Complete Russian Course for Beginners (A1-A2)

Explore practical text and multimedia resources for the A1 introduction, including online video and PDF files, with audio, text materials, and ideologies about a rescue team.

Explore the Russian alphabet and reading with guided pronunciation of vowels and consonants, including soft sign and solid sign usage, notes on articles and the present tense of 'to be'.

Learn basic Russian greetings and simple sentences, practice reading and translating everyday objects, and understand the absence of articles in Russian compared to English.

Learn how Russian noun gender—masculine, feminine, and neutral—is determined by endings, with dom and tramvaj (masculine), machina and ya (feminine), vino (neutral), and exceptions like papa.

Explore how to identify masculine, feminine, and neuter Russian nouns by endings, and learn exceptions and key neuter nouns like ima and vremia, plus the soft sign rule.

Practice asking questions in Russian with rising intonation while mastering possessive pronouns (my, your, his, hers, our) across gendered nouns using examples like this is my house.

Learn popular Russian phrases for beginners, including please and thank you, and practice informal and formal plural forms through dialogues in daily settings like a bank or park.

discover how to form Russian plurals by gender, using male, female, and neuter patterns, with adding e after consonants or replacing endings with e, plus common exceptions and possessive pronouns.

Explore the Russian 'whose' constructions in a beginner lesson, matching the object's gender (masculine, feminine, neuter, plural) rather than the speaker, with examples like whose house and whose watch.

Practice negation and denial in Russian at level A1, exploring common phrases, basic vocabulary, and patronymic name conventions through examples and translation exercises.

Conjugate first-group Russian verbs in present tense by dropping the last two letters and adding gendered endings, and practice imperative forms and present simple versus present continuous in dialogues.

Learn to count in Russian, master number endings and common pronunciations, and tell time using military format. Practice days of the week questions, and basic weather phrases.

Learn to apply adjective endings by gender in Russian, distinguish masculine, feminine, neutral, and plural forms, and use demonstrative pronouns for this/that and what kind of questions.

Learn how to use that and because in Russian, study ordinal forms, and identify masculine, feminine, neutral, and plural endings with practical examples.

Learn how to use formal and informal Russian when asking and stating professions, and practice introductions with common occupations like doctor, engineer, teacher, journalist, and lawyer.

This lesson covers Russian verb conjugation, introducing two verb groups. Learn how to form the second group by dropping the last three letters, memorize exceptions, and apply pronoun endings.

Explore the accusative case in Russian, mastering motion verbs and gender-based endings, animate vs inanimate rules, and the use of v and na with cities, countries, stores, and events.

Explore the basics of Russian adjectives and adverbs, learn how to answer questions with correct endings, and practice gender-based forms and word order in simple sentences.

Learn the Russian past tense by gender and number, using masculine, feminine, neutral, and plural endings after dropping the verb ending; contrast with present tense examples.

Explore the Russian accusative case, including how adjectives and possessive pronouns change endings by gender and number, and how verbs trigger accusative forms with examples.

Master irregular conjugations and second group endings, memorize common Russian verbs, and apply the accusative case after every word as you practice conjugation.

Learn to form the future tense in Russian by using the verb to be with an infinitive, with pronoun-specific conjugations in the first group, easy and similar to English.

Learn the Russian prepositional case across four situations—about, where, transport, and months—using gendered endings, with key notes on endings and the pro vs about distinction and exceptions.

Explore the Russian prepositional case, memorize its endings for adjectives and possessive pronouns, and use the downloadable guide to master exceptions and space rules.

Learn about popular reflexive verbs, their present, past, and future conjugations. Distinguish prepositional versus accusative usage in Russian with examples like studying and being, and master location rules.

This lecture explains imperfective versus perfective verbs in Russian, their past, present, and future usage, and three formation methods: prefix, suffix, and paired forms.

Explore irregular Russian verbs and the contrast between imperfective and perfective aspects, including present simple, present continuous, and past tenses, with examples like to be and to eat.

practice reading and translating a Russian text about people in Arkhangelsk, including a doctor, a teacher, and a sports enthusiast, with interests in literature, music, film, and theater.

Explore Russian imperfective and perfective verbs, where imperfective shows multiple future actions and perfective marks a single completed action; learn three formation methods: prefixes, suffixes, and new words.

Practice numbers and case endings in Russian by reading, translating, and identifying accusative and prepositional forms, while exploring perfect and imperfect future usage.

Learn Russian motion verbs for walking and by vehicle, with present, future, and past tense conjugations. Grasp one-direction versus multidirectional usage and how to express ongoing or completed movement.

Introduce new Russian verbs and their present tense conjugation, show pronunciation, and guide students to read, translate, memorize, and add them to vocabulary, noting perfective forms for past and future.

Master the Russian genitive case using from and other prepositions, learn possession constructions with I have, and apply genitive plural endings and number rules across genders.

Master genitive endings for Russian adjectives across masculine, feminine, neutral, and plural, compare with accusative, and apply prepositional patterns through illustrative examples.

Learn the Russian imperative form, including endings with the soft sign, and how to drop the final letter to identify vowels or consonants; practice this with the accusative case.

Master the Russian genitive case with numerals, mastering masculine and feminine endings, singular and plural forms, and how much or how many in prices with dollar, ruble, and euro.

Learn Russian verb conjugation, including irregular forms, memorize a verb list, and study examples in the accusative case to apply conjugations confidently.

Explore basic russian phrases for asking how you feel today. Learn conjugations for he, she, and they, and build vocabulary on body parts, sports, and medical words.

Master the Russian dative case for talking about people and objects, age, moving toward a person, and verbs like give to, call to, or help, with endings and pronouns.

Explore the dative case in Russian grammar, learning endings for masculine, feminine, neutral, and plural, plus possessive pronouns and adjectives with practical examples.

Introduce the Russian instrumental case, its endings by gender, key preposition usage (with vs from), and its applications after certain verbs, with daily, seasonal, and occupational examples.

Learn the instrumental case in Russian, including masculine, feminine, and neutral endings for adjectives and nouns, with practical examples for singular and plural forms.

Learn prepositional case endings for months and years, apply ordinals, and navigate genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional endings, including the use of nobody, nothing, someone, and double negatives.

Learn how to use which in Russian and decline it by gender and case, with examples for masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns and matching adjective endings.

Learn to form comparative and superlative adjectives in Russian, with gender and case endings, suffix variations, and key exceptions. Practice using examples like 'more interesting' and 'the most interesting'.

Explore how Russian uses motion verb prefixes to express enter, exit, arrive, approach, and start movement, and master case and preposition patterns across accusative, dative, and genitive.

Learn how to use the short form of Russian adjectives across genders, dropping the last vowel. Note that full forms are rare, and the infinitive follows the short form.