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RUSLAN 1 CONTENTS
Lesson 1 - Аэропорт - The airport
Ivan and Lyudmila arrive at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport.
The typical foreigner loses his visa
Simple sentences - no verb "to be" in the present tense
How to ask a question by raising your voice
Masculine and feminine nouns
он / она and мой / моя
Lesson 2 - Улица - The street
Ivan finds his way to the centre. The foreigner can't find the Bolshoy Theatre
я знаю / вы знаете
в and на meaning "to" a place
Neuter nouns
Imperatives
Numbers 1-10
Lesson 3 - Семья - The family
Ivan arrives at Zoya Petrovna's flat and meets Lyudmila again
The genitive singular of nouns
Spelling rules
можно and нельзя
Russian names
Lesson 4 - Где вы были? - Where were you?
Ivan meets Vadim
The use of ты - the familiar form of "you"
Numbers 10-100
Months of the year
The prepositional case with в and на na meaning "at" a place
Recognition of infinitives
Introduction to the past tense
The full present tense of знать - to know
Lesson 5 - Гостиница - The hotel
Ivan books in to the hotel Mars and telephones Lyudmila. There are no cockroaches in the hotel
Days of the week
Short adjectives - открыт and закрыт
The present tense of говорить - to speak
The constructions у меня and у вас used for "I have" and "you have"
Lesson 6 - Ресторан - The restaurant
Ivan takes Lyudmila for a meal. The foreigner refuses the soup
More verbs: хотеть - to want, идти - to go by foot. давать - to give
More about neuter nouns
The accusative case
Adjectives in the nominative case
The word for "which" - какой
Lesson 7 - О себе - About oneself
Vadim sees them in the restaurant. The foreigner has more problems with soup
The preposition о meaning "about" taking the prepositional case
Masculine and feminine nouns ending in a soft sign
Neuter nouns ending in -мя
Impersonal constructions - интересно
Review of verbs
Numbers above 100
Lesson 8 - Время - Time
Peter arrives from England. Ivan invites Lyudmila to the opera
Using the telephone in Russia
The nominative plural of nouns and adjectives
The genitive plural of masculine nouns
The irregular verb мочь - "to be able to"
Telling the time in whole hours
Lesson 9 - Театр - The theatre
Ivan and Lyudmila at the opera. Why does Lyudmila ring Zoya Petrovna?
Reflexive verbs in present tense
The dative singular of nouns
The use of любить - "to love" and нравиться "to please"
The verb играть with в and the accusative - "to play a sport"
the use of раз - "a time"
Lesson 10 - Дом - The house
Lyudmila and Tamara discussing Peter. It's time he got married...
The instrumental singular of nouns
The spelling rule that affects the letter o
The genitive plural of feminine and soft sign nouns
The verb igrat' with na and the prepositional - to play an instrument
The irregular verb спать "to sleep"
Review of case endings
The declension of nouns
The declension of personal pronouns
The declension of the question words что and кто
RUSLAN 2 CONTENTS
Урок 1 - Семейный альбом
Talking about family and friends
Accusative singular of adjectives
Nominative and accusative plural of adjectives
Instrumental singular case with быть, интересоваться etc.
Talking about your age
Reading passage on Saint Petersburg
Урок 2 - Почта
Using a Russian post office
Introduction to verb aspects - perfective and imperfective
Plural of nouns and pronouns - dative, instrumental and prepositional
Ordinal numbers
Урок 3 - Погода
Talking about the weather
Comparative adjectives and adverbs
Numbers in the genitive case
Reading passage on the Russian climate
Урок 4 - Договорились?
Making arrangements to meet and go out
Future tenses, perfective and imperfective
Genitive singular of adjectives
Telling the time - minutes past and to the hour
Reading passage on the Moscow metro
Урок 5 - Поликлиника
Going to the doctor's
Parts of the body
The genitive, dative and instrumental singular of feminine adjectives
The dative singular of masculine adjectives
Reading a fax from Moscow
Song - "Не уезжай, ты, мой голубчик!"
Урок 6 - Магазин
Going shopping
Colours and sizes
The prepositional singular of masculine adjectives
Superlative adjectives
Summary of adjective and possessive pronoun endings and этот
Reading passage on Cadbury's in Russia
Урок 7 - Сергиев Посад
Travelling by train
Introduction to verbs of motion
The use of который - "which"
The genitive plural of adjectives
Урок 8 - Работа и отдых
Talking about work and leisure
More verbs of motion
The conditional mood
The "animate accusative"
Урок 9 - Как он выглядит?
Describing people
Personal pronouns себя and сам
Possessive pronoun свой
Negatives ничто, никто and никогда
Неужели and разве
Reading passage "Excursion on the Volga"
Урок 10 - Шереметьево
Air travel
General revision
Expressing the date
Reading passage from "Московская Правда"
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