
discover a practical language-learning method: start with numbers, phrases, and high-frequency words; study verbs, modals, and question words; then use apps and tools to listen, read, and memorize.
The Alphabet Video: https://youtu.be/m8NXjc5tcyc?si=RqOMnhelP16qkxl-
Practice writing and recalling Russian vocabulary from the lesson—sushi, garage, taxi, park, mama, papa—while pronouncing words, noting the soft sign, and checking answers with Google Translate.
Practice reading Russian aloud and master pronunciation of letters, stress, and soft signs. Learn essential vocabulary and gender rules, including da, voda, eda, ja, ona, on, stolitsa, and ulitsa.
Learn to form present-tense sentences about people using Russian pronouns, nouns with genders, and basic words like rabota, dom, and restaurant, with negation ne.
Explore the Russian accusative as the receiver of the action, illustrated by I love you; observe when nouns change or stay the same, and how animacy affects endings.
Explore the genitive case, the most common Russian form meaning 'of' and appearing after key prepositions, especially in 'I have' and 'I don't have' constructions and with numbers.
Learn genitive 1 in Russian through examples like dom druga and simir podrug, showing how masculine and neuter nouns take the -a ending and feminine nouns shift to -e.
Examine possessive adjective endings and genitive constructions in Russian through examples like my friend's dog and the new neighbors' cat. Note irregular forms and genitive usages after prepositions.
Explore how instrumental plural forms work in Russian, focusing on masculine adjectives and noun endings like mi ami, and observe patterns across dative and prepositional plurals with practical examples.
Explore the Russian declension table for adjectives and nouns, covering singular and plural forms by gender, cases, and animate vs inanimate distinctions. See how endings change in singular and plural.
This is the first Russian course made with the help of AI.
Russian is a language spoken by 300 million people worldwide and it's a lingua franca in the 15 former Soviet Republics.
It's also an amazing gateway language to get familiar with Slavic languages like Ukrainian and Belarusian if you'll want to keep exploring those! They share a lot of the vocabulary, have similar scripts and grammar!
We will start by talking about the Russian alphabet. We will look at words that exist in both English and Russian, international words so to speak, and see how they're spelled differently despite having the same sounds. This way you'll get used to the Russian script and you will find out that it's actually not as intimidating as it seems. You will also learn many useful tricks to memorize some of the trickier Russian letters. Then we're gonna have a reading practice session where we'll gradually introduce some fundamental concepts of grammar, as well as very useful words.
This course is built with the feeling of wonder in mind, you will discover amazing things and connections that will hopefully amaze you!
With the help of chat GPT to design the learning path, you're in very good hands! Hope you can have a blast and learn Russian in no time!