RL 102-11 Basic Russian Grammar lesson 11

Original playout date: 24 October 2007
Duration: 12:48

We continue with Dative constructions, used much more in Russian than in Western European languages. Everyone in the room, says Huli, gets kicked into the dative case and nobody is the subject of the sentence, therefore they are impersonal, and in Russian that’s much more idiomatic.
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RL102 – 10 Basic Russian Grammar Lesson 10

Original playout date: 9 August 2007
Duration: 19:50

Explaining the expressions with the dative case of personal pronouns, мне надо, etc.
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RL 102-9 Basic Russian Grammar lesson 9

Original playout date: 11 July 2007
Duration: 16:34

This lesson is all about how to be able to do something, covering umet’ and razumeetsya, as well as “mozhno” and similar constructions with dative pronouns.
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RL102-8 Basic Russian grammar lesson 8

Original playout date: 24 June 2007
Duration: 10:01

Kicking off with an inexplicable session of face exercises, Huliganov explains how personal pronouns are affected by being precede by a preposition, in particular “Y” which gives you the idea of having.
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RL 102-7 Basic Russian Grammar Lesson 7

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Playout date: 8 June 2007
Duration: 11:47

We take the direct object pronouns, the accusative/genitive forms of the personal pronouns, and a quick revision of verbs.
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