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Привет!

Приве́т!
Hello! – Step 0: you can already read Russian
⏱ 10 min · 🎒 You need: your ears and your name 👋
🤸 Разми́нка · Warm-up (1 min)

Wave your hand and say it with Natasha: ПРИВЕ́Т! 👋 Louder: ПРИВЕ́Т! Now whisper it: приве́т…

👂 Смотри́те и слу́шайте · Watch and listen
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🔊 ПРИВЕ́Т 👋
  • Don't read anything yet. Tap the word and listen: Приве́т! Приве́т! Three times.
  • One word today. Hear it, say it, wave. 👋
🤸 Де́лайте · Do it
ПРИВЕ́Т 👋
  • This is how приве́т looks. Tap it to hear it. Don't read the letters – just know the shape, like a logo.
  • You will meet its six letters one by one in the next steps. Today it is a picture.

You can already read Russian. These words sound almost the same all over the world. Tap the word to hear it. Tap the picture to open the word in the dictionary.

ПРИВЕ́Т – словарь
ПРИВЕ́Т
МЕТРО́ – словарь
МЕТРО́
КО́ФЕ – словарь
КО́ФЕ
ПИ́ЦЦА – словарь
ПИ́ЦЦА
БАНА́Н – словарь
БАНА́Н
ШОКОЛА́Д – словарь
ШОКОЛА́Д
ТЕЛЕФО́Н – словарь
ТЕЛЕФО́Н
ИНТЕРНЕ́Т – словарь
ИНТЕРНЕ́Т
ПИАНИ́НО – словарь
ПИАНИ́НО
ТЕА́ТР – словарь
ТЕА́ТР
ПАРИ́Ж – словарь
ПАРИ́Ж
ЛО́НДОН – словарь
ЛО́НДОН
🔁 Повторя́йте · Repeat

Listen and repeat aloud. Clap on the stress ´.

Приве́т! Приве́т!
Метро́, ко́фе, пи́цца, бана́н.
Телефо́н, интерне́т, пиани́но, теа́тр.
Приве́т, Пари́ж! Приве́т, Ло́ндон!

🗣️ Ва́ша о́чередь! · Your turn!

Type your name in Latin letters (as in your passport) and see how Russians write it:

  • Say: Приве́т! Я (your name). 👋
  • Switch the video off. Say приве́т to the cat, the kettle, the window. 😄

Can you say it without the video? – Молоде́ц! Go to the quiz.

✔ Прове́рьте себя́ · Check yourself

1 👋 Which word is приве́т?

ТЕЛЕФО́Н
ПРИВЕ́Т
МЕТРО́
ПИ́ЦЦА

2 ☕ Which one is coffee?

ШОКОЛА́Д
БАНА́Н
КО́ФЕ
ИНТЕРНЕ́Т

3 🍕 Which one is pizza?

ПИАНИ́НО
ПАРИ́Ж
ПИ́ЦЦА
ПРИВЕ́Т

4 🗼 Which one is Paris?

ТЕА́ТР
ПАРИ́Ж
ЛО́НДОН
БАНА́Н

📖 Текст уро́ка · The text – open it only after you can say it without reading

Приве́т! Метро́, ко́фе, пи́цца, бана́н, шокола́д. Телефо́н, интерне́т, пиани́но, теа́тр. Пари́ж, Ло́ндон. Приве́т, Пари́ж! Приве́т, Ло́ндон!

Hello! Metro, coffee, pizza, banana, chocolate. Telephone, internet, piano, theatre. Paris, London. Hello, Paris! Hello, London!


💡 Пра́вило · Rule
  • Today you don't read – you recognise. Like a logo. 👋
  • Russian letters come in the next steps, 2–4 a day.
  • Every word on this site can be heard: tap it. 🔊
😄 Для тех, кто говорит по-английски · For English speakers

ПРИВЕТ ≈ pri-VYET – think "private vet". 🐶👨‍⚕️
And your alphabet in Russian letters: эй, би, си, ди, и, эф, джи, эйч, ай, джей, кей, эл, эм, эн, оу, пи, кью, ар, эс, ти, ю, ви, дабл-ю, экс, уай, зед.

´ = ударе́ние (stress). The small sign above a vowel shows which syllable to say louder and longer: чита́ет = chi-TA-yet. It is only a help for learners – Russian books and newspapers do not print it, and you don't write it. Unstressed о sounds like а, unstressed е and я sound like и: хорошо́ = ha-ra-SHO. Read more: Stress and Russian vowels · Russian phonology.