For students with approximately 200 hours of prior formal classroom instruction in Russian. In this class students review the basic grammatical and syntactical structures of the Russian language and improve their mastery of this foundation of the language while acquiring an active vocabulary of approximately 1,700 words. We expect students to complete this course with intermediate-mid to intermediate high language skills.

Primary Textbooks: Rifkin, Grammatika v kontekste (1996), McGraw-Hill; Merrill / Mikhailova / Alley, Animation for Russian Conversation (2008), Focus Publishing; coursepack. Merrill & staff.