Russian AcceleratorReviews of russianaccelerator.com

This program is AMAZING!! ❤️ I’m only at Unit 9, and I’ve already been able to speak Russian with my boyfriend’s family! I was even finally able to have a little conversation with his Babushka!! When I first started learning Russian, I was honestly pretty intimidated. I was starting completely from scratch with absolutely no prior knowledge of the language, so I had no idea how long it would take before I could actually understand or speak anything. But I’ve been completely blown away by how much I’ve learned in just 9 weeks! The lessons are so thoughtfully structured, and everything is explained so clearly. Even concepts that felt really counterintuitive at first have started to become second nature with all the practice exercises. You can really tell how much thought and care has gone into designing the course and making the language easier to understand. And the team is amazing! They’re so responsive and often answer questions and provide feedback within the same day. You can really tell how passionate they are about teaching, and I’ve especially appreciated all the little tips and encouragement along the way. I’ll definitely be doing Fast Track to Fluency and Advanced Russian Idioms once I finish this program too. What initially felt like an intimidating challenge has somehow become something I genuinely look forward to every day! I genuinely couldn’t recommend this program enough. If you’re thinking about learning Russian but feel intimidated by starting from zero, DO IT. Seeing myself go from knowing absolutely nothing to actually speaking it has been such an incredible feeling! Mark and the Russian Accelerator team are absolute rockstars!

Russian Accelerator has been great! The 30-episode Russian Made Easy podcast really helped me clarify things I didn't understand when I was trying to learn from the Pimsleur method (which I generally love!) and Duo Lingo (which will never get anyone to a useful speaking level, but it has its value) - and even 2 quarters of continuing education at my local university (which really helped put some things together for me). Noting the progress/understanding I gained from the podcast, I wanted to continue learning the way Mark teaches, so I signed up for Russian Accelerator. I've completed all lessons in Units 1-3 and am starting Unit 4. Mark's step-by-step method, explaining the rhyming (how words change depending on their grammatical function), sharing power phrases to retain new words and their meanings, and noting the super-literal-translations, among other things has be tremendously helpful! I'm looking forward to learning more and actually putting that learning to practice someday.

I found the course through listening to Russian Made Easy podcasts for free on Spotify; this is their much bigger and fuller course and I'm loving it. I've been trying to learn Russian on and off for decades and decided that this is the year that I get conversational. I've even completed the Russian course in Duolingo but still couldn't bring myself to speak a word. I'm tentatively talking already and so much more confident that this is taking me in the direction I need to go

As a language enthusiast, I speak six other languages, and none of them are closely related to Russian, so I already expected Russian to be very difficult for me. However, this course provides literal translations and detailed explanations that you wouldn’t get from a conventional tutor. I’ve been serving in the military in Taiwan for a while, and my daily task before going to bed is to study Russian. Now, with just twelve lessons completed, I can even hold a simple conversation with my Russian friend.

I enjoy the lessons Mark structured for the course. The conversations feel more real compared to what I have learned in language apps. The course overall is worth the money. I still remember finishing the videos that teach you to read Cyrillic and thinking, 'woah I can read this!' I have also had to reach out to their customer service and they responded promptly in a professional manner and fixed the issue right away. Thank you to Mark and the Russian Accelerator team! Большое спасибо!

I compare my experience learning Russian and Ukrainian with Russian Accelerator with my only previous serious language learning, Spanish. I am British and emphatically not good at learning languages. Even when I was living in Argentina it took me about five years before I found it reasonably easy to communicate in Spanish, even after ten years there I was far from fluent. Russian is a much harder language to tackle, especially as it has a different (Cyrillic) alphabet as well. Within a few weeks I am confident with reading Cyrillic and have no problem with the patterns in Russian (so far). My actual vocabulary learning is a bit slower (as it was with learning Spanish), but still much MUCH faster than when I took regular private lessons in Spanish. Even better, the Cyrillic reading course is free and so is the initial Russian Made Easy course (russianmadeeasy.com) , so you have the chance to see if their method suits you before you pay anything at all for the main Russian Accelerator or RMEplus courses. After only a few weeks, I met a native Russian-speaking Ukrainian who is a high level interpreter and she complimented me on my pronunciation! (THAT never happened when learning Spanish!) Russian Accelerator offer a money-back guarantee. Needless to say, I will not be asking for that. It's been brilliant so far, still hard work, but anything worthwhile is. I am cramming as much as possible before I return to Ukraine in a few months as a Humanitarian Aid Volunteer, confident that I will be far more helpful with some Russian and Ukrainian under my belt.

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As an American I have studied Russian since 1999. I have lived and traveled in numerous Russian speaking countries worldwide and have many business, friends and family ties. Simply put, Russian is a royal b*tch to get right from an American viewpoint. I have tried numerous avenues from Russian professors to apps to AI. Myeh. I saw that the technology did not exist to adequately teach a foreign language. But I did see that there was a potential algorithm to learning a 2nd language and no one was using those key principals. Then I found Mark Thomson and his team. He figured it out. Radically different approach. I was gobsmacked. He answered questions no one could and was using the exact principles that were needed to teach an adult a foreign language. My skills have soared very quickly since then. My understanding of the structure of the language skyrocketed. Anomalies and grammar were finally explained in simple English. Funny, now when I look back I see that it would be virtually impossible to learn a language using those previous technologies. Simply brilliant. Thank you sir!!!