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1. Select the phrases that you want to learn from the list on the right. These cover a wide variety of Russian topics, including the numbers in Russian, Russian days, Russian greetings and the months in Russian. All the phrases have audio recorded by a native speaker.

2. Listen to and copy the native speech on the review page.

3. Learn the phrases using the learning methods which include flashcards and multiple choice to practice learning, speaking and recall.

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Learning Russian Online

Surface Languages is easy to use and contains many key Russian phrases based on real-life screnarios. There are sections on shopping, travelling, getting around and much more. Whether you are planning to visit Moscow or St Petersburg these phraes will be useful.

Where should I start?

That depends on the time you have, but we would recommend starting with A few first words 1,2 and 3 and the numbers. And then continue with the phrases that are the most useful for you. For example, if you know you will be taking taxis, Getting around by taxi will help or if you are prone to getting lost try Directions.

Advantages of phrase based learning

Surface languages is not about fluency, but communication over and in a wide range of languages.

• It is easy.
• It is fast.
• There are many Russian phrases for beginners.
• You can learn many commonly used Russian phrases quickly.
• Listening to and repeating the native speech will help your pronunciation and intonation.

As Surface Langauges is concerned with learning phrases and increasing vocabulary (over many languages) it is easy to use. It is also current and up to date, as we are continually adding content according to your feedback.

All out Russian phrases are spoken by a native speaker.

The Cyrillic Alphabet

The Russian language is written in the Cyrliic script. It is not necessary to learn Cyrliic if you are solely interested in speaking Russian.

Surface Languages allows you to learn either using Cyrliic or by using a romanized version of the Cyrillic aplhabet which approximates the Russian sounds using the roman alphabet. Cyrillic has many similarities to the Greek alphabet, and if you are learning both Greek and Russian, you can see this from our Greek pages.