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.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Reading a news report: what happened, who says it, and what the writer thinks, Reading rules and instructions: obligation, prohibition and the administrative register, Reading a personal voice: time ordering, discourse markers and irony in first-person prose, Reading numbers and comparison: quantity, rate and the arithmetic behind a claim, Reading what is not said: presupposition, implication and hedging. 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 Writing a summary in Russian: compression, cohesion and the connectives that carry them, Writing a message that gets a reply: address forms, requests and the written politeness register, Writing an argument in Russian: claim, evidence, concession and the reply to an objection, Writing a comparison and a recommendation: advantage, drawback and the language of ranking, Capstone: a written brief and a spoken presentation of the same piece of work. 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 Word order as the speaker's tool: what final position does, and where не goes, Particles that carry the speaker's stance: же, ведь, -то, ли, разве, неужели, Negation and its scope: не, ни, and the double negative that is not a mistake, The unreal and the wished-for: бы, если бы, хотел бы, чтобы, свой: the possessive that points back at the subject. 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 Verb prefixes that change the verb: за-, пере-, от-, раз-, до-, недо-, Noun suffixes and what they predict: -ость, -ство, -ние, -тель, -ник, Adjectives and adverbs built from one stem: -н-, -ск-, -ов-, -лив- and the adverb in -о, Evaluative suffixes: diminutive and augmentative, and when size is not about size, Capstone: decoding an unseen word in a real text. 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 который: the case comes from inside the clause, and the preposition comes with it, что and чтобы: a fact, a purpose, and a wish are three different clauses, Conditions: если for what may happen, если бы for what did not, Concession: хотя, несмотря на то что, and the obstacle that did not work, Where the clause stands, and how to unpack a participle into one. 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 Counting: один agrees, два to четыре take the genitive singular, five and up take the genitive plural, Counting what has no singular: сутки, дети, and the collective numerals, Dates and months: naming a day, locating an event, and the year in the prepositional, Clock time and duration: который час, в котором часу, через and назад, Prices, figures and fractions: reading a news bulletin aloud. 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 заявление: the fixed layout of a Russian application, and why every slot is a case ending, A complaint and a request: three letters that look alike, and the four sentences that keep them apart, Email in Russian: the opening and the closing are chosen by the relationship, not by the medium, On the telephone: identification, request and repair, in the formulas Russian actually uses, Asking without imposing, and unpacking the noun: the polite request and the register ladder. 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 Collocations: the verb a noun insists on, and the four families that make them learnable, The preposition decides the case: the fixed phrases of official Russian and the four that break the pattern, Idioms of work and money: what each one promises, and the contexts that forbid it, Weather, health and the proverb: folk expressions and the moment they turn rude, False friends: the words an English or Spanish speaker will actually get wrong. 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 Four roots, one machine: how Russian mat is built, and how to read a form you have never seen, The хуй (KHUY, 'prick') family: the noun, the derived nouns, the adjective and the fixed idioms, The пизда (peez-DA) family: a positive slang branch, a verb of stealing, and the line to пиздец, The ебать (ye-BAT', 'to fuck') family: the verb paradigm, the prefixes, ёбнутый and ёб твою мать, блядь and блять (BLYAT'): one spelling for a noun and an interjection, and the softening chain. 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 root, two jobs: mat as an intensifier and mat as an insult, and the affixes that shift the force, Audience is the variable: friends, strangers, the workplace, the family and the law, The euphemism ladder: блин, ёлки-палки, пипец, фиг, хрен and what each one replaces, When someone swears at you: не надо так, давай спокойно, я не понял, ты чего, and the limit that is not submission, Capstone: reading an exchange for target, force and register, and producing the safe reply. 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 Fillers that buy time: ну, вот, значит, короче, типа and как бы, and the register each one signals, The listener's toolbar: да ладно, серьёзно, вот это да, ничего себе, класс, ужас and ой, Softening a yes and a no: согласен and согласна, ну не знаю, может быть, вряд ли, наоборот and дело в том, что, Opening and closing small talk: как дела, что нового, как прошло, ладно, до связи and созвонимся, Invitations and arrangements: давай, пойдём, в субботу сможешь, я за, я пас and какие планы. 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 On the phone and in the messenger: алло, я не слышу, набери мне, скинь, голосовое and the short forms спс, пож, чё, Holding a listener through a story: представляешь, короче, в общем, в итоге and the tense switching of spoken narrative, Humour and irony markers: шутка, да шучу я, ну ты чего, and the ones that do not cross into English, Switching ты and вы inside a conversation: the pronouns, who may propose the change, and when the shift is an insult, Capstone: a fast exchange, move by move, and the reply you owe each move. 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.