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- June 19, 2025: Added an exercise on expressing the future with perfective verbs and an exercise on clock time on the hour.
- June 8, 2025: Added exercises on clock time on the hour, and clock time in the first half hour and in the second half hour.
- February 3, 2025: Added an interactive video, an exercise, and example sentences on nouns in -мя.
- January 27, 2025: Added exercises on imperatives (vowel stems) and imperatives (consonant stems).
- November 18, 2024: Added an interactive video and example sentences on usage of человек and люди.
- July 19, 2024: Added an interactive video on с- (-ся) with motion verbs.
- July 17, 2024: Added example sentences on с- (-ся) with motion verbs.
- June 10, 2024: Added an interactive video and example sentences on the prefix раз–.
- April 27, 2024: Added a practice exercise on potential negative pronouns.
- April 26, 2024: Added an interactive video and set of example sentences on potential negative pronouns (негде, некого, etc.)
- March 22, 2024: Added an exploration topic: using Youglish for examples of vowel reduction.
- March 4, 2024: Added examples sentences on expressing “to” and “from” with motion.
- March 3, 2024: Added interactive video on expressing “to” and “from” with motion.
- February 16, 2024: Added examples to the lesson on masculine nouns in -у in the prepositional.
- February 15, 2024: Added an interactive video, В лесу, на носу, почему?, to the modules in Из истории русского языка.
- February 8, 2024: Added an index page with links to video lessons keyed to topics in Beginner’s Russian (Kudyma, Miller, Kegan, Lavery, 2nd edition).
- January 31, 2024: Added an interactive video and exercise, “What is case?“
- January 19, 2024: Added an exercise and example sentences on хуже, худший.
- January 16, 2024: Added an exercise, example sentences, and a classic of Soviet advertising to lesson on лучше, лучший.
- January 10, 2024: Added interactive video, an exercise, and example sentences on the case of negated direct objects.
- December 12: Added interactive video on adverbs with an exercise.
- November 29: Added example sentences on using чем in comparisons.
- November 28: Added exercise on unidirectional vs. multidirectional motion; added exercise on using чем in comparisons; added a search button to the top menu.
- November 7: Added interactive video on imitation in language learning.
- October 12: Added several exercises on declining numbers in the hundreds.
- October 4: Added interactive video on expressing quantity with немного, немногое, немногие with an exercise and example sentences.
- Sept. 15: Added interactive video with an exercise on the first palatalization of velars.
- September 1: Added example sentences on the contrast between ходить and пойти in the past, and the contrast between ездить and поехать in the past.
- August 29: Added interactive video on expressing quantity with много, многое, многие, with exercises and example sentences
- August 18: Added interactive video on перед with nouns and dependent clauses with practice exercise and examples.
- August 9: Added interactive video and example sentences on до in dependent clauses.
- August 3: Updated video on past passive participles (group II) for better sound, added captions. Added exercises on водить-вести and возить-везти.
- August 1: Added new interactive video with practice and examples on ползать – ползти.
- July 27: Added new interactive video and example sentences on таскать – тащить.
- July 25: Added example sentences on using the instrumental to express time, manner, and movement.
- July 24: Updated video on past passive participles (group I) for better sound, added captions.
- July 21: Updated video on past passive participles (group III) for better sound, added captions.
- July 18: Added example sentences and an exercise on летать, лететь.
- July 17: Added example sentences on бегать, бежать.
- July 13: Added exercises on present active participles and past active participles.
- July 12: Added new interactive video on лазить / лазать – лезть, with exercises and example sentences.
- July 4: Added new interactive video on кататься – катиться, with an exercise and example sentences.
- June 30: Added example sentences on numbers in the instrumental case.
- June 29: Added an exercise on numbers in the instrumental case.
- June 28: Added example sentences on (по-)нравиться; added exercise on numbers in the prepositional case; added exercise on personal pronouns in the instrumental case.
- June 27: Added example sentences on друг друга and numbers in the genitive, two exercises on embedded questions, as well as a video and exercises on (по-)нравиться.
- June 26: Added exercises on numbers in the accusative and numbers in the dative.
- June 23: Added exercise on друг друга.
- June 20: Added interactive video on друг друга.
- May 26: Added interactive video on personal pronouns in the instrumental.
- May 25: Updated video on expressing “arrival” by vehicle, to include captions and improved sound.
- May 24: Updated video on expressing “arrival” on foot, to include captions and improved sound.
- May 22: Added example sentences to lesson on an inclusive “we.”
- May 19: Added interactive video with practice exercises on an inclusive “we.”
- May 8: Added interactive video and practice exercises on personal pronouns in the prepositional case.
- May 3: Added practice exercise and example sentences to expressing purpose with чтобы.
- April 29: Added interactive video on expressing purpose with чтобы.
- April 24: Added interactive video and exercises on personal pronouns in the accusative.
- April 20: Added links for topics in chapters 4 – 6 of Этажи. Added index page for the Liden & Denz textbook Я люблю русский язык. Added a few exercises to lesson on verbs in -нуть.
- April 12: Added a topic on после with dependent clauses: после того как, with an interactive video, video sample sentences, and practice exercises. Also available as a free sample.
- April 7: Added an interactive video on что, кто as relative pronouns with exercises and examples .
- April 5: Added an interactive video on себя with example sentences and an exercise.
- April 3: Added an exercise and example sentences to lesson on compound comparatives.
- April 2: Added exercises and example sentences to lesson on verbs in -овать/-евать.
- April 1: Added interactive video on дать with exercises and example sentences.
- March 31: Added index page for video lessons keyed to topics in Nicholas Brown’s New Penguin Russian Course
- March 27: Added interactive video on 1st-person imperatives, with exercise and examples
- March 18: Added interactive video on prepositions and time expressions with an exercise and example sentences.
- March 17: Added example sentences to у: expressing connection and relationship.
- March 16: added example sentences, an exercise, and notes on the кофе controversy (он или оно?) to the lesson on basic forms of один; add example sentences to basic forms of the hundreds; added practice exercise to nouns after пять – двадцать; added interactive video, flashcards, and example sentences for more on -ся.
- March 15: added interactive video with an exercise on an introduction to -ся.
- March 11: Added an exercise and examples in context to lesson on the past tense of нести, везти, вести
- March 10: Added an exercise and example sentences to lesson on going in the future (by foot); added exercises on ехать; added video lesson on expressing connection and relationship with у.
- March 9: Added exercises to lesson on хотеть; added video lesson with example sentences on using хотеть with чтобы; added link for Razom on main page to support relief efforts in Ukraine.
- March 6: Added video lesson with exercises on when to add н- after prepositions.
- March 5: Added video lesson on secondary imperfectives with -ыв-/-ив- and exercise and examples (free sample lesson of the week!)
- March 1: Added suggested English translations to exercise 2 and exercise 3 on present active participles; added a second video on word order.
- February 28: Added video on Word Order (I) with an exercise.
- February 27: Added video on ставить/поставить with a sample sentences and a few cultural notes; added answers to exercise after video on fall of the jers.
- February 22: Added video on класть/положить with related links, an exercise, and example sentences
- February 16: Added index pages for video lessons keyed to topics in Между нами, Голоса, Live from Russia! Russian Stage I
- February 16: Added video on свой with examples and an exercise.
- February 15: Added video, an introduction to short adjectives with examples.
- February 13: Added video on speaker’s perspective in aspectual choice.
- February 9: Added video and exercise on expressing age with pronouns in the dative case.
- February 9: Added video and exercises on expressing emphasis with сам.
- February 8: Added video and exercises on using весь with nouns
- February 7: Added videos on всё and все, with exercises and examples
- February 3: New section! Из истории русского языка, with a first video on the fall of the jers and an exercise
- February 3: Updated video on вести with improved sound and captions.
- February 2: Updated video on “going” in the future (on foot) with improved sound and captions.
- February 1: Added interactive video: Introduction to Verbal Prefixes, with exercises
- January 26: Updated introduction to multidirectional and unidirectional motion for improved sound and captions.
- January 24: Updated video on водить with improved sound quality and captions, and an exercise
- January 23: Updated video on носить/нести with improved sound quality and captions, and an exercise
- January 20: Added video on verbs with infinitives in -чь and exercises
- January 17: Added video on declining numbers in the hundreds, with example sentences
- January 13: Opened course on numbers, dates and time; updated video on идти and ехать in the past for captions, better sound
- January 12: Updated video on embedded questions; added video and exercise on adjectives after numbers in oblique cases
- January 6 2023: Added interactive video and examples on indefinite expressions with кое-.
- December 30: Added captions to videos on бегать-бежать, плавать-плыть, летать-лететь.
- December 21: Added interactive videos and examples on real conditions and unreal/hypothetical conditions, with exercises.
- December 16: Added interactive video and example sentences on irregular imperatives
- December 11: Added example sentences for three types of imperative forms and the future of быть.
- December 9: Added three interactive videos on forming imperatives, and one on aspect in imperatives.
- December 6: Added an exercise and examples to lesson on declining один.
- December 5: Added examples and exercises to videos on future of imperfective verbs and future of perfective verbs.
- December 3: Added interactive video on possessive adjectives, with an exercise and examples
- December 1: Added interactive videos on the future of imperfective verbs and the future of perfective verbs.
- November 25 – December 1: Prefixed motion verbs, updated for better sound: Videos on про-, пере-, за-, об-
- November 17: Examples with за-
- November 1: Added an exercise on prepositional case of nouns; updated interactive video on везти for better sound
- October 31: Updated interactive videos on возить and бегать-бежать with better sound
- October 27: Interactive Video and exercise on: Masculine Nouns in the Accusative
- October 25: Interactive Video and exercises: Verbs with the Instrumental
- October 21: Interactive Video: Superlatives; examples and exercises
- October 18: идти – new exercise
- October 15: Embedded questions: example sentences
- October 10 – 14: Interactive videos: Declining Foreign Names; Last Names with Adjectival Endings; exercises on declining names
- September 29 2022: Interactive video: Connecting Clauses with то, что; exercises and example sentences
- September 21 2022: Updated for better sound: Videos on в-, вы-, у-, до-
- September 20 2022: Links for the first three chapters of Этажи
- September 15 2022: Updated for better sound: Interactive video, When и sounds like ы
- September 14 2022: Interactive video: The Basics of Negation; exercise and examples of negation
- September 13 2022: Participles in -чий: examples
- September 9 2022: Dative modifiers: two exercises
- September 8 2022: Interactive video: Indefinite Expressions with -то, -нибудь; two exercises on -то, -нибудь; Dative Nouns: exercise
- September 7 2022: Interactive video: Unstressed /a/ After Soft Consonants; exercise