Russian Lessons for Beginners

Master the Cyrillic alphabet, basic greetings, and introducing yourself. Overcome the language barrier and learn to ask simple questions.

Expand your small talk skills. Learn to talk about your family, profession, and where you live. Master Russian numbers up to 20.

Essential survival skills for travelers. Learn how to check into a hotel, ask about prices, change money, and use the Accusative case.

Learn how to order food and drinks in a Russian cafe. Ask for recommendations, request the bill, and learn the Instrumental case ("with").

Master shopping in Russia. Learn how to buy stamps, newspapers, theater tickets, and groceries. Includes asking for prices and plural nouns.

Expand your shopping vocabulary. Learn to choose clothes by color and size, buy medicine in a pharmacy, and handle Russian queues.

Master the Russian time-telling system. Learn to ask and understand opening hours, days of the week, months, seasons, and discuss your weekend.

Navigate a Russian city with confidence. Learn how to ask for directions, use public transport, and correctly use prepositions of motion.

Plan your travels in Russia. Learn how to buy train and plane tickets, ask about schedules, rent a car, and understand basic verb conjugations.

Upgrade your dining skills. Learn how to book a table, order for a group, ask for vegetarian options, and use personal pronouns in the Dative case.

Start expressing your personality. Talk about your hobbies, favorite seasons, and pastimes, and master the Russian past tense.

Learn to describe your city, discuss the weather, and talk about holidays. Master Russian impersonal sentences and the Dative case for nouns.

Describe your daily routine, weekend activities, and your apartment. Learn how to use reflexive verbs and read Russian handwriting.

Talk about your future plans, career ambitions, and travel intentions. Master the Russian future tense and perfective/imperfective verbs.

Discuss your past holidays, trips abroad, and reading habits. Master the tricky Russian verbs of motion (going by foot vs. vehicle).

A complete reference guide of basic Russian grammar covered in the course. Review nouns, cases, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs.