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The 8 modules
The Words You Can Already Read
Hundreds of Russian words are borrowed from the same international vocabulary as English, so your first real reading is easier than it looks.
The Five Letters That Lie to You
Р С Н В У look like Latin letters and are not, and until you kill that reflex your reading will stay slow.
The Shapes With No Twin
Ж Ш Щ Ц Ч Э look like nothing else on earth, which makes them the last hurdle and the easiest one.
Stress, and Why Your O Turns Into an A
Unstressed Russian vowels change their sound, so pronouncing every letter as written is the fastest way to sound wrong.
The Laboratory and the Hospital
The Russian words for medicine and science are the reason many students learn this language at all, and they are unusually easy to recognise.
Five Sentences That Get You Out of Trouble
A handful of first-person verb phrases will carry you through most of a real conversation long before you understand any grammar.
Read the Machine
Russian-made and Russian-labelled equipment turns up in workshops, clinics and generators, and safety words are the first real Russian most engineers read.
Capstone: The Scholarship Introduction
Today you deliver, out loud and unscripted, the exact self-introduction a Russian university interviewer would ask you for.
Your teenager will finish able to read Cyrillic fluently aloud, handle greetings and basic requests with correct stress, read technical and safety labelling, and give a spoken self-introduction suitable for a scholarship interview. Russian universities admit substantial numbers of African students each year in medicine and engineering, and language preparation is a formal part of that route.