Learn Russian for free with audio and video recorded by native speakers. Start with the alphabet, basic phrases, numbers, grammar and vocabulary, and progress to advanced topics. Learn about the history, writing system, phonology and alphabet of Russian , an Eastern Slavic language spoken by about 260 million people. Find sample texts, videos, phrases, numbers, colours, time, family words and more in Russian . Russian (русский язык (help), transliteration: russkiy yazyk) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe. Russian is a Slavic language in the Indo-European family. Russian language, principal state and cultural language of Russia . Together with Ukrainian and Belarusian, the Russian language makes up the eastern branch of the Slavic family of languages.
