
Here you will find a short description of this course lectures.
About the Russian alphabet. Letter names. How to write Russian letters. Download Russian letters PDF file with comments for future reference.
How to pronounce consonants:
Pronunciation and spelling rules to remember.
Exercises: Listen and Repeat – common sound combinations to train your pronounce skill.
From this lecture you will learn how to use special Russian signs (not a letters and have no sound equivalents).
The main lecture content is inside the Russian Grammar PDF file you can find at "Downloadable Materials". But the lecture video is not only a teaser; in the video you will hear pronunciation of some Russian words, which are given in the PDF.
We suggest you to download and print out the Russian Grammar PDF file, as it will be helpful for the Final Quiz and for future Russian Language learning.
Here you can listen and train your pronunciation with basic Russian phrases such as greetings, confirmation / negation, etiquette words etc. Besides there are three texts for reading with voice, stress signs and selected sounds pronunciation.
You can also download and print reading texts from "Downloadable materials".
In this document you can find more than 300 words and phrases used in this course. There are both Russian-English and English-Russian vocabularies inside.
This is a Russian phonetics course. You will learn Russian letters and sounds and Russian sounds special cases pronunciation in words.
This course will be useful for Russian language beginners and interesting for those who want to learn more about Russian phonetics specifics.
Here you will found not only examples and exercises with Russian sounds articulation and Russian words pronunciation, but also basic phrases in dialogues.
The course consists of 10 lectures and 4 quizzes. The course includes 1 hour of video lectures, several downloadable files with reference materials such as phonetics rules and vocabulary with more than 300 words and phrases in Russian. We suggest you to watch lectures twice or more as there is a lot information shown in each video. Therefore it might take more than two hours to complete, tasks and quizzes could take a longer time.
The Grammar part (Lecture 7) contains a lot of useful information that you can use even outside of the course frequently.
If you want to learn a language, start with sounds and correct pronunciation!