
learn how to pronounce each letter of the Russian alphabet, understand when letters have one, two, or three sounds, and apply stressed versus unstressed pronunciations, including borrowed word cases.
Explore the Russian alphabet through the alphabet song, then break down how each letter differs from its sound, one by one, to build a foundational understanding.
Learn that three Russian letters sound the same as their English counterparts, including the letter m; memorize with the phrase 'my tool kit' to pronounce them confidently.
Explore the first letter a of the Russian alphabet, link it to Arctic imagery, practice basic phrases, and observe masculine and feminine word forms through example phrases.
Explore voiced and devoiced consonants and hard and soft consonants in Russian, using the letter b as a key example, and how surrounding vowels affect pronunciation and stress.
Discover how the Russian consonants v, g, and d function in hard and soft forms, explore voiced and voiceless features, and practice with example and borrowed words to build vocabulary.
Explore how the Russian letters Е and Ё form iotated vowels that can have one or two sounds depending on position, with kebap and yoga as illustrating examples.
Learn the Russian alphabet focusing on Ж and other always hard consonants, their lack of soft variants, how vowels after them behave, with examples like zebra and zavod.
Explore how the Russian letter o sounds differ when stressed versus unstressed, with practical examples. Practice consonants like s, r, d, and f using familiar words and patterns.
Learn the pronunciation challenges of the Russian letters ts (ц), ch (ч), sh (ш), and shch (щ), with phonetic tips, tongue position, and contrasting English equivalents.
Explore how the hard sign and soft sign reshape Russian pronunciation, separating syllables and preventing misinterpretation, while signaling softness, gender cues, and aiding foreign word pronunciation.
Explore the last and difficult Russian letters Ы, Э, Ю, Я and their sounds, including e-like contrasts and plural indicators, shown in example words.
Present key Russian alphabet pronunciation rules, including three letters pronounced the same as in English, plus consonant voicing and softness versus hardness, and vowel variations.
Do you know the Russian alphabet? Can you say these words: "царь", "щука", "машина", "лыжи"?
Whether you want to learn the Russian alphabet or enhance your pronunciation, I welcome you to take this FREE course.
This interactive and well-structured course will supply you with tricks of pronunciation and memorization of the Russian alphabet and beginner vocabulary. Katia Artyushenko makes learning Russian a fun game, rather than a struggle.
This is the first course of the series "Learning Russian in 7 steps". This course will inspire you to learn the Russian language. After going through this course, you’ll also be able to sound like a native speaker – >memorize alphabet, pronunciation, and basic vocabulary – > learn Russian faster.
The course will answer the following questions:
How signing will help to learn the order of letters?
How Images and associations can help you remember letters and words?
What are voiced and devoiced consonants?
What are soft and hard consonants?
What do iotated vowels do?
Can you hear and pronounce the difference between vowels: "Ы" and "И", "Е" and "Ё", "У" and "Ю", "А" and "Я"?
Pronounce difficult consonants correctly: "Ж", "Ш", "Щ", "Ц", "Ч"
The foundation of this course is based on the principles of associations. Words of associations, pictures, body gestures are powerful learning tools that optimize your brain’s memory abilities. So not only will you learn a language quickly, you’ll remember the chain of associations forever. You can use this technic with any study.
The lectures start from looking at the whole alphabet and singing the alphabet song. Then we will look at each letter and the vocabulary that best represents these letters. We will look at the situations when the same letters sound differently.
After the Alphabet course, you can start expanding your vocabulary and learn Russian grammar. You can take my course for level A1 "Learn Russian in 7 steps".
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