глазах воспалённых,
    А той, что рыдала, – запомнил я Родину.
    И вижу её, накануне победы,
    Не каменной, бронзовой, славой увенчанной,
    А очи проплакавшей, идя сквозь беды,
    Всё снесшей, всё вынесшей русскою женщиной.
    3 min
  • A2-B1. New Year's celebration

    A fragment from the book "Снег идёт" 1949 by Lyubov Voronkova, adapted for A2-B1 level with vocabulary* and even sounds that illustrate words like трещать, звонить, скрипеть, вздыхать. A story about how a family celebrated  New Year in the village.

    Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to practice new words and grammar.

    New Year's tree decorating and waiting for the New Year is a great occasion to practice the words ставить, класть, вешать, висеть, ложиться, лечь, etc.

    С Рождеством и Новым годом, любители русского языка!

    *The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B1.
    Часть 1. Part 1
    баранки bagel
    блестящий shining, bright; brilliant
    бусы beads
    ветка branch
    густой dense, bushy
    доставать / достать get, take out
    изба peasant's log hut
    горсть handful
    картон cardboard
    пахнуть smell (of)
    продевать / продеть pass, put through
    пряник gingerbread
    расправлять / расправить spread, stretch село village
    сиять shine
    украшать / украсить decorate
    шуба fur coat
    не утерпеть not be able to resist

    Часть 2. Part 2.

    бенгальские огни sparklers
    гаснуть / погаснуть go out, die away; become dim
    гореть burn
    сгореть burn out
    зажигать / зажечь set fire (to); light
    засыпать / заснуть fall asleep
    звон ring, jingle; chime
    голый bare nude
    искра spark(le); spangle
    конюшня stabling
    отскакивать / отскочить jump off / aside
    палочка stick
    покрывать / покрыть cover
    раздаваться / раздаться sound, be heard
    садить / посадить кого offer a seat
    скатерть table-cloth
    скотина cattle, livestock ['laɪvstɔk]
    скрипеть creak
    трещать crackle


    15 min
  • B2-C1. Blue Cup

    A story written by the best Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar. Adapted for B2-C1 level.

    The podcast with vocabulary. The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B2.

    Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension,

    One day little Svetlana and her father took offense at her mother and went wherever they wanted… A kind lyrical story tells how much they saw during this long day and how wonderfully it ended. This story is about how the family should not hold grudges against each other and should be able to forgive.

    I love Gaidar's works, his ironic language, lyricism and subtle understanding of the human soul.

    During the lesson, we will work on vocabulary,  on verbs of movement with prefixes,  НСВ  and СВ  verbs.

    We will see fragments of the Soviet movie "Blue Cup" and we will search differences in the story and the movie. We will analize behaviour of characters like real psychologists and we will do many other speaking activities.
    In the end, use pictures to retell this entire story.

    17 min
  • B1-B2. Blue Cup

    A story written by the best Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar. Adapted for B1-B2 level.

    The podcast with vocabulary. The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B1.

    Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, 

    One day little Svetlana and her father took offense at her mother and went wherever they wanted… A kind lyrical story tells how much they saw during this long day and how wonderfully it ended. This story is about how the family should not hold grudges against each other and should be able to forgive.

    I love Gaidar's works, his ironic language, lyricism and subtle understanding of the human soul.

    During the lesson, we will work on vocabulary,  verbs of movement with prefixes, and also we will analyze using of  НСВ  and СВ  verbs. For example, why here "Мы не разбивали голубой чашки" is an imperfect aspect, and here "Это мыши разбили голубую чашку!" - perfect aspect.

    In the end, use pictures to retell this entire story.

    15 min
  • B2-C1. In Search Of Russian Treasures. Marjorie Post and J.Davis

    Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about an adventure of an American in Soviet Union. Fans of history will find in the lesson Stalin, Roosevelt, and art lost to the Russians but saved by Marjorie Post and her husband, the American Ambassador in the USSR, Joseph Davis. Using Google Maps, we will walk around Hillwood Museum, where we will look for Faberge eggs and the wedding crown of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

    We will practice the active participles of the present and past tense, prepositions, and also translate into Russian short notes from the newspaper from 1945 etc.

    In the end, use funny caricatures of an artist A.Tsap to retell this entire story.

    The first podcast with vocabulary. The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B2.

    15 min
  • B1. In Search Of Russian Treasures. Marjorie Post and J.Davis

    Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about an adventure of an American in Soviet Union. Fans of history will find in the lesson Stalin, Roosevelt, and art lost to the Russians but saved by Marjorie Post and her husband, the American Ambassador in the USSR, Joseph Davis. Using Google Maps, we will walk around Hillwood Museum, where we will look for Faberge eggs and the wedding crown of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

    We will practice the suffixes -ательный, -ительный, prepositions, который, vocabulary of the lesson and also translate into Russian short notes from the newspaper from 1945 etc.

    In the end, use funny caricatures of an artist A.Tsap to retell this entire story.


    The first podcast with vocabulary. The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B1.

    14 min
  • All levels. Easy Interviews With Putin And With Other Russians

    Try to listen to the end and don't laugh! Four short interviews, one of them with Vladimir Putin.

    I use this NON-political interview with Putin in the first lesson to determine your level of the Russian language.
    Of course, this is not accurate, but it often turns out to be true.
    • If you don't understand the first, second and last questions, and also Putin's answer about the Mars, but you understand the rest pretty well, you are B1 student.
    • If you understand all, but not the answer about the Mars, your are B2 student.
    • If your are OK even with the Mars, your are C1-C2 student.

    Check your listening comprehension and learn even more by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova , a course "Russian language: Real Breakthrough".

    12 min

About Russian Language: Real Breakthrough

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Hello! I am Yulia Stepanova and I am a teacher of Russian as a foreign language on italki.com