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Russian Intermediate Mini-Lesson: Social Dynamics & Friendships
Learn essential Russian expressions for making friends, keeping in touch, and talking about relationships in this intermediate Russian mini lesson.
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Russian Elementary Mini-Lesson: Navigating Formality (ты vs. вы)
Learn when to use ты and вы, two essential Russian words that help you sound natural and polite in everyday conversations.
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Russian Intermediate Mini-Lesson: Explaining Reasons with “из-за”
Learn how Media Russian uses the common expression из-за (“because of”) to explain the causes behind events in news reporting.
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Russian Elementary Mini-Lesson: Gender Shifts in the Past Tense
Learn one of the first essential rules of Russian grammar: past tense verbs change to match the speaker’s gender.
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Russian Intermediate Mini-Lesson: Career and Connections
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the instrumental case to talk about professions and how to use свой to refer to your own possessions naturally.
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Russian Elementary Mini-Lesson: Ordering a Drink
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to express your needs and make a polite request in a Russian café while noticing a key grammar rule.
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20 YouTube Channels for Learning Russian (Elementary)
I’d like to share with you some of my favorite channels on Youtube that have helped me get through the elementary level or that I wish I had known about when I was an elementary learner.
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Top 10 YouTube Channels for Learning Russian (Intermediate)
Here are my recommendations for channels from amazing content creators on YouTube that are ideal for intermediate-level (B1-B2) students.
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Russian Roots: лиц/лич (face)
Today I would like to show you how productive the root лич/лиц (face) is and share some frequently used collocations and idioms in which the derivatives of this root are used. Поехали!
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Comparative in Russian with Намного (much more)
This short video is about forming the comparative degree of Russian adverbs or adjectives when we need to show to what extent something is bigger, cheaper and so on.
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10 Pairs of Easily Confused Russian Verbs
Review the conjugations of these common verbs to avoid mixing them up.
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Using the Beginning Learner’s Russian Dictionary
Get to know the Beginning Learner’s Russian Dictionary. Take a look at the organization of the entries and the wealth of lexical and grammatical information the dictionary contains.
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The Basics of Russian Pronunciation
To pronounce Russian correctly, you first need to know the sounds represented by the letters of the Russian alphabet, both consonants and vowels.
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How to say “one cannot” / “it is not allowed” in Russian
Today I would like to tell about a very common mistake among learners of the Russian language. It is the way to say: One cannot / It is not allowed/ It is forbidden.