His shows are sold out weeks ahead, with about 300 people packing into the hall twice a day every weekend. “Once I found a hungry little kitten, and he became my first stage partner. He sat inside a giant toffee, and whenever I unwrapped it, he’d jump out and stride boldly around the stage with his tail held high. And he could do somersaults and jump through a hoop and walk on his hind legs and meow very loudly whenever he was hungry,” Kuklachev said. Listen to the story of the world's kindest clown who performs with cats. More than two hundred saved cat lives, more than two hundred cat artists, home for retired cats... Check your listening comprehension and 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:

His shows are sold out weeks ahead, with about 300 people packing into the hall twice a day every weekend.

Short adjectives and participles,

After we train all vocabulary and grammar of the lesson, let's play a journalist and take an interview of Kuklachov.

Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova

Listen to a story about Park Fili in Moscow, a park that is connected to names of Peter the Great,  Elisabeth II, Kutuzov and Russian painters and writers like Repin, Turgenev, Tolstoy and others.

Now it is one of the best parks in Moscow where you can walk, do sports, climb in Panda Park and many other things. 

Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about your favourite parks and train new vocabulary and grammar.

Use funny caricatures of an artist A.Tsap to retell this entire story.

Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova

Synchronised swimming is a sport in which Russia has a dominant place. Russian girls win almost all competitions thanks to their perfect synchronyzation, beauty and difficult tricks. But what about men? Until a few years ago this was a sport only for women. 

Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova

Andrei Mironov is a great soviet actor. This lesson is based on his humorous stand-up show.

Finally you will know how to use them correctly.

Listen to a story about Russian model, mother of 5 children, and philanthropist Natalia Vodyanova.

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We will discuss the life of Natalia and will train numerous words with the meaning "to marry"  - замуж, замужем, жениться, пожениться, and also не замужем, не женат, and разводиться to divorce, быть в разводе. Finally you will know how to use them correctly. 

Grammar: instrumental case of nouns and adjectives.

Audio file for the first lesson of a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a A2-B1 Level.