The Cyrillic alphabet -- Russian pronunciation -- Getting around Russia -- Russian cuisine: introduction to nouns and adjectives -- Russian names and family -- Descriptions and possessions -- Introduction to Russian verbs and numerals -- Making connections: nouns, verbs, and pronouns -- Transitive verbs -- Happy birthday in Russian -- Verbal aspect and verbs of motion -- Daily life and impersonal constructions -- Reflexive verbs and the instrumental case -- The genitive case -- Sentence structure and the imperative -- The conditional mood and complex sentences.