{"id":8920,"date":"2022-05-31T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:05:02","slug":"new-course-beginner-russian-for-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2022\/05\/31\/new-course-beginner-russian-for-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Course: Beginner Russian for Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most beginner language courses prepare you for travel basics. Nothing wrong with that, we have a travel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2020\/12\/21\/essentials-online-language-course\/\">\u201cEssentials\u201d course<\/a>\u00a0in 80+ languages if you need it.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you\u2019re a beginner with more serious personal and professional needs?<\/p>\n<p>Do more than just survive your next vacation. <strong>Thrive in the Russophone world personally and professionally with 118+ hours of material in the Beginner Russian for Professionals course!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8921\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-1024x564.png\" alt=\"Russian A1-A2 Course Online\" width=\"666\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-350x193.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals.png 1418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What will you learn?<\/h2>\n<p>This course will take you from true beginner to CEFR A2 (ACTFL Intermediate-Mid) with 118+ hours of learning materials, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>41 conversation lessons<\/li>\n<li>69 grammar lessons<\/li>\n<li>1,911 vocabulary items<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a beginner, nothing will build your proficiency faster than learning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2019\/05\/20\/why-focus-on-vocabulary\/\">the most useful, high-frequency vocabulary<\/a>. But providing basic vocab lists (like \u201ccolors\u201d or \u201cdirections\u201d) actually\u00a0hurts\u00a0your ability to retain what you\u2019re learning due to \u201csemantic interference\u201d. It\u2019s also just not very fun. ?\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Instead, when we develop lessons, we think of a common scenario and tell a story about it. What scenarios are you likely to be in? Who are the characters you\u2019ll interact with? What conversations would you have?<\/p>\n<p>This approach lends itself to more natural speech you might not find in a textbook approach, as well as other retention tactics like \u201cspiraling\u201d (resurfacing previously learned material) and \u201cinterleaving\u201d (reinforcing material in multiple modalities and contexts). A lesson about grocery shopping can weave in numbers, colors, food items, etc. in a more effective and memorable way.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 12 units contain three lesson types that support this storytelling format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conversation lessons <\/strong>are 60-minute exercises based on the unit theme. For example, in a unit about the workplace, a new employee gets a tour of the office and is shown his desk. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8924\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-Conversation-Lesson-GIF.gif\" alt=\"Beginner Russian for Professionals - Conversation Lesson \" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vocab lessons <\/strong>are 30-minute exercised that build vocabulary needed to understand the theme and the conversations. In the workplace unit, a supporting vocab lesson teaches both common objects around the office and possessive terms, both of which are seen in the conversation. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8922\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-Grammar-Lesson-GIF.gif\" alt=\"Beginner Russian for Professionals - Grammar \" width=\"581\" height=\"327\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Grammar lessons <\/strong>are 20-minute exercises that expand on grammar patterns seen elsewhere in the unit. For example, to help understand grammar introduced in the office tour conversation, a grammar lesson explicitly teaches possessive pronouns in the prepositional case. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8923\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-Vocab-Lesson-GIF.gif\" alt=\"Beginner Russian for Professionals - Vocab Lesson\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Beginner Russian for Professionals is available now in Transparent Language Online.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparent.com\/login\/\"><strong>Log in<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparent.com\/trial\/\"><strong>try it free<\/strong><\/a><strong>, or\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparent.com\/libraries\/find-transparent-language-online.html\"><strong>find it free at a library near you<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>? Looking for more? Stay tuned\u2014Intermediate Russian for Professionals (CEFR B1-B2) is on its way later this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-350x193.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Russian A1-A2 Course Online\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-350x193.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/05\/Beginner-Russian-for-Professionals.png 1418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Most beginner language courses prepare you for travel basics. Nothing wrong with that, we have a travel\u00a0\u201cEssentials\u201d course\u00a0in 80+ languages if you need it. But what if you\u2019re a beginner with more serious personal and professional needs? Do more than just survive your next vacation. Thrive in the Russophone world personally and professionally with 118+&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2022\/05\/31\/new-course-beginner-russian-for-professionals\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":8921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[520016,542993],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-learners","category-learning-material-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}