Sorry for my uneducation ahead of time.

I am also a part of the Slavic speaking countries and I am curious as to why did Russian drop the am as in the case of "Я́ доктор"?

In my native language and many other Slavic languages the "am" is still present so I am just curious why that happened with Russian?

I made this for myself and figured I’d share it with anyone else who wants to read Crime and Punishment in Russian.

You can click a word to see its dictionary form and meaning in context, show English translations, and listen with word highlighting. There’s also slower audio at 0.5× and 0.75×.

The translations, glossary and narration are AI-generated, so there may be mistakes. It’s completely free and doesn’t require an account.

EDIT: There is now a Constance Garnett translation option as default. EDIT: now included a 'cases' toggle to help identify cases.

https://jonduvnjak.com/crime-and-punishment/

I’m a longtime Russian learner who made a page that lists (almost) every Russian word I could find that looks like an English word and means the same thing: момент, фильм, президент, проблема, программа, телефон, университет, идея, минута, доктор, and 5,275 more. The list is sortable by how common the word is, searchable in either language, downloadable as a CSV, and, most importantly, free.

https://palimpsest.tech/frontend/cognates.html

The page lives on Palimpsest, a free site that I run for intermediate and advanced learners as well as heritage speakers who want to expand their vocab. It models how much of a language you already know and builds your practice from there. This cognates page is that idea in its simplest form: you already know more Russian than you think, including words you've never seen. 

For those curious: the pairs were computed using some natural language processing techniques I’ve learned: 1) first I found the edit distance between transliterations of the Russian and the English, 2) then I found meaning similarity in English and Russian word embeddings (fastText, Procrustes-aligned into one space), and finally 3) I used an LLM (Claude Sonnet 5.5) to settle over 4000 marginal calls.

Note: because this method is computational and not hand-picked, some of these may be wrong, and some obvious ones are missing (realizing as I’m posting this that информация, for instance, isn’t in the list even though информационный is). In hopes of making this as helpful of a resource for everyone, every row has a "⋯" to report a bad pair, and there's also a button to suggest pairs I missed. I’ll read every report and fix the list by hand.

Also feel free to DM me on Reddit or email me at [help@palimpsest.tech](mailto:help@palimpsest.tech) with more questions/comments, I’m always eager for feedback on this project! :)

For context. I was born in the US, but technically Russian is my first language. (I only learned English when I went to school)

It has been brought to my attention that I have an accent when I speak, and I definitely do not know some proper terminology (like calling the heater a батарея, or a gas station бензоколонка)

I taught myself to read and write but I don’t know proper grammar. It is more so that I know what sounds right. (My reading is probably first grade level)

If any one has advice on how to better my Russian it would be most appreciated.

i'm trying to buy baking pans/формы, but i've noticed that some are listed as форма для выпечки, while others are форма для запекания

what's the difference between выпекать and запекать? does it actually matter when choosing a pan, or can they be used interchangeably?

спасибо!

Im having the wooorst time with this character. Its the hardest one for me

I just started my journey of self taught Russian. I’m having a hard time figuring out how to write the script. Is this good? Can you give me tips please? Is there anything more broad you think I should know? Any tips and tricks?

Thanks in advance!!

Hi. I, 15f I want to learn Russian.

I’m a freshman in HS, already fluent in canto, mandarin, english and currently learning French (I’d say I’m B1). I started last week, and found that it’s not only intellectually stimulating to learn it, but also fun. Interesting. I think it's not only a productive way to spend my free time, but also relaxing, due to the ruminating nature of my mind.

The reason I want to learn it is because I have a crush on someone who speaks Russian, which I believe is good motivation as most self-taught multilinguals have told me the best way to learn a new language is to get a crush from a foreign country.

Anyways— I’ve memorized the Cyrillic alphabet and know how to say and write some basic words, though it’s still not much. I'm planning to go down the self-taught method (with the occasional advice from some native Russian friends.) Apart from that, I mostly use Youtube and online textbooks as resources. I was wondering anyone had any advice? Thank you!

Can anyone recommend Russian podcasts about the following topics:

Exercise, nutrition, science, fitness, productivity, neuroscience, learning, mindset.

i’ve been looking over my weekly vocab for homework and just wondering what’s the difference between using these two words. from what i know they both mean floor?

i was dining at a restaurant in moscow and noticed the chef's last name, Волков-Медведев. i thought it sounded really cute and i'm curious about how common these surnames are in russia and whether russians can opt to have such surnames.

Всем привет! 😊 Я снова занимаюсь небольшим исследованием по фонетике и хотел бы задать вопрос носителям русского языка. Когда вы произносите звук «ч» (например, в слове «чай»), где находится кончик вашего языка в момент образования смычки, до её размыкания? Он остаётся внизу, за нижними передними зубами, или поднимается вверх, к альвеолам за верхними передними зубами? Мне интересно узнать, как вы сами естественным образом произносите этот звук. Большое спасибо!

last week we started the genitive case and new topics/vocab in speaking classes. hope this all makes sense and sorry if my writing is a little messy :)

At what point in learning Russian should you learn cases? Should you have a bases of vocabulary or should you jump straight in without knowing really any words?

Has anyone used older assimil courses to learn russian, such as russian without toil (50s) or le russe sans peine? If so, are they good as a main resource?

Can anybody recommend a free and offline AI model or tool that can reliably find grammar an punctuation errors for Russian? Not a mere spellchecker, mind you, rather something that can detect agreement of cases, genders, tenses, incorrect prepositions, misplaced commas and what have you. Some recommendations include Writer Studio, but I have tried it and it failed to detect anything on my very first basic check.

В учебнике "Диктанты. Русский язык. 1 - 4 класс" задание - вставить пропущенную букву Т или Д в слово "_ело". Ребёнок может написать и "дело", и "тело", оба варианта правильные! Просто удивительно как контекст меняет смысл 😄

The universe of Manas from 1995 is the movie, if interested dm me

Я пришла сюда из другого сообщества; здесь больше людей, поэтому я, возможно, заведу больше друзей. Я также начала пробовать писать тексты на русском языке, и это моя практика аудирования на русском

It is a knitting pattern and I want to make sure I can at least read the legend! If you knit and also know the language maybe you could help?