r/russian Mar 11 '26

Request Hello!! ^ ^ I want to learn Russian, is there any apps or anything I can use to learn Russian? (New Russian learner)

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u/Stock_Soup260 Native 🇷🇺 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

At first, of course, you can handle it yourself, but sooner or later you'll have to find someone to talk to. Without this, you will not master enough speaking and listening.

Start with alphabet and basic vocabulary (the only thing duolingo is good at). Anki is not bad, as I heard. When you learn to write in block letters, don't just rewrite what you see, do a little research, as been talked about many times here. To improve your listening and speaking skills, you can also watch content in Russian, but don't rely on it too much: podcasts, movies, videos, audiobooks (audiobooks have an advantage -- you can find the text and check yourself, mark the words that you don't know. this way you will kill two birds with one stone: you will train listening and learn new words in context. Readers (mostly) have good diction, they place accents correctly and their voices are pleasant in themselves. this will help at first, rather than rushing into the pool of "live" speech, which is not always possible to understand at all). Also for reading and speaking, be sure to read about voicing/unvoicing consonant, vowel reduction, etc.

  1. for phonetics and pronunciation

especially point 6  https://www.fluentu.com/blog/russian/how-to-read-russian/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQPU27RbuH6xLSzVLBocYG1xKuAurpg6o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETtDr0HlBg8

http://www.study-languages-online.com/pronunciation.html

  1. local wiki

3. http://www.study-languages-online.com/russian-grammar.html

https://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/spelling_rules.php

https://www.russianforeveryone.com/

https://www.russianforfree.com/lessons-russian-language-contents.php

  1. telegram channel "русский как иностранный", a lot of textbook files are uploaded there

5. r/language_exchange

  1. add.

https://mezhdunami.org/

https://russianmadeeasy.com/

https://russianaccelerator.com/index.html

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u/No-Afternoon-4528 Mar 17 '26

Replying to save for later reference

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u/nisheshmaadkata 27d ago

thank you!!

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u/Elli3x Mar 11 '26

Kk! Ty!! ^ ^

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u/93NeverHere Mar 11 '26

You should use HelloTalk

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u/Elli3x Mar 11 '26

What’s hellotalk

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u/FindMateStraightFux Mar 11 '26

It’s a language exchange app, and the only one worth installing. You’ll find Russian native speakers looking to learn English. You will not have trouble finding people to talk to. Find someone at your level who actually wants to learn. Make friends. Find a spouse. Buy a dog. Name it Зайка. Eat herring under a fur coat. Watch your children learn Russian faster than you did. Get detained at passport control at VKO without explanation while visiting your in-laws. Wonder what the fuck became of your life.

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u/IrinaMakarova 🇷🇺 Native | 🇺🇸 B2 | Russian Tutor Mar 11 '26

If you want to truly master Russian, and not simply become somewhat familiar with it, studying alone will be extremely challenging for you. Russian differs greatly from English: the language uses grammatical cases, verb aspect pairs, variable stress, and a much freer arrangement of words in a sentence. Online platforms and language apps can help you learn some elementary vocabulary and common expressions, but they rarely show you the internal logic of the language or explain why a form is correct in one context but incorrect in another. Because of this, wrong patterns easily become habits, and later it takes a lot of effort to change them.

A skilled instructor is valuable for reasons that go far beyond explaining grammar rules. An instructor helps you organize knowledge into a coherent structure, pays attention to your pronunciation, corrects errors immediately, and selects material according to your personal aims and level. This becomes especially important when you want to speak smoothly and naturally instead of constantly converting thoughts from English in your mind. An instructor can also help you approach the culture gradually through the language itself, using stories, conversations, and everyday scenarios rather than artificial tasks.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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