Learn Russian Language - Russian For Beginners (Udemy.com)
From this course you will learn Russian letters and sounds special cases pronunciation and other phonetics specifics.
Created by: Ilona Protchenko
Last updated September 2013
What you will learn
- By the end of the course you will be able to read and recognize Russian words and simple phrases.
- You will start to understand spoken Russian words.
- You will be able to say familiar words and simple phrases in Russian.
How it compares
Against the other 535 rated Udemy courses in Language Learning on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 25% of them
- Reviews540#257 of 536 by number of reviews
- Length1.3 hoursshorter than 92% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2013earlier than 100% of them
Course Description
This is a Russian phonetics course. You will learn Russian letters and sounds and Russian sounds special cases pronunciation in words.
This course will be useful for Russian language beginners and interesting for those who want to learn more about Russian phonetics specifics.
Here you will found not only examples and exercises with Russian sounds articulation and Russian words pronunciation, but also basic phrases in dialogues.
The course consists of 10 lectures and 4 quizzes. The course includes 1 hour of video lectures, several downloadable files with reference materials such as phonetics rules and vocabulary with more than 300 words and phrases in Russian. We suggest you to watch lectures twice or more as there is a lot information shown in each video. Therefore it might take more than two hours to complete, tasks and quizzes could take a longer time.
The Grammar part (Lecture 7) contains a lot of useful information that you can use even outside of the course frequently.
If you want to learn a language, start with sounds and correct pronunciation!
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
540 Reviews
Ilona Protchenko
I'm working as a Russian Language and Literature teacher from 1998. I have a wide experience in teaching Russian as both native and foreign language. I'm teaching students of different ages – from small children to adults, so I will definitely find a way to help you learn Russian language!
More Language Learning courses
3 Minute French - Course 8 | Language lessons for beginners (2026)
5.0 (230 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 10.8h
$79.99
Russian Made Easy - Accelerated Learning for Russian (2014)
4.9 (3,393 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 4.2h
Free
3 Minute French - Course 3 | Language lessons for beginners (2026)
4.9 (1,712 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 4.7h
$16.99
3 Minute Portuguese - Free taster course | Beginner lessons (2025)
4.9 (1,149 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 1.6h
Free
3 Minute Italian - Course 2 | Language lessons for beginners (2026)
4.9 (833 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 4.2h
$109.99
Perfect Your British English Accent - English Pronunciation (2018)
4.9 (760 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 3.1h
$49.99
Reviews
By Dermot Cassidy on 7/30/2022
I found this course very helpful. I had covered a lot of the material before without ever really making sense of it. Finally, this course enabled me to start making sense of many issues which had puzzled me before, such as why consonants in Russian are classified as genuinely hard and soft rather than just classifying vowels as hard and soft and saying that the consonant has the quality of the succeeding vowel. The use of the hard and soft signs was similarly clarified. But those are just examples. The whole course was illuminating and very well organised. I was surprised at how well the videos were done, from a technical perspective. This course is very good value for money. I will certainly now go on to do part two. I offer my many thanks to its creator for the care and attention which went into the design and production of this course.
By Abel Chavez on 2/2/2021
The course is good. But I believe it could be improved by introducing the words before you use them in a sentence. And each sentence need to be pronounced word by word in order to see the video without stopped it.
By Tinzin Rigzin on 1/5/2020
I actually enjoyed this Russian course. It can be challenging but the pronunciation of the Russian language is beautiful and it's not easy to learn Russian. If you enjoy learning Russian, you will definitely do well. The instructor provided organized lectures and set up examples. Recommend this free course for those who want to learn Russian.
By Chris Hushak on 12/1/2018
Good material, but NOT as a stand-alone beginner course. Very useful as supplement material for intermediate student review. Lots of material is at the intermediate/late intermediate level with no explanation of verb conjugation used, or vocabulary definitions. SPOILER ALERT: Looks like part 2 will help cover those topics lacking in part one based on description at end of this course. I may try at a later date.
By Hasham Muhammad Ishaq on 11/7/2018
my experience was excellent but i thought that i will learn something more in this course. well i enjoyed learning it is very good and informative. thank you so much. Regards Hasham
By Gloria Chairez Jiménez on 9/11/2018
Es la primera vez que tomo un curso de ruso y me costó trabajo por la novedad, pero la repetición constante de los sonidos empieza a ayudarme a identificar pronunciaciones y léxico.
By Sean Dale on 5/31/2018
Very good explanations and examples. I also like how vocabulary is starting to build while learning the alphabet and the sounds. Looking forward to the second course!
By Raphael Masson on 1/12/2018
I liked the course, I think some pronunciations should be performed more slowly. It was interesting some text that was showed, it take some time to understand cyrilo alphabet, some words are similar to latin alphabet and it can be a little bit confusing. Thanks for this free course. ;)
By John Garrett on 9/19/2015
What a great course! The instructor is obviously fluent in Russian and clearly vocalizes every phoneme. The downloads are top notch, and the poem and children's story were quite entertaining. Overall, by no means comprehensive, this course elegantly provides the required oral foundation in a clear and concise manner. I would highly recommend this to anyone with even a passing interest in Russian.
By John Romero on 5/18/2015
This course included everything I expected from such a course, and covered the material clearly and concisely. It is a fine first step in the introduction to the Russian language. I'd recommend it to any English speaker curious about learning Russian.
Quality Score
No CourseDuck member has rated this course yet. Taken it? Give each part a thumbs up or down.
Overall Score : 90 / 100






