21-day Russian intensive · next group starts 1 October

Tell me about yourself.

It's the first thing anyone asks you. On day one you'll answer it in Russian — badly, slowly, and out loud — and record it. On day twenty-one you'll answer the same question again, and record it again.

Then you listen to both.

Step one of three. Built for anyone who reads Russian a little and freezes when it's time to speak.

Day 01 · first recording 0:19

Four sentences. Long gaps. You stop to think about every ending.

Day 21 · second recording 1:44

Your work, your family, your city, where you're going next. Still an accent. No gaps.

Take a place · €59 10 places · one payment · normally €99

Why we record it

Every course tells you that you'll make progress. You have no way of checking, so you take it on faith — and three weeks later you still can't tell whether anything changed, because you're inside your own head the whole time.

Two recordings settle it. The same question, the same voice, three weeks apart. Nobody has to grade you and nobody has to be believed.

You don't have to trust my word about your progress. You'll have the evidence on your own phone.

What twenty-one days look like

A new worksheet opens every other day. The day in between is yours — to redo it, finish it slowly, and let it settle. Ten worksheets, ten quiet days, two recordings.

  • DAY 01 The alphabet, and your first recording Sounds that don't exist in your language. Hello, how are you, my name is.
  • day 02 — practice
  • DAY 03 Where are you from? Questions, and how to say what you do and don't speak.
  • day 04 — practice
  • DAY 05 Finding your way around Left, right, in front of, behind. Where the school is, where the park is.
  • day 06 — practice
  • DAY 07 Numbers, and how old everyone is The part most people skip and then need constantly.
  • day 08 — practice
  • DAY 09 What you do for fun To like, to listen, to watch, to play.
  • day 10 — practice
  • DAY 11 What you do for a living Your job, in a sentence you can actually say at a party.
  • day 12 — practice
  • DAY 13 Your family Who they are, how old, married or not.
  • day 14 — practice
  • DAY 15 Where you live Rooms, furniture, describing a place out loud.
  • day 16 — practice
  • DAY 17 Yesterday, today, tomorrow All three tenses at once — the day everything clicks together.
  • day 18 — practice
  • DAY 19 Travel Where you've been, where you're going.
  • day 20 — practice
  • DAY 21 Tell me about yourself — again Same question as day one. Record it, then play both.

Inside one worksheet

A short video lesson

Recorded, so you watch it whenever your day allows — any time zone, any hour.

The grammar behind it

Only the part you need for today's sentences. Nothing else.

Exercises that mark themselves

Matching, gap-filling, word order. You see instantly whether you've got it.

One task you have to say out loud — checked on the spot

Every worksheet ends with speaking. You say the phrase, and the app scores it sound by sound and shows you exactly where you slipped — instantly, not in two days. Say it again. And again. Nobody is listening, nobody is waiting, and you can be as bad as you need to be for as long as you need to be.

New words, straight into Quizlet

So you can drill them on the bus instead of losing them.

You won't be doing it alone

Ten people, one chat

Small enough that your silence is visible. That is the entire mechanism, and it works better than any reminder.

A speaking task every morning

Not "chat if you feel like it" — a specific thing to say. Record yourself asking it in Russian, then answer two other people. Badly. Everyone there is equally bad, which is the only reason anyone starts.

Different time zones, no problem

Voice messages, not calls. Argentina records in the morning, Italy answers in the evening. Nobody has to be awake at the same hour as anybody else.

And me, every day

I'm in that chat. I read what you write and answer questions — every day, for twenty-one days. Not a hired tutor: me. I wrote every one of these lessons myself.

Who's teaching

SL

Olga Gorodetskaia. Certified teacher of Russian as a foreign language, diploma from Moscow State University, 2021. She has been explaining Russian to 121,000 people on Instagram for the last four years, mostly in English, mostly about the words that don't translate.

She writes the worksheets herself. The programme was built with a teaching methodologist over three months.

Taking a place

€99€59
first group · once · nothing renews

This is the first group on the rebuilt programme, so the place costs €59 instead of €99. In exchange I'll ask you for an honest few sentences at the end — and, if you're willing, permission to play your two recordings.

  • Ten worksheets, opening every other day
  • Instant pronunciation scoring on every speaking task — unlimited tries
  • A chat of ten people with a speaking task every morning, and me in it daily
  • Both recordings, yours to keep
  • Access to all the material for six months after we finish

If it doesn't work

The guarantee holds if you do the work: all ten worksheets and all the voice tasks, sent on time. The app records all of it, so nobody has to argue about it.

Did all of it, and your day-21 recording still sounds like day one? Write to us and we'll return the €59 in full, no argument. We can promise that because the recordings exist — most courses can't, and it isn't because they're more honest.

Skipped the worksheets and didn't send the voice tasks? Then the guarantee doesn't apply. We can't answer for lessons you never opened.

Take a place · €59 Ten places. Enrolment closes 28 September.

Questions

I've just started Russian. Is this too early?

No — day one begins at the alphabet. It's built for beginners and for people who've been "about to get serious" for a year or two. If you already speak freely about your work and family, this is below you.

Do I have to be online at a set time?

No. Worksheets open on a schedule but you work through them whenever you like, in any time zone. There are no calls to attend and no hour you have to be awake for. The only rhythm is that a new worksheet opens every other day.

How much time does it take a day?

Twenty to thirty minutes on a worksheet day. The days in between are lighter — they exist so you can repeat what you didn't get.

What if I'm embarrassed to record my voice?

Almost everyone is on day one, including people who read Russian well. The speaking tasks inside the lessons are scored by the app — no human hears those at all, so you can repeat them a hundred times. The two recordings, day one and day twenty-one, come to me and only to me. Nobody else hears them unless you decide to share.

What happens after the 21 days?

This is the first of three steps. The second intensive takes you from talking about yourself to holding a conversation with someone else; the third goes further. You are not obliged to continue — but you won't be left standing in an empty room either.

Can I pay from outside Russia?

Yes. Any card, from anywhere, converted at the day's rate.

Does this renew or charge me again?

No. It's one payment for one intensive. There is no subscription and no card kept on file. The €59 price is for this first group; after that a place is €99.