OUR TECHNIQUE FOR TEACHING RUSSIAN

Due to the fact that we mostly teach Russian to adult learns, who speak English, we have to take into account a number of aspects and pitfalls to make learning Russian really effective. To a certain degree, our teaching technique imitates the way a child learns to speak his native language. In particular, we start with producing simple sounds and move slowly to more complex grammatical subjects. As you already speak your native language, the learning process for you is mainly focused on comparing the two languages and looking for points of contact.

We believe that teaching technique is one of the key elements, which ensures you will learn the materials on the site in the most effective way. What really makes our technique unique is that we show you what result you will get and give you all the means to achieve it. When you see all the grammar materials that you have to learn you feel like a person who has to cross a big lake. You are not sure that you will be able to reach the other bank of the lake because you do not see the other bank, which sometimes might be frustrating, and even impair your motivation to move forward. For this reason, we did our best to avoid two drawbacks of the typical teaching technique:

1. Studying boring grammar non-stop, which kills motivation;

2. Throwing learners into the bottomless pit with no clear horizon.

With this technique, you do not know what tangible results you will get. You do not know at what point you would want to stop learning Russian and how much more you have to learn Russian to start speaking the way you want. This uncertainty results in losing motivation with a lapse of time.

We try to motivate you in every step by giving you an objective and the result that you will get after covering the distance. Grammar lessons form so-called packages. This way, the grammar lessons are the core of the site while the lessons of the other sections accompany corresponding grammar lessons. Every package consists of a series of lessons from the Dialogues, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation sections. Normally the package starts with a general video lesson then you learn about different aspects and once you learned all the theory, you start practicing. For example, when you hit the lesson dedicated to simple sentences you will learn everything you need to know in order to build simple sentences in Russian so you could make simple sentences.

We gradually introduce new parts of speech so that you could recall the materials you mastered before and see how new elements should be positioned in a sentence. This way you master a new piece of grammar and enforce the knowledge that you have already acquired.

Switching from English to Russian, you are always going to deal with inconsistencies between the two languages and two cultures. We explain the inconsistencies for eliminating all the gaps so that you could consume information easily and effectively without asking such questions as why and how and getting stumbled on unknown things.

You do not have to rack your brains making up sentences as we offer you a list of the most commonly used sentence patterns. All you have to do is just to learn to use a pattern and all grammar attached to it. Moreover, you can be sure that you will get your message across correctly and accurately.

As you can see for yourself the materials we teach in our lessons are 100% practical - master a package and feel free to use it in real-life speech!