Matryoshka: Learn Russian

Every Russian word is made of parts: a prefix, a root, a suffix, an ending. Learn the parts, and words you have never studied start to open by themselves.

Matryoshka teaches Russian from the inside out. Like the nesting doll, the language has layers — Sound, Beat, Root, Word, Link and Thought — and you grow through all six.

WHAT YOU DO IN A SESSION
• Word forge: build a word from its parts — вы + ход + н + ой = выходной, "day off".
• You can read this: read a word you have never studied, because you already know every part of it.
• Two sounds: tell apart sounds English doesn't have — ы and и, hard and soft consonants, ш and щ.
• Beat: catch the stressed syllable. Ordinary Russian text doesn't mark it.
• Case bridge: choose the right ending through English — of, to, with, in.
• Root and sentence: match roots with their meanings and put words together into sentences.

MADE FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS
The sounds you train and the way cases are explained are chosen for an English speaker's ear and grammar. The genitive is "of", the dative is "to", the instrumental is "with" — six cases, each with a bridge from English. Explanations are in English, and you can switch to German, Japanese or Chinese at any time.

MEMORY THAT SPREADS
Reviews come back when a word starts to fade. Practice one word, and its parts get stronger in every other word that uses them.

INSIDE
• 700 words built from 328 parts, including 258 roots
• The Root Atlas: every root with the family of words that grew from it
• 25 grammar topics and 19 notes comparing Russian with English
• Audio for every word, phrase and example, with the correct stress
• Start from zero, from knowing the letters, or from the basics
• A daily goal of 5, 10, 20 or 30 minutes
• For iPhone and iPad. Works offline, with no account and no ads

FREE AND PLUS
Free: one full session a day, all six layers and every exercise type, and the first 6 roots of the Atlas.
Matryoshka Plus: unlimited sessions and the full Atlas of 258 roots. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or buy it once for life.

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