🚀Russian From Zero To Hero

Even cows in Norway learn the genitive case with me😂 . Даже коровы в Норвегии изучают со мной родительный падеж😂

I’m seriously on fire with the Genitive case this summer 😁 For some reason, so many of my students have been working on cases with me lately, and the Genitive case became a huge focus. And thanks to my precious students, I ended up creating a whole bunch of Genitive case lessons for my YouTube channel. The funny thing is, these videos were never made as “just content”. I created them for my actual students — to help them finally understand the logic, practise the forms step by step, and stop feeling lost every time they see another Genitive ending. That’s why I put so much work into them. Each lesson takes me at least 15 hours to research, structure, write, prepare, record and edit. And you get to use all of that for free on YouTube 😁 This Saturday, a new story-based lesson came out — “The Unpleasant Neighbor.” In this lesson, we focus especially on vocabulary related to moving and housing, while repeating lots of useful phrases with the Genitive case in context. If you haven’t watched it yet, definitely check it out. Genitive case quizzes here

40 hours later my intensive French course is officially over! 🇫🇷🥹 Here's a little video of me speaking French. Honestly, French pronunciation has been one of the hardest things I've ever learned. The French R and all those nasal sounds have been a real challenge for me 😅 But that's exactly why I love learning languages. It reminds me what it's like to be a student again. So... what do you think? 😊 Does anyone here speak French? У меня закончился интенсивный курс французского языка! 40 часов обучения! Вот моё видео, где я говорю по-французски. Произношение французского для меня невероятное трудное! Звук "р" и носовые звуки даются мне очень сложно. Как вам? Кто здесь говорит по-французски?

Master the Genitive Case once and for all! I've added all the extra practice materials in the comments under this post. These aren't random exercises I found online. I created them specifically for my own students, carefully and step by step, to make one of the trickiest parts of Russian much easier to understand. In the comments you'll find: ✅ a short quiz to check your current level; ✅ extra drills for different declension patterns to help you build automaticity; ✅ links to my YouTube lessons if you'd like a deeper explanation of the Genitive case. And later this month we'll move on to the Genitive plural—a topic with so many exceptions that it deserves a whole series of lessons! 👇 Open the comments and enjoy all the materials! #тест в комментариях

Hi Irina...😃 Firstly let me say that you have one of the best channels for Russian learners. Your channel is very professional and has excellent content. There are a lot of Russian language channels on YouTube and learners of Russian are spoiled with the choice. There isn't enough time to enjoy them all. 😁 I have been learning languages for about 30 years, as a hobby, and in the end I have settled on the comprehensible input method, with lots of listening, repeated listeningin particular. It suits me. But recently I have come to realise that we cannot forget grammar and I have started to focus on that too. But I do it in a way where I analyse the sentences that I listen to. It is a slow process but language learning is a slow process. 😊 I haven't formally tried to learn cases and I just listen a lot, so over time I get a sense of what sounds right, I did the same with Polish. I know it is not perfect but cases to an English speaking person are almost impossible to figure out. By the way I am open to suggestions. 😁 Regards, Richard

Your messages make me so happy! 🥹❤️ As a teacher, I always try to create content that’s easy to understand while also helping you notice the patterns native speakers use without even thinking about them. This month, we’re focusing on the Genitive case. I’ve created a story-based lesson that takes you through it step by step And today, my most detailed Genitive case trainer ever is coming out! 😁 My goal is simple: by the end of it, you’ll finally feel confident using the Genitive case. And that’s not all! Soon I’ll also share interactive quizzes so you can practise everything you learn in the lesson.

Какой падеж самый сложный в русском языке по вашему мнению?

When I first started learning Spanish, I did everything on my own. Spanish had always been my dream. English was a school subject — I had to learn it, but Spanish was different. I chose it myself. So I found textbooks available online, watched YouTube videos, listened to podcasts, learned vocabulary — I was completely obsessed. This time I also changed my approach. Instead of focusing on grammar from the very beginning, I surrounded myself with the language. As soon as I learned the alphabet and how to read, I started listening to simple podcasts every day, then translated them and listened again. It worked surprisingly well. I got used to the sound of Spanish. I could understand simple texts. The language didn't feel scary anymore and I was quite proud of myself. Then one day I booked a consultation with a teacher because I wanted to join a group course. I expected to hear something like: "Wow, you've done an amazing job." Instead, I discovered something much more valuable. During that conversation, the teacher immediately noticed mistakes I had never heard before. She showed me exactly where my level really was. Not to discourage me, to help me move forward. That consultation completely changed the way I looked at language learning. Until then, I had been like a child simply absorbing the language. And that's a wonderful stage to go through. But it's also very easy to become blind to your own mistakes. Sometimes you don't need another hundred hours of studying. You need someone who can honestly show you: "This is what you already do well." "This is what's holding you back." That day I realized how important it is to know where you actually are. Not where you hope you are. Not where you were six months ago. But where you are today. Because once you know that, improving becomes much easier, because you know what exactly you should do I'm curious, have you ever had a moment in Russian when you suddenly realized, "Wow... I didn't know I had this gap," or maybe, "I didn't realize I actually knew this much"?

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How many words should you know at each Russian level? 🤓 I’m sharing official documents with the lexical minimum for different levels of Russian. A lexical minimum is the basic list of words you’re expected to know at a certain level. You can use these documents to check which words you already know and which ones you still need to learn. They include stress marks, verb patterns, grammatical information, and translations into other languages. These are official materials approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, so they’re a very useful reference if you want to understand what is actually expected at each level. And I’ve just published a new YouTube video where I explain the full journey from A0 to B1, what changes at each stage, and what you need to do to keep progressing. Watch it here

How many words should you know at each Russian level? 🤓 I’m sharing official documents with the lexical minimum for different levels of Russian. A lexical minimum is the basic list of words you’re expected to know at a certain level. You can use these documents to check which words you already know and which ones you still need to learn. They include stress marks, verb patterns, grammatical information, and translations into other languages. These are official materials approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, so they’re a very useful reference if you want to understand what is actually expected at each level. And I’ve just published a new YouTube video where I explain the full journey from A0 to B1, what changes at each stage, and what you need to do to keep progressing. Watch it here