RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF RUSSIANfor ChildrenRussian
Children's Audio Theatre – audio files of literary classics for children. Clothes/shoppingdryclean.ru Commonwealth of Independent States (СНГ)Which countries belong to the СНГ – A confederation of most former Soviet Republics. Most important here for our purposes is to know which countries belong. EconomicsAK&M – a financial
company where you can find out the dollar-ruble exchange rate and information
about the Russian stock market. EducationSaint-Petersburg State University CTB – current and recent Russian movies. Food Cooking.ru GeographyRin.ru – click on any zone in the world
and you can see maps and geographical information in Russian. HousingVirtual Museum of Communal Apartments LanguagesHuman Languages Page, in Russian (use KOI encoding) MusicБарды
– bards in Russia are folksinger-songwriters. Site has pictures, biographies,
lyrics, and some audio files of Russian bards. News, Audio, SimplifiedNCRLC Russian Webcasts – a site from George Washington University with audio files of news in Russian, simplified and read slowly. Comprehension exercises included. They add to it every week but only during the academic year; in the meantime, the archives are available. News DigestsСтрана.ru News Videos Political InstitutionsNational News Service – a searchable
database of prominent Russians and some others, mostly but not all of
them political figures. Postcards and PostersВиртуальные открытки – virtual postcards for Russian holidays.Mina.ru – Soviet-era posters. Categories in left-hand banner under плакаты. Poster.Genstab.Ru – more posters. Soviet Posters: The Chairman Smiles – virtual exhibit of Soviet Posters of the 30s and 40s by the International Institute of Social History. In English, with translations and notes. Radio Stations Broadcasting on the WebРадио ретро – you need a WimAmp
player. ReferenceЭнциклопедия кругосветSmirnitsky’s Dictionary – English/Russian and Russian/English. You can cut and paste from your reading on the Internet (even conjugated verbs and declined words). sokr.ru – Russian has many acronyms (phrases represented by initials, such as ГУМ, РФ, CCCР). You can look them up here. Resources and Search Engines The Russian
Language Program at Cornell Scavenger Hunt Scavenger Hunt– for Russian Language Beginners Space Program Росавиакосмос– the Russian Space Agency. Under космическая деятельность there is a history of manned space flight and a biography of cosmonauts. Who was the first man in space? Today in HistoryTransportation WeatherMeteo.demos.ru |