Thread: Website for downloading Russian words?

Hello! Congratulations on deciding to learn the amazing Russian language!

Before I give some general advice on the topic, I'll do my best to actually answer your question:
http://ru.forvo.com/languages/ru/

This site has pronunciations for all sorts of words and phrases ~spoken aloud by natives~. It is in Russian. You can try copy pasting words into <искать слово>, at the top right.

Now I must say, I highly recommend against Google translate on many levels, most of all against its pronunciations. All of google translate is computer generated with imperfect algorithms, and then natives scan it for mistakes. The pronunciations themselves are very very poor.
It is very good that you are making sure to get pronunciations down for words. Pronunciation in languages can be a really hard part to learn.

The site I revere more than any other on the internet is Wiktionary! It has a page (with accurate native pronunciations) for basically every word in most languages, 100% including Russian. Whenever in doubt, you can ALWAYS check there.

You can start by googling the word you want plus wiktionary, for instance:

рядом wiktionary

and you'll get

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/рядом

From here you can just replace рядом [or whatever part after /wiki/] with the next word you want to learn about. =)

Though it can prove very complex and difficult, the most direct and foolproof way to learn pronunciation is to go the "Wikipedia - Russian Phonology" page, and spend a whole lot of time absorbing and reading and rereading.

And as always, I recommend all of this channels videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/russian...t=da&flow=list

Thanks for this info, every little thing help.

Originally Posted by xXHoax

Hello! Congratulations on deciding to learn the amazing Russian language!

Before I give some general advice on the topic, I'll do my best to actually answer your question:
http://ru.forvo.com/languages/ru/

This site has pronunciations for all sorts of words and phrases ~spoken aloud by natives~. It is in Russian. You can try copy pasting words into <искать слово>, at the top right.

Now I must say, I highly recommend against Google translate on many levels, most of all against its pronunciations. All of google translate is computer generated with imperfect algorithms, and then natives scan it for mistakes. The pronunciations themselves are very very poor.
It is very good that you are making sure to get pronunciations down for words. Pronunciation in languages can be a really hard part to learn.

The site I revere more than any other on the internet is Wiktionary! It has a page (with accurate native pronunciations) for basically every word in most languages, 100% including Russian. Whenever in doubt, you can ALWAYS check there.

You can start by googling the word you want plus wiktionary, for instance:

рядом wiktionary

and you'll get

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/рядом

From here you can just replace рядом [or whatever part after /wiki/] with the next word you want to learn about. =)

Though it can prove very complex and difficult, the most direct and foolproof way to learn pronunciation is to go the "Wikipedia - Russian Phonology" page, and spend a whole lot of time absorbing and reading and rereading.

And as always, I recommend all of this channels videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/russian...t=da&flow=list