August 7th, 2006

How to learn Russian online, fast, easy, free

More than 250 million people world wide speak Russian as their primary or secondary language. Ken said he wants to learn it as well. And I bet there’s other people out there who’d like to at least be able to say a few things in Russian.

So here’s what my investigation of online resources for learning Russian has produced.

Happy learning!

Online Courses

Russian Language Lessons
This website offers a comprehensive set of lessons, well structured and enough to give beginners of Russian a perfect introduction to the language. Features include grammar guides, a downloadable dictionary, and an English-Russian version of “Crime & Punishment”.

Way To Russia - Russian Language Tutorial
Another, nice tutorial of the Russian Language designed for beginners and travelers. Includes some grammar notes and also audio read-outs to practice your listening and pronunciation.

Ukindia - Learn to Read Russian
A one page tutorial on how to read Russian. A simple, good introduction.

MasterRussian.com
A website which has a lot of lessons and links to other resources for learning Russian and getting acquainted with both the language and culture of Russia.

BBC - Languages - Quick Fix - Russian
The absolute essential Russian words and phrases, according to the BBC. Audio available.

Textbook Of The Russian Language
A textbook of Russian in Russian, based on a conversational Russian course, for intermediate learners of the language who can already read.

Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

Russian
The Wikibook on the Russian language is a work in progress which does however offer already an insightful introduction to the language, and grammar.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Online Resources

BUBL LINK: Russian language
BUBL is a catalogue of online academic resources, and this is the BUBL directory on the Russian language.

This entry was posted by Pavlos on Monday, August 7th, 2006 at 10:09 pm and is filed under Academia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “How to learn Russian online, fast, easy, free”
  1. zhou ran Says:
    August 8th, 2006 at 12:55 am

    At this moment, I only want to learn greek!!!

  2. Pavlos Says:
    August 8th, 2006 at 4:09 am

    Well, if you really want to learn, you can! Greek is not really “all Greek to me” as they say.. :D

  3. Jonathon Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 11:46 pm

    Hi Pavlos,

    Thanks for the links to the Russian resources.

    I just wanted to let you know that I launched a new Russian language website 10 days ago. It’s free and features lessons using native Russian speakers pronouncing lots of easy and advanced phrases. It’s still pretty new so the content isn’t huge, but I’ll build it into a good resource over the next 6 months.

    http://listen2russian.com/

    I hope it helps!

    Warm regards,

    Jonathon.

  4. Pavlos Says:
    December 21st, 2006 at 5:58 pm

    Good job Jonathon! Excellent learning resource you’ve put up on listen2russian.com, looks very promising.

    It is very important for learners of a new language to practice their listening skills and you deliver that in a clutter free - comprehensive manner.

    I especially like how you offer two versions of each sound, one at normal speed and one with the speaker reading slowly. Important for capturing proper pronunciation.