Learn Russian by watching Netflix
Russian rewards immersion more than most languages, because word endings shift constantly and only repeated exposure in context makes the pattern intuitive. The Cyrillic alphabet takes a weekend to learn and is fully phonetic afterwards, which makes subtitle reading viable far earlier than learners expect.
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How long does it take to learn Russian?
Why learn Russian?
- Around 150 million native speakers and wide use as a second language across Eurasia.
- Cyrillic is phonetic and learnable in days, unlike character-based writing systems.
- It opens one of the largest bodies of literature and cinema in the world.
- Slavic grammar transfers substantially to Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, and Serbian.
A few Russian words to start
- привет
- hi (privet; informal)
- спасибо
- thank you (spasibo)
- да
- yes (da)
- нет
- no (net)
- вода
- water (voda)
- хорошо
- good, fine (khorosho)
- друг
- friend (drug)
- сейчас
- now (seychas; often contracts in fast speech)
Frequently asked questions
- How long does it take to learn Russian?
- The US Foreign Service Institute schedules 1,012 class hours for Russian, placing it in Category III alongside Turkish, Polish, and Hindi. That figure describes intensive full-time diplomatic training, not a casual learner's timeline.
- Is the Cyrillic alphabet a barrier?
- Less than it looks. It has 33 letters, several of which match Latin ones, and spelling is highly consistent. Most learners read Cyrillic slowly within a week and comfortably within a month.
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