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Russian first words and phrases for toddlers
1,000+ illustrated words and 500+ everyday phrases in Russian, in Cyrillic, each one spoken by a woman and a man, both native Russian voices — so you can hear it before you say it. Ages 0–5. Free to start.
Free to start · Works offline · No ads
$9.99 once unlocks it all — no subscription.
Я тебя люблю.
“I love you.”
Hear it in Russian
Both clips are the app’s own audio. Tap one, then say it yourself — that second part is the one that counts.
The phrases library
Say these today.
Eight real cards from the free set, grouped by the moment they belong to. The Russian is exactly what the app shows; the English underneath is for you. Tap a voice, then say it out loud to your child — that is the whole method.
Mealtime
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Ещё, пожалуйста.
“More, please.”
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Всё.
“All done.”
Bedtime
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Спокойной ночи, спи крепко.
“Good night, sleep tight.”
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Я боюсь темноты.
“I'm afraid of the dark.”
Playtime
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Куда это делось?
“Where did it go?”
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Вот ты где!
“There you are!”
Big Feelings
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Мне грустно.
“I'm sad.”
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Я злюсь!
“I'm mad!”
All 500+ phrases, grouped by moment: the phrases library.
The words library
First words, in three stages.
The word library is 1,000+ illustrated cards across three stages you pick for your child. Here are twenty-four of them in Russian — the ones with pictures are free; tap a voice.
First Words 0–24 months
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молоко
milk
Food & Drink
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собачка
dog
Animals
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мама
mama
People
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мяч
ball
Toys
Also in this stage, in the full library
вода
water
Food & Drink
яблоко
apple
Food & Drink
луна
moon
Nature & Weather
птичка
bird
Animals
Growing Words 2–3 years
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радуга
rainbow
Nature & Weather
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пингвин
penguin
Animals
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замок
castle
Places
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прыгать
jump
Actions
Also in this stage, in the full library
школа
school
Places
делиться
share
Actions
доктор
doctor
People
мыть руки
wash hands
Actions
Word Builder 3–5 years
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космонавт
astronaut
People
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вулкан
volcano
Nature & Weather
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фонарик
flashlight
Home
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павлин
peacock
Animals
Also in this stage, in the full library
колибри
hummingbird
Animals
русалка
mermaid
People
смелый
brave
Feelings
праздновать
celebrate
Actions
Prefer paper? Printable Russian flashcards — 110 free cards to print at home.
All 1,000+ words, grouped by category: the words library.
The whole library, not a smaller edition
What’s inside for Russian.
- 1,000+ words in 16 categories — Animals, Food & Drink, Body, Home, Vehicles, Feelings, and ten more.
- Three age stages — First Words (0–24 months), Growing Words (2–3 years), Word Builder (3–5 years). You choose; the app never quietly moves your child on.
- 500+ phrases in 9 themes — I Want & I Need, Look at This!, How I Feel, Talk With Me, and five more.
- Two native Russian voices on every card — a woman’s and a man’s voice on every word and every phrase, all in the app, so nothing needs a signal.
- Russian comes with every other supported language — English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and Korean are in the same app, at the same one price. Switch language on the card itself, without losing your place.
- 75 words and 35 phrases free, forever — 25 words for each stage, all in Russian, with both voices and their pictures.
Why families open these cards
For бабушка и дедушка.
You want your child to be able to talk to бабушка and дедушка, wherever they are.
Video calls are hard on a toddler — a face, a lag, questions in a language they hear once a week, and a small person who goes quiet and wanders off. What changes that is not fluency. It is having three or four things your child can produce on cue — Привет, бабушка!, Я тебя люблю, Спокойной ночи — so the call has somewhere to start. Practice them at bedtime in the week; use them on Sunday.
It works the same for families driving to Russian school on Saturday mornings. The classroom is two hours a week; the words have to live somewhere in between, and a minute at breakfast with four cards is not homework. With up to four child profiles, an older sibling and a baby keep their own lists.
What’s on the cards
How the Russian actually reads.
- Cyrillic, and only Cyrillic. There is no transliteration anywhere in the app — not under the word, not as a toggle. The card shows the writing system your child will meet; until you can read it, the speaker button is your transliteration, and it is more accurate than any spelling in Latin letters.
- The words a Russian toddler actually hears. Dog is собачка, not собака. Cat is киса. Bear is мишка. Russian speaks to small children in these affectionate forms, so that is the form on the card — the dictionary word comes later, from school. Russian speaks to small children in these affectionate forms, so that is the form on the card — the dictionary word comes later, from school.
- Ты, the way a family talks. The phrases are the sentences a parent and child actually exchange — Вот ты где!, Я тебя люблю — not the forms a textbook opens with.
- Verbs in the form you will hear a hundred ways. 103 of the 128 action cards are infinitives — прыгать, обнимать, чистить зубы. It is the one shape of the verb that stays fixed while everything around it conjugates, so it is the one worth having in your head.
- Мама, папа, бабушка, дедушка. The people cards use the names a child says. The doctor on the card is доктор, the word a child uses, rather than врач.
- Two Russian voices, on every card. Every word and every phrase is spoken twice — in a woman’s native Russian voice and in a man’s — and both live in the app at no extra cost. A child who has only heard люблю in one voice has heard one shape of it.
Questions parents ask
Russian questions.
Do I need to read Cyrillic to use the Russian cards?
No. Every Russian card carries a speaker button with a woman’s voice and a man’s, both native. Tap it, listen, say it back. The English is on the card too — and after a few weeks of the same twenty cards, most parents start recognizing the letters without meaning to.
Is Russian included in the free version?
Yes. The free set is 75 words and 35 phrases, and it is the same in every supported language, with both voices. No account, no trial clock, no ads. Russian is never the paid add-on; the one $9.99 purchase opens the rest of both libraries in every supported language at once.
We speak Russian and English at home. Can the app do both?
Yes. Language is set per child profile, and you can switch it right on the card, without losing your place, so the same picture can be молоко and then milk. You can keep up to four child profiles, each with its own language and its own progress.
Everything else — teaching a language you don’t speak, screen time for a baby, what the $9.99 unlocks — is answered on the FAQ.
Simple Words, Special Moments
Start with one word.
75 words and 35 phrases are free, forever — in Russian, with both voices. One $9.99 purchase opens the rest of the 1,000+ words and 500+ phrases, in all eight languages at once. No subscription, nothing renews.
Same app, same card
More languages.
Russian sits alongside every other supported language in the same app, on the same card. If your family runs on two of them, both are already here.