If you have been following the rigorous curriculum of the Russian Institute (whether the renowned GITIS theater school or a structured language immersion program), you know that the first seven lessons are about survival. You learned the Cyrillic alphabet, basic pleasantries, the dreaded prepositional case, and how to order pelmeni without pointing at the menu.
Your task now is simple: Close this article, open your workbook to Lesson 8, and conjugate идти ten times. Then, reward yourself with a cup of Russian tea. You have earned it. russian institute lesson 8
Do not be discouraged by the high dropout rate. Every fluent English speaker who learned Russian remembers the week they spent crying over стульев versus стулов (it's стульев , by the way). If you have been following the rigorous curriculum