Russian

Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a contemporary, communicative textbook designed to help learners to progress to advanced proficiency in Russian.

Organized around culturally and socially relevant themes from across the Russophone world, the textbook develops students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. This second edition retains the pedagogical framework of the first edition while incorporating updated materials that reflect contemporary developments in Russian-speaking cultures.

Key features include:

· chapter structure that gradually develops students’ ability to engage in extended discourse, progressing from description and narration to discussion, debate, argumentation, and hypothesizing;

· authentic readings, audio, and video materials drawn from a wide range of genres, including video blogs, interviews, opinion pieces, social media, surveys, infographics, and news reports;

· broader representation of the Russophone world, including perspectives from Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltic states, Eastern Europe, and Russian-speaking diasporic communities;

· collaborative task-based activities and projects that engage learners’ creativity while allowing them to practice communicative competence through realistic scenarios;

· 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 students understand the ideas and supporting details in narrative and descriptive texts and connected discourse;

· an author website offering multimedia resources for students and instructors, lexical and grammar exercises, and additional materials is available via www.routledge.com/9781032432281.

Written by the experienced author team behind Beginner’s Russian (2010, 2022) and V Puti (2005, 2025), this textbook is an essential resource for students of Russian working towards Advanced (ACTFL) or B2-C1 (CEFR) level proficiency in Russian. It is also suitable for heritage learners of Russian who have mastered literacy and are familiar with the grammatical structure of Russian.