The 10 best Russian Anki decks (2027)

vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 5,000 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2024

A frequency-ordered Russian vocabulary deck with audio and stress marks on every note, worth studying as a word list if you already have grammar and reading support elsewhere, not as a graded sentence course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is the spine: 5,000 headwords in the order of the Sharoff frequency dictionary, stress marks on the word and sentence, audio on all 5,000 notes, я/ты/они forms on verbs, and both Russian-to-English and English-to-Russian cards. The weakness is the sentences. They are corpus lines, not graded to what you already know. Card 1 teaches и with 'Мы здесь живем и рабо́таем.', where all five words are new. Card 29 teaches от with a ten-word sentence about what 'distinguished her from all the others'. Only 12% of sentences in the first tenth add one new word or fewer, and 42% do so across the deck. Register runs to news and legal prose ('Руководитель предприятия оштрафован за нарушение трудового законодательства'), with the odd crude line ('Меня какая-то сука заложила!'). The sample also shows real errors: 'имунную' (misspelled), 'вс́ех' (misplaced accent), a German gloss for гласный ('öffentlich') that doesn't fit the 'vowel' sense, and etymology breakdowns that are wrong, such as причём split as 'при' = imperative of пере́ть. Treat the low top-1,000 coverage figure with suspicion. The count read only the sentence field, and it lists это and который as unused although they are cards 11 and 21.

Use it if you can already read Cyrillic, have a textbook or course for grammar, and want a long, frequency-ranked list of words to attach audio and stress to. It suits learners heading toward reading news or general prose. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs each sentence to be understandable from what you've learned, or if you want the deck to teach grammar in a planned order. Play a few audio cards before committing, since the measurement only confirms files are present.

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Number 2 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 1,395 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2015

Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A frequency-ordered Russian verb list with full audio, conjugation tables and aspect pairs, usable as a reference or a recognition drill but weak as a first deck and noisy in its English.

Verdict

The deck's real strengths are its coverage and its word-level detail. Every one of the 1,395 verbs has audio, an accented headword, an aspect partner, case-government notes ("в,на+P, у+G") and one or two natural Russian sentences. Perfective verbs get a past and a present example, such as "Я написал на доске теорему Пифагора. Он напишет мне, когда вернётся." The weak points are the English and the sequencing. The machine-translated glosses are often wrong or garbled: "Do not even ask you to take the money," "Hurry up and do not have time," "Do not drink obscenities in my presence," "Racer racing to the finish line." Word-by-word glosses like "пройдёт: will be held" or "контрольную: control" can mislead you. Some aspect fields are swapped or blank (вырасти lists вырасти as imperfective and вырастать as perfective; лежать shows "( ? )" for the perfective). Only 19% of the sentences add at most one new word, and 24-52% of the words in them are new in every tenth of the deck, so the sentences are not graded. The most common verbs also do not come first: идти-type basics like видеть, сказать, узнать and слышать sit in the last tenth, and the opening is slслушать, бояться, гладеть. Nothing links the sentences to each other, so there is no story or dialogue to anchor them.

The cards are also awkward to study. The front shows an English gloss, an aspect label and an English translation of the sentence, but it never says what to produce. The back stacks a 25-row conjugation table and a long dictionary dump under the answer. Use this deck if you are already at A2-B1, can read Russian, and want a large verb bank with stress marks, aspect pairs and audio that you will trim and clean. Skip it if you are a beginner who needs graded sentences, or if you want a deck you can open and study without editing.

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Number 5 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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Number 1 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 9,197 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2021

A frequency-ordered Russian word list with audio on every card but almost no sentences or grammar sequencing, so it works as a vocabulary checklist rather than a course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is the word list itself. The top 100 words all appear in the first 1% of the deck, and 949 of the top 1,000 words on the reference list are taught. Every note has audio, and the glosses in the sample look accurate: "быть (i) (pres: есть)" is glossed "to be; there is, there are", and verbs carry aspect pairs and case government such as "оценивать/оценить (+a)" with "p оценю, оценишь". The weakness is that 96% of the notes are single words or short phrases. After the first hundred or so cards ("Она в Москве, а он в Петербурге"), the Example field is mostly empty or holds conjugation shorthand like "g pl масок". You never see a word used in a sentence, and nothing is sequenced. Past roughly the 4,000th card the list is mostly rare words ("штабель", "щука", "этажерка"). Some very common words are also absent, such as сделать, смочь, написать and посмотреть, because the source is a dictionary lemma list that omits some forms and aspect partners.

Use this if you already have a grammar course or textbook and want a ranked vocabulary list with pronunciation to work through alongside it. It suits a learner who is comfortable with isolated word-to-meaning cards and can read the compressed grammar notes ("i", "p", "g sg", "+inst"). Do not use it as a first or only resource, and do not expect it to build reading or listening comprehension. A complete beginner will get no explanation of cases or aspect, and anyone who wants sentences will have to find them elsewhere.

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vocabulary list · A1 · 1,410 notes · audio on 100% · updated February 2023

Part 1 of a 4-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 1,410-card Russian sentence deck with audio on every card and a smart inflection idea, but a scrambled order and a vocabulary list that skips basic words; worth using selectively, not as a starter course.

Verdict

The design idea is sound. Each lemma appears in up to three frequent inflected forms, each in its own sentence, with a case or tense label on the back (for example дедушка as Nom.Sing, then Gen.Sing in 'Я вчера был у дедушки в гостях'). Most sentences are short and natural ('Тихо! Маша спит.', 'Сколько стоит эта открытка?'), and every card has audio. In the sample, the Russian and the case labels were correct. The weaknesses are order and selection. The first cards run проблема, российский, нога, ехать, класс, with 6 to 7 new words per sentence, and only 12% of part-1 sentences add one new word or fewer. The Lesson numbers jump around (20, 21, 28, 12, 5), and the three forms of one lemma are scattered across the deck. Coverage of the 1,000 most common Russian words is 59%, and common words like также, просто, тоже, тут, тогда, конечно and спасибо never appear. Meanwhile сметана and запереть show up within the first 2% of the deck. Some sentences read like news copy ('Министр финансов отказался отвечать на вопросы российских журналистов'), and a few glosses don't match the sentence: карта is glossed 'card' but translated as 'map', and шкаф is 'armoire'.

Use it if you already read basic Russian, know the alphabet and the main cases, and want large amounts of audio-backed comprehension practice and exposure to inflected forms. After the first few hundred cards the pace is comfortable, with 85 to 90% of sentences adding at most one new word. Don't use it as a first deck, and don't use it if you want a frequency-ordered core vocabulary, conversational phrases, or practice at producing Russian. Every card is a recognition task, and the sentences are not connected to each other.

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vocabulary list · unclear · 311,976 notes · no audio · updated December 2018

A 312,000-note Lingvo bilingual dictionary export in alphabetical order, useful as a reference to dip into but not worth studying front to back.

Verdict

The deck's strength is breadth. In the sample, nearly every common English word is covered (999 of the top 1,000), and the entries come from a professional dictionary, so most glosses read correctly: 'tacit consent' is 'молчаливое согласие', 'surgical scissors' is 'хирургические ножницы'. The dictionary examples are mostly natural, such as 'The rain began to gush in torrents.' The weaknesses come from the format. Cards run in headword order, so you start on 'to stand bond for somebody' and 'conglomerate formation' and finish on 'ящур' and 'ящичный'. Most of the deck is fragments and collocations, and large parts are specialist or dated: 'radicate', 'radicle', 'tabetic', 'murrain', 'pangolin'. The words cards put an entire article on the back (the 'radio' entry runs to dozens of lines), which is too much for one recall prompt. Some glosses are off: 'radicalize' is glossed only as 'укоренять' with a synonym of 'implant', and 'surgical attack' is glossed as 'операция'. The deck carries a bad_card tag and warns that typos are possible. There is no audio, no images, no grammar sequencing and no connected context.

This suits a Russian speaker who wants a searchable dictionary inside Anki and will pull out words they meet in real reading, or an advanced learner willing to mine the expression cards for collocations. Beginners and intermediate learners should not study it in order. Nothing in it tells you what to learn first, there is no stated level, and the 46% of notes that are sentences are scattered among a flood of specialist terms. If you want a structured course, a frequency-built deck or a sentence-based course deck will serve you far better, since fixing the order and selection here would mean building a new deck.

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sentence deck · A1-B2 · 4,690 notes · audio on 100% · updated December 2019

A large, fully audio-backed Russian sentence deck from Tatoeba, sorted by MorphMan difficulty; worth studying as a listening and reading pool for an intermediate learner, but it is not a course.

Verdict

The deck's best feature is its raw material: 4,690 real Tatoeba sentences, every one with its own recording, ordered so that 77% of the sentences add at most one new word. The order works. The first tenth averages 1.6 words per note and the last 11.2, and the opening one-word cards (Всё., Хорошо., Знаю.) build into runs like Мне было легко читать эту книгу. Three card directions per note (reading, listening, production) give you a lot of practice from one pass. The weaknesses are all about curation. There is no teaching structure, so grammar arrives unexplained. The sample shows near-duplicate drill runs (Брось мяч., Кинь мяч., Бросай мяч., Кидай мяч., all glossed 'Pitch the ball.') and many Том and female-speaker sentences. The opening is a grab bag of exclamations rather than a survival core. Coverage drops quickly past the top 1,000 words (65% of the top 2,000), and the final tenth jumps to 20-to-40-word literary quotes such as the Chekhov and Gogol passages, which is well above the stated A1-B2 range. Several mid-deck notes also bring in three new words at once, for example 'Один камень — две бабочки.' and 'Сколько продлится эта буря?'.

Use it if you already have a grammar source and a beginner's vocabulary base and want audio-backed sentences to read and listen to, or if you can tolerate Tatoeba's uneven, volunteer-written material. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs explained grammar, a thematic order or a path to conversation, or if you want images and context. Anything beyond roughly the 90% mark is better treated as optional reading than as study material.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 6,000 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2020

A 3,000-word Russian frequency list with example sentences and audio on every card, useful as a supplement but not as a first course, and its English glosses need checking.

Verdict

The deck's strength is reading practice. Almost every card past the first 30 has two to four short, natural Tatoeba-style sentences, such as «Где мой зонтик?» and «Сейчас семь.», with translations. The measurements say 82% of those sentences add at most one unknown word beyond the headword, and all 6,000 notes carry audio. The weaknesses are accuracy and teaching. In the sample, the English side is often wrong or mismatched: идет is glossed 'okey dokey, right you are!' under sentences about going and raining, виноват is glossed 'excuse me!, sorry', ртом is labeled an adverb meaning 'orally' under 'mouth', and the чемодан card translates 'suitcase' sentences as 'briefcase'. вина shows sentences about both 'wine' and 'guilt' on one card. Nothing explains grammar, and the new-word rate stays around 19-20% from start to finish. Coverage thins as you go: 81% of the top 1,000 words but only 69% of the top 2,000, with common words like область, апрель and государство missing while зонт, бумажник and канадец appear early. I saw only a sample of the cards, so the exact error rate is unknown.

Use it if you already have a basic grammar grounding and want a daily stream of high-frequency vocabulary to read, hear and recall, and you can tolerate editing or ignoring bad glosses. It suits a learner who reads the Russian sentence first and treats the detailed English field as optional. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs grammar explained, or if you want a deck you can trust without checking. It also won't work if you need a connected course, because the sentences are unrelated to each other and Tom and Mary appear constantly.

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Number 4 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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picture-prompt vocabulary and short-answer deck · A1-A2 · 727 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2025

A 727-card Russian picture-vocabulary deck with full audio and clean question frames, worth studying as a concrete-noun supplement for beginners but not as a core course.

Verdict

The deck is consistent and carefully built at the card level. Every card pairs a Russian question (Что это? Кто это? Какой? Что делает? Какой цвет?) with a picture, and the answer is one correct word such as «доска», «учительница» or «чёрный». The Кто/Что choice follows animacy in the sampled cards, and the measurements show 100% audio and 100% images with no missing fields. The weak side is what it chooses to teach. Cards run by topic, not by usefulness: it teaches 95 of the top 1,000 Russian words and 7 of the top 100, and it never uses «я», «ты», «это» or «и». Early cards include «пенал», «кисточка» and «валенки», and later ones «павлин», «окунь» and «дятел». There are no sentences at all in the measured notes, so you never see how a word behaves in a clause, and grammar is never taught beyond the repeated question frames.

Use it if you are a beginner, a parent, or a teacher who wants picture-anchored nouns, verbs and adjectives in Russian with no English in between, and you already have a course or tutor for grammar and everyday phrases. Do not use it as your only deck if you want conversational Russian, or if you need translations or explanations, since the picture carries all the meaning and some pictures may allow more than one answer.

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vocabulary list · unclear · 9,312 notes · no audio · updated August 2022

A large, hand-built Czech–Russian word list (9,312 notes, two-way cards) that covers common vocabulary well but has no audio, almost no sentences and no grammar, so it works as a reference or supplement rather than a course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its vocabulary. It teaches 88% of the 1,000 most common Czech words and 84% of the top 2,000, with the very common words mostly arriving in the first quarter. The Czech–Russian pairs in the sample are almost all right, and many stretches are grouped by theme (sleep words at #2329–2338, ordinals like podruhé/potřetí/počtvrté at #4660–4662). The weaknesses are in everything around the words. Only 4% of notes are sentences of four or more words, so you learn "hladový = голодный" and little about how it is used. There is no audio and no images. Nothing explains grammar: plave/plavou and dvě auta/dva miliony/pět milionů sit as isolated items. The opening is alphabetical (ano, bota, bratr, co je to?, doma, guma), not planned. Basic words are missing: protože, pokud, teď and další are never taught, while rarer items such as lýtko, cihlový and obdélníkový appear early. The last tenth drifts toward obscure words (kumšt, chabrus, despekt, zednář), 91% of them past the top 5,000. Multi-sense entries such as porazit (three lines of glosses) are hard to grade as a recall card.

Russian speakers who already have a textbook or course and want a broad Czech word bank to add vocabulary from will get the most out of it, especially in the first half. If you are an absolute beginner who needs a path, or you want to learn to hear, speak and build sentences, this deck will not carry you. It is also a poor fit for English speakers, since every gloss is in Russian and there is no English at all.

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Number 6 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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sentence deck · A1-C2 · 13,746 notes · audio on 100% · updated June 2022

ru15k is a large, frequency-ordered Russian vocabulary deck of Tatoeba sentences with stressed text and audio on every card; it is useful for building recognition vocabulary but weak as a path through the language.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its spine. Each of the 13,746 cards teaches one headword in frequency order, and the measurements confirm that the top 1,000 and 2,000 words on a general list are almost all covered (98%), mostly early. Cards carry stress marks, ё, noun gender and animacy, verb aspect pairs, an English translation and audio on 13,745 notes. In the sample the Russian and English are accurate, for example «Без меня́ ты «ничто́»» / "You're nothing without me." The weak points are progression and structure. Only 45% of sentences add at most one new word, so many cards bring in several unfamiliar items alongside the headword. The new-word rate stays around 17-19% through the back half. The deck has no grammar sequencing and no connecting context, so each card stands alone. Long sentences also appear in the sample, such as the Go-strategy line at #3438, which was reused for both "структурный" and "образовывать". Some cards have no translation (#3736 and #13741 show an empty Back), and later cards rely on Tom and Mary sentences. The last note, #13746, is a stray header row ("target / ru / en") imported as a card.

Use it if you already read some Russian, know the alphabet and basic grammar, and want to widen vocabulary with audio and stress support in a fixed order. It suits a learner who accepts that sentences exist to carry the word, not to teach structure. Skip it as a first Russian resource: the opening cards ("Не «бо́лее» того́", "Чем" in "Нам не́ о «чем» говори́ть") bring several new words and grammatical forms each, with no explanation. Skip it also if you want a course that builds patterns, dialogues or reading practice, or if you need images.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 2,235 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2020

Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A machine-built list of 2,235 adjective+noun pairs with full noun declension tables and audio on every card, but no sentences, no sensible order and visible errors, so it works only as a supplement.

Verdict

The deck does a few things well. Every card has a sound file, the back shows a full noun declension table with stress marks and gender, and in the sample the noun forms, genders and most glosses are correct. It does badly at teaching. There are no sentences (4 of 2,235 notes have four or more words), and the pairs are assembled mechanically: 'то́нкий полко́вник', 'ме́дный стул', 'бе́шеный дура́к'. The order follows no difficulty or frequency principle. Card 12 is 'нравственная свобода', and the measurements show only 3 to 5 percent of new words in the middle of the deck come from the top 1,000. Several sampled cards are wrong: 'наступивший октябрь' sits on an adjective field reading при́шлый, 'былая слава' on бы́вший, and 'крупная подать' glosses the noun as 'submit'. The лёгкий table shows Ukrainian-style forms (легке́, легкі́), and 'спра́ва спра́ва' is an adverb run through a noun table. The front stacks long dictionary glosses, and the back is a wall of mixed Russian-English dictionary entries on a red background.

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Number 10 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 3,095 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2020

A large, fully voiced Russian vocabulary list built from one learner's own sources and interests, usable as a word bank for an intermediate learner but not as a course or a beginner starter.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are volume and consistent presentation. Every note carries a recording, verb notes list imperative, future and past forms plus the aspect partner (Входить, perf: Войти), and many headwords come with short Tatoeba-style sentences, followed in places by their own sentence cards (#14-16 after Заслуга). It covers 77% of the 1,000 most common Russian words. The weakness is order and selection. The first 30 notes give you Вирус, Авокадо, Шалман (dive bar), Баржа (barge), Литейный, and a Chinese card, 放縱, with Chinese example sentences. Numbers such as Двадцать and Восемьдесят do not appear until the #260s, and drinks come near #780. Words that are common in the general frequency list, such as среди and значит, never appear. The sentences are uneven: some are clean and short (Ничего личного), but others are song-lyric fragments (Увы, не хватит там дури, придется его потерять) or much harder than the word they illustrate. The sample also shows slips: заслуа for заслуга, a Сгнить card with no gloss, and a Комбинат card whose English side is a Wikipedia-style note with a footnote marker.

Use it if you already read some Russian, can look at an odd card and judge it, and want a large audio-backed word bank to mine and prune. It suits someone who has finished a first-year textbook and wants more vocabulary, and who can tolerate the author's personal drift into topics like instruments, geography, and song lines. Do not use it if you are starting from zero and want a path that builds, or if you need grammar taught in order. The deck is a pile of single items, and you would have to proofread it as you go and skip or delete the bad cards yourself.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,557 notes · no audio · updated April 2014

A 1,557-word Spanish-Russian vocabulary list built around a textbook, with no sentences, no audio and a weak order; it is usable as a raw glossary but not worth studying as a course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is that the cards are clean and consistent: one Spanish word or phrase, a short Russian gloss, and a reversed card for each. Many glosses list several senses, such as 'poner' → 'ставить, класть, помещать'. The weaknesses matter more. In the sample, 98% of notes are single words or short phrases, so you never see a word used in a sentence. The order is a textbook's and a teacher's, not frequency. It opens with herbs, then body parts including 'escroto' and 'axilla', and only 44% of the 1,000 most common Spanish words are taught. Basics like 'también', 'dos', 'tres', 'nuevo' and 'sí' never appear. The sample also contains errors you would memorize: 'tú' → 'твой' (should be 'ты'), 'dejar de <inf>' → 'запрещать' (it means to stop doing something), and the misspelled headwords 'ocurir', 'platano', 'area' and 'axilla'.

Use it if you are a Russian speaker who already follows the Rodríguez-Danilevskaya course or a teacher's word lists and wants a vocabulary supplement to check against your own materials. It also suits a learner willing to edit cards and add example sentences. Do not use it as your main deck, as a way to reach everyday reading or conversation, or as a first deck for an absolute beginner who needs the most useful words first and needs to hear them. You should not trust it without checking the entries against a dictionary.

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Number 8 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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Number 3 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,045 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2013

A 1,045-note Russian-to-Romanian vocabulary list ported from engoi.com, with audio on every note but almost no sentences, thin coverage of common words and a few wrong translations; worth using only as a topic-word supplement.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are practical. Every note has a sound file (I can't judge its quality), the cards are simple two-way pairs, and the topic subdecks group related words, such as body parts, vegetables, months and fractions. Nouns carry the definite article (corpul, preşedintele, cartoful), which fixes the form to remember. The weaknesses go deeper. Order follows topics, not usefulness: the first notes are a conduce and a răsplăti, while numbers, colors and 'Noi avem' arrive hundreds of notes later. The deck teaches only 332 of the 1,000 most common Romanian words, and basics such as și, că, dar, cum and fără never appear. Only 4% of notes are sentences, and the multi-word items are bare pairs like 'Eu fac' or 'Tu faci'. Isolated glosses also produce errors: катиться → a înfăşura, стекло → paharul, главный → numărul prim, коэффициент → câtul.

Use it if you read Russian, already study Romanian elsewhere, and want audio-backed topic vocabulary to fill gaps, especially concrete nouns like food, house and body, or specialist words like fractions and politics. Do not use it as a main course or as a first Romanian deck. It builds no grammar, gives no sentence context, and leaves out the function words you need to read anything. Check the translations against a dictionary before you trust them.

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sentence deck · A1-A2 · 2,000 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2022

A free 2,000-card Russian deck of short Tatoeba sentences with audio on every card; useful as a listening and reading supplement for A1-A2 learners, but not a course.

Verdict

The deck builds steadily. In the sample, cards run from one-word phrases (#1 Что?, #18 Привет!) to four-word sentences like #1997 У меня аллергия на рыбу, and 87% of sentences add at most one new word. Every card has audio. The Russian in the sample reads as natural and correct. The weak points are structural. Tatoeba sentences were ordered by length, not by a teaching plan, so tenses, cases and aspect arrive with no explanation and no grouping. Vocabulary is also uneven: it covers 489 of the 1,000 most common words and none of чтобы, после, даже, просто, потому or поэтому. The first 200 cards are mostly colloquial fragments like Забей and Класс, and rare words like левша (#29) sit beside basic ones. Some idioms are translated by English idiom, not meaning: Терпение кончается is rendered "The worm turns." The cards show no stress marks in the sample, which costs a beginner in Russian.

Use it if you already have a textbook or teacher and want a large bank of short, audio-backed sentences for listening and reading practice, or for reviewing common phrases. Do not use it as your main route into Russian, or if you need the grammar taught, a frequency-based word list, or a clear path to the 2,000 most common words. As templated, the question side seems to show the English with the Russian as the answer, so you would be recalling Russian from English at A1-A2 with no grammar support. Check how the cards render before you commit.

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Number 9 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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sentence deck · A2-B2 · 84,636 notes · no audio · updated May 2016

A very large, frequency-sorted Tatoeba sentence deck with a clean one-new-word-at-a-time curve, but no audio, no grammar guidance and no context, so it works as a reading and vocabulary drill rather than a course.

Verdict

The sequencing is the strength. Nearly every sentence adds at most one new word, the new-word rate drops to about 0.5% by the second tenth and stays low, and sentences average 5.2 words. The sample reads as natural Russian with faithful English, for example "Я устала от ваших жалоб" / "I'm tired of your complaints." Frequency coverage is good: all of the top 100 words appear, and 891 of the top 1,000 and 1,600 of the top 2,000 are taught. Against that, the material is Tatoeba with all its filler. Near-identical gender and pronoun variants sit side by side (#28/#29 "Я делала то, что ты от меня хотела/хотел"; #42319 to #42327 are almost all complaint sentences), and Tom and Mary appear constantly. Nothing teaches grammar: case, aspect and clause patterns arrive in whatever order the vocabulary dictates, with no notes. The first few cards are also heavy, since #1 has six unfamiliar words, because this is part 2 of 3 and the curve starts from zero. After that the late deck drifts to rarer words (57% of the new words in the final tenth fall past rank 5,000), such as "морепродукты" and "попкорн". The deck has no audio and no images.

Use it if you already read basic Russian, roughly A2 or above, and want a large supply of short, readable sentences to build recognition vocabulary through repetition. It suits someone who has a grammar source elsewhere and wants volume, ideally someone willing to add audio and prune duplicates. Skip it if you are a true beginner, if you want a course with explanations, dialogues or topics, or if you need listening and speaking practice from the deck itself. Because it is labeled part 2 of 3, you should also expect the very first words to assume knowledge of part 1.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 5,000 notes · no audio · updated December 2022

A broad, frequency-based Russian vocabulary list with real TV-subtitle examples, worth studying only if you already read some Russian and are willing to prune it.

Verdict

The deck covers vocabulary well: it teaches 985 of the 1,000 most common Russian words and 1,923 of the top 2,000, and every sampled note has a headword, part of speech, rank and gloss. Each example is a real line from a named episode, with the target word marked in guillemets, and the deck's measured frequency-of-use data holds up. The weaknesses are in the execution. In the sample, the sentences run about 17 words and are often far harder than the word they illustrate. Note #1 teaches "а" with an 18-word line in which all 18 words are new. Only 1.9% of sentences in the first tenth add at most one new word, and the figure reaches 64% only in the last tenth. Study order does not follow the Ranking field: читатель (1,255) and туча (2,373) appear in the first handful of notes, while вы (rank 25) arrives at note 1,258. Errors recur in the sample: glosses reading "to" (внести) and "rey" (готовый), no gloss on шампанский, and example translations that do not match the Russian (автор: "Space, space, space..."; игра: "Spareribs, eh?"). About 6% of notes have no example at all, such as авиация and траншея, and there is no audio, no images and no grammar help.

Use it if you are around B1, can parse subtitle-length sentences, and want a wide, frequency-weighted vocabulary pass with a built-in way to defer or trim the example cards. It also works as a checklist against the top 2,000 words. Do not use it as a first Russian deck even though it claims A1 to C1. A beginner will meet rank 3,000+ words in the first few notes, with sentences that carry many unknown words and some crude or noisy dialogue. It also does not suit anyone who wants grammar built up step by step, listening practice, or clean, checked sentences.

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sentence deck · A2-B1 · 2,000 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2022

A 2,000-sentence Russian audio deck that becomes workable after the first few hundred cards, but is a corpus sample rather than a course, so it is worth studying only as a supplement.

Verdict

The sentences are short (4.6 words on average), grammatical in the sample, and every note has audio. After the opening the deck settles: by the last tenth, 88% of sentences add at most one new word. The opening is the weak part. In the first tenth, only 20.5% of sentences add one new word or fewer, and card 1 (Я выпил всё своё молоко) and card 4 (Весь класс сдал экзамен) are entirely unfamiliar. Word choice looks like whatever a sentence collection happened to contain. Card 11 teaches допоздна, a word ranked around 12,900, before you have 40 words, and бриллиант, шёпотом, отгул and мотылёк turn up early too. The deck covers only 61% of the 1,000 most common words and 48% of the top 2,000. Common connectives such as также, поэтому, например, однако and который never appear. Nothing teaches grammar: cases, aspect, subjunctive and idioms are mixed together with no notes, and neighboring sentences do not build on each other. Some English lines are loose or wrong enough to mislead, such as «Эта история распространялась» glossed as 'The story wandered' and «Нам дали тяжёлую работу» as 'We were forced to work hard'.

This deck suits someone who already has a basic Russian course or grammar book and wants a large pile of short, audio-backed sentences for reading, listening and recall. You supply the grammar explanations, and you accept that the vocabulary will be patchy and that about one early card in five will be hard going. It is a poor first deck. It also fails anyone who wants the core 1,000-2,000 words in a deliberate order, or who needs explained grammar. The audio is present on every note, but I cannot judge its quality, so play a few cards before relying on it.

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vocabulary list · B1-B2 · 440 notes · no audio · updated November 2024

A dense 220-word reference list for B1-B2 Russian readers, shipped twice inside one file and ordered alphabetically, so it is worth studying only if you treat it as a supplement and clean it up first.

Verdict

The strength is the word-level detail. Verbs carry both aspect forms and conjugation, for example "imperf | выи́грываю… perf | вы́играю…". Case government is marked, as in "([·] с Т) to fight" and "([·] от Р) to abandon". Stress marks are present and the glosses are sensible. Many examples are short and natural, such as "Ты уме́ешь храни́ть секре́ты" and "Она́ отказа́лась идти́ со мной". Several cards separate senses with an example for each, as in бросать, забираться and прежде. The weaknesses are structural. The cards run а to я by headword, with no ordering by frequency or difficulty. The measurements show only 8% of sentences add at most one unfamiliar word, and no English translation appears on the front of the card. The file holds 440 notes but only 220 words: every headword appears once per note type, so you would review each word twice. There is no audio and no images. Small errors appear in the sample: "пре́жне чем" for прежде чем, "Что-то влете́л нам в копе́ечку", "ужа́сный (adv)", "(abj)" and "n masc" labels, and double stress in "одновре́ме́нно".

Use it if you already read Russian at roughly B1, want to firm up verb pairs, government and word families, and are happy to edit the deck. It suits someone who wants an intermediate vocabulary supplement alongside a course or graded reader, not a main curriculum. Skip it if you are a beginner, if you want a deck that teaches the most useful words first, or if you want listening practice or sentences you can understand from what you already know. The description itself says it omits common words, and the data agree: it covers 14% of the top 1,000 Russian words, and the common words it never uses include ещё, только, человек and сегодня.

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vocabulary list · unclear · 60,331 notes · no audio · updated January 2019

A 60,331-card Wiktionary dump of Russian headwords with English glosses; it works as a lookup source to mine, but it is not a course and is not worth studying from the top.

Verdict

What it does well: coverage and accuracy. It teaches 994 of the 1,000 most common Russian words and 1,986 of the top 2,000. In the sample, the stress marks, genders, genitive and plural forms, and aspect pairs (for example «наи́грывать» with perfective «наигра́ть») look reliable, and the English glosses mostly read correctly. What it does badly is everything that makes a deck teachable. The first cards you meet are «свали́ть» with six senses, «раскоше́ливаться», «мисю́рка» (a medieval helmet) and «ве́кша» (a regional word for squirrel), not basic vocabulary. Of the new words in the first tenth, 85% fall past the top 5,000 on the frequency list, and that share stays at 84-96% in every later tenth. Only 23% of the measured notes are sentences, mostly short usage phrases such as «всесторо́ннее» разви́тие or lexicographer's examples tied to obscure words. There is no audio, no images, no dialogue, no grammar sequence and no stated level. Cards are a bare front-to-back template, and one card in the sample still carries raw Wiktionary text asking for a translation. The same lemma sometimes gets several cards, for example three for разогревать and four around скрючить/крючить.

Use it if you already read Russian at an intermediate or advanced level and want a large, mostly accurate bank of headwords with morphology to pull from, or if you want to build a personal deck by suspending most of it and keeping what you meet in real reading. Do not use it as a primary course or as a beginner deck. The order does not move from common to rare or from simple to complex, and working through 60,000 cards in the given order would spend months on words like «па́трубок» and «стрейт» before you consolidate the basics.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 10,533 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2026

A broad, audio-covered Russian frequency vocabulary list with rich morphology on each card, but it opens at the wrong place, so it is only worth studying if you reorder it first.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are coverage and per-word detail. It teaches 98% of the top 2,000 Russian words, and every note but one has audio. Verbs carry conjugation, aspect pair and audio; nouns carry gender, plural and a full declension table. The weak points are order and the example sentences. The deck opens at Index 626, then 1248, then 1701, and the first 1,700 words appear at the very end: я is Index 5 and sits at note 8,840, and the final notes are Index 1686-1700. The example sentences come from a general corpus, not from words the learner already has. In the sample, many show 5 to 10 words first seen on a single card, and across the deck only 33% of sentences add at most one new word. The sentences are mostly natural, but some are long literary lines (the Canterville ghost line under герб runs about 30 words). Scattered errors turn up too: иследование is misspelled, the translation of 'слишком узок' is 'too thin', 'пя́того этажа' is rendered 'fourth floor', я is labeled POS 'Letter', and the IPA for вое́нно-морско́й is cut off mid-string. Some notes are bare, such as Артур, Ильин and осуждённый, with no example at all.

Use this if you already read Russian at roughly A2-B1, can tolerate unknown words in examples, and want a frequency-driven vocabulary bank with audio and inflection tables. You need to be willing to reorder it before you start. Skip it as a first deck, or if you want graded sentences, a grammar sequence, or a story or dialogue to carry context from card to card. Each card is a single word-to-meaning recall with one template, so it does not train production, and the sentences give no connected context.

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vocabulary list · B2 · 4,367 notes · audio on 100% · updated February 2023

Part 4 of a 4-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 4,362-card B2 Russian vocabulary deck with one audio-backed example sentence per lemma, useful as a reading and listening supplement but not as a structured course.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are audio on every lemma card, clean one-sentence cards, and a good fit to a general frequency list (92% of the top 1,000 Russian words, 87% of the top 2,000). Most sampled sentences are natural Russian of sensible length, for example «Он сидел в комнате тихо, как мышь» and «Нам нужно серьёзно поговорить о твоём поступке». Its weaknesses are sequencing and polish. Headwords are not ordered by usefulness: the opening is насмотреться, высотный, наушник, бородатый, and the sample reads like a lemma list shuffled by prefix. The first tenth of the deck has 49.6% new words, and only 6.9% of its sentences add one new word or fewer, so early reviews can mean decoding several unknowns at once. That rate improves steadily, and by the last third about 87% of sentences add at most one new word. The sample also shows errors: «защитник» (glossed protector) is translated as quarter-back, «самой несерьёзной ученицы» as the laziest student, and «лицея» as vocational school. Other problems are the gloss «make a bet» for поспорить, an empty gloss on отреставрировать, participles tagged as adjectives (болтать, мяукать, отремонтировать), and typos such as «cel» and «commitee». Some common connectors never appear, including поскольку, благодаря, кстати, насколько and вероятно. Grammar is handled only through a terse tag like «Perf.Fem.Sing.Past», with no deliberate order. The sentences are unrelated to each other, and many are news-flavored.

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vocabulary list with example sentences · B1 · 2,238 notes · audio on 100% · updated February 2023

Part 3 of a 4-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

SMARTool B1 is a Russian sentence-and-inflection drill with audio on all 2,238 cards, worth studying if you are already past beginner level and want to practice case and verb forms.

Verdict

The deck does three things well. Every card is one natural, short sentence (about 8 words) with audio, such as 'Мой отец любит смотреть матчи по телевизору.', plus a lemma, a grammar label (Acc.Plur, Imperf.Plur.3) and an English translation. It covers 84% of the top 1,000 Russian words. The new-word rate falls from 51.6% in the first tenth to about 10% at the end, and by the last tenth 83% of sentences add at most one unfamiliar word. It does three things badly. The first tenth is steep: only 5.9% of its sentences are i+1, and the opening mixes 'ректор', 'академия' and 'кредитный' in no frequency order. Common connectives are missing entirely: 'также', 'однако', 'например', 'поскольку', 'кстати' and 'привет' are never used. Grammar is labeled but never taught. Each card tags one form, with no explanation, no sequence of structures and no contrast between forms. The cards also have no connecting thread, and some sentences read like news or bureaucracy ('Один из членов кабинета министров вынужден был уйти в отставку').

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vocabulary list · A2 · 1,407 notes · audio on 100% · updated February 2023

Part 2 of a 4-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

SMARTool A2 is a 1,407-card Russian sentence deck with audio on every card and a worthwhile inflection-drilling idea, but it is badly ordered for a true A2 learner and needs supplementing and checking.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are real. Every note has its own audio file, and the sentences are short (6.5 words on average) and usually natural, such as «Как тебя зовут?» and «Мама только что вернулась с рынка.» Each card tests one inflected form of a lemma, and the same lemma comes back with other forms later (перевод at #4 and #16, торт at #920 and #1242). The new-word rate falls from 54.9% to about 9% and stays there, and in the last tenth 87% of sentences add at most one new word. The weak side is the opening and the planning. Card 1 is «Каждый раз возвращаясь в Россию, я долго не могу привыкнуть к ценам в рублях.», and all 12 of its words are new. In the first tenth only 6.7% of sentences add at most one new word. Gerunds, genitive plurals and perfective futures appear within the first 30 cards, with no grammar sequence. Coverage of common words is thin: 67% of the top 1,000 and 54% of the top 2,000, and the 40 most common words never taught include также, да, ну, тоже, конечно and хотя. Early cards spend slots on республика, хирург, лотос and скрипка. The sample also shows slips. Горькой in «оказались горькой правдой» is labeled Gen.Fem.Sing but is instrumental. Появляются is labeled Perf. although the verb is imperfective. «в этом году» is translated as «last year». Вася becomes «Vanya». Пирог is glossed «cake». One note carries a leftover editor comment, «Didn't we have this sentence already for слушать?».

Use it if you already have A1 basics and a grammar course or textbook beside it. It suits a learner who wants listening practice and exposure to many case and verb forms at the lemma level, and who will check an odd label against a reference. Do not use it as your first Russian deck or as a core-vocabulary list. If you want a deck that teaches the grammar, builds up slowly from simple sentences, or gives connected context, look elsewhere.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 229 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2020

Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 229-card list of single Russian adverbs in rough frequency order, each with audio but no example sentences and a raw dictionary dump on the back; worth using only as a supplementary drill after you fix the template.

Verdict

The strengths are the audio on every card (229 of 229, though I can't judge its quality) and an opening that starts with the right words: так, где, там, потом, очень, теперь, всегда. The weaknesses are bigger. There is no sentence anywhere, so you never see an adverb used. The back of each card is a scraped dictionary entry, often cut off mid-phrase and full of Russian-English mixed notation, such as сейчас: "(теперь) now, at present; presently, soon (очень скоро)…". The sample also contains real errors: тута ("mulberry", a noun), ласково glossed "blandly" and ловко "cunningly", and русски and сидя with no definition at all. Several English cues collide. "now" stands for теперь, сейчас and ныне, and "extremely" for крайне and чрезвычайно, so you can't tell which Russian word a card wants. Adverbs also cover only a sliver of core vocabulary: the deck teaches 17 of the top 1,000 words, and the series description confirms the function words and verbs live in other decks. The title says 372 adverbs but this file holds 229.

Use it if you already read some Russian (roughly A2 to B1), you have a core course or sentence deck, and you want a recognition-and-spelling drill for adverbs you keep meeting. Plan to spend an hour fixing the card template first. Skip it if you are a true beginner, if you want sentence-based learning, if you need grammar explained, or if you expect it to cover the 5,000 most frequent words by itself. As built, the audio is the only feature that helps you hear Russian in use, and a single recorded word does not show how to use it.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 33 notes · audio on 100% · updated November 2014

Cyrillic alphabet trainer v2 with pronunciation descriptions.

A complete 33-letter Russian alphabet deck with audio on every card and useful pronunciation notes, worth using for a few days as a first pass at the script but not as your only tool.

Verdict

The deck covers every letter in standard alphabet order. Each card shows a pair such as «Бб» and answers with audio, a romanized value ("b"), and an English comparison ("like boy"). The advice is mostly accurate and goes past the basics: the Г card flags the ого/его ending, Е and О explain unstressed reduction, and the Ь and Ъ cards give contrast pairs like полька/полка and угол/уголь. Against that, every card is a single letter-to-sound prompt with no word to anchor it, and only the sign cards give examples. Some backs are long. The Щ text runs on and is cut off with "…", the Ш text ends with an unclosed parenthesis, and Ъ and Ь have no romanized value line. Hints like "yh" for Ы and "as if being punched in the stomach" are vivid but loose. I can't judge the audio, only that all 33 cards have a file.

Use this if you are a beginner who can't yet read Cyrillic and wants a quick, free way to learn letter shapes and sounds with audio. The vowel and consonant tags let you split the work into smaller sessions. Do not treat it as a way to learn Russian: it teaches no words and no reading practice. If you already read Cyrillic, or want to learn pronunciation through real words, it will not take you far.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 98 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2026

Cyrillic alphabet trainer with mnemonics.

A 33-letter Cyrillic deck with mnemonics, audio on every card and loanword reading practice, worth a short pass if you are a complete beginner, but it teaches reading only.

Verdict

The deck does the job it claims. Letters arrive in small blocks of about five to nine, and each block is followed by loanwords that use only letters already taught (метод, доктор, драма, радио after А К М О Т Р Е Д И). Every letter card carries audio, an IPA value, an English sound comparison and two mnemonics, for example р as a tennis racket and ш as three skewers of shashlik. Its weaknesses are the study design and a few careless details. Each letter is one recognition card, letter to name, with no reverse direction. The back stacks up to nine fields in one column, including a long attribution disclaimer on every letter. The English letter names are loose approximations (Ы is 'Ih', Й is 'Ee kratkoye'), and the Ъ card reads 'tvordih znak))'. The sample shows no stress marks on the practice words. The vocabulary is loanwords only, 31 of the top 1,000 Russian words, so it builds reading skill, not usable Russian.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 33 notes · audio on 100% · updated September 2013

Cyrillic alphabet trainer with handwriting and printed fonts.

A complete 33-letter Russian alphabet deck with audio and handwriting images on every note, worth a single pass as a first step but not a place to learn words or reading.

Verdict

The deck covers every letter in alphabet order, one note per letter, and every note has a recording and a handwriting image. In the sample, which is the whole deck, the names and IPA are correct, and most English sound comparisons are sensible: А "a in father", Ч "ch in chip", Х "Ba«ch» (German)", Р "rolled r, like spanish pe«rr»o". The weaknesses are in the cards. The Name and English Example fields appear on no template, so on the cards the IPA is the only sound hint a beginner gets. Only the third card plays audio. A few hints are loose, such as Ы "uh-E-y" and Ж listing four different English words. Notation is inconsistent ("[a]" against "/b/", stray spaces in "/ ʲe/"), Ъ has no IPA, and Р sits last, after Я. The deck teaches letters in isolation, with no example words, no stress and no vowel reduction, so it ends at recognition.

Use it if you are an absolute beginner who wants to recognize Cyrillic letters and tie each to a sound and a handwritten form in a few days, and you are willing to edit the templates first. Do not use it as your Russian course or to build vocabulary. It teaches no words, and only 11 of the top 1,000 Russian words happen to be spelled by a single letter here. If you already read Cyrillic, there is nothing in it for you.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 33 notes · audio on 94% · updated August 2012

Cyrillic alphabet drill (russian cyrillic part deux).

A 33-letter Russian Cyrillic deck with audio and handwriting images that works as a short first step into the script, but teaches no words or reading.

Verdict

Each note is one letter, with capital and small forms, a handwriting image, the letter name, IPA, an English sound comparison and, on 31 of 33 notes, audio. The two cards per note run letter to sound and sound to letter, which is the right drill for a script. The sound descriptions are mostly sound: А is 'a in father', Б is 'b in bit', Ч is 'ch in chip'. The weak spots are uneven. Ж is glossed with four English examples ('g in genre, s in pleasure, j in Jean-Jacques or zh in Dr Zhivago'), Х is explained with a German word, and Ы is 'Pronounced like the letter E with the u and y sound. "uh-E-y"', which won't help you find the sound. Order is plain alphabetical, except that Р ('rolled r, like spanish perro') comes last after Я. Ъ and Ь have no audio, and Ъ has no IPA. The cards are plain: 20px Arial with every field weighted equally. Beyond the letters there is no vocabulary, no example words and no context, so you never see a letter inside a Russian word.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 98 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2024

Cyrillic writing system introduction for english speakers.

A 32-sound Cyrillic reading primer with audio on every letter card; it is worth a few sessions for a true beginner, but not as a vocabulary or sentence deck.

Verdict

The deck does one job well: it teaches the sounds of written Russian in three passes. Each of its 32 sounds appears as a priming card (spelling, sound, example word, sentence), then as a read-the-word card, then as a read-the-sentence card. All 96 letter cards carry audio, including a separate recording of the letter itself. The back of the card is cleanly laid out, with the letter, sound, word, sentence and an optional notes block each labeled. It is weaker as material. The example sentences are alliterative drills such as "Город гудит, гуляет гулко" and "Мама анархия, папа - стакан портвейна", and they lean on words like мельник, водоём, щука and цилиндры. In the sample, almost every sentence introduces three to seven unfamiliar words, and the measured share of sentences adding at most one new word is 0%. The notes also contain errors. The у card says "y" is reduced to "ы" when unstressed, which is wrong. ш is labeled /ɕ/, the symbol for щ's sound, rather than a ш-type sound. The word gloss reads "traktor", and the л note says it is "always" dark.

Use it if you are starting Cyrillic from zero, you plan to do other immersion alongside it (the deck says so itself), and you want to hear each sound and word and get used to reading short sentences without worrying about being exact. Skip it if you want vocabulary, since it teaches only 46 of the top 1,000 Russian words. Skip it if you want grammar taught, or comprehensible-input sentences. Skip it too if you want a conventional alphabet deck that names each letter before it gives the sound. Treat the notes as a rough guide and check pronunciation claims elsewhere.

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vocabulary list · A1 · 202 notes · audio on 100% · updated July 2015

100-word russian starter word list (too small to rank).

Russian Core 100 is a shuffled, picture-and-audio flashcard list of about 100 A1 words and phrases, useful as a first-contact vocabulary drill but not worth studying as a course.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are mechanical. Every note has audio and an image, the cards are simple, and the Russian spellings and romanizations in the sample are correct. Mixed direction (Russian to English and English to Russian) is built in. The weaknesses are in the material. In the sample, the opening cards are ступня (foot), шесть, Добрый вечер, программист, with no ordering principle. Numbers, weekdays, months, body parts and meats are scattered through the deck. It teaches 59 of the top 1,000 Russian words and none of the 40 most common function words (в, и, на, не, что, я-type pronouns like он, мы, ты). Almost everything is a single word (188 of 197 measured notes), so you never see a word in a sentence. There is one clear error in the sample, часы glossed as "o'clock", plus a few loose glosses such as смотреть as "see".

Use it if you are a complete beginner who wants quick recognition of greetings, numbers, days, months and common concrete nouns, and you already have a textbook or course doing the real teaching. Skip it if you want a path to reading or speaking, if you need grammar or sentence patterns, or if you want vocabulary ranked by usefulness. The deck should be treated as a supplement. Even as one, it holds about 100 words, and the 202 notes come from pairing each word in both directions as separate notes, so expect to meet each item twice.

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cloze course · A1-A2 · 49 notes · no audio · updated October 2020

Russian grammatical cases drill.

A 49-card Russian case drill (accusative, instrumental, prepositional, genitive, dative) with a sound step-by-step order but typos, wrong rules and mislabeled titles; use it only as a supplement and check every rule against a grammar reference.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well. Each noun or pronoun is drilled in a tiny frame, such as «Я с [моим] мужем» followed by «Я с моим [хорошим] мужем», so 73% of sentences add at most one new word. A rule sits on every back and every card has a typed cloze with the base form as a hint. The problems are in the content. The sample has misspellings («компютеры», «догорие» in #17, #19 and #20, and a Latin «o» in «хорoших»). Several rules are mislabeled or wrong: #43, #47 and #49 say 'instrumental singular masculine' on genitive and dative cards, and the genitive feminine rule says «ь» or «я» changes to «я». Titles are often wrong, for example 'Accusative::Masculine' on the instrumental cards #26 and #27. Six hints repeat the answer (#10, #11, #13, #14, #18, #20), so those blanks give nothing to recall. There are no translations, so you can't check meaning. There is no audio or image, and the deck covers only 37 words.

Use it if you already know the basic nominative forms and want extra repetition on singular endings after мой, твой and этот, and you can compare each rule with a grammar book or have a teacher confirm it. Skip it as a first or only source for cases. A beginner can't tell which rules or titles are wrong, and the deck stops well short of full coverage, with no genitive plural and little on soft-sign nouns or exceptions.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 253 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2023

Russian numbers drill (spoken 0-1,000,000,000).

A narrow, well-built listening drill for Russian cardinal numbers from 0 to 5 billion, worth studying if that is the one skill you need and not worth it for anything else.

Verdict

The deck does one job cleanly. It moves from 0-10 to the teens and tens, then hundreds, thousands, millions and billions, and every multi-word card reuses words you already met. In the sample, cards like #68 "семьсот шестьдесят три" and #240 "триста тридцать миллионов шестьсот тридцать одна тысяча семьдесят семь" add no new words, and the file confirms only 41 distinct words in the whole deck. The spellings I checked match their digits, including agreement forms such as "две тысячи", "одна тысяча" and "двадцать одна тысяча". The limits are just as clear. There are no sentences, no prices, dates or times, and nothing explains the agreement patterns. The cards are nominative numbers only, so the oblique-case and fast shop-counter speech the description promises is not in the sample or the 41-word count. I cannot hear the audio. The description says it is Azure neural voices, so judge it yourself on a few cards.

Use this if you already know roughly how Russian numbers are built and want your ear to catch up, especially for six-digit and larger numbers, where the deck gives many varied examples. It suits a learner at A1 to A2 who wants a short daily listening block, and the 10-new-cards-a-day pace in the description matches the length. Skip it if you want vocabulary, grammar explanation, reading practice or anything beyond bare numerals. The deck will not teach you to understand a price phrase with the currency, the case endings after numbers, or ordinals, and it covers 12 of the 1,000 most common Russian words.

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conjugation drill · B1-B2 · 282 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2016

Russian verbs of motion drill with full conjugation and audio.

A careful, fully voiced conjugation drill for Russian's 14 motion-verb pairs that works as a B1-B2 reference but teaches no usage in context.

Verdict

The deck does one narrow job well. Each of the 14 verb pairs gets the same paradigm: infinitive, 1sg, 2sg, 3pl, four past forms and the imperative, in both unidirectional and multidirectional versions. Every note has audio, and stress is marked on the answer, for example идт«и», хож«у» and нест«и». The forms and stress I checked in the sample were correct. It also notes irregular gaps honestly. For ехать the imperative card says there is no literary form and lists езжай and едь. The weakness is that nothing is taught in context. In the sample, all 280 measured notes are single words or short phrases, with no sentences and no examples. The page description promises prefix examples, but the sampled prefix cards are only a bare prefix (при-, про-, у-) or a single prefixed verb such as проходить and пройти. Nothing teaches when to choose идти over ходить. The card front also reads like a grammar label, for example 'to go on foot, to walk; 2p sing pres (unidirectional)'.

Use it if you already understand what unidirectional and multidirectional mean and need to get the conjugation patterns, irregular past stems (шёл, нёс, брёл) and stress into your head. It suits someone who is also studying the aspect and usage rules elsewhere. Skip it if you want to learn how motion verbs are used in sentences, if you are a beginner who needs common vocabulary, or if you want a general B1-B2 deck. It covers only 65 distinct words and almost none of the top 1,000 Russian words.

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