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Have Fun Learning Russian Fast

Busuu Russian offers Russian learners a dynamic combination of online lessons, language exchange and mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.

Busuu offers many of their features for free :) This includes picture-based vocabulary training, writing exercises, reading comprehension exercises, video chat, interactive exams and a bustling community for social exchange in Russian.

The Busuu system allows you to keep a track record of your Russian studies and mark your progress as you complete each lesson. You can work through your lessons at any time, enabling you to fit your study schedule into your daily life however you choose.

Find Friends and Practice or Exchange

Finding friends is easy in the Busuu community! Quickly search and contact other Russian learners to practice with as well as exchange partners to share and trade with. Plus, there's a free video chat function for easy access to language exchanges right in the same interface you're using to learn.

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Stay Motivated in Style

In order to keep you motivated, Busuu has created a beautiful interface which allows you to grow and visualize your own language garden as you make progress learning Russian. If you are interested in learning more than one language, you will have a tree for each language that sprouts and shoots to the sky as you progress through the lessons and levels. It's quite a thrill to see this grow and know it's a visual representation of your language skills!

Free Russian Mobile App for iOS and Android

Busuu offers free mobile apps for learning Russian on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. The free app takes you through the basics for getting around, and is especially useful while traveling.

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RussianPod101.com Learn Russian Podcast

Summary

From beginner to advanced levels, RussianPod101.com is an excellent, all-around online environment for learning Russian. The Pod101 platform, method and technology provide the necessary tools to get you immersed in the Russian language and achieve the goals you desire and/or require.

Since RussianPod101.com is web-based, you can access your personal Russian Learning Center from anywhere, and it's really easy to download the podcasts and put them on your mp3 player (iPod, Zune, etc) or mobile phone to take them with you for practice and learning on the go.

One of the most important things when learning a language is good content - and RussianPod101.com has this, and a steady flow of it. This constant flow of fresh content regards cultural aspects of Russian you will want to know, interesting tidbits about navigating in Russian society (whether on vacation or living abroad), practical information about getting by and much more.

Your Russian Learning Center brings together audio podcast lessons, lesson notes and checklists, transcripts, PDFs, video lessons, vocabulary training with flashcards and quizzes plus a Russian dictionary, grammar bank, a verb reference and plenty more.

And if you enjoy asking questions and learning from and helping other learners, a forum is available for all users.

It's simple to try it for free and upgrade if it works for you.

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At RussianPod101.com, our goal is to make learning the Russian language easy and fun, while also incorporating culture and current issues into our lessons. We believe that the more you speak, the quicker you learn, so we have designed our program to get you speaking right away. Situational Russian is heavily stressed, and our team role plays various situations to demonstrate the proper form of Russian to use when speaking with friends, customers, executives, and so-on. Knowing the proper form to use separates good speakers from great speakers.

RussianPod101.com was developed with the hope of showing the world how fun and easy learning Russian can be. Here at RussianPod101.com, we truly believe that learning can be fun, while at the same time convenient. We know how busy you are and that each day brings unexpected surprises. That is exactly why we bring the lessons to you and let you decide when they start.

Our innovative, fun, and easy to use language learning system is designed to get you speaking and interacting from the very first lesson. Learn Russian at your own convenience and pace with short, effective, fun daily lessons and a comprehensive, state-of-the-art Learning Center that provides you with the tools to take your Russian to the next level! Our interactive learning system consists of free daily audio podcast lessons, accompanying PDF materials, a Premium Learning Center, and a vibrant user community.

Our Method

RussianPod101.com offers a unique learning experience that cannot be found in conventional classrooms. In addition to offering lessons that can be completed on your own time, we approve all of the content we release through a government certified Russian teacher. Here are just a few of the revolutionary advantages of our method:

Exposure to native speakers and many different kinds of voices and speaking styles…

RussianPod101.com aims to have you speaking Russian after just one lesson! Our lessons focus on pronunciation and listening comprehension, so that you can start practicing what you learn from our professional teachers. Inside the PDF you will find the necessary tools for reading comprehension, and thorough explanations of phrases and key grammar points, in addition to segments on cultural insight. To address speaking practice, we have state-of-the-art software to allow you to record your own voice so you can compare your pronunciation to our teachers and continue to refine your speaking skills.

When all the aspects of RussianPod101.com are put together, this program provides students of Russian with ultimate self-study learning course. In addition, we often provide conversations between three people to more closely simulate real-life situations.

Fresh, up-to-date content...

Many Russian teachers who live overseas have been out of the country for a long period of time and can be “out of the loop” on current words, culture, etc. This is another major gap that we fill. Lessons are carefully crafted to include current events, words, celebrities, and so-on. This is very dynamic content.

Borderless education on-demand...

We also fill a definite demand in remote locations. Our lessons provide you with a mobile classroom, as we bring you Russian on Demand. Russian lessons wherever you may be.

RussianPod101.com offers our listeners a unique learning experience that delivers cutting-edge, dynamic content to be accessed at your convenience. With the inclusion of our lesson notes and Learning Center, we offer a full solution that provides the material, guidance, exercises, and testing to really make the knowledge your own. And it doesn’t even stop there - our vibrant and extremely helpful community provide each other not only quick answers to questions, but also give each other a sense of encouragement and motivation that is often lacking.

We focus on Russian, and Russian only...

Just Russian! All we do is Russian. RussianPod101.com is not a generic package language learning course, such as some of the other big name language learning programs out there. Many other programs “scale” their solutions across several languages, simply recycling the same material over and over - the same pictures, the same conversations, just in a different language. But each language is unique, and at RussianPod101.com we pride ourselves on developing a system that’s only about the Russian language and Russian culture!

One stop studying...

Have you ever found yourself lost on the information highway? Sometimes it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose! Hundreds of bookmarks, all with varying levels of quality and credibility. You finally find a great site, but it only updates once a year! RussianPod101.com offers users one stop studying. The learning center has been carefully designed to provide you with the resources you will need to take your Russian to the next level.

Visit RussianPod101.com.

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Summary

This is by far one of the most popular of the available podcasts for learning English. The content is interesting, the updates are frequent and the site has a feel of being very alive and active.

An excellent overall resource.

Bravo Lori!

From Website

First, you fin Welcome to Better at English! This site is devoted to helping non-native speakers improve their English. For all you non-native speakers out there, on this site you’ll find short lessons, listening activities, tips, and advice that can help you improve your English in as little as two minutes per day. All free! (The site is supported by the modest income generated by the ads and by your generous donations.)

My name is Lori, and I’m the owner, maintainer, principal writer, and fez-sporting Grand Poobah of Better at English. In non-virtual life I work as a corporate language instructor, editor, and translator in southern Sweden. But I’m not Swedish — I emigrated from southern California as an adult. If it means anything to you, I hold an RSA CELTA, a BS in Education and an MA in English, for what those are worth (add me to the list of people who think that the school of LIFE is where real learning takes place).

Why do I run this site? Mainly because I think that just about everything to do with learning, psychology, languages, and language learning is pretty neato stuff, and this site gives me the chance to do something productive with my interest. But it’s also grown out of my years of experience with frustration with teaching English as a foreign language to adults. Most of my students want to practice and improve their conversational English. Unfortunately, most mass-market English teaching materials SUCK when it comes to providing examples of authentic, informal, everyday conversations; the dialogs are contrived, stilted and boring, and reflect the wishful thinking of textbook writers rather than authentic conversational usage. I aim to provide authentic conversations with transcripts and language notes for learners (and teachers) of English who are looking for a (hopefully) fun alternative to conventional ELT materials. My main focus is on idioms, slang, phrasal verbs and colloquial English, but I delve into other vocabulary too.

I hope you’ll enjoy your visit to Better at English and that you’ll find the site useful.

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"Welcome to the site of the "Spoonful of Russian" podcast! Use the audio and videos on the site to stir your interest in Russian language or to refresh your former skills! Learn to participate in simple, direct conversations on everyday topics, in everyday situations; satisfy immediate needs, such as ordering food and making simple purchases. My desire is to create love for the Russian language in my listeners and motivate them to learn more!"

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Natalia has done an amazing job with this podcast. Some of the episodes are audio files, some are audio and video files.

The content is well-organized, and you can start from the first lesson as a total beginner and jump into the language with relative ease.

хорошая работа!

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