Learn Russian

Start at the alphabet

The Russian on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 472 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Russian voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.

• 33letters
• 10digits
• 9pronunciation rules
• 300core words
• 60everyday phrases
• 60sentences

Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the course teaches them:

• о (unstressed) — an unstressed о sounds like “a”молоко — milk
• stress — stress falls unpredictably — its vowel is clear, the others blurутро — morning
• б в г д ж з (final) — voiced consonants at the end of a word turn voicelessхлеб — bread

Then material that does not run out

Once you are reading, the level is the point. The Text Generator writes Russian at the CEFR level, length, topic and format you ask for, so the step up is a setting rather than a new book. Speaking scores you word by word as you read aloud. The Conversation Partner talks back. The Translator explains a sentence instead of replacing it, and the Corrector marks what you wrote and says why.

Above the on-ramp sits the Path — a station map from A1 to C2 with grammar, vocabulary and checkpoint stations — and Words & Notes, where everything you save comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule in seven quiz styles.

What Russian actually costs a beginner

Stress falls unpredictably, and it decides what the vowels say — the stressed one is clear and the others blur, so an unstressed о comes out as an a and молоко is said malakó. A learner who has stored a word without its stress has stored something they cannot yet say, which is why every word in this course is spoken and not only spelled. Below that: voiced consonants turn voiceless at the end of a word, so хлеб ends in a p, and the soft sign ь changes the consonant in front of it while making no sound of its own.