сам, it corresponds to English pronouns ending in -self.
самый, it corresponds to ‘the very’ in expressions like “the very same” or “at the very end”
весь ‘the whole’ , ‘entire’, ‘all‘
каждый ‘each, every’
любой ‘any’, ‘anyone’
другой ‘another’
всякий ‘any‘ or ‘every’
иной ‘ another’, ‘other’
всяческий ‘all kinds of’

Russian determinative pronouns agree in gender, number and case of nouns they modify.

The article on the website covers the usage and the declension patterns of Russian determinative pronoun.

The original article on SLO: Russian Determinative Pronouns

In Russian, most qualitative adjectives have short forms. Short form adjectives exist only in predicate nominative form. They have masculine, femine, neuter and plural forms and do not decline.

Relational adjectives, and all adjectives with a stem ending in suffixes -ск- and -ян- do not have short forms in Russian.

The article on the website covers the usage, formation and particular cases of Russian short-form adjectives.

The original article on SLO: Short form of Russian adjectives

Interrogative pronouns and adverbs are words used in different kinds of questions. The most frequently used interrogative words in Russian are:

кто ‘who’
что ‘what’
какой ‘which, what kind of’
где ‘where’
куда ‘where to’
откуда ‘where from’
как ‘how’
сколько ‘how much, how many’

The article on the website covers the declension patterns of Russian interrogative pronouns, as well as the usage of these words in different kinds of questions.

The original article on SLO: Russian Interrogative Words

Russian adjectives  change their form to agree with the gender, number or case of nouns they modify. In singular, the endings of Russian long-form adjectives express grammatical gender, number and case. In plural, they express only number and case.

There are three declension types of Russian adjectives:

1. Declension of qualitative and relational adjectives
2. Declension of possessive adjectives with stem in -ий
3. Declension of possessive adjectives ending in -ин(-ын), -ов(-ев)

The article on the website covers peculiarities of all these declension types.

The original article on SLO: Declension of Russian adjectives

If you find a word, you need to click at one end of the hidden word and drag the mouse to the end of the word, or just click its initial and final letters (or vice versa). When a word is found, it is highlighted with red, and you can see a checkmark near this word (or its translation) in the “Words to find” list.

There are the following settings of the game:

- Topic: you can choose one of the vocabulary topics available on our website
- Words direction: you can choose the direction of the hidden words. Now, they can be hidden either horizontally or vertically, and only forward. Later, we are going to provide an option to hide words horizontally and vertically, so that the puzzle could be more interesting for advanced learners.
- Music and sounds: this option allows you to switch on or turn off the soundtrack and sounds of the game.
- Animation: this option allows to switch on or turn off the animation of the game
- Language: the hidden list of words is always in Russian, but you can choose the language of the “Words to find” list – Russian or English.

Recommendations for the users:

- For beginners in Russian, we recommend to use the horizontal direction of the hidden words and to set the “Language” option as “Russian – Russian”.
- For advanced users, we recommend to use the vertical direction of the hidden words and to set the “Language” option as “English – Russian”.
- If you are using Internet Explorer, the slowest web browser, we recommend to turn off the animation and close the information panel. These visual effects may not work properly in IE.The game works fine in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. It is also possible to play the game in Safari on iPhone, by clicking the first and the last letters of the hidden words.

The page on the  main website: Word Find Puzzle

There are 5 texts for reading:

1. Introduction
2. Russia
3. Moscow
4. Saint Petersburg
5. Russian Food

The following picture demonstrates available settings:

Available options allow to display or hide stress marks, transcription and translation and choose texts view mode you are comfortable with. Users can also tools for reading in Russian to highlight different groups of letters. Each text has comments on some difficult points of pronunciation.

The page on the  main website: Texts for reading practice

Now, you can find these tools in the lessons on reading in Russian – visit URL:  http://www.study-languages-online.com/reading-practice.html

Lesson 1. Greetings and Farewells
Here you can learn how to say hello and how to greet people in Russian, how to say goodbye in, to thank and apologize in Russian. There is also basic information about polite and familiar forms of address.

Lesson 2. Introducing yourself
Here you can learn how to to introduce yourself in Russian, as well as to ask and answer simple questions.

Lesson 3. Where are you from?
This lesson contains countries and nationalities names, basic information about Russian cases, and grammatical gender.

Lesson 4. Professions and Occupations
Here you find words denoting professions and occupations, information about Russian personal pronouns and plural forms of nouns.

Lesson 5. Languages skills
In this lesson, you can learn expressions used to tell about your knowledge of a language, conjugation patterns of Russian regular verbs and basic information about negation in Russian

The page on the SLO website:  Online course for Beginners

After the payment procedure through Paypal users have access to the full version of 10 lessons Everyday Russian course.