Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills while also expanding the student's cultural literacy. Key features include: Structured chapters presenting a wide assortment of readings that include blogs, forums and surveys as well as opinion pieces and commentaries. Each text is accompanied by assignments with increasing levels of difficulty. Authentic and up-to-date readings, video and audio excerpts covering a range of relevant social and cultural topics, including Demography, Youth Culture, Politics and Society, Economics and Globalization. Video clips from news programs that are used not only to develop listening comprehension but also introduce students to contemporary Russian society. Particular attention to helping students acquire advanced vocabulary and the ability to converse, discuss and argue about issues with extended paragraph-length discourse. Special focus on the development of strong listening and reading comprehension skills, ensuring that students understand the ideas and supporting details in narrative and descriptive texts and connected discourse. A free companion website at http://www.russian.ucla.edu/AdvancedRussian/ offering student and instructor video and audio resources, sample syllabi and tests as well as additional materials. Written by a highly experienced author team that has co-authored the first year Russian textbook Beginner's Russian (2010) and the second-year textbook V Puti (2005). Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced will be an essential resource for undergraduate students in their third and fourth year of Russian language study. It is also suitable for heritage learners of Russian who have mastered literacy and are familiar with the grammatical structure of Russian. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Введение 7 Что в каждой главе 9 Icons used in this textbook 19 Photo credits 19 Глава 1. Oбразование и 21 век 20 Глава 2. Работа и жизнь 54 Глава 3. Свободное время и образ жизни 88 Глава 4. Семья и семейные отношения 122 Глава 5. Город, пригород и деревня 164 Глава б. Молодёжь и общество 212 Глава 7. 3доровье и вредные привычки 252 Глава 8. Политика и общество 292 Глава 9. Экономика и общество 328 Глава 10. Россия и глобальные проблемы современности 368 Приложения 406 Appendix 1: Declension of nouns, adjectives, and pronouns 406 Appendix 4: Conjugation of verbs of motion without prefixes 424 Appendix 5: Verbs of motion with prefixes 425 Appendix 7: Formation of participles 431 Appendix 8: Verbal adverbs 433 Appendix 9: Punctuation 434 Русско-английский словарь 438 Index 467
