Russian Language: Real Breakthrough

Let me introduce you to the Ukrainian writer Valentina Oseeva and to present a fragment from her book "Vasyok Trubachov and His Friends. A magic word, filled with humanism and love for her native country, for Ukraine, passionately proclaiming peace, understanding and brotherhood between people - that is what Valentina Oseeva's work is like. Words that are not part of the minimum vocabulary of the level C1 беспризорный homeless; бич whip; будка hut венок wreath; вскидывать / вскинуть toss; вышитый embroidered; задорный perky cheerful playful изумительный amazing, stupendous картуз cap with a viso (old word)r; клевер clover; корень - root крынка а tall clay vessel with a wide neck for milk; кувшинка water lily лакомиться treat oneself, eat something dainty, delicious лукошко a hand basket of linden bark or twigs; нагибаться / нагнуться bend down; оторачивать / оторочить trim at the edges with braid, cloth or fur; пересыпать pepper (one's speach); пригоршня handfuls; припоминать / припомнить remember, recover in memory; пучок bundle; приёмник here: reception centre; проповедовать proclaim; свешивать / свесить dangling (his head) силиться try; сливаться / слиться merge into; тесьма ribbon, braid;

FREE TRANCRIBTION OF THIS PODCAST ON PATREON. Let me introduce you to the Ukrainian writer Valentina Oseeva and to present a fragment from her book "Vasyok Trubachov and His Friends. A magic word, filled with humanism and love for her native country, for Ukraine, passionately proclaiming peace, understanding and brotherhood between people - that is what Valentina Oseeva's work is like. Words that are not part of the minimum vocabulary of this level беспризорный homeless; венок wreath; выпрямляться / выпрямиться straighten up; вышитый embroidered; говор accent; загорелый sun-baked; корзина basket; коса braid; корень - root луг meadow овёс oats; певучий sonorous; пучок bundle; приёмник here: reception centre; проповедовать proclaim; пшеница buckwheat; пушистый fluffy; стадо heard; тереть / растереть rub; телёнок черешня cherry

Free transcript and assignments for this podcast on patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/63778900 Читаем стихотворение Пушкина о свободе и анализируем его. Словарь стихотворения разбудить awaiken, arouse, погремушка rattle, пастись graze, сеятель sower, семя sed, живительный life'giving, честь honour, стричь shear, бич whip, безвинный innocent, клич cry, пустынный desert, дар gift, бразды furrow& порабощать enslave, наследство inheritance, ярмо yoke, благой good, стадо flock Словарь анализа стихотворения ссы́лка exil, унизи́тельно humiliating, переме́на change, разочарова́ние disappointment, сдава́ться / сда́ться surrender, give up, путь m. way, запреща́ть / запрети́ть prohibit.

I bet your Russian teacher hasn't taught you the game of "Fool"yet. It is your loss! This is the most popular card game in Russia. Learn vocabulary and fight with your Russian friends. You can fight even with a Russian teacher, with me, for example https://teach.italki.com/teacher/804453 Download to the card game lesson at Patreon for free https://www.patreon.com/posts/nas-vsekh-uchili-55400921?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare Держу пари, ваш учитель русского языка ещё вас не научил игре в "дурака". А зря! Это самая популярная карточная игра в России. Выучите лексику и сразитесь с вашими русскими друзьями в гостях, на даче или онлайн! Загрузите бесплатно на урок игры в карты на Патреоне.

I bet your Russian teacher hasn't taught you the game of "Fool"yet. It is your loss! This is the most popular card game in Russia. Learn vocabulary and fight with your Russian friends. You can fight even with a Russian teacher, with me, for example https://teach.italki.com/teacher/804453 Download to the card game lesson at Patreon for free https://www.patreon.com/posts/nas-vsekh-uchili-55400921?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare Держу пари, ваш учитель русского языка ещё вас не научил игре в "дурака". А зря! Это самая популярная карточная игра в России. Выучите лексику и сразитесь с вашими русскими друзьями в гостях, на даче или онлайн! Загрузите бесплатно урок игры в карты на Патреоне.

What are the first words that Russian students learn in English? Goat, hen, cow, horse, kitten, bee, pig and piglet. But do you know these words in Russian? If not, I will help to fill the gaps in your knowledge. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://teach.italki.com/teacher/804453 You can also download scripts with vocabulary and pictures for FREE here https://www.patreon.com/yulia_stepanova This funny story will help us discuss many interesting topics in Russian. Have you seen these animals in real life? Where do you prefer to live – in the city or the countryside? We will talk about why people give up their life in big cities and go to the countryside. A lot of exercises on new vocabulary and grammar to make you feel confident in this topic.

What are the first words that Russian students learn in English? Goat, hen, cow, horse, kitten, bee, pig and piglet. But do you know these words in Russian? If not, I will help you fill the gaps in your knowledge. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki Yulia Stepanova Italki Teacher You can also download scripts of this podcast with vocabulary and pictures for FREE here https://www.patreon.com/yulia_stepanova This story is about a Russian teenager who breeds goats. This funny story will help us discuss many interesting topics in Russian. Have you seen these animals in real life? Where do you prefer to live – in the city or the countryside? We will talk about why people give up their life in big cities and go to the countryside. Have you ever heard about an American Justus Walker @justuswalker who is farming in Siberia? His infectious laugh and perfect Russian will motivate you to speak Russian better (and perhaps to move to Russia one day. :) A lot of exercises on new vocabulary and grammar to make you feel confident in this topic.

I present you a funny story by Nossov how two boys cooked porridge. Sparkling humor, a huge number of dialogues will help you sound natural and joke in everyday conversations with your Russian friends. Grammar: verbs лить pour (water), сыпать pour (cereals), класть put with prefixes. You will "see" these verbs in the lesson thanks to a lot of illustrations. We also pour (нальём or насыпем) water or cereal into a mug, pour (выльем or высыпем) it out of a mug, add (дольём or досыпем) it to a mug, pour (перельём or пересыпем) it from one mug to another , this is how we will train grammar during the lesson! Learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on italki https://teach.italki.com/teacher/804453 You can receive scrips and exercises for these podcasts here https://www.patreon.com/yulia_stepanova (some of them for free) If you new at Italki, with this referral link first lessons will be for free https://www.italki.com/i/ref/cD66E?hl=en

Écoutez un poème puissant de Konstantin Simonov écrit à la veille de la fin de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale en Europe. Vérifiez votre compréhension de l'écoute avec la traduction française parallèle dans son intégralité et ligne par ligne. Simonov était un écrivain et un correspondant de guerre et un poète qui a marché toute la guerre aux côtés des soldats soviétique. !!! Cette poésie se compose de 53 mots, 14 (26%) d'entre eux sont en cas instrumental! Apprenez encore plus (sur le sujet, le vocabulaire et des exercices) en réservant une leçon avec moi sur italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova merci Aurélien pour la traduction et l'enregistrement en français https://youtu.be/ZgE1yXQjpkg Grammaire: Cas instrumental des Adjectifs et des Participes, "тот, что", "та, что", "то, что" 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.

ヨーロッパで第二次世界大戦の終わりの前夜に書かれたコンスタンチン・シーモノフの絶大な詩に耳を傾けてください。 シーモノフはこの戦争を作家、詩人、記者として、ソビエトの兵士と一緒に経験しました。 あなたのリスニング理解を完全かつ行ごとに並列した日本語翻訳で確認してください。 !!! この詩は53の単語から成っています、それらの14の単語（26％）は造格です！ Italkiで私のレッスンを予約することにより、語彙や演習で、トピックスなどについてさらに多くを学びます。 https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova レッスンの文法：形容詞と形動詞造格、"тот, что/кто"、"та, что/кто"、"то, что"。 *** 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.

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.

A lesson about patriotism with parallel translation Russian-English. 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: Genitive Cases of Nouns and Adjectives, который, Proverbs etc.

A fragment from the book "Детство Никиты" (Nikita's Childhood) by Alexey Tolstoy with parallel Russian-English translation. After 17:57 - the same story only in English. Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to practice new words and grammar. Enjoy listening and practicing two languages - Russian and English!

A fragment from the book "Детство Никиты" by Alexey Tolstoy with parallel Russian-Italian translation in collaboration with https://www.ispeakitaliano.it/blog/ Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to practice new words and grammar. Enjoy listening and practicing two languages - Russian and Italian!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: Another way to say "one's (my, your, his etc.) ко мне на кровать instead of на мою кровать and у меня на кровати instead of на моей кровати Idioms with cats (кот наплакал = very few etc.) Verbs of motion with prefixes. and many other grammar exercises. After we train all vocabulary and grammar of the lesson, let's play a journalist and take an interview of Kuklachov. Use funny pictures to retell this entire story.

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: Short adjectives and participles, Verbs of motion with prefixes, etc After we train all vocabulary and grammar of the lesson, let's play a journalist and take an interview of Kuklachov. Use funny pictures 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 • Find out about a love story of a Japanese girl Hanako Ishii and Richard Sorge, a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. • If you like to discuss politics, we will speak about spying, stereotypes that we have when talking about spies etc. Try to compare Richard Sorge to James Bond. • You will remember new vocabulary with Quizlet Flash Cards, that I already prepared for you. We will use the new words many times during our conversation, so it can be easier for you to remember them. We can learn even more by doing extra exercises too. • You will become more confident in using Russian to describe and speak on your own unassisted and will learn to tell this story using drawings to help you along. • Grammar: Prepositions, Past Passive Participles.

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. I am presenting an interesting topic to discuss stereotypes in sports. You will enlarge your vocabulary about sports with some morphology making nouns from adjectives with suffixes -ость (гибкость, выносливость, женственность, гибкость etc. You will train the Past Passive Participles (завоёванная медаль, пропущенный гол, заслуженная награда etc.) You will learn some idioms with the Past Passive Participles and you will do many other interesting speaking, listening and writing exercises that will help you remember the new vocabulary and grammar.

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. In this lesson we will discuss all the different things you've learned in the past (perhaps, chess, skating, music, languages etc.). What is your opinion on forcing children to study things they do not like? I will show you how to form adjectives with suffix -тельный (занимательный, оглушительный etc.), You will review verbs учить, учиться, изучать and even обучать etc. We will examine some Russian paintings and Soviet posters, play with proverbs about learning and we will practice new words through numerous fun exercises.

Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B1 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. I am presenting an interesting topic to discuss stereotypes in sports. You will work on your vocabulary by expanding within the same family of words . You will be able to form nouns from verbs with suffixes -ание, -ение (that is very close to English "ing" - плавать swim -> плавание swimming and you will learn all adjectives with suffix -шний (завтрашний tomorrow's etc.) And in this way it will be much easier to create new Russian words! You will remember conjugations of verbs like тренироваться train, соревноваться compete, завоевать win, добиться get, obtain; We will try to interview each other, imagining you are an athlete or a journalist.

Listen to a story about Russian model, mother of 5 children, and philanthropist Natalia Vodyanova. 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 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. We will discuss marriage traditions in Tsarist Russia, in Soviet Union and now. We will study and analyse a graph with the number of marriages and divorces in the URSS and nowadays Russia and we will think what influenced them. Grammar: numbers.

Listen to a story about Russian model, mother of 5 children, and philanthropist Natalia Vodyanova. 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 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. Book 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. On this lesson we will discuss what you have ever studied (perhaps, chess, skating, musics, languages etc.). in your life and did you find this is good to force children study things they do not like or they would need it in their future. We will train instrumental case, учить, учиться, изучать etc., похож. We will examine some Russian painting, we will play with proverbs about studies and we will easily remember many new words.