#russian resources

[linguafrencha]

Hi! I want to learn French and Russian. Could you share your favourite resources for beginners? Could you also include books and movies/TV shows recommendations for both languages in your post? Thank you.

That's really cool that you want to learn those languages!!!

I have a bunch of Russian resources that I used because I started out as solely self-learning. So a large part in my absolute beginner phase I spent listening to podcasts, specifically, these: understanding spoken Russian which is great for just getting a feel for the language while also learning a bit of grammar and this one for getting grammar and vocab explained in a very down to earth kind of way without any types of big words you need to know.

Besides these I essentially learned all the Russian grammar I know on Youtube. Especially from this channel. Daria is very cool and also has several podcasts under the same name.

This one has helped me with specific questions about little grammar things, so might also be useful.

Nastya has this year begun doing a Learn Russian in a Year thing where she uploads every day a thirty minute lesson. It's a bit slow for me personally having already learned a lot and just generally me being impatient but it can definitely help with vocab.

He also has good videos and also some free stuff on his website iirc.

For TV shows I unfortunately can't recommend a lot for beginners. What you can do though is watch episodes like Peppa the Pig on Youtube in English and in Russian/French to compare and learn or only in your TL as they're obviously at a low level. What I do highly recommend as a show though is слуга народу for Russian and Lupin for French.

Also, if you're into audiobooks, try typing children audiobooks into Youtube or try listening to the Russian/French version of Harry Potter (that's what I'm doing rn actually).

If you're looking for a book and willing to spend some money I recommend this book with Russian short fiction for beginners. I just finished it and I thought it was very fun with vocab lists and questions for the stories at the end. The same author has also books for higher levels.

Unfortunately, as I learned almost all of French in classes I only have one channel I actually use to recommend, which is this one. You'll find some of my posts where I used this channel as my source.

I hope this helps! I might update in future when I find more. Good luck with your language learning journey!!

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[psykopaths]

Solaris, (1972)

Dir - Andrei Tarkovsky

#i honestly think that “trying” to civilize mars is just waste of energy and resources #space exploration #elon musk #spacex #outer space #scifi #movie scenes #andrei tarkovsky #films #film art #film aesthetic #movie art #movie aesthetic #cinephile #cinema #scifi movies #russian literature #good movie #movie quotes #movie stills #movies

[europeanlanguages]

Resource List for Learning Russian

Hi Language Enthusiasts,

Do you want to learn Russian but don't know where to start? Then I've got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its links below. Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. I hope everyone can enjoy it and if anyone notices any mistakes or has any questions you are free to PM me.Here is what the resource list contains;

Handmade resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.

Resources on learning pronunciation.

Websites to practice reading.

Documents to enhance your vocabulary.

Notes on Colloquial Language and Dialects.

Music playlists

List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of grammar!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IUZPxKviSmPFO6S8go2_BqqE58Bbjsqfj4QqzC_r5yI/edit?usp=sharing

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[irhabiya]

i honest to God think yemenis have every right to gut any saudi, emirati or usamerican if they so please

#hey btw #while the world was crying and sobbing and shitting themselves over barbaric russian imperialism #and scrambling to sanction russia and stop consuming their gas and oil #what the fuck were the french and americans doing in shabwa i wonder #hopefully not exploiting and exporting the natural resources of one of the poorest most dire countries in the world rn #fuck off all the way to hell death to every single one of you. fuck

[another-template-blog]

I just got done adding weird sellers notes to all of my kofi listings. Some of them have YouTube or Wikipedia links, some of them have coordinates, some of them are just my own thoughts on my work. They range from nonsense to cringe to I don’t even fucking know to be honest

Now when you buy something you get a unique weird little message attached to the doc

#ko fi shop #sellers notes #it’s like Russian roulette #except no one dies #you just get things of varying degrees of unfunniness #i spent way too long on this #and I don’t know why #roleplay resources #google docs #google docs template #roleplay template #rp template #template #not a resource

[haxyr3]

March on HAXYR3: Idioms, Podcasts & More!

Hey language lovers! Did you miss the epic content I unleashed on HAXYR3 this March? Don't worry, comrades, I've got your back!

This month was all about mastering those tricky Russian idioms that make you sound like a native. I unleashed four sets of 10 everyday idioms EACH, complete with downloadable flashcards on the website. Forget stuffy textbook expressions - these are the ones native speakers use on the street! Here's a taste:

Death with a Twist: From the poetic "уйти в лучший мир" (go to a better world) to the quirky "сыграть в ящик" (play in the box)! ⚰️

Mind Games: Dive deep into idioms describing intellectual challenges - because let's face it, learning Russian can be a wild ride!

Native-Level Ninja: Master these colloquial gems to navigate awkward situations and conquer anxiety like a boss.

Everyday Essential Expressions: Spice up your Russian with these common phrases and sound like you've been living in Siberia forever! 

I threw down some quizzes to see if you guys could crack these common expressions. Turns out, idioms can be tricky beasts! Phrases like "куда ни шло" and "в том числе" had everyone scratching their heads. But fear not! Download those flashcards and be on your way to mastering idiomatic Russian.

My podcast "Пять Минут" (Five Minutes) is BACK! I'm all excited to share this podcast designed specifically for upper-intermediate and advanced learners. It's 100% pure, unaltered Russian, but don't worry, I won't leave you hanging. Each 5-minute episode comes with a full transcript for you to read along and boost your listening skills. This season, we're diving into hidden gems of Russian culture. I started with a mind-blowing Soviet movie that predicted our AI reality and the whimsical tales of Sergey Kozlov. The AI story was so fascinating, I even shared it in English!

Looking Ahead & How You Can Help!

March was a treasure trove of free resources, but April promises even more! To keep this awesomeness rolling, consider supporting me on Patreon. My patrons are basically my rockstars! Their suggestions for future topics get top billing, and they unlock exclusive deals on paid materials and merch.

Spread the Love!

Hit those like, share, and comment buttons! Your feedback fuels my fire and helps me craft even better mini-lessons for YOU! See you in April!

Cache the Magnificent assisting me in my podcast studio

#russian #language learning #vocabulary #podcast #resources

[magnoliamyrrh]

i am so glad america is no longer giving money to ukraine 🙏 too busy spending that money on their terrorist hell colony of israel and killing yamenis 🙏

#dont get me wrong i fully know that the us is only using ukraine for resources and influence and i dont like a long series of things about #this. But. ukranian civilians little kids historical buildings etc etc do not deserve russian horror #so many have died so many towns rasored. ukranie cannot stand without american aid and theyve just lost it

[sableeira]

a few hours ago I was joking about how specific knowledge on technical topics can only be found on niche Chinese blogs or YouTube videos entirely in russian. It’s not a joke anymore I’m once again looking through Chinese blogs and looking at videos in Russian.

#I could also ask in a forum where someone solved the problem like a year ago #but I’m stubborn and they basically laid out how to do the thing but I’m having some noob issues hence I’m too embarrassed to ask #I’m once again trying to do stuff that’s way too advanced with some huge gaps when it comes to basics #also it’s just this specific topic that has a lot of resources that are Chinese/Russian

[dark-wackademia]

Anyone else learning Russian from the basics, this app is helping me sm!!! I was having trouble with the script to block letters but this is really helpful in engraining them

“Write Russian”

Can’t wait to be able to use the Russian Readers app. I also have a duel language folktale book I am so excited to crack into after I get some practice in.

But this one is so fun and the voice is not robotic!!! 😭🤌🏻

#russia #language #language learning #learning russian #language resources

[wo-bu-hui-shuo-zhongwen]

langblr reactivation challenge week 3

Day 5: Create a collection of resources you use to study/learn your target language. Add links to them if possible so others can also use them.

Resource Master List

Francais French:

Listening Content:

https://www.epfl.ch/education/continuing-education/catalog/

Reading:

https://www.bibliothequedesameriques.com/

한국어 Korean:

grammar/spacing/spell checker

sejong institute online courses ( i used these before entering grad school and they are really useful if you need structure)

advanced resources list

Chinese 中文:

(in process - i learned at school only and haven't got back into the swing of things)

Egyptian Arabic:

Lisaan Masry dictionary and grammar directory for Egyptian dialect

LIve Lingua courses

Colloquial Arabic of Egypt textbook

masterpost of arabic resources

Russian:

RT free russian lessons

russianlessons.net

Polish:

university of pittsburgh online lessons

#langblr reactivation challenge #language learning #foreign languages #studyblr #langblr challenge #resources #resource #resource list #french #korean #arabic #chinese #polish #russian

[resources-by-m]

Isabella (@itsnotbella on IG) gif set (260x145 px)

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[fatehbaz]

In 1741, the Russian ship St. Peter, part of Vitus Bering’s expedition of discovery, shipwrecked on one of the islands while returning from the first European exploration of Alaska. Bering’s scurvy-wracked men spent a miserable winter, killing marine mammals for food and warding off the fearless arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) that tried to eat the dying. Georg Wilhelm Steller, the expedition’s naturalist, devoted much of his time to a study of the island’s fauna, later published to great interest in Europe. Few Europeans had ever experienced the numbers and variety of marine mammals that the men encountered on these islands. “If I were required to state how many [fur seals] I saw on Bering Island,” Steller wrote, “I should truthfully say that I could not guess -- they were countless, they covered the whole shore.” [...]

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When the remnants of the expedition arrived in Kamchatka in the summer of 1742, their tales of the abundant sea otters, fur seals, and sea cows sent Russian fur traders (promyshlenniki) from Siberia to hunt in the newly discovered waters. [...] Initially, the promyshlenniki found the animals to be as unbelievably numerous as Steller had reported them to be. The first hunters killed as many as fifty sea otters per day, several gigantic sea cows (used for food and leather) per season, and thousands of the arctic foxes that had once eaten Russians. [...]

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Beginning with Steller’s two-year visit, hunting had been carried out at an unsustainable rate. The sea otter population entered a serious crash seven years after Steller’s shipwreck -- in 1749 and 1750 -- when at least four crews hunted in the Commanders. In what must have been a vast and ceaseless slaughter, hunters killed at least 1,380 sea otters (roughly a quarter of the entire estimated population) in these two years alone. By 1754 the population had probably dropped below eight hundred animals spread across the two islands -- a decline of 85 percent over twelve years -- numbers low enough that hunters would have had trouble locating the animals at all. In 1757, hunters suddenly began bypassing the Commanders for the Aleutian Islands [...]. Nearly forty years later, Commander Islands’ sea otters still had not recovered from the onslaught of 1749 − 1750. [...]

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The Russian fur trade in the Pacific differed from the New World European terrestrial fur trades in another way. The Russians, besides trading for furs with the Aleuts, also demanded from them a yearly tribute of furs (called yasak), as they had with all conquered Siberian peoples. The fur traders forced compliance by taking some members of the community hostage and promising their safety only upon delivery of furs. As more and more Aleut communities fell under promyshlennik domination in the course of the eighteenth century, yasak collection naturally increased. At the same time that the supply of sea otters was in steep decline, tribute demands increased. [...]

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By then, all involved in the trade expected sea otters to disappear rapidly; they no longer expected sea otters to behave like sables. Irkutsk governor Ivan Iakobii reported to Catherine II in 1787 that “we know from many examples that the hunting has decreased substantially each year. There is absolutely no doubt, when one realizes that millions of animals have been taken [in the North Pacific]. One can therefore suppose that in a few years the animals will be completely depleted [...].” By the time the Russian American Company (RAC) was granted a monopoly on the trade in 1799, it too was forced to begin looking immediately for new hunting grounds in southeastern Alaska. [...]

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Text by: Ryan Tucker Jones. “A ‘Havock Made among Them’: Animals, Empire, and Extinction in the Russian North Pacific, 1741-1810.” Environmental History Vol. 16, No. 4. October 2011. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

#this article is great and is actually much more focused on the history of environmentalist thought and the formation of green imperialism #basically about how british and french imperial naturalists observed and responded to russian practices and #and how a sort of Russian Orientalism and prejudice against Russians led the British and French to frame Russians as barbarians #and develop a sort of imperialist justification for conservation but conservation mostly as a means of controlling resources #but also the article is about how naturalists in western europe developed ideas of extinction and conservation in response #therefore inspiring a lot of the Victorian nineteenth century fascination with anitquity and finality and extinction etc

[magnetothemagnificent]

I saw your post about the USSR's crimes as a colonial power and its oppression of jews post WW2. I'd really appreciate it if you can point me to the name of the events you had in mind so I can read up on it. Thanks!

This is by no means an exhaustive list, and I'm limited by the amount of links I can add in one post, but seriously, this is something you can look up yourself. It's not hidden information or hard-to-come-by information. I'm happy to educate people but sometimes anons like this come off as disrespectful and dismissive rather than genuine. Sometimes, these things can be easily researched instead of relying on Jews to have to "prove" antisemitism.

#antisemitism #history #ussr #soviet antisemitism #russian antisemitism #jewish history #resources #jumblr

[hannahcommissions]

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[taiwantalk]

#sokolov alived over the weekend #could russians be this absurd to actually prop up a dead man? #he didn't get any sun tan by the crimean beach? #looks quite pale reall those lights in the morgue are too strong #ukraine #russia #taiwantalk #sorry #with my limited app resources i could only do this much #sokolov #shoigu #propped up #survived missile blast but not the russian doctors

[haxyr3]

I often receive questions from Russian learners about what to read at the beginner level. This book of short stories is really good. I tried it with my students, and they enjoyed the stories, the language (contemporary, not the antiquated Soviet Pravda style), and the fact that they are really appropriate for beginners, yet, not boring.

#Russian #resource #book