Learn Russian with Max | Comprehensible Russian Podcast

Good day to you! No, unfortunately we are not going to talk about the Metallica's song today, however it is somehow related to the discussion. In this podcast I'll tell you about a couple of thing which I recently realized. They are so simple so you may want to throw something at me, but knowing a thing and total awareness of it are two different things! And it changes everything... and no...

Приветики, дорогие друзья! Today my niece and I are discussing the parables you sent to me 2 weeks ago.  Thank you very much for joining this activity and your wonderful stories! All 5 senders will get postcards from the cultural heart of Russia called Saint Petersburg (ahah, isn't it called megalomania?). Tons of love to you and lets get started!:) Read all these parables: https://www.russian...

Today's episode is a common chat in Russian with Max about what recently happened and why I... HATE drinking and LOVE Moscow:) Let's jump into it and learn a few new cool words and phrases^_^ Ёжик в тумане:   https://youtu.be/_Rugwd8ZNHY Video with Israel about Russian grammar: https://youtu.be/CPkQmpcJln4 ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goa...

Hi all! We continue with our education topic, but today we have a guest named Julia who we are going to talk about informal education with. What is 'informal education'? Why we need changes? What problems do we find in traditional educational system? What new methods do we have and how 21-century teacher will look like? You will know from this Russian dialogue. Learn Russian, get new knowl...

Hi there! I'm happy to have you here! This episode of our Slow Russian Podcast is about minimalism. We probably need 10 episodes to cover this topic, but I'll just share with you my thoughts. I hope you'll enjoy it and learn new interesting Russian words and daily expressions. I'd also glad to hear from you in the comments and... don't miss a competition (oh, sounds so serious,...

Hi all! In this episode I want to discuss some 'alternative' ways of living. There are some stereotypes about the American Dream as if it's filled up with materialistic ideas and so forth, but in fact we do have the same concepts in Russia, I mean this tendency to get more, to have bigger houses, more expensive cars and so on.  Communism crushed, however some people still want to build...

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. " That was the beginning of the Anna Karenina novel by L. Tolstoy. What family problems are there in Russia?  What kind of relationships do we need to cultivate?  Should children live with their parents or they should leave? In this podcast we will talk about those things and of course learn a few new Russian w...

Привет! Yep, that's true! For 2 days I've been really depressed about a Russian book I read during my way to Tver. This book called The Brothers Karamazov by  Fyodor Dostoyevsky and that's what I would like to discuss in this episode of our Russian Podcast. I came up with a couple thoughts about Russian classic literature in general. Let's dive into it! ----- This podcast is for le...

This time in our Comprehensible Russian Podcast I'd like to tell you about one new Russian bill called "internet isolation".  They tried to block Telegram last year, but failed.  What is this about? An attempt to make the Ru-net independent? Or create a new 'Great Chinese Firewall' in Russia? Let's dive into it. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower interme...

Hello my dearest! In this episode of our Russian Podcast I am answering a question that one of our listeners called Ricardo asked. I am going to tell you about a very famous and amazing  Russian singer called Boris Grebenschikov. His music is really out of all crap what you can hear from the 5kng TV and средств массовой дебилизации today. I'm very glad to share his podcast dedicated to music f...

Привет, друзья! This is a HQ audio version of our last Book Club video: https://youtu.be/F9pje19bjHE Read the full text, and watch a short film here: https://www.russianwithmax.com/the-green-lamp-by-a-grin/ I also create an audibook 'The Green Lamp" with parallel text Ru-En: https://www.russianwithmax.com/product/the-green-lamp-dual-laguage-audiobook/ P.S. For all "Mastery of Russian" members ther...

Привет всем!  "Y ou're either with us, or against us" - The slogan of the October Revolution.  We had a lot of revolutions in Russia. But I'm sure we need a brand new one! Follow me and in this episode of our Russian podcast I will tell you why... and how :)  Since last episode I've decided to put some "vocabulary part" in the transcripts, so you can find difficult-...

Привет всем! Today I want to talk about education in general. In Russia we still have the idea that if you want to succeed, you have to have a higher education. However, our life is changing, and many young people cannot find a decent job after 4-5 years of study.  What is the problem?  Do we really need education? What skills should we have to be successful? What was the situation in the USSR?  L...

In this episode I want to tell you about my recent experience of becoming blind.  It made me think that very often we don’t appreciate what we have. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian t...

We start reading in Russian! Hooray! This is the first book called The three little pigs and today we will take a half of it. This is a short HQ audio version of the YouTube video: https://youtu.be/i0A4OvGQIs4 Here's the link for text: http://www.planetaskazok.ru/smihalkovsth/triporosenkamihalkov My plan: I choose one short Russian book for reading (or a tale \ story, etc) and give you the full te...

In this episode of our slow Russian Podcast I decided to walk around the place I live in Saint Petersburg and make a live recording of my thoughts. I am going to tell you how I got to Russia and how I feel about moving here from China. This podcast is a kind of improvisation and has real spoken Russian. It's slightly adapted for better comprehension. I mentioned a video from my YouTube "L...

Привет-привет! Hey my dearest learners! In today's episode of our slow Russian podcast we are going to talk about one smart guy who faced a difficulty on his new job, but he managed to deal with it in a very creative way! This story has a few questions (TRPS-like) so you may try to answer them while listening.  ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My go...

Привет, мои дорогие и замечательные! Today in our Slow and Comprehensible Russian podcast I'm going to talk about my experience of traveling in Russia with almost no money. I started travelling this way 9 years ago and visited lots of wonderful places in Russia (and other world). Is it easy to travel this way? Where did I sleep? How were the drivers who picked me up? I'll try to answer the...

Приветствую, дорогие товарищи! In this episode we have a conversation in Russian and our guest is Katya from Live Russian. We'll talk about our experience of learning languages and talk specifically about learning Russian as a foreign language. Unfortunately Chinese internet didn't allow us to make sound very clear and I'm really sorry for that. Anyway it's a good listening practic...

Приветствую всех! In this episode of our slow and comprehensible Russian podcast we are going to learn some relationships and dating vocabulary. Firstly you will hear a story of a girl (one friend of mine) and then I will share with you my thoughts about "what love is". I think it'll be good Russian listening practice and, hey, I want to hear your opinion on this topic! Tell us what...

Привет, дорогие! Let's talk about a few Russian bank terms and finance vocabulary in Russian. Today you will learn how to say some basic bank operations as to withdraw money, to put money into your account, what we can do with our finance and so forth. If you listen to this podcast and enjoy it I'd super appreciate your feedback and rating on iTunes - it helps me a lot! ----- This podcast...

Hi all! In this episode of our slow and comprehensible Russian podcast we will talk about Instagram as a tool for learning Russian.  We'll also chat about social networks dependency and as always will learn a few new vocabulary words in Russian.  ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interest...

Привет! Verbs in Russian is a very tough topic to talk about. Perfective, imperfective, reflexive verbs and so on.. There are so many thing we need to learn to understand how to use them correctly. In this episode I want to answer a couple questions which you sent to me recently and give you some examples.  ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to...

This is a TRPS Russian lesson. I tried a new format for our Russian podcast with storytelling and question answering. I'm sure that this method is very effective if you want to learn spoken Russian and think in Russian. However, you should decide yourself what works better for you and if you enjoy this episode and find it helpful let me know at learn@russianwithmax.com and I'll do more stu...

In this episode of our Russian language podcast we will learn a bunch of new vocabulary words related to... spirituality! This is a real conversation in Russian with one friend of mine named Lida who has been practicing Yoga for a few years and I want to share with you some ideas and concepts of Yoga.  ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get...