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Survival Russian: Your First 30 Situations (L2)

CEFR A1–A2 · Thirty situations you will actually meet — where the unsmiling stranger is being polite, not hostile, and where a direct answer is a form of respect.

Professional electiveBeginnerRussianCertificateAligned: CEFR level A1–A2
2 modules 13 lessons 14 enrolled ~12h of material

First three lessons free. Full access with Karka Pass from ₹49 for 7 days (7 days ₹49 · 30 days ₹199 · 1 year ₹1,999).

Survival Russian: Your First 30 Situations (L2)

By the end

What you'll build

  • Handle thirty everyday Russian situations with the right words and register
  • Choose correctly between ты and вы
  • Read Russian directness and reserve without mistaking either for hostility
  • Handle hospitality — shoes, food, toasts and the refusal ritual
  • Use patronymics and understand the three-part name system
  • Navigate transport, shops and health

Curriculum

What's inside

2 modules · 13 lessons

  1. 01

    Register, Names and the Social Logic

    9 lessons
    • Ты, Вы, and the Unsmiling Stranger
    • Greeting and Meetinglistening lab
    • Word Power: The Survival Fifteenword power
    • Hospitality and the Table
    • The Social Rulesfill blank
    • + 4 more lessons
  2. 02

    Survival Booster — Numbers, Food & Getting Around

    4 lessons
    • Numbers, Money & Timeword power
    • Food & Market Essentialsword power
    • Listen: At the Marketlistening lab
    • Say It: Ten Survival Phrasesspeaking lab

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

13 lessons across 2 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.

Practice as you go

Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.

A certificate at the end

Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.

Ready when you are.

Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.