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Russian Nouns in the Genitive Singular

October 1, 2017

In this post we take a look at the endings of singular nouns in the genitive case. The genitive case often gets a bad rap for being one of the most difficult cases in the Russian language. Admittedly the

Der, Die,Das: How to Master the German Articles

September 30, 2017
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What are German articles?The German language uses grammatical genders. This means that the language has different categories that a noun can fall into. German isn't the only language to use gender.

5 Quick Tips for Learning Russian Cursive

September 28, 2017

“Russian cursive makes me cry”The famous expression I’ve heard so many times from people learning Russian and especially learning Russian handwriting. After all “cursive” seems to derive from

Это, Этот, Эта, Это, and Эти: Expressing “This” in Russian

September 17, 2017

In this post we'll talk about how to say "this" in Russian. It's usually pretty straight forward, but there are a few exceptions that throw some people off. Saying "this is" or "these are"Это

Common Spelling Rules for the Russian Language

September 17, 2017

Compared to English Russian is pretty sparse when it comes to spelling rules. Nevertheless the ones that do exist in Russian are important and they come up often. In this post we'll take a look at these

How to Pronounce Russian Vowels

September 17, 2017

Russian has a total of five different vowels, each of which can be written two different ways, and together produce ten different vowels sounds. Seven of those sounds are a sort of "main" vowel sounds.

The 3 Best Sites for Online Russian Classes

September 15, 2017

Once upon a time, it was really hard to learn a new language. If you were an average (not poor, not rich) person living in a rural area, you might have been limited to whatever couple of languages your

3 Ways to Improve Your Russian Listening Skills

September 6, 2017

There are four skills associated with language acquisition: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. A lot of learners spend all their time working on their speaking skills, but struggle with the listening