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Practise your Russian

Learning sticks when you retrieve it. Pick a practice mode below, or jump straight into the exercises of any lesson.

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Verb and case drills

Every lesson ends with exercises that drill the two engines — verb forms across tense and person, and the case ending that follows a question word — until they feel automatic.

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Listening practice

Play phrasebook phrases at normal and slow speed, repeat aloud, then shadow the audio.

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Words and phrases you marked difficult come back at spaced intervals so they move into long-term memory.

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Exercises by lesson

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  1. Lesson 1: Reading Russian and the Sentence Without a Verb — Exercises
  2. Lesson 2: The Verb Engine: Three Tenses at Once — Exercises
  3. Lesson 3: Who You Are: Names, Nationalities and Professions — Exercises
  4. Lesson 4: Having, Wanting and Liking — Exercises
  5. Lesson 5: Where? The Prepositional Case — Exercises
  6. Lesson 6: What and Where To: The Accusative Case — Exercises
  7. Lesson 7: Going and Travelling: Motion Verbs I — Exercises
  8. Lesson 8: Nothing, Nobody and the Genitive — Exercises
  9. Lesson 9: To Whom? The Dative Case and States — Exercises
  10. Lesson 10: With Whom and As What: The Instrumental Case — Exercises
  11. Lesson 11: Numbers, Money and How Many — Exercises
  12. Lesson 12: The Complete Case Map — Exercises
  13. Lesson 13: Aspect I: Every Verb Has Two Faces — Exercises
  14. Lesson 14: Aspect II: Two Futures and the Result — Exercises
  15. Lesson 15: Motion Verbs II: The Prefix System — Exercises
  16. Lesson 16: The Complete Verb Matrix and Survival Russian — Exercises
  17. Lesson 17: Time, Calendar and Weather — Exercises
  18. Lesson 18: Reflexives and -ся Verbs — Exercises
  19. Lesson 19: Politeness, Requests and Problems — Exercises
  20. Lesson 20: Opinions, Feelings and Connectors — Exercises
  21. Lesson 21: Food, Restaurant and Health — Exercises
  22. Lesson 22: Travel, City and Real-Life Scenarios — Exercises
  23. Lesson 23: Word Order, Emphasis and Sounding Natural — Exercises
  24. Lesson 24: Complete Russian Speaking Challenge — Exercises