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100 Russian words.
Half of everything said on screen.

The 100 most common words in Russian film and TV make up 53% of all the words spoken. This free deck teaches exactly those, with stress marks, audio and a natural example sentence on every card.

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  • Free, CC BY-SA
  • Alphabet included
  • 790 audio clips
  • Every stress checked
Two cards from the deck: хоте́ть (to want) with its forms and an example sentence, and the form card хо́чешь (you want)
53%of the words spoken in Russian film and TV
100words, plus the whole alphabet
+262form cards in the full edition

What's on a card

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

  • Stress marks on every word: уже́, хорошо́, говори́ть
  • Audio for the word and for the sentence
  • The forms you need: хочу́ / хо́чешь, лю́ди as the plural of челове́к
  • Aspect pairs together on one card: говори́ть / сказа́ть
  • One short, natural sentence, the kind you'd hear in a show
  • A usage note where it helps: что is said “што”

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хоте́ть

to want

Russian doesn't print stress marks, so most learners guess for years. On these cards you never have to.

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Top 100

100 words + alphabet · 4 MB

  • The 33-letter alphabet first, easiest letters first
  • Then one card per word, most common first
  • English to Russian and audio-only cards included, switched off until you want them
  • About a week at 15 new cards a day
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Top 100 + Forms

395 cards · 13 MB

  • Everything in Top 100, alphabet included
  • Every conjugation, past tense and command on its own card
  • Every gender form and pronoun case: сам, сама́, само́, са́ми
  • Each form comes right after its word
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Free under CC BY-SA 4.0. Share it, remix it, translate it.

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  2. Open the file. Double-click the .apkg on desktop, or open it from your downloads on your phone. It imports as a new deck.
  3. Set your pace. Turn on FSRS and take 10 to 15 new cards a day.
  4. Want more card types? Open the Browser, select the Production or Listening cards, and unsuspend them.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is it really free?

Yes. No sign-up and no email: download the file and open it in Anki. It's licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, so you can share it, remix it and translate it, as long as you credit LangLeap and keep the same license.

Where does the 53% come from?

We counted every word in the OpenSubtitles 2018 Russian corpus, grouped the forms of each word together (хочу́ and хо́чешь both count as хоте́ть), and ranked them. The top 100 words make up 53.1% of all the words in that film and TV dialogue. That's a share of the words you hear, not a share of the meaning, but it's why these are the first 100 to learn.

Which version should I get?

Start with Top 100 if you want to learn the words fast. Get Top 100 + Forms if you want to drill every conjugation and ending too. You can import the full version later without losing your progress.

Ready for the next 2,000 words?

LangLeap teaches all 100 of these and the rest of Russian in a guided course, with stress marks on every word and audio lessons that get you speaking.