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Speak Russian with Kira

I make free Russian lessons on YouTube and build tools to help you learn the words that actually matter. Start with the most common words and grow from there.

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I ranked the 10,000 most common Russian words

I built a frequency list of the top 10,000 Russian words from real movie & TV subtitles — with stress marks, translations, and native-speaker audio I recorded myself. I also spoke the top 1,000 words out loud. Learn the highest-impact vocabulary first.

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Video lessons

Watch lessons on YouTube and follow along with downloadable transcripts and per-video exercises.

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Word frequency lookup

Type any Russian word and instantly see how common it is, its stress mark, and the English/German meaning.

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Free exercises

Practice the most useful vocabulary with quick quizzes — no signup, no paywall.

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