Matryoshka: Learn Russian

Every Russian word is made of parts: a prefix, a root, a suffix, an ending. Learn the parts, and words you have never studied start to open by themselves. Matryoshka teaches Russian from the inside out. Like the nesting doll, the language has layers — Sound, Beat, Root, Word, Link and Thought — and you grow through all six. WHAT YOU DO IN A SESSION • Word forge: build a word from its parts — вы + ход + н + ой = выходной, "day off". • You can read this: read a word you have never studied, because you already know every part of it. • Two sounds: tell apart sounds English doesn't have — ы and и, hard and soft consonants, ш and щ. • Beat: catch the stressed syllable. Ordinary Russian text doesn't mark it. • Case bridge: choose the right ending through English — of, to, with, in. • Root and sentence: match roots with their meanings and put words together into sentences. MADE FOR ENGLISH…