Cool MateFor Russian speakers
English for
Russian speakers.
Cool Mate translates every word, example, and grammar note into Russian. Real video clips, native English audio, and a feed designed for Russian speakers.
Free to start. No textbook. No streak shame.
Built for Russian speakers
Tuned to how Russian speakers actually learn English.
Russian translations everywhere
Definitions, examples, and grammar notes translated by native Russian editors. Cyrillic throughout.
Articles and word order drilled
Russian has no articles. English needs them constantly. The feed targets these patterns until they stop being conscious.
Sounds Russian skips
TH, schwa, soft W. The feed surfaces these and trains them with slow-mo audio.
Miss a week, keep your progress
The Leitner box quietly catches you back up. No daily pressure.
Easy wins
Russian speakers already know these.
Words that look or sound nearly the same in Russian and English. Free vocabulary the day you start.
borrowed
borrowed
borrowed
borrowed
borrowed
borrowed
borrowed
Watch out
The traps Russian speakers usually fall into.
False friends, missing sounds, and the patterns school never warned you about.
Russian has no articles. English requires them. Default to "the" when in doubt.
Russian rarely distinguishes present states. English does. "I think" is an opinion, "I am thinking" is a process in this moment.
Симпатичный means cute or attractive. Sympathetic means showing empathy.
Магазин means shop. Magazine is журнал.
Russian uses one sound where English uses two. West and vest collapse without practice.
Sample words
Real English challenges to try right now.
A taste of the Cool Mate feed. Tap any card to see the clip, audio, examples, and Russian translations.
Set
B1verb
to prepare or arrange something so that it is ready for use or in position
Will
B1verb
to want or like
Plus
B1preposition
used when the two numbers or amounts mentioned are being added together
Truth
B1noun
the true facts about something, rather than the things that have been invented or guessed
Coin
B1noun
a small flat piece of metal used as money
File
B1noun
a box or folded piece of card for keeping loose papers together and in order
Kiss
B1verb
to touch somebody with your lips as a sign of love or sexual desire or when saying hello or goodbye
Breathe
B1verb
to take air into your lungs and send it out again through your nose or mouth
Mom
B1noun
a mother
Stuff
B1noun
used to refer to a substance, material, group of objects, etc. when you do not know the name, when the name is not important or when it is obvious what you are talking about
Mix
B1verb
if two or more substances or things mix or you mix them, they combine, usually in a way that means they cannot easily be separated
Economy
B1noun
the relationship between production, trade and the supply of money in a particular country or region
Where to start
Pick a starting level that matches your reality.
We suggest A2 for most Russian speakers.
Most Russian speakers start at A2 thanks to widespread school English. If your English is rustier than that, A1 rebuilds fast.
How it works
Built for the way memory actually works.
Learn the phrase the way it's actually said.
Every challenge is a 3 to 15 second cut from a real show, news clip, or talk. You hear the rhythm, the stress, and the face behind the words.
An algorithm that times every clip.
An invisible Leitner box runs in the background. Each word comes back at the moment you're about to forget it. Fifty years of memory research, one tap.
Native audio, full speed and slow.
Every word has full-speed and slow-mo native audio. Tap once to copy the pronunciation the way a native actually says it.
Twelve native languages.
Definitions, examples, and grammar notes translate into your native language. Switch any time.
Questions
English for Russian speakers, answered.
Pick your CEFR level
Start where you are. Climb at your speed.
The first 500 words that unlock everything.
Open A1 English →Hold a real conversation. Slowly, but really.
Open A2 English →Watch shows. Talk shop. Live abroad.
Open B1 English →Sound like a person, not a textbook.
Open B2 English →Argue, joke, persuade. In English.
Open C1 English →Native-adjacent, on a good day.
Open C2 English →Scan with phone