
Learn Russian with word-by-word transcription from alphabet through basic grammar, including dialogs, phrases, dictionaries, plus slang and idioms to feel confident around Russian speakers.
Explore the Russian alphabet in cursive and print, mastering uppercase and lowercase forms. Link letter sounds to familiar words to reinforce pronunciation.
Explore Russian vowels, distinguishing hard vowels from soft vowels and how they influence pronunciation. Gain practical guidance with example sounds for accurate Russian vowel usage.
Learn how Russian consonants are classified as hard or soft by what follows; hard consonants follow hard vowels or no vowel, soft consonants follow soft vowels or the soft sign.
Learn that Russian has no articles, so context clarifies meaning; nouns reveal gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) by nominative endings, including consonant endings and the soft sign.
Explain the six Russian cases and how terminations express relations among words. Use nominative, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional (allocative) to show subject, indirect object, means, and location.
Explore how Russian demonstrative pronouns point to people or objects, using two forms for near and far. Learn the usage of this/these vs that/those in everyday speech.
Learn Russian determinative pronouns and use them to emphasize a noun or pronoun, with examples like some, the very same, all, any, each, and phrases about space or time.
Explore Russian grammar of indefinite pronouns, including how they mark unknown or general references and when the speaker does not know a caller’s name, using examples.
Learn the nominative plural in masculine Russian nouns. Explore rules for consonant-ending nouns and soft signs with examples like theater, dialogue, and beach.
Explore basic rules to form nominative plural neuter nouns in Russian, with attention to how endings affect these forms.
Explore Russian grammar through interrogative words, focusing on interrogative pronouns and adverbs and how they form different kinds of questions.
Discover how Russian negation uses не before the main verb to express absence or negative answers, with examples like нет картин and pronouns никто, ничего, and double negatives.
The Russian language has two forms of address, familiar and polite, used with friends or in formal situations, with the polite form mirroring the plural you.
Explore russian acquaintance dialogue with greetings, introductions, origins, professions, and family conversations, including phrases like hello, my name is, and I came from France to speak a little Russian.
Learn basic Russian acquaintance phrases and general information, including asking for names, introducing yourself, and greetings with examples like 'what is your name' and 'my name is Mina Zavod'.
Practice Russian airport dialogue covering passport control, declarations, and luggage procedures. Learn phrases used at passport control, handling visitor questions about purpose of visit, tourism, and required documents.
Learn airport phrases and a travel dictionary focused on visas, hotel bookings, layovers, baggage, and passport issues for international travel.
Learn practical Russian directions through a dialogue that covers asking for help, locating amenities, and navigating streets and buildings, including finding an ATM and bathrooms.
Master essential Russian phrases for directions and using a dictionary, learn to ask for the shortest and fastest routes, navigate streets, buses, and metro with a city map.
Navigate a pharmacy dialogue in Russian, requesting headache remedies, discussing prescriptions, and shopping for medicines like Band-Aid, vitamin C, and spicy options.
Explore essential Russian pharmacy phrases and a practical dictionary for health conversations, including symptoms, allergies, fever, pain killers, and doctor visits.
Practice a Russian bank dialogue by opening a savings account, discussing currencies rubles, dollars, and euros, asking about exchange rates, and completing signatures and receipts.
explores Russian banking phrases and dictionary entries, including opening a bank account, bank hours, money transfers, filling forms, and proof of income for overseas transactions.
Learn practical hotel dialogue for making reservations, confirming room types and dates, requesting amenities like internet and parking, and confirming check-out time and meal options such as all-inclusive with breakfast.
Learn essential hotel Russian phrases, including safety in rooms, credit card questions, smoking policies, room types, accessibility, and services for travelers with children.
Learn to order in Russian at a restaurant, including asking for a table, the menu, and choosing meat, vegetarian, and seafood dishes, desserts, and wine.
Learn essential Russian restaurant phrases and a practical dictionary, including how to ask for a menu in different languages, order courses, request vegetarian options, and discuss drinks and desserts.
Hi I’m Nailya Red, a professional Russian language teacher (linguist diploma).
You can now learn how to speak Russian in just few weeks even if you don’t have previous knowledge of the Russian language. This Russian language course makes it that easy. We’ll start with basics and work our way through step by step.
Soon, you can add “Russian language” to your CV to increase your business opportunities. You’ll also be able to speak Russian to make new friends and enjoy new experiences.
There are downloadable, additional PDF files and the Text Book with exercises, grammar, texts, dialogues, phrases and dictionaries available.
Introduction
Lecture 1: Introduction
Alphabet
Lecture 2: Alphabet Cursive and Print
Russian Grammar
Lecture 3: Russian Grammar: Vowels
Lecture 4: Russian Grammar: Consonants
Lecture 5: Russian Grammar: Nouns
Lecture 6: Russian Grammar: Six Cases
Lecture 7: Russian Grammar: Demonstrative Pronouns
Lecture 8: Russian Grammar: Determinate Pronouns
Lecture 9: Russian Grammar: Indefinite Pronouns
Lecture 10: Russian Grammar: Possessive Pronouns
Lecture 11: Russian Grammar: Nominative Plurals Feminine
Lecture 12: Russian Grammar: Nominative Plurals Masculine
Lecture 13: Russian Grammar: Nominative Plurals Neuter
Lecture 14: Russian Grammar: Interrogative words
Lecture 15: Russian Grammar: Negation
Lecture 16: Formal and Informal "You"
Acquaintance
Lecture 17: Acquaintance Dialogue
Lecture 18: Acquaintance: General Information
At the Airport
Lecture 19: At the Airport: Dialogue
Lecture 20: At the Airport: Phrases and Dictionary
Directions
Lecture 21: Directions Dialogue
Lecture 22: Directions: Phrases and Dictionary
At the Pharmacy
Lecture 23: At the Pharmacy Dialogue
Lecture 24: At the Pharmacy: Phrases and Dictionary
At the Bank
Lecture 25: At the Bank: Dialogue
Lecture 26: At the Bank: Phrases and Dictionary
At the Hotel
Lecture 27: At the Hotel: Dialogue
Lecture 28: At the Hotel: Phrases, General Information, Dictionary
At the Restaurant
Lecture 29: At the Restaurant: Dialogue
Lecture 30: At the Restaurant: Phrases and Dictionary
At the Station
Lecture 31: At the Station: Dialogue
Lecture 32: At the Station: Phrases and Dictionary
Shopping
Lecture 33: Shopping: Dialogue
Lecture 34: Shopping: Phrases and Dictionary
Body
Lecture 35: Body: Dictionary
Shape and Size
Lecture 36: Shape and Size
Clothes
Lecture 37: Clothes: Phrases and Dictionary
Colors
Lecture 38: Colors: Dictionary
Correspondence
Lecture 39: Correspondence: Phrases and Dictionary
Days Months Seasons
Lecture 40: Days Months Seasons: Dictionary
Emergency
Lecture 41: Emergency: Useful Phrases and Dictionary
Family
Lecture 42: Family: Phrases and Dictionary
Greetings
Lecture 43: Greetings: Phrases and Dictionary
Guests
Lecture 44: Guests: Phrases and Dictionary
Holidays
Lecture 45: Holidays: List of Russian Holidays, Phrases and Dictionary
Russian Idioms
Lecture 46: Russian Idioms
Miscommunication
Lecture 47: Miscommunication
Numbers
Lecture 48: Numbers
Phone Call
Lecture 49: Phone Call
Professions
Lecture 50: Professions
Relationship
Lecture 51: Relationship
Resume
Lecture 52: Resume
Signs
Lecture 53: Signs: Dictionary
Weather
Lecture 54: Weather: Phrases and Dictionary
Russian Slang
Lecture 55: Russian Slang
Verbs and Adjectives
Text Book: Exercises, Dialogues, Texts, Dictionary, Grammar (PDF)