Slavic languages, made understandable
Learn Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian and more on one platform — a dictionary of nearly a million words and forms, grammar that finally makes sense, and reading practice with audio. Start from zero — or dive into the dictionary.
Common False Friends
False Friends: grad ≠ град
Serbian: grad = city, town
Russian: град = hail (weather)
Spelled the same in Latin transcription but refers to weather in Russian.
Culture Corner
Why Serbian and Croatian Look Identical — Until They Don't
Serbian and Croatian share almost all their grammar and most of their vocabulary, yet order 'bread' with the wrong word and everyone knows where you learned it. Here's where the two languages actually split.
Word of the Day
Russianморщите
/[ˈmorɕːɪtʲe] | [mɐrˈɕːitʲe] | [ˈmorɕːɪtʲe]/
verb
second-person plural present indicative imperfective of мо́рщить (mórščitʹ)
More infoMoment of Wonder
Robot Origins
The word "robot" comes from Czech "robota" meaning forced labor. It was coined by Karel Čapek in his 1920 play R.U.R.
One platform for every Slavic language
Slavonaut is a dictionary, a grammar guide, and a practice tool in one place — so looking a word up, understanding it, and actually remembering it happen together.
A deep Slavic dictionary
Nearly a million words and forms across Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian — with declension and conjugation tables, pronunciation, etymology, and false-friend warnings.
Search the dictionaryBeginner paths & grammar
Guided A0 → A1 paths for five languages, plus a grammar library that explains cases, verb aspect, and word order in plain English — in the right order, with real examples.
Start learningReading & practice
Short graded texts with audio at your level, a conjugation trainer to drill verb endings, and saved words you can review anywhere.
Read somethingThe whole Slavic world
Portraits of every language in the family, false friends that flip meaning across borders, and essays on the culture the textbooks skip.
Go exploringFrom “what does that mean?” to actually knowing it
Look it up
Any word, any form, any of seven languages — even mid-declension.
2Understand it
Every entry links to the grammar that explains why the word looks that way.
3Practice it
Drill conjugations and save words until the endings come without thinking.
4Read it in the wild
Graded texts with audio put your vocabulary back into real sentences.
Meet the languages
Polish
Polski
Polish has 7 grammatical cases and uses Latin script!
Why learn Slavic languages together?
Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian — they all descend from one ancestor, and it shows. Learn what a case does in one language and you understand it in all of them. Recognise voda (water) in Czech and you've also read it in Russian, Polish, Serbian, and Bulgarian. The grammar that looks terrifying from the outside is largely one system, shared across the family.
That's why Slavonaut covers the whole family instead of one language: the connections do half the memorising for you. (The similarities also lay traps — false friends that flip meaning across a border — and we flag those on every dictionary entry.)
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