Your Life in Russian: the A2 Capstone
This is not a new grammar lesson — it's the moment everything you've built becomes one connected story: yours. «Расскажите о себе» opens language exams, job interviews and long train conversations. After this lesson, it's your easiest question.
The Skeleton
Every self-presentation walks the same path — and you already own every room of this house:
The Mortar
Connectors turn six statements into one story:
The Exam Question
Расскажите о себе.
Tell me about yourself.
Note: расскажите — a polite perfective imperative, like дайте and скажите. Now answer it.
A model answer, three minutes, nothing you haven't learned:
Checkpoint
Common Mistakes
- A list instead of a story. Six sentences without connectors sound like a form being filled in. One потому что fixes a paragraph.
- Perfect grammar, zero personality. Add one true detail — your cat, your worst commute — and the listener remembers you.
- Stopping at the present. Close with a plan (я буду…, я поеду…) — endings that look forward land better.
What You Can Do Now
You can present yourself for three connected minutes — who you are, your people, your work, your loves, your plans. That's the whole of Chapters 1–4 speaking in one voice: yours. Next stop: B1, where you'll learn to argue about it all.