Goals for Урок 1
By the end of this unit you will be able to:
- read and write Russian words aloud and silently for meaning
- name basic words for people, places, clothing and everyday objects in Russian
- ask and tell where things are located and to whom they belong
- understand numbers from 0-10 and count up to 10
- understand greetings and greet people at different times of day
- understand and use greetings at different levels of formality
- make acquaintances in Russian
- use very common politeness formulas
- recognize the conventions for names in Russian and their connection with levels of formality
To accomplish these outcomes, you will learn this information about the language:
- how the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet encode sounds
- how word stress and vowel reduction change the pronounciation of Russian words
- how Russian’s system of paired vowels relates to the concept of hard and soft consonants
- how nouns are divided into a system of genders in Russian
- what levels of formality there are and how they are expressed (ты / вы , привет vs. здравствуйте)
- how the dictionary form of a noun relates to its stem
- how to make nouns plural
- how to make possessive adjectives (my, your, our, etc.) agree with nouns
