First, a couple of words about myself. My name is Dmitry Slomov, I'm a native Russian speaker and I'm the author of this Russian Language Course. I teach Russian to speakers of other languages and I also teach English to Russian speakers. As well, I'm also a translator and an Engineer.

Through my life I have studied different European and Asian languages to various degrees of proficiency. Besides Russian and English, I can also speak German, Italian, Belarussian and Hebrew rather fluently, and I understand pretty well French, Dutch, Spanish, Indonesian, Chinese and Ukrainian. But learning languages by its own was never enough for me, so I started teaching languages, too. While teaching Russian I began to write up my lessons in order to make it easier for me to remember the most successful things, which helped my students to learn the language quickly and easily. And this is how this course started.

This Russian Language Course summarizes many years of experience, both as a teacher and as a student and it has been created for anyone who is interested in learning Russian. The course currently consists of 60 lessons, which will be posted on this website according to the syllabus. The audio lessons are in mp3 format and you can easily download them from this website. The lessons in this course concentrate on various real life situations you may enocunter when you start to deal with Russian speakers or when you visit Russia. The lessons of this course will teach your to understand, speak, read and write basic Russian. They provide the most important words and phrases, which will both enable you to master basic Russian and will also make up a base for your further Russian studies. They also contain some basic data about Russia and Russian lifestyle, which may be of use, when you start dealing with Russians. This course is intended to fit the «Can Do» requirements, put forward by the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) for the Breakthrough level. You may see the requirements lists for various ALTE levels here.

A very important feature of this course is that you can spend as much time on each lesson as you want, there is no time limit. You may just download the lessons and their PDF transcripts and start learning Russian at your own pace. Starting with lesson 29, PDF transcripts contain sections that will teach you reading, typing and writing Russian.

Every new lesson is built on the vocabulary and grammar of the previous lesson. Therefore, I would recommend you to review each lesson a few times and make sure you understand everything and you are able to say the phrases from a previous lesson, before you start with the next one.

I recommend you to listen the audio lessons with RealAudio or with Windows Media Player. You can also transfer these lessons to you iPod or MP3 player and listen to them anytime, at your convenience.

You may Sign Up in order to get access to PDF lessons and transcripts. As well you may always contact me if you have a question or need some assistance and I'll be happy to help you.