Learn Russian
Russian, and you never have to type a Cyrillic letter.
A 100-word frequency starter. Almost nobody has a Russian keyboard installed, so every exercise here accepts Latin transliteration as well as Cyrillic. We test your Russian, not your keyboard layout.
Designed by linguists and built with data.
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Quick taster
3-word session
A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.
Graded reader
Вре́мени нет
Only words the course has taught
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He says there is no time. But today he is here, and he is doing nothing.
Tap any word for its word page
Read Russian from the first week.
One graded reader written entirely inside the first 100 words, in Cyrillic with the transliteration a tap away while the alphabet is still settling.
Browse Russian storiesGrammar that treats you like an adult.
Six cases sounds worse than it is. The endings overlap heavily and a few patterns cover most of what you meet. Aspect is the part that actually takes years.
Explore Russian grammarThe six cases
пра́вда
truth - Feminine noun
- nominative
- пра́вда
- accusative
- пра́вду
- genitive
- пра́вды
- dative
- пра́вде
- instrumental
- пра́вдой
- prepositional
- пра́вде
The ending carries the noun's job, which is why Russian needs no articles and tolerates free word order. The stress stays on пра́в throughout, so the mark never moves - plenty of nouns are not so obliging.
Built for Russian, specifically
Not one course photocopied six times. Each language gets the tools its own difficulties actually call for.
Russian by the numbers
Counted from the course, not rounded up for the brochure.
- words in the course
- 100
- grammar guides
- 3
- graded reader
- 1
words in the course
grammar guides
graded reader
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The course is the spine, but every part of it stands on its own.
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