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============================== "All old Soviet Russian films were about love and all modern Russian films are about murder." -- a prominent film authority ============================== MANY THANKS TO MY VOLODYA, AND TO MISHA, BORIS AND ESPECIALLY SERGEI FOR THE HELP THEY GIVE ME! ==============================

Умом Россию не понять, Аршином общим не измерить: У ней особенная стать -- В Россию можно только верить.

============================== Recommended Youtube channels for Russian learning: http://www.youtube.com/user/usenetposts http://www.youtube.com/user/RussianPlus http://www.youtube.com/user/LearnRussian Language http://www.youtube.com/user/allatek http://www.youtube.com/user/RusskogoYazyka ============================== IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is an excellent channel that has RUSSIAN FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES: http://www.veoh.com/users/birubir You will be amazed.There are over 100 films , all wonderful Russian films. New films are added all the time. It's splendid!! ============================== My absolute favourite film maker on YT has created a series of pages, Here is his fabulous page about RUSSIA: http://www.youtube.com/user/viewrus ============================== Here is a beautiful channel where you can hear Russian poetry recited by a lady with a very beautiful voice! She includes links to the texts so you can read along whilst listening.. http://www.youtube.com/user/ahtaeva =============================

============================== A very nice blog that I highly recommend can be found here http://learningrussian.wordpress.com/ ==============================

Very good textbooks for learning Russian: Russian For Beginners-by Duff and Makaroff ============================== Simplified Russian Grammar-by Fayer and Pressman ============================== Гогизонт-1-Вятютнев,Сосенко + Протопопова ============================== Russian Language and People-by Donchenko(This goes with those BBC videos!) ============================== Schaum's Russian Grammar ============================== 5000 Russian Words- Leed/Paperno ============================== and my current favourite series: Russian Stage One-Live From Russia from Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, authors are Hardman and Gor. ============================== A very nice blog , written by a Swedish woman living in Russia. Go to the site, and you can find a link to subscribe to the blog. Every installment is really interesting.She writes quite a lot about Russian language! http://www.transparent.com/russian/ ============================== A BEAUTIFUL panoramic, moving view of the inside of Red Square at night can be seen here: http://rt.com/panorama/red-square-night.html ============================== Wonderful book about EVERYTHING you'd like to know about Russian culture- " The Russian's World", Life and Language, by Genevra Gerhart. I highly recommend this! ============================= Exploring Emptiness Database -- a new online tool relevant for all linguists, language teachers and students interested in the category of aspect of Russian verbs. A user-friendly interface makes the database a useful tool for investigating a number of properties of Russian prefixes. The database contains information on 1,426 imperfective verbs in Russian that form aspectual pairs via prefixation (there are 1,981 prefixed perfective partner verbs, because of the fact that many base verbs combine with multiple prefixes) Here is the link: http://emptyprefixes.uit.no ============================== Russian webcasts, excellent- http://nclrc.org/webcasts/russian/index.html ============================== Russian language learning site, also excellent- http://russianmentor.net/tools2.htm ============================= Take advantage of these wonderful resources, and do enjoy studying this beautiful language. The 6 cases and other grammar puzzlements can be difficult, but think of it as an endless source of intellectual stimulation. Who needs crossword puzzles, sudoko, algebra...actually , who needs calculus, organic chemistry, quantitative analysis, when there is RUSSIAN! You can spend your whole life slowly unfurling the petals of this flower, enjoying every moment. It's not a bad thing to get addicted to:) ============================ MULTILEX is a GREAT Russian/English dictionary for your PC that you can download for FREE! You can get it here: http://www.esetnod32.ru/.company/news/?ELEMENT_ID=7009&year=0