Readings in Russian. Leo Tolstoy (2).

This course is a logical continuation of “Readings in Russian. Leo Tolstoy (1)”. You will read and analyze five more short stories written by the Great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. All lectures are sub-titled and recorded twice: at a slower pace and at a faster pace. Plenty of supplementary materials, exercises and step-by step instructions will help you improve reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. At the end of this course, you will be able to put word stresses correctly, imitate native speaker's intonation, recognize and understand old language forms and idioms, expand Russian vocabulary, improve grammar, and so forth. Last but not least is that you will be introduced to the phenomena of Russian culture and mentality discovered by Leo Tolstoy.