Language Learning Resource

Learn Belarusian

беларуская мова

Language Facts: 

Speakers:  6 million 
Family:  East Slavic 
Status:  Official in Belarus 
Script:  Cyrillic 
 
  • The first step of learning Belarusian will be learning the Cyrillic alphabet. Russian speakers will already have this advantage, but Belarus has a few different letters ( Ў, Ґ, and І).
  • Belarusian has 6 noun cases and 3 genders, like Russian. 
 
BELARUSIAN LANGUAGE MAP

Resources

 

Books: 

Youtube: 

Online:

LingQ – Beta course for Belarusian. Great for reading and vocabulary. You can also import your own material and track you known and unknown words. 

Glossika – has a course for Belarusian. 

 

Podcasts: 

Courses:

 

Belarusian Media: 

This website has tons of native Belarusian reading material.