Course Details

Russian for Beginners

Academic Year 2025/26

VYR001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Topics – introductions, greetings, phone conversations, nationalities, visiting someone, family.

Phonetics and orthography of the Russian language – Cyrillic alphabet, stress, intonation, pronunciation, spelling.

Grammar – forms of address, numerals, verb conjugation, basic noun declension patterns, personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive verbs, verb phrases.



Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Lucie Strnadová

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

None.

Aims

Mastery of the basics of Russian, including the Cyrillic alphabet in both written and spoken form, basic vocabulary, and grammar. The ability to read, translate, and produce very simple texts. The student will meet the course objectives by mastering the fundamentals of Russian — that is, the written and spoken Cyrillic alphabet, basic vocabulary, and essential grammar structures — as well as by demonstrating the ability to read, translate, and create very simple Russian texts. 

 

Basic Literature

Materiály zpracované vyučující kurzu. Doporučená literatura: JELÍNEK, S. a kol. Raduga 1 po-novomu, Plzeň, Nakladatelství Fraus, 2007 [128 str.] ISBN 978-80-7238-659-8 (ru)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/294920

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.Introductory lesson, Russian alphabet - reading, writing
  • 2.1L-Introducing people, dialogues, exercises, negative forms, stressed and unstressed syllables, Russian alphabet practice, reading, writing - letters "t, a, k, o, m, b, z, e, n, v, u, je, ja"
  • 3.2L-Meeting people, reading and listening of dialogues, new vocabulary and phrases, letters "i, l, č, š, y", Russian rhymes
  • 4.2L-greetings, phoning, dialogues, exercises, stressed and unstressed syllables, intonation of interrogative and declarative sentences, nominative of nouns in addressing people, formal and informal addressing of people
  • 5.2L-letters "g, d, j, r, s", numerals 1-10 in nominative case, grammar and vocabulary practice, role play
  • 6.3L-Do you speak Russian?, listening and reading of dialogues, letters "ž, f, c, šč, ch, jo, ju", Russian rhymes, days in a week, numerals 11-20
  • 7.3L-basic personal information, nationalities, dialogues, exercises, flexible accent, intonation of declarative and interrogative sentences
  • 8.3L-negative forms of verbs, conjugation of verbs "live, know, speak" in present tense, grammar and vocabulary practice, role play
  • 9.4L-On a visit, dialogues, exercises, unstressed "o, a", intonation of exclamatory sentences, numerals 30-90 and 100-900
  • 10.4L-Birthday, personal pronouns, conjugation of verbs "call, be, learn, watch", song, revision
  • 11.5L-Family, dialogues, exercises, intonation of questions, nouns after numerals 2, 3, 4, role play
  • 12.5L-personal and possessive pronouns, conjugation of verbs "work, learn", family relations, additional text, revision
  • 13.Revision, summary, games