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What’s Awesome at RussianPod101? App Updates, New Lessons and $54 OFF

Click Here to Learn Russian in 6 Months for $66!

Hello Listener,

Where will your Russian be in 6 months? Successful students start now and don’t leave learning Russian to luck. So, when 2016 comes and most are just starting on their Russian goals, you’ll be 6 months ahead. With the 6-Month Challenge, you also get exclusive Inner Circle membership – tested learning methods and strategies for mastering Russian – to make sure you smash your learning goals. There’s even a BIG 45% discount!

In this month’s newsletter:

  1. Ends Friday! Click Here to Learn Russian in 6 Months for $66!
  2. Exclusive Inner Circle Membership Ends Friday
  3. App Users! 2 New Updates Made to Innovative Language 101
  4. Brand New RussianPod101 Series & Lessons Start July 6th


1. Ends Friday! Learn Russian in 6 Months with a BIG 45% Discount!
Learn to speak and understand Russian with real lessons from real teachers. Grab 6 months of Premium for $66 – that’s a BIG 45% OFF. Unlock the ENTIRE learning system – 140+ hours of audio and video lessons, PDF lesson notes, mobile apps, Premium tools and exclusive Inner Circle access! Get $54 in savings ‘til this Friday, June 26th, 2015.

Click Here to Get a BIG 45% OFF and Learn MORE Russian for LESS.
(Discounted prices ONLY available during the 6-Month Challenge Sale)

2. Exclusive Inner Circle Membership Closes On Friday!
How do successful Russian learners stay motivated and smash their goals? Welcome to the Inner Circle – an exclusive newsletter with audio lessons and PDF notes. You learn tested learning methods and success strategies that turn you into a consistent, high-performing Russian learner. The Inner Circle comes out at the end of every month (the next one is June 30th) and is for Challenge subscribers ONLY. If you’d like to join, take advantage of the 45% OFF to enroll.

Ends Friday! Click here to get 6 months of Premium & Inner Circle access.

3. More Video Lessons & More Lesson Control for App Users!
Learning Russian with the App? This past month, there were two new updates that you should know about. First, video lessons are finally on the Android App. That’s more lessons for you. And the iPhone and iPad version? It has powerful lesson player controls. Slow down the Russian that you hear, jump 10 seconds ahead or back, put your lessons on repeat and much more.

Click here to learn more about the updates to Innovative Language 101.

4. Ready to Master Russian with New Audio & Video Lessons?
Here’s how you master more Russian in 2015 – with brand new RussianPod101 lessons, every week. Starting July 6th, 2015, we’ll be publishing new seasons and lessons. They’re all made by real teachers and all designed to get you speaking and understanding more Russian. So, what’s new at RussianPod101 and what lessons can you expect?

Click here to see the RussianPod101 publishing schedule for 2015.

To your fluency,
Team RussianPod101

P.S. Ends Friday! Learn Russian in 6 Months with a BIG 45% Discount!
Time’s running out to get a BIG 45% OFF 6-Month Premium! Master Russian with the biggest discount of 2015. Unlock ALL RussianPod101 lessons (new lessons published weekly), PDF lesson notes, Premium tools, mobile App access, PLUS the exclusive Inner Circle newsletter! Just $11/month and $54 OFF! Ends Friday, 06/26/2015.

Click here to get 45% OFF 6-month Premium + Inner Circle access!
(Discounted prices ONLY available during the 6-Month Challenge!)

Click here to get 45% OFF 6-month Premium + Inner Circle access!

How You’ll Learn Even More Russian in 2015. New, Free Lessons Start July 6th!

Hi Listener,

Here’s how you speak and understand more Russian in 2015…

With new RussianPod101 audio and video lessons by real teachers.

And this is important – you get new lessons for FREE, every week.

How? You simply start a lesson, hear native Russian conversation and have our teachers explain it all to you. Every word. Every grammar point. Every cultural insight. Sit back and learn – we’ll do the work. Learn directly on our site or on the go on your mobile device.

So, you’ll speak and understand more Russian with new, free lessons every week!

Here’s what you need to know. We’re starting a brand new season of lessons for the second half of 2015. So, starting July 6th, 2015, we’ll be releasing new seasons of audio and video lessons to get you mastering Russian the fast, fun and easy way! Here’s what you can expect.

RussianPod101’s Lesson Schedule:

  • Monday: Absolute Beginner – 3-Minute Russian
  • Tuesday: Video Series – Listening Comprehension, Video Series – Russian Words of the Week
  • Thursday: Free Throwback Thursday Lessons (Get a free random lesson from the past sent directly to your email inbox.)
  • Sunday: News & Announcement: Sunday News

Remember, you get new free Russian audio and video lessons EVERY Week! All RussianPod101’s newest lessons are free for the first three weeks! So, you have three weeks’ worth of lessons at any given time. Oh, and the first three lessons of every series are free too! This is one of the major advantages of being a Free Lifetime Account member at RussianPod101.

Check out the newest RussianPod101 lessons for free!
Click here to learn Russian with the newest lessons for FREE!

To your fluency!
Team RussianPod101

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Ready to master more Russian this summer? Get 29% OFF any plan and start speaking Russian with real lessons by real teachers. Unlock our ENTIRE learning system – ALL audio and video lessons, mobile apps, lesson notes, Premium study tools and more! Just $2.84/month and up to $69.60 OFF! Ends 7/31/2015!

Click here to get a HOT 29% OFF at RussianPod101!

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Learn Russian at 45% OFF with the 6-Month Challenge & Get Inner Circle Access

Get 6-Month Premuim for $66

Hello Listener,

Did you make a New Year’s resolution to learn Russian in 2015? Well, the year is half over. If you’re like most learners, you might have let your Russian goal slip due to time constraints. No worries – we designed a special plan for you and if you act now, you get 45% OFF, exclusive access to tested learning strategies AND best of all, to achieve your goal in 2015:

I call it the 6-Month Challenge!
Sale Starts Today: Get 6-Month Premium for Only $66!
Click here to get 45% off!
(You’ll be automatically enrolled in the exclusive Inner Circle Club at signup).

That’s Right: Just $66 ($11/Month) for our Most Popular Premium Plan.
Unlimited access to our Russian learning system with 140+ hours of lessons.

Hey, it’s Peter here – I’m the founder of RussianPod101. Look, even I struggled to find the time to meet my language goals. That’s why you get loads of extra tools, on-the-go apps and resources to reduce learning time with Premium.

With 6 months left in 2015, you DO have time to reach your Russian goals. To make sure you reach them, you get access to my exclusive Inner Circle, which gives you monthly lessons with learning “hacks” and success strategies for mastering Russian faster. The Inner Circle is ONLY available to 6-Month Challenge subscribers because I respect their dedication and am willing to go above and beyond to help them succeed!

  • Get a 6-Month Premium plan for Just $66 – a BIG 45% saving
  • Over 140 hours of audio and video lessons with more added each week
  • Access all lessons via any device with Internet access
  • Exclusive access to the Inner Circle and Peter’s very own learning “hacks”
  • 100% money-back guarantee if you aren’t making progress

Accept the challenge and I’ll reward you with 6 months of exclusive access to my Inner Circle, access to our proven learning system and a 45% discount on your membership.

6 months at 45% OFF! Click here to learn Russian for as low as $0.36/day!

So, what are you getting with Premium exactly? Premium is for anyone who is short on time but wants to learn Russian when they have a minute to spare. It’s accessible via any iPhone, iPad or Android device plus all PCs and Macs – all you need is Internet access to learn Russian with:

  • Exclusive! Inner Circle Membership. Monthly audio lessons with tips, tricks and tools to help you get motivated, stay on track and improve your Russian all the way to December 2015. For 6-Month Challenge subscribers ONLY!
  • Exclusive! App for the iPhone, iPad or Android
  • 800+ Audio & Video Lessons Created by Russian Instructors
  • PDF Lesson Notes for Each Lesson to Read Along With
  • Study Tools: 2,000 Russian Words List, Smart Flashcards, Word Bank
  • Voice Recording Tools to Perfect your Russian Pronunciation
  • Line-by-Line Dialog Translations & Review Quizzes
  • Progress Tracking & Guidance For Your Russian Lessons
  • Feedback & Comments From Our Russian Instructors
  • 24/7 Access via Any Media Device with Internet Access
  • All Resources Available in Electronic Downloadable Format
  • Custom Lists App to Create Your Own Russian Word Lists
  • User Favorite! New Audio & Video Lessons EVERY Week
  • …and more!

Sign up now! Click here to get 6 months of Russian lessons for only $66!

There’s still time to learn Russian. You get all the tools and support you need to reach your Russian learning goals in 2015. So lock in your $54 savings and gain full access to our Premium plan plus exclusive access to the Inner Circle.

Remember, your investment is 100% risk-free.

Your purchase is backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee. If you’re not speaking Russian as fast as you’d like and if you’re not blown away by the results, simply contact us for a full refund. No hassles. No questions asked.

Ready? Here’s how you sign up and take advantage of this discount:

  1. Click on any link to be taken to the coupon page.
  2. Enter your payment information and choose the length of the subscription.
  3. Finally, click on “Complete” at the bottom of the page.
  4. You’ll receive an instant confirmation email.
  5. Start learning Russian with over 140 hours of Russian lessons!

Click here to lock in your 45% savings and get 6-month Premium. That’s $54 OFF.

To Transforming Resolutions into Reality,

Peter Galante
Founder, RussianPod101

P.S. Take our 6-Month Challenge and not only will we help transform your dream of learning Russian into reality, but you’ll also instantly get 45% off PLUS have exclusive access to my very own language learning tactics and success strategies delivered to you each month – So…

Click here to join me in the Inner Circle & get Premium for as low as $11/month

5 Tips To Motivate Yourself While Learning A Second Language

5 Tips to Motivate Yourself

1. Schedule your time.

One of the most important factors in keeping your motivation up is developing it into a habit. Whether it be 20 minutes or 3 hours, schedule time to study every day and stick to it. Regular exposure solidifies what you learn and keeps you progressing. To make sure you stick to your routine, a great idea is to build a schedule for your day and decide that every day/Monday/weekend, you study from 6pm to 8pm. Just remember that 30 minutes a day, every day, is better than a binge 8-hour study session at the end of the week (though it’s obviously better than nothing).

2. Learn a word a day with our great Word of the Day learning tool.

Trying to learn everything at once and getting overwhelmed by the sheer number of words in your new language is not a good idea. Sometimes, even if you do learn new words, you forget them quickly because you haven’t heard them enough in context. As mentioned above, daily exposure to new words is an important factor in solidifying your target language. Our Word of the Day tool delivers you daily words and phrases, shows you how to pronounce them and use them in different contexts. Since you can get the WOTD via email, Facebook, or Twitter, this is a passive way of learning a language that fits into your existing daily social media routine. It only takes 3 minutes to review a word and practice its pronunciation, so you can do it on the way to work, in the gym, or even before you go to bed.

Click here to get the Russian Word of the Day for FREE!

3. Make friends!

Make friends!

If there’s a community of people who speak the language you want to learn in your city, start attending those events! Friendship is the easiest way to get comfortable with the slang, intonation, and mannerisms of a new language. The key to learning any language is speaking a lot, so try to find a native speaker who can be your conversation partner. Having friends that speak your target language means that you will find yourself in situations where you have no choice but to speak that language. But since they are your friends, you will be doing things you enjoy with them. So these situations will probably have little or no stress. These friendships will also mean that you have someone you can ask about language, culture, and so on.

4. Take a break!

Break time

If you’re having an off day or if your brain is already tired of studying, see if you can take a break and do something fun AND useful. Comic books, illustrated stories, and cartoons are a fun way to keep learning while reducing the target language text load for weary eyes. Plus, the images help you plant lasting seeds of memory, as researchers say humor opens up cognitive doors. This is a way to keep the target language active in your brain without the strain of studying a textbook.

Don’t get stuck with the same content though. When things start to bore you, move on. Change up your books, movies, anime, music, dramas, and so on when they start getting old.

5. Don’t give up!

As with any goal, there are going to be pitfalls along the way. You’d have to be incredibly determined to never have an off-day or consider giving up. And when you do it’s ok, but the important thing is to pick yourself up after this temporary setback and keep going. Knowing you’ve overcome a few obstacles is only going to make the moment you have your first conversation in another language that much sweeter. Like the Russian proverb says, ‘Fall down seven times, stand up eight.’

If you need more motivation, check out this list of the Top 10 Inspirational Quotes in Russian.

New App Update! Russian Video Lessons for Android & More Lesson Control!

Hello Listener,

Last time, you got the new, free, weekly Russian lessons on the go. This time, there are 2 more updates for the Innovative Language 101 App:

Click here to download Innovative Language 101 for free!

  1. RussianPod101 Video Lessons Now On The Android Version
  2. Powerful Lesson Player Controls On the iPhone/iPad Version

What does this mean for you?

It means: more Russian lessons to learn with and more control over them!

Click here to download Innovative Language 101 for free!
(If you own the App, upgrade to the latest version.)

1. Video Lessons now on the Android App!

Click here to download Innovative Language for free!

Are you a visual learner and love learning with video? Russian Video lessons make up a major portion of the RussianPod101 learning system. They weren’t on the Android version before, but they are now.

Learn with video on the go by tapping on “Browse Lessons” and selecting any video series. (Note: This is already available for iOS.)

2. Powerful Lesson Controls for the iPhone & iPad!

Click here to download Innovative Language 101 for free!

Want to completely understand the Russian that you hear? Or review conversations until they’re stuck in your head? Take control of any Audio Lesson with new playback controls. With new Playback Controls, you can…

  • Review again and again by putting a track on repeat
  • Slow down or speed up by setting the playback speed (0.5x, 1x, 1.5x or 2x)
  • Skip back and forth between tracks within a lesson
  • Backtrack or get ahead by jumping 10 seconds back or forward

New updates! Click here to download Innovative Language 101 for free!
(If you own the App, upgrade to the latest version.)

If you run into any bugs or issues with this new update, feel free to send us a quick email at mobileapps@innovativelanguage.com

To new free Russian lessons for life,

Team RussianPod101

P.S. Take the 6-Month Challenge! Learn Russian in 6 Months for $66!
Get a BIG 45% OFF and master practical Russian with 6-Month Premium. Unlock ALL RussianPod101 lessons (new lessons published weekly), PDF lesson notes, Premium tools, Mobile App access, PLUS the exclusive Inner Circle Newsletter! Get 6 months for only $66. Ends Friday, 06/26/2015.

Click here to get 45% OFF 6-month Premium + Inner Circle Access!

Click here to get 45% OFF 6-month Premium + Inner Circle Access!