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Want to learn more about Russia, its culture and people, holidays and traditions? In this secton you will find useful information about Russia and other ex-USSR Russian-speaking countries, like Ukraine and Belarus, traveling tips and more. It's always a good idea to learn about the culture when learning a foreign language because theese two are so much interconnected and you'll find that many words and expressions reflect that. So why don't we get started?
Want to learn more about Russia, its culture and people, holidays and traditions? In this secton you will find useful information about Russia and other ex-USSR Russian-speaking countries, like Ukraine and Belarus, traveling tips and more. It's always a good idea to learn about the culture when learning a foreign language because theese two are so much interconnected and you'll find that many words and expressions reflect that. So why don't we get started?

How to Speak Russian in 30 lessons

The fast Russian course from Russian-Plus.com everyone is talking about

So I thought how much time does it really take to learn to speak Russian language? Someone might say it depends for most people. I agree with that.
But I wanted to be more practical in my approach. So I decided to make a Russian course 'How to Speak Russian in 30 lessons' the completion of which will make you an intermediate Russian learner. Sounds exciting? I hope so. So these Russian lessons will start from the basics to the more advanced material. There will be Russian audio lessons, video lessons, quizzes and many other exersizes to help you start to speak Russian as fast as possible. I figure I'll be uploading these lessons once per week so if you keep following me I can guarantee you'll learn to speak Russian in just 12 months. There's always room for improvement of course. The more efforts you apply the better results you get. Learning to speak Russian language is just like learning anything else. The most important thing is to understand the basics / fundamentals of what you're trying to learn. Good luck!
In this section you can learn the modern Russian language from the short language podcasts of Russian and world news. Staying tuned to the News from Russia is a very good way to learn the culture and politics, economics and the people of Russia while studying the language.

Russian Words and Phrases

In this section let's learn some Russian words and phrases in a very entertaining way with pictures and grammar notes and tables. 

Russian Prefixes

Why don't we learn Russian prefixes now? Prefixes are used to change the meaning of a verb or noun. They can slightly or completely alter the meaning.  That's why it is very important to know the most used ones and use them correctly.  Enough said, let's study them!

Russian Nouns

Now let's learn Russian Nouns, shall we? Nouns reflect objects and concepts around us: The people are running - Люди бегают.

Nouns have the following grammatical categories: gender, number, case, and animation/unanimation.

Russian nouns are normally formed using the following suffixes: -тель, -щик, -ник, -ость etc.

In the sentence they are used as Subject or Object. Nouns denote objects like книга (a book), театр (a theater), parts of objects like крышка (a tip), live creatures like лиса (a fox), as well as their actions and states like болезнь (an illness), радость (gladness).

In this Grammar section we'll talk about Russian verbs. The verb is a part of speech that denotes an action or a process stage (physical movements in space, physical and mental states, alternations etc). It uses the categories of mood, time and person: приехали, напишет, нарисовал бы, приходите! (have arrived, will write, would have painted, come!). Every verb has all or some of these categories.Verbs also reflect grammatical gender and number but these are not verb-specific categories.

Now why don't we learn Russian adjectives? Adjectives indicate attributes of objects (quality, characteristics, possesiveness): папина машина (a father's car), молодой человек (a young man) and agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case: увидел красивую девушку (saw a beautiful girl), звонил местным депутатам (called local deputies). In the Accusative case adjectives might have different forms depending on animation/inanimation of the noun: веду новый проект, вижу нового участника (I manage a new project, see a new participant). Normally these affixes are used to form adjectives: -н-, -оват, -еват-, -ист-, -к-, -ск- and others: весенний дождь (spring rain), американский (americal). Sound interesting? Let's learn moreSmile!