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Russian resources

Postby IronMike » Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:57 pm

Master list of lists: The Russian Roadmap from the ILR.

Courses

50 Languages
FSI-DLI
https://www.livelingua.com/project/dli/Russian/
Modern Russian
https://www2.gwu.edu/~slavic/golosa/
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/ruslang/about.html
A joint project between the University of Sussex and the London School of Economics and Political Science
The Princeton Russian Course
Russian Headstart
GLOSS
Tips for Russian
Between Us

Grammar/language
http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/index.html
http://www.gramota.ru/?v=full

Dictionaries
Yandex
Reverso Context
Forvo
Multitran
Russian Slang (NSFW)

Search engines
Yandex
Rambler

Reading
Readings for advanced students
http://slaviccenters.duke.edu/projects/advanced-russian
News in simplified Russian: http://nclrc.org/webcasts/russian/
http://royallib.com/
http://www.sras.org/library_russian_language
English-Russian parallel corpus
http://ruscorpora.ru/search-para-en.html
http://lingvoforum.net/

Online Periodicals

http://www.expert.ru
http://www.informika.ru
Collection of online Russian periodicals
http://izvestia.com
http://www.ng.ru
http://www.pravda.ru
http://www.relcom.ru

Media/Portals

Maria Petrova (my instructor from Moscow)
Real Russian Club
Russian with Anastasia
Easy Russian
Be Fluent in Russian
Russian Progress
Venya Pak
Comprehensible Russian
Russian with Max
http://echo.msk.ru/
Radio Garden (Brun Ugle)
http://radio.garden/live/
BBC podcast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9rh
Evening with Urgant
Stop a D**chebag
Орел и Решка
ГвоздиShow
Ruslan Usachev
Mudrenytch Translates
Varlamov
Russian Films
Radio Sweden Russian podcast
NHK Russian


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Lists of links

Universities

http://slaviccenters.duke.edu/
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/links/links.htm
http://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/links/russian.html
http://m.sussex.ac.uk/languages/resources/russian
http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/dllc/RUSS/Links
http://www.creeca.wisc.edu/russia.html
http://www.uh.edu/class/mcl/russian/lin ... resources/
http://www3.nd.edu/~adinega/links.html
https://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/russian/usefullinks/
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/resou ... es/russian
https://www.iwu.edu/language-resource-c ... links.html
https://www.davidson.edu/academics/russ ... pful-links

Test your Russian

Vocabulary - multilingual
Well worth checking out:

"Test your receptive and productive vocabulary in different languages. What percentage of the 5000 most frequent words have you mastered?
http://www.itt-leipzig.de/static/startseiteeng.html

Online Diagnostic Assessment (ODA) System
Online Diagnostic Assessment is a tool developed by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) to help you, the foreign language learner, evaluate and manage your learning.

reineke wrote:Name: Чтение
Topic: Literature

Four days a week, the good people over at Radio Mayak produce recordings of short stories...

http://www.prospektmag.com/2017/04/7-gr ... -politics/

The link that reineke mentioned below is no longer, but here is the page for Radio Mayak, from which you can find Чтение as well as plenty of other great podcasts and shows.
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Re: Russian resources

Postby reineke » Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:57 pm

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Re: Russian resources

Postby reineke » Sat Oct 28, 2017 1:14 am

Podcasts

Learner podcasts

German
http://www.russlandjournal.de/
Other
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/russian/russian-podcast/

"Real" Russian podcasts
7 great Russian podcasts you should listen to: from music to politics

Name: Arzamas
Topic: The History of Culture

"Arzamas is one of the most exciting projects to come out of Russia in recent years. They produce series’ of short lectures read by renowned Russian experts in the history of culture. Episodes are around 15-25 minutes in length, and they usually come in sets of five about any given topic. Recent episodes tackled ancient Greek and Roman understandings of sexuality, Russian avant-garde literature, and the major philosophical debates of the 20th century. Supplementary materials to each podcast can be found on the website.


Name: Чтение
Topic: Literature

Four days a week, the good people over at Radio Mayak produce recordings of short stories by Russian and international authors. If you haven’t been able to find the time lately to brush up on your Nabokov or Solzhenitsyn, why not give their audio versions a try? If you’re not ready to tackle Russian literature yet, you can always listen to your favourite short stories from authors like Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King translated into Russian. Readings range from 10 minutes to one hour and are followed by a short commentary about the author and their work."

...

http://www.prospektmag.com/2017/04/7-gr ... -politics/
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Re: Russian resources

Postby crush » Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:07 pm

The Princeton Russian Course is still available online:
http://cytrussian.tuxfamily.org/

I think i still have the original files saved on my computer somewhere. That course is really great, fun dialogs, good work on accent, simple grammar explanations. If i were going to start Russian again i'd start with that and Assimil's "Russian Without Toil".
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Re: Russian resources

Postby reineke » Sat Oct 28, 2017 6:00 pm

I thought I had it in the list. Mixed member resources.

Arnaud
Russian vocabulary http://ru.morpheem.com/
Learn Russian with Luntik http://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1465
The rest: deleted :)

lepensuer (long)
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =19&t=1470

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Reading:
http://royallib.com/
Reference:
http://www.russki-mat.net/e/Russian.php
http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?a=1
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/False_Fri ... he_Slavist
Films, videos:
http://rbth.com/blogs/2014/07/21/lets_w ... 38387.html

Intermediate course:
http://russianmentor.net/

Seneca's links:

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/fo ... ?TID=33305 "What to memorize in Russian"

Roots of the Russian Language: An Elementary Guide to Wordbuilding https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Russian-Language-Elementary-Wordbuilding/dp/0844242675/ref=

The audio for the Pronounce It Perfectly in Russian(ISBN 0-8120-8016-5) book: http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/publications/books/publication6.shtml

The main link from the above for a variety of audio for other Barron's Russian products:
http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/ ... oindex.htm

An Interactive Russian Grammar Online: http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/index.html

Russian Idioms List With Illustrations!: http://idioms.chat.ru/

Online links for the "Голоса" (Golosa) course: https://www2.gwu.edu/~slavic/golosa/

Russian DLI Basic Course: https://jlu.wbtrain.com/sumtotal/language/DLI%20basic%20courses/Russian/Russian%20Basic/

Answers for the Princeton Russian Course:
https://sites.google.com/site/princetonrussiananswers/home?pli=1

University of Indiana Russian Language Portal: http://www.iub.edu/~celtie/russian.html

An explanation of Russian verb construction: http://www.yearlyglot.com/2010/04/the-magical-aspects-of-russian-verb-construction/

A keyboard you can use to type in cyrillic: http://translit.net/

Russian Blog: http://bigpodcast.ru/

Short wiki on Russian stress patterns for nouns: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix ... ns_-_nouns

Links for an updated version of Russian As We Speak It: https://www2.gwu.edu/~slavic/slav9-10/obixod.htm

An Interactive Case Book for Russian that you can log into to see your progress in time: http://languages.uchicago.edu/casebooks/russian/exercises/exerciseframe.html

The Case Book for Russian in PDFs by chapter: http://languages.uchicago.edu/casebooks ... kmenu.html
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Re: Russian resources

Postby Arnaud » Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:34 am

Some people could be interested in: Russian Portal (a blog which lists online ressources to learn russian, a few links are dead, others are still working like the Cornell Uni course that seems well made) and the Pushkin Institute who offers online lessons for all, you just have to register (it's too "school-orientated" for me).
Also the Where to get Russian media with English subs easily? thread
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Re: Russian resources

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Re: Russian resources

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Re: Russian resources

Postby ilmari » Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:05 am

Poetry Reader for Russian Learners
http://russianpoetry.yale.edu/index.html

Кроткая (The Meek One, Dostoevsky)
http://archive.yalebooks.com/meek/

The original books are published by Yale, but you don't really need the books to use the material on the sites.
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Re: Russian resources

Postby reineke » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:11 pm

How many words do you know?

"Test your receptive and productive vocabulary in different languages.

The vocabulary tests aim to assess participants' vocabulary knowledge on levels of 1000 words each. These levels are based on high-frequency vocabulary lists. The 5000 most frequent words of German, English, Spanish, Russian, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, and American English can be tested. The results indicate the corresponding reading levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).

What percentage of the 5000 most frequent words have you mastered?"

http://www.itt-leipzig.de/static/startseiteeng.html

Test your vocab
http://testyourvocab.com

myvocab.info
The test is designed using Item Response Theory (one-parameter model) and Computerized Adaptive Testing. Bayesian Expected A Posteriori (EAP) estimator is used on each step of the test. Joint Maximum Likelihood is used to calculate difficulties of the test items.

https://www.myvocab.info
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