
Explore the Russian alphabet and learn to recognize and pronounce its 33 Cyrillic letters, including 21 consonants, 10 vowels, and two silent letters, with practical pronunciation rules.
Explore hard and soft Russian consonants, 36 sounds with 15 hard–soft pairs, and learn how softness is denoted by following letters (и, е, ю, я, ё, ь) while practicing pronunciation.
Explore Russian consonants and their voiced and voiceless pairs, and learn devoicing of final consonants, with the role of vocal cord vibration and the softening sign.
Differentiate Russian vowels into hard and soft groups. Hard vowels signal a preceding consonant; soft vowels signal a soft one. Stress and position shape pronunciation, and Ё is always stressed.
Learn to greet people and introduce yourself in Russian, distinguish formal and informal speech, and master basic Russian intonation and pronoun usage.
Learn to talk about professions in Russian, mastering gender, plural forms, and intonation for questions and conversations. Explore dialogues, noun categories, and double negation in responses.
Learn to say your country, nationality, and language in Russian using the genitive after iz, while exploring nominative and genitive cases through dialogue.
Learn how Russian verbs conjugate in the present tense, with conjugation patterns one and two, and master the accusative case for animate and inanimate nouns.
Learn to express possession in Russian with possessive pronouns and the genitive, and see how 'whose' forms depend on noun gender and number, including absence with нет.
Learn how adjectives describe objects, come before every noun, and agree in gender, number, and case, then master comparative and superlative forms.
Learn the Russian imperative mood to order, demand, or instruct, and practice asking and giving directions using the prepositional case, adverbs of place, and transport phrases in Moscow.
Master telling time in Russian and greetings through hotel scenes, practicing how to ask for the time, tell the time, and use morning, day, evening, and night phrases.
This course will help you to learn Russian from scratch if you want to communicate with Russians on everyday topics. Even if you have never learned Russian and were not interested in Russia, this course will be easy and clear to you!
However, this course is not just a set of useful phrases. This is a short but complete language course. Why is it so important to take a Russian course for beginners instead of just learning a couple of sentences? Even if you decide to pick up some phrases from a dictionary, you will not be able to participate fully in a dialogue. Also the chances that you’ll understand a person you are talking to is quite low (to put it mildly).
But don’t worry! Our course is here to help you out! Thanks to our systematic approach, this course is suitable for anyone who wants to start learning Russian in order to visit Russia (or just for yourself).