this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Russian. it will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!
I’ve been meaning to make this post for months, but here it is. When I started learning Russian four years ago there weren’t many apps out there, but now the app market is bigger and there are some great apps. Here is what I recommend and like.
Thoughts: This is another app to be able to read Russian texts with translation side to side. The great thing is that it has audio and you can choose multiple languages for the translation language.
Thoughts:This is a fun app to learn vocabulary in context as it presents sentences to learn from. It has different levels depending on how much vocabulary you want to learn.
Thoughts: I think everyone knows this app. It is great for vocabulary and when first starting a language. It is fun to play and has grammar notes on the web version.
Thoughts:This is a nice app to have language exchanges with Russian native speakers. I’ve had a positive experience with the app, but not everyone does.
Thoughts: This is a great app for learning languages if you are more of an auditory learner. Their approach is more conversational compared to the Duolingo and the lessons are fun to go through.
Thoughts: This is my favorite dictionary for Russian. It includes multiple entries as well as a flashcard & exercises option for words that you add/ favorite.
Thoughts: If you are at an intermediate level or above and want to know more about Russian idioms, this is for you. There are cute drawings that illustrate the idioms with the translation and definition.
Thoughts:
This is my favorite app on this list. It has over 1000 verbs and
conjugates them for you, shows you imperfective/perfective forms,
participle forms, you can look up verbs in English or Russian, and has a
favorite function.
Thoughts: If you are struggling with case endings or need some practice, this app is perfect for that. It presents nouns, adjectives and pronouns like a quiz and you have to either choose the correct declension based on what it asks you or you can type it out if you want a harder challenge.
This is a post about masterposts about resources and books for studying many languages. I made this since many people do not know about all the resources that have been posted.
Here is a list of tools that will help those that are learning Russian. These are not meant to teach you from scratch but rather supplement a course/book. Resources for learning Russian can be found here.
Zhivye Stranitsy [Android Only]: This is an amazing app that makes reading War and Peace interactive with a timeline, maps, plot outlines, character profiles, and quizzes. It is all in Russian so it is best suited for advanced learners/native speakers.
Listening/Videos
NatifyMe: Learn Russian through videos. You can choose their videos or upload your own to make video flashcards of vocabulary.
Phonetics Course: This is a phonetics teaching tool that teaches you Russian pronunciation.
YouTube: My extensive list of channels is here and movies/TV shows is here.
Grammatica: An amazing program that shows you declensions, stress marks, and much more in Russian. My overview of it can be read here.
Gramota: This resource covers every grammar-related topic imaginable for Russian; it is all in Russian however and better suited for advanced learners.
myVocabu: A Chrome extension where you can add vocabulary from webpages and makes learning them fun & customizable.
Linguee: A dictionary tool where you can see words and their definitions in different contexts.
Tatoeba: Look up a sentence & see how people have translated it.
Bliubliu: Read short Russian articles and have vocabulary translated.
Quizlet: Look up or make your own vocabulary lists in Russian. There are many ways provided for you to learn.
Speed Learning: This chrome extension adds words you find on websites straight to a Google spreadsheet along with the sentence they appear in so you don’t lose the context they appeared in.
Forvo : Listen to how a word is pronounced in Russian.
Readlang:Read various texts and watch youtube videos with the text in sync. You translate any words you do not know.
Foreign Language Pad: A Chrome extension that is designed to help users write native sounding sentences with a dictionary and pronunciation tool included.
Clozemaster:A sentence game where you learn the language in context and choose the word that fits in the sentence.
Flewent: A Chrome extension that works by translating a percentage of a webpage into Russian to improve your reading comprehension.
Influent:A language learning video game where you learn vocabulary by acting as a character exploring a house. It is fun and has different modes to learn the words. Cost is $10 but can be $3 during the sales in winter and summer.
Writing
Lang-8: Write in Russian and have it corrected by native speakers.
Keybr: Typing trainer that you can use for a Russian keyboard layout.
Russian Mnemonic Keyboard: A keyboard for those don’t want to use the Russian keyboard layout. You write words in transliteration and it will type the Russian out. It is under your computer’s keyboard settings as an option for Russian.
Here’s another post for all of my Russian-learning compadres. Please know that I didn’t personally compile this list, I literally just copied and pasted from dmoz and categorized them lol but I figure it’s a nice list to have here. I’ve checked out most of these links and they seem great!
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Lessons
Time to Speak in Russian! - An online beginners class for the study of Russian as a foreign language, including two basic courses with supplemental language learning materials. Prepared by the Moscow State University’s Center of International Education.
Everyday Russian - Free online Russian lessons with audio. Includes word and phrase of the week, dictations, verb conjugations, error correction exercises, tests and quizzes. [English, French, Spanish]
Livemocha’s Russian Courses - Free online Russian courses for beginner and intermediate language learners. Get help from native Russian speakers.
MasterRussian.com - Lessons on grammar, vocabulary, alphabet and pronunciation. For both beginning and advanced students of Russian. Includes verb conjugation tables, dictionary, culture articles, and Russian literature with side-by-side English translations.
Russian For Everyone - Grammar lessons and exercises for elementary learners of Russian. Includes audio files, summary tables and language games.
Russian Lessons .Net - Beginners’ lessons on Russian grammar and vocabulary. Includes verb conjugations, dictionary, dual-language books and exercises.
Russian for Free - Online Russian lessons, texts, grammar tables, dialogues and videos.
Russian-Plus.com - Video lessons, grammar, and quizzes for beginning and intermediate learners.
Russian Language for Lovers - Online Russian course, grammar lessons, vocabulary and translation tools. Specific focus on language used for dating, relationships and marriage.
Russnet - Thematic modules for language instruction that can be used in the classroom or for independent study. Free registration required.
Study Russian Online - Topical lessons for beginners, word lists with exercises, articles on phonetics, tests and games.
Online Russian Grammar at Cornell - Grammar and vocabulary explanations from the second edition of Beginning Russian adapted by the author. It presents all the major grammatical categories of Russian.
Russian - A very thorough reference grammar of the Russian language, by Edna Andrews. Part of the Reference Grammar Network of the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center.
Russian Morphological Analysis - A database that analyzes/synthesizes forms and whole paradigms of Russian words. Entry by English translations also available. Best viewed with special fonts (downloadable onsite).
Alphabet / Vocabulary / Dictionaries
Learn Russian - Vocabulary and alphabet practice, quizzes, sound files.
WayToRussia.net - Get help with Russian letters, basic grammar, and key phrases for travel to Russia.
Learn Russian Free.com - Frequency lists for over 2,000 Russian words. Sorted by parts of speech and accompanied with quizzes. English translations available.
Russian National Corpus-based Dictionaries - A collection of dictionaries prepared by the RAS Institute of the Russian language based on the Russian National Corpus. Includes the Grammatical dictionary of Russian neologisms, the New Russian frequency dictionary, the Combinatory dictionary of Russian intensifiers, the Verbal combinatory dictionary of Russian abstract nouns.
Russian Word of the Day - Daily analysis of the Russian vocabulary in blog format. Authored by Don Livingston, a professor from Arizona State University.
News / Podcasts / Blogs
NCLRC’s Russian Webcasts - A survey of authentic Russian news delivered twice monthly in simplified standard Russian. Accompanied by scripts, vocabulary support, and post-listening activities. Suitable for intermediate-level students.
Очень по-русски - Russian language podcasts with transcripts for intermediate and advanced learners. Covers slang, idioms and common expressions.
Russificate - Language learning blog by certified Russian language teacher Yulia Amlinskaya. Sections include grammar, vocabulary, interactive exercises, communication and culture.
Transparent Language’s Russian Blog - Multiple bloggers write on language and culture in Russia. Topics cover Russian holidays, history, travel, current events and food. New Russian vocabulary is introduced and explained inside blog posts.
Other General Reference
Gramota.ru - A reference and information portal for the Russian language available fully in Russian. It provides a free Question & Answer service on Russian stylistic, a series of standard dictionaries, online textbooks and publications, news about the Russian language, educational games and a forum.
Russian Alphabet Tutorial - Introduces the Russian alphabet; includes some practice exercises and sound files. Does not require Russian fonts to be installed.
Russian National Corpus - A searchable 150 million word collection of samples of written and spoken Russian from a wide range of texts in electronic form. The corpus represents modern Russian in all the variety of genres, styles, territorial and social variants of usage.
Wikipedia - Russian Language - A collaboratively edited article covering classification, geographic distribution, writing system, sounds, grammar, vocabulary and history of the language.
hey y’all I’ve put together a masterpost for those of us experiencing the joy that is studying the Russian language (lol) which focuses on your 4 main foreign language food groups: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Enjoyyy
NCLRC’s Russian Webcasts - A survey of authentic Russian news delivered twice monthly in simplified standard Russian. Accompanied by scripts, vocabulary support, and post-listening activities.
Очень по-русски - Russian language podcasts with transcripts for intermediate and advanced learners. Covers slang, idioms and common expressions.
Tumblr user @ruspeach uploads short Russian posts with vocabulary and links to audio. They also have a website.
Lessons/Lectures/Literature
Internet Urok - Like a Russian version of KhanAcademy, with both video and written lessons on a variety of subjects.
Tumblr user @ruspeach uploads short Russian posts with vocabulary and links to audio. They also have a website.
Internet Urok - Like a Russian version of KhanAcademy, with both video and written lessons on a variety of subjects.
Polyglot Project - Read literature in Russian and then click on words you do not know to translate them.
Lingualy - Read articles in Russian by different topics and then translate any words you do not know. Those words are then added to your collected words and you can review them later.
(るつぼ) - melting pot 抱える (かかえる) - to have (eg. problems, debt) 容姿 (ようし) - appearance 日常茶飯事 (にちじょうさはんじ) - everyday occurence なるべく - as much as possible 往々にして (おうおうにして) - sometimes, from time to time 悪気 (わるぎ) - bad intention どうせ - anyhow, in any case 性被害 (せいひがい) - sexual victimization 賃金 (ちんぎん) - wages 格差 (かくさ) - disparity, gap 是正 (ぜせい) - revision, correction 兆し (きざし) - signs 余計 (よけい) - too much 見て見ぬふり (みてみぬふり) - pretending not to see
Do you have any links to books/pdfs for Russian? Not like literature but more learning Russian.
