At these classes, children will learn Russian letters and sounds and start reading and writing. The lessons will be full of exciting and age appropriate activities: reading short stories, reciting poems, solving puzzles, watching and discussing animated cartoons, and playing games.

Russian for Beginners teaches Russian from scratch to students with no prior exposure, regardless of age. Students learn the Cyrillic alphabet and begin their study of Russian vocabulary.

A special program is available for bilingual children growing up in households with at least one Russian-speaking parent. These kids face special challenges, and LMLC’s program sets them up for success and fluency.

Russian For Native Speakers follows the curriculum of Russian schools, including rigorous study of grammar, literature, and writing. Not going to school in Russia doesn’t have to mean missing out on Russian schooling. The goal of this course is to acquaint the kids with the Russian culture and history and to arouse their interest in further systematic studies.

The main topics of the program are:

Language:

• Russian phonetics
• Spelling
• Parts of words
• Parts of speech and their function in sentences
• Noun cases
• Verb conjugation
• Punctuation
• Complex and compound sentences
• Direct and indirect speech

Literature: poems and novels by Russian writers (Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov; Dragunsky, Nosov, Shvartz, and other classic and modern Russian writers and poets) :

At the lessons the students will

• Learn to print and write in cursive Russian
• Do grammar and spelling assignments
• Read, listen to and discuss books (poems, tales and stories by Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov; Dragunsky, Nosov, Shvartz, and other Russian writers)
• Watch and discuss animated cartoons
• Solve word puzzles
• Play age appropriate learning games