For kids 10+
Russian for beginners: children and teenagers
An online Russian program for children learning Russian as a foreign language, designed to take them from their first words to confident everyday conversations.
Who is it for
For children and teenagers aged 10 and above who are just starting to learn Russian or know only a few basic words and phrases.
Skills your child will develop
Children will learn basic Russian words and sentence structures. They will be able to talk about themselves, ask questions, understand simple conversations, and begin reading their first texts in Russian.
How the program works
The program is structured in two progressive stages. Children move step by step from learning the alphabet and having their first simple conversations to communicating confidently in everyday situations, reading short texts, and understanding basic Russian grammar.
Lessons focus on using Russian in real-life situations. Children learn to talk about themselves, ask questions, understand the person they are speaking with, and read simple texts.
Lessons focus on using Russian in real-life situations. Children learn to talk about themselves, ask questions, understand the person they are speaking with, and read simple texts.
First steps in Russian
Everyday communication
Program stages
At the first stage, children are introduced to the Russian alphabet, learn to read simple words and sentences, and begin having their first conversations in Russian.
What your child will learn:
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.
What your child will learn:
- Talk about themselves, their family, and friends.
- Talk about their home, school, city, weather, seasons, food, clothes, animals, hobbies, and daily routine.
- Count to 20 and talk about age.
- Read level-appropriate adapted texts and understand their meaning.
- Gender and number of nouns.
- Personal and possessive pronouns.
- Present-tense verb forms and adjectives.
- Plural forms of nouns.
- The prepositional case.
- Basic sentence structures with verbs.
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.
At the second stage, children expand their vocabulary and become more confident communicating on familiar topics. They begin reading short texts, while their grammar becomes more varied and flexible.
What your child will learn:
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.
What your child will learn:
- Take part in everyday conversations: talk in more detail about their city, travel, traditions, transport, shopping, and events from their day.
- Describe appearance and emotions: talk about people and objects in more detail and express personal feelings.
- Understand spoken Russian and read: work with adapted educational stories, watch short learning videos, and answer questions about what they have heard or read.
- Match adjectives with nouns correctly in gender and number.
- Switch confidently between present and past tense verb forms.
- Use the prepositional and accusative cases to talk about location and direction.
- Ask and answer questions with где? and куда? correctly.
- Distinguish between and use the verbs of motion идти and ехать correctly.
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.