LingoTide Beginner Russian

LingoTide

Learn Russian with easy stories for complete beginners. Russian listening practice and comprehensible input you can follow from the first episode, with the words explained in English as each story goes. Beginner Russian listening. Each episode is a new short Beginner story. Each sentence is said slowly, taken apart piece by piece with every word explained in English, and then said again at normal speed. More stories like these, with an interactive transcript, are on lingotide.com. The voices in this show are made with AI.

  1. Episode 11

    The Ruskeala Marble Canyon (Мраморный каньон Рускеала)

    Learn Russian for beginners with a short story: The Ruskeala Marble Canyon. Today's story: in Karelia, you row a boat on the clear green water of an old marble quarry, whose stone is in a cathedral in Saint Petersburg. Russian words in this episode: плывём, едем, хотим, мраморный, зелёной, карьер, мрамор, каньон. Each episode is a short story in simple Russian, made for complete beginners. Here's how it works. First, you hear a sentence slowly. Then we take it apart, one small piece at a time: each piece in Russian, what it means in English, and then every word in it, what it means and the job it does. Then you hear the whole sentence in English, and once more in Russian, at normal speed. By then, you'll understand all of it. Along the way, you'll hear a little about life in the places where Russian is spoken. LingoTide isn't like any other reader. Its stories come with so much context built in that you follow real sentences from the very first line you read. That's real immersion, even as a complete beginner, and you pick the language up the way children do. More stories like this on LingoTide: The Ruskeala Marble Canyon (Мраморный каньон Рускеала)Scarlet Sails (Алые паруса)Lomonosov and the Air of Venus (Ломоносов и атмосфера Венеры)lingotide.com The voices in this show are made with AI.

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Learn Russian with easy stories for complete beginners. Russian listening practice and comprehensible input you can follow from the first episode, with the words explained in English as each story goes. Beginner Russian listening. Each episode is a new short Beginner story. Each sentence is said slowly, taken apart piece by piece with every word explained in English, and then said again at normal speed. More stories like these, with an interactive transcript, are on lingotide.com. The voices in this show are made with AI.