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Russian courses for advanced level
$349.99
The Advanced Russian Course (typically targeting C1 and potentially C2 of the CEFR) is focused on achieving near-native proficiency, allowing the learner to use the language effortlessly for complex academic, professional, and social purposes. The emphasis moves from learning new grammar to mastering nuance, style, and cultural context.
I. Mastery of Linguistic Features
At the advanced level, grammar is no longer taught as isolated rules but is refined for sophisticated expression:
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Participles and Gerunds: Complete and flawless command of participles and gerunds for creating concise and complex sentence structures, a hallmark of formal Russian style.
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Subtleties of Aspect and Mood: Deepened, nuanced understanding of verbal aspect, including perfective-only and imperfective-only verbs, and the mastery of different moods (subjunctive, imperative, conditional).
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Lexical and Stylistic Variance: Practice in recognizing and using the appropriate register—formal, academic, colloquial, journalistic, and bureaucratic—depending on the communicative situation.
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Word Order and Emphasis: Developing an instinct for Russian word order to correctly place emphasis in a sentence, which is more flexible than in English.
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Prefixes and Suffixes: Extensive work on the subtle meaning changes that numerous prefixes and suffixes can introduce to verbs and nouns to completion
II. Communicative & Cultural Fluency
The goal is to function with the same ease as a highly educated native speaker:
Skill Focus |
Advanced Goals |
Practical Activities |
Speaking & Interaction |
Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without obvious searching for words. Deliver complex presentations, debate abstract or contentious topics, and handle specialized or technical discussions. |
Class debates on Russian politics, philosophy, or history; mock professional conferences; formal presentations. |
Reading |
Understand virtually everything heard or read, including abstract texts, complex literary works, academic papers, and technical documents. Recognize implied meaning, tone, and rhetorical devices. |
Reading unsimplified 19th and 20th-century Russian literature (e.g., Chekhov, Dostoevsky), scholarly articles, and full-length Russian news reports. |
Listening |
Understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured, including lectures, films, and rapid exchanges among native speakers, and differentiate finer shades of meaning. |
Watching Russian films and documentaries without subtitles, listening to academic lectures and complex news broadcasts. |
Writing |
Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, demonstrating controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors, and cohesive devices. |
Writing critical analyses, research papers, film/book reviews, and formal reports. |