What School Is Like
Learn the Russian words for school: the teacher, the lesson, the book and more. Every word comes with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.
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School in Russian 🏫
This topic is about **school**. Every word comes with its **Russian script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Russian is written **left to right** in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Key words 📖
Learn these school words:
Match each Russian word to its English meaning
- школа (shkola)
- учитель (uchitel)
- ученик (uchenik)
- книга (kniga)
- school
- teacher
- student
- book
Which word?
Which Russian word means 'a teacher'?
- учитель (uchitel)
- ученик (uchenik)
- книга (kniga)
- класс (klass)
How the script works 📝
Two things about Russian script. First, Russian uses the **Cyrillic** alphabet, written **left to right**. Like Greek and English, it is an alphabet with vowels and consonants. Second, a few letters look like Latin ones but sound different: **В** is "v", **Н** is "n" and **Р** is "r". Learn each word with its transliteration to say it.
School words
Select the TWO words connected with school.
- урок (urok)
- экзамен (ekzamen)
- море (more)
- мать (mat)
Match each Russian word to how it is said
- класс
- ручка
- задание
- ученик
- klass
- ruchka
- zadanie
- uchenik
How do you say it?
The school школа is said _____. The teacher учитель is said _____. A book книга is said _____. A lesson урок is said _____.
Order the school day
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Which word?
Which Russian word means 'an exam'?
- экзамен (ekzamen)
- ручка (ruchka)
- класс (klass)
- ученик (uchenik)
Complete the sentence
At school школа (said _____), a student ученик (said _____) studies a lesson урок (said _____) with a teacher учитель (said _____).
A school day
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Use what you know
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Well done 🌟
You have met the key Russian school words: школа (shkola, school), учитель (uchitel, teacher), ученик (uchenik, student), урок (urok, lesson), книга (kniga, book) and экзамен (ekzamen, exam). Keep practising the alphabet and the transliteration together.