beginners’ russian: learn faster. remember more.

Learn to speak, read, write and understand Russian!

Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners’ Russian will help you to:

- Communicate naturally in everyday situations.
- Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.
- Understand and pronounce Russian easily with online audio.
- Become familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet.
- Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
- Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.

Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com.

Is this course for me?
Beginners’ Russian is for absolute beginners and those who’ve had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Russian. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it’s the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.

Where do I go next?
Continue learning with Short Stories in Russian for Beginners, Russian Script Hacking, Russian Tutor and Teach Yourself Complete Russian.

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Rachel Farmer, who currently trains in cross-cultural skills, studied Russian at the University of Birmingham and taught the language for many years in schools, colleges, prisons... anywhere she could inspire an interest in Russian language and culture.