Lesson 1
GRAMMAR CHECKLIST
Use this checklist to mark off what you've learned in this lesson
- The Russian alphabet
Part 1: 1.2 NEW LETTERS AND SOUNDS: GROUP A;
Part 2: 1.5 NEW LETTERS AND SOUNDS: GROUP B;
Part 3: 1.15 NEW LETTERS AND SOUNDS: GROUP C
- How to meet and greet people in Russian
Part 1: 1.1 GETTING ACQUAINTED (CASUAL);
1.3 CASUAL GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTIONS;
Part 2: 1.8 FORMAL GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTIONS;
1.10 INFORMAL GREETINGS)
- Addressing people formally vs. informally
Part 2: 1.12 FORMAL GREETINGS
- How to say good-bye
Part 2: 1.13 SAYING GOOD-BYE
- The structure of Russian names
Part 2: 1.6. NAMES AND NICKNAMES; 1.7 PATRONYMICS AND LAST NAMES
- Asking the name of and identifying someone or something
Part 3: 1.20 ASKING THE NAME OF SOMETHING
- How to request, give, and receive something
Part 2: 1.9 REQUESTING, GIVING, RECEIVING
- How to ask and tell location: где, здесь, там, дома
Part 3: 1.19 DISCUSSING LOCATION: WHERE, HERE, AT HOME
- How to express ownership: мой, твой, его, её, наш, ваш, их
Part 4: 1.23 EXPRESSING OWNERSHIP; 1.24
- How to ask and answer questions with and without question words
Part 3: 1.16 ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS
- Intonation in WH-questions
Part 3: 1.17 INTONATION IN WH-QUESTIONS; 1.18 INTONATION IN YES/NO QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS
- Statement intonation vs. yes/no question intonation
Part 3: 1.17 INTONATION IN WH-QUESTIONS; 1.18 INTONATION IN YES/NO QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS)
- Differentiating between hard and soft consonants in pronunciation and spelling
Part 4: 1.25 PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING: PALATALIZATION OF CONSONANTS; 1.26 PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING: MORE ON SOFT-SERIES VOWLES
- Pronunciation of stressed and unstressed vowels
Part 2: 1.11 PRONUNCIATION: STRESSED VS. UNSTRESSED О AND А;
Part 4: 1.27 PRONUNCIATION
- The concept of grammatical gender
Part 3: 1.21 GRAMMATICAL GENDER
- How to make things plural
Part 4: 1.22 PLURAL OF MASCULINE NAD FEMININE NOUNS
- Using и and а for joining and contrasting
Part 4: JOINING AND CONTRASTING