Language Learning Russian

Russian 102: Building Practical Conversation and Grammar

Continue your Russian studies with stronger cases, verbs of motion, everyday conversation, and confident reading practice.

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Quick Course Facts
20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.8
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Russian 102: Building Practical Conversation and Grammar Course

Russian 102: Building Practical Conversation and Grammar is an online Language Learning course for students ready to move beyond beginner basics and use Russian with more control. Continue your Russian studies with stronger cases, verbs of motion, everyday conversation, and confident reading practice. Through practical grammar review, guided speaking topics, and real-world communication tasks, you will build the skills needed for clearer Russian sentences and more natural interaction.

Build Practical Russian Conversation And Grammar Skills

  • Strengthen your understanding of Russian cases for possession, quantity, giving, location, tools, roles, and everyday sentence structure.
  • Improve practical communication for family, routines, shopping, food, travel, health, feelings, and common daily situations.
  • Learn key verb patterns, including present, past, future, reflexive verbs, verb aspect, and verbs of motion.
  • Develop more confident reading and listening skills with short messages, signs, simple texts, and an applied conversation project.

Russian 102 helps you turn beginner Russian knowledge into practical grammar, conversation, and reading ability.

This course begins with a focused review of Russian 101 essentials, including noun gender, plurals, agreement, and the core patterns that support accurate communication. From there, you will expand your Language Learning foundation by studying the genitive, dative, instrumental, and prepositional cases in practical contexts, so you can express possession, quantity, obligation, roles, tools, locations, and topics with greater accuracy.

You will also build stronger control over Russian verbs. Lessons cover present-tense patterns, common irregulars, past-tense agreement, simple and compound future forms, reflexive verbs, and an introduction to verb aspect. These skills help you form clearer sentences, describe actions across time, and understand how Russian speakers organize meaning in everyday conversation.

Russian 102 also emphasizes useful communication. You will practice talking about people, relationships, schedules, routines, shopping, prices, food preferences, health, feelings, and simple problems. Movement and travel lessons introduce verbs of motion, directions, locations, and getting around town, giving you tools for real-life exchanges and travel-related conversations.

By the end of this Language Learning course, you will have stronger grammar awareness, broader vocabulary for daily life, and more confidence reading short Russian texts and participating in practical conversations. You will leave prepared to continue your Russian studies with stronger cases, verbs of motion, everyday conversation, and confident reading practice.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundation Review

2 lessons

This lesson refreshes the core Russian 101 tools students need before moving into Russian 102: Cyrillic reading habits, gender and number, basic case functions, present-tense verbs, common sentence pa…

Lesson 2: Noun Gender, Plurals, and Agreement Refresher

17 min
This lesson refreshes the core noun patterns students need before moving deeper into Russian 102: gender recognition, common plural endings, and basic adjective and possessive agreement. The focus is …

Core Case System

5 lessons

Lesson 3: The Genitive Case for Possession, Quantity, and Negation

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how the Russian genitive case expresses possession, quantity, absence, and negation in practical conversation. The lesson focuses on common noun endings, pronoun pattern…

Lesson 4: Using Numbers with Nouns Correctly

20 min
In this lesson, students learn how Russian numbers control noun forms in everyday speech. The focus is the high-frequency pattern after один , два/три/четыре , and пять and above , with practical atte…

Lesson 5: The Dative Case for Giving, Age, and Obligation

21 min
In this lesson, students learn the main practical uses of the Russian dative case: identifying the recipient of giving or telling, saying someone’s age, and expressing need or obligation with short-fo…

Lesson 6: The Instrumental Case for Roles, Tools, and Accompaniment

21 min
In this lesson, students learn how the Russian instrumental case answers practical questions such as with whom? , with what? , and as what role? . The focus is on everyday uses: going somewhere with a…

Lesson 7: The Prepositional Case for Places and Topics

19 min
In this lesson, students learn how the Russian prepositional case works with places and topics. The focus is practical: saying where someone is, where something happens, and what people are talking or…

Verbs and Sentence Control

5 lessons

Lesson 8: Present-Tense Verb Patterns and Common Irregulars

20 min
In this lesson, students strengthen control of Russian present-tense verbs by reviewing the two main conjugation patterns and practicing how endings connect to subject pronouns. The focus is practical…

Lesson 9: Past Tense with Gender and Number Agreement

19 min
In this lesson, students learn how Russian past tense verbs agree with the gender and number of the subject. The focus is on practical sentence control: choosing -л , -ла , -ло , or -ли accurately whe…

Lesson 10: Future Tense: Simple and Compound Forms

20 min
In this lesson, students learn how Russian expresses the future with two main patterns: the compound future for imperfective verbs and the simple future for perfective verbs. The focus is practical se…

Lesson 11: Introduction to Verb Aspect

24 min
This lesson introduces Russian verb aspect as a practical way to control meaning in sentences. Students learn the basic contrast between imperfective verbs for process, habit, repetition, and general …

Lesson 12: Reflexive Verbs in Daily Life

19 min
This lesson introduces Russian reflexive verbs as a practical tool for describing daily routines, personal states, social interaction, and repeated habits. Students learn how the reflexive ending -ся/…

Everyday Communication

3 lessons

Lesson 13: Talking About Family, People, and Relationships

18 min
In this lesson, students learn practical language for talking about family members, people, and relationships in everyday Russian. The focus is on naming relatives, describing people briefly, asking w…

Lesson 14: Time, Schedules, and Daily Routines

20 min
In this lesson, students learn to talk about time, schedules, and daily routines in practical Russian. The focus is on asking and answering when something happens, using clock time, days of the week, …

Lesson 15: Shopping, Prices, Food, and Preferences

21 min
In this lesson, students practice practical Russian for shopping, asking prices, buying food, and expressing preferences politely. The focus is on useful marketplace and grocery-store phrases, price s…

Movement and Travel

2 lessons

Lesson 16: Verbs of Motion: Going by Foot and by Transport

24 min
This lesson introduces the core Russian verbs of motion for “going” without prefixes: идти / ходить for movement by foot and ехать / ездить for movement by transport. Students learn how Russian separa…

Lesson 17: Directions, Locations, and Getting Around Town

21 min
In this lesson, students learn how to ask for and understand directions in Russian, describe where places are located, and talk about getting around town by walking or transportation. The lesson focus…

Practical Situations

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Health, Feelings, and Simple Problems

18 min
In this lesson, students learn practical Russian for describing health, feelings, and simple everyday problems. The focus is on short, usable phrases such as saying that something hurts, explaining ho…

Reading and Listening Practice

1 lesson

Lesson 19: Reading Short Messages, Signs, and Simple Texts

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how to read short, practical Russian texts such as text messages, building signs, schedule notices, store hours, and simple announcements. The focus is not literary read…

Applied Communication

1 lesson

Lesson 20: Course Integration: A Practical Russian Conversation Project

23 min
In this integration lesson, students bring together the main skills of Russian 102 by preparing and performing a short practical conversation project. The project asks them to use case endings, aspect…
About Your Instructor
Professor Samuel Reed

Professor Samuel Reed

Professor Samuel Reed guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.