Russian Study Map

Before you begin, this unit teaches A familiar vowel, A lookalike consonant, Informal hello, Introducing your name, Thanking someone. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches A polite request marker, Yes and confirmation, No and negation, Asking where, Repairing comprehension. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Ask for repetition, Ask for slower speech, A present-tense identity, Expressing possession, Asking a price. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Ordering water, Past action and gender, Future with an infinitive, A motion plan, A reasoned preference. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Mild frustration versus literal food, A direct personal insult, A rude command to stop speaking, An abrupt dismissal, An elliptical send-off. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches An extremely obscene dismissal, An obscene interjection, An obscene evaluation of disaster, Being intensely fed up, A firm non-obscene boundary. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Track the actor and the object, Separate location from destination, Express missing resources with the genitive, Give an object to a recipient, Use a tool and name a companion. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches One journey or a repeated walking routine, Past agreement follows the subject, Activity versus a bounded reading event, Future activity and future result, Connect events without inventing results. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Adjectives copy their noun, Asking which one: какой, Comparing two things, The most: самый and всех, Quantity: сколько, много, and counting. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Joining ideas: и, а, но, Cause and result: потому что and поэтому, When and if: когда and если, Reporting what someone said, A connected account: time markers and sequence. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches The accusative for people and for things, Location and topic in the prepositional case, The genitive after prepositions: origin, absence, and purpose, Genitive plural: counting and absence at scale, Reading three cases inside one real sentence. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Aspect pairs do not all look alike, Why the present tense belongs to the imperfective, Time phrases that choose the aspect for you, Background and foreground: telling one story with two aspects, One account across past, present, and future. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches The dative for the recipient: whom you give, write, or speak to, Impersonal sentences: Мне холодно, мне нужно, мне нравится, The instrumental for the means: writing with a pen, paying by card, Instrumental for company and for roles: с другом, работает врачом, One transaction, four roles: reading a real exchange. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Going and going regularly: идти and ходить, ехать and ездить, Prefixes give the path: прийти, уйти, выйти, дойти, Where things are and how they get there: стоять, лежать, сидеть, Commands, requests, and obligation: садитесь, сядьте, вы должны, Plans, permission, and unreal conditions: можно, нельзя, если бы. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Participles as a reading tool: recognizing причастия instead of translating them, Gerunds as a reading tool: деепричастия and the 'while -ing' clause, Relative clauses with который: the joining word that carries two agreements at once, Cause, purpose, and concession: потому что, чтобы, and хотя, Time expressions and sequencing: choosing the case before choosing the words. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Reported speech and hearsay: что, ли, and what Russian does not do to tense, Hedging and politeness registers: ты, вы, and the words that lower the volume, Idioms that resist word-for-word translation, Telling a story with aspect contrast across a long narrative, Reading a short text and holding five minutes about work and study. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Reading a short argumentative passage: the claim, its support, and the author's stance, Written register and spoken register: the same content, two grammars, Impersonal and passive constructions: reading sentences with no Nominative subject, Verbal nouns and how they compress a clause into a word, Aspect in narrative versus aspect in instruction. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Uncertainty, inference and deduction: saying how you know and how sure you are, Opinions, agreement and disagreement: saying no without doing damage, Describing a process out loud: building a spoken procedure step by step, Summarising aloud in your own words: paraphrase, attribution and compression, Capstone: a sustained conversation about work, study and plans. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.