How do I start learning Russian?

How to Teach Yourself Russian in 8 Simple Steps

1. Learn the Cyrillic alphabet.
2. Learn a few basic nouns and adjectives.
3. Learn present tense verb conjugations.
4. Put together simple sentences.
5. Learn to pluralize words.
6. Build your verb vocabulary.
7. Learn past and future verb conjugations.
8. Study the case system.

What are the 1000 most common words in Russian?

1000 Most Common Russian Words

• какой what, which, how. pronoun.
• когда when, while, as. adverb, conj.
• уже already, by now. adverb.
• для for, to. preposition.
• вот here, there, this is, that’s. particle.
• кто who, that, some. pronoun.
• да yes, but. conj, particle.
• говорить to say, to tell, to speak. verb.

What are some basic Russian words?

Essential Russian Phrases

• Yes – Да (da)
• No – Нет (nyet)
• Please – Пожалуйста (poZHAlusta)
• Thank you – Спасибо (spaSIbo)
• You’re welcome. – Не за что. ( ne za chto)
• Enjoy (often used instead of “you’re welcome” for food) – на здоровье (na zdaROVye)
• I’m sorry. – Прошу прощения. (
• Excuse me. – Извините. (

How do you memorize Russian words?

General Principles

1. Start a separate notebook (or create a text file) to write out all the new words you plan to remember.
2. Try to write out the word along with the sentence containing it.
3. Learn most widely-used words first (those that can be found in 25,000 word dictionary).
4. Try to learn established word pairs.

What are some Russian words?

After analysing the results, they later released “The New Frequency Dictionary of the Russian language”. According to the RNC , other popular Russian words are “god” (year), “chelovyek” (man, person), “vryemya” (time), “dyelo” (business, deal), “zheezn’” (life), “dyen’” (day), “rooka” (hand), “rabota” (work), “slovo” (word) and “myesto” (place).

Is learning Russian useful?

Learning Russian makes you understand useful concepts for studying other languages, too. It will also help you understand your mother tongue even more. Learning Russian will completely change the way you tackle learning other languages and your surroundings.

What do the Russian words?

The words фига and фиг are used so frequently that many of the most popular Russian expressions use some variation of them, including: Фиг тебе (Feek tiBYE): nothing for you (often accompanied by the rude gesture that the word refers to) Иди на фиг (EeDEE NA fik): get lost, beat it (can be rude or friendly) Офигеть (AhfeeGYET’): an expression of shock or surprise or an arrogant individual Фигово (FeeGOHva): bad, awful Фигня (FigNYAH): nonsense, useless