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The 8 modules
The Letters That Are Already Your Friends
Some Cyrillic letters look exactly like English letters and sound exactly the same — start there and you get a free head start.
The Tricksters
Five Cyrillic letters look like English letters and lie to you — learn these five and half of all Russian reading mistakes disappear.
The Brand New Shapes
A handful of Cyrillic letters look like nothing you have ever seen, and because of that they are the easiest ones to remember.
Привет! Hello in Two Sizes
Russian has a small hello for friends and a big hello for adults, and using the wrong one is the first mistake every learner makes.
Where Is the Punch?
Every Russian word has one syllable you hit harder than the others, and hitting the wrong one is what makes a learner hard to understand.
Counting Mangoes to Ten
Ten Russian numbers, learned as a chant, will carry you through prices, ages, dates and phone numbers for the rest of your life.
Read a Real Russian Word in the Wild
Cyrillic turns up on machinery, medicine boxes and signs — and now that you can read it, you cannot walk past it.
Capstone: Meet Me, in Russian
Today you introduce yourself to another person in Russian, from hello to goodbye, with nothing written in front of you.
Your child will finish able to read Cyrillic aloud, count to ten, and introduce themselves to a Russian speaker with correct stress. Russia offers a large number of engineering and medical scholarships to students across the continent every year, and every one of them begins with reading the alphabet.