At Carleton
- Russian Department
- We offer a variety of comprehensive self instruction language programs available by appointment at the Language Center.
Russian Materials at the Language Center
Reference
- Oxford Russian-English Dictionary
- 5000 Russian Words
Books for Casual Learners and Travelers
- Berlitz Russian for Travelers
- Colloquial Russian
- Pimsleur’s Speak and Read Essential Russian
Web Resources
News
- Vesti – Russian news. Is a popular news site although it is affiliated with the Russian government.
- RBC – News.
- MK – News and culture.
- Radio Monte Carlo – News and culture.
- Novaya Gazeta – This newspaper is not affiliated with the government, is critical of the regime in Russia and its journalists have faced threats and actual assassination in the past.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Grammar Lessons:
- Multitran – Russian dictionary
- Grammar Lessons
- Russian Dictionaries
- KM – Encyclopedia
- Learn Russian – 100 lessons from a news network affiliated with the Russian state government.
Radio and TV Programs:
- Russkoye Radio Russian radio (one of the most popular radio stations among Russians).
- BBC Russia
Language and Culture:
- Master Russian
- Last.fm – Russian music.
- English Russia – Popular daily entertainment but still a personal blog devoted to events happening in Russian speaking countries, such as Russia (Russian Federation), Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, etc. Everyday something interesting happens in the countries occupying 1/6 of the populated world.
- Lib.ru – Also known as Maksim Moshkow’s Library, it began operation in November 1994, making it the oldest electronic library in the Russian Internet segment.
- Zerkalo – Russian language media in Minnesota.
Other Recommended Sites:
- Best Russian Websites – A host of Russian Web sites.
- An Introduction to Russian
- Duolingo – Free courses for people on the go. Memorize vocabulary, improve pronunciation and understand grammar. For beginners, intermediate and advanced levels. Uses fill in the blanks, typing, voice recording and images.
- Memrise – Learn from beginners to advanced, improve pronunciation and conversation flow.
- Babbel – For all levels, fun and easy. Takes you through questions of every day life and how to get around with the language. Uses pictures, multiple questions, sentence matching and others.
- Loecsen – Method of rapid assimilation of the foreign languages that can be learnt over the internet or on other mobile devices. It is intended for people who want to manage in most situations of everyday life without having to go through a lengthy learning process.
- 101 Languages – Includes links to different resources such as radio stations, vocabulary lessons and builder, keyboards, news, common words, translators, conjugators, flashcards, travel guides, pronunciation, phrases and vocabulary.
- Goethe Verlag – Phrase book, vocabulary, download bilingual audios, download monolingual audios. Includes 100 easy lessons (100 lessons are free). All dialogues and sentences are spoken by native speakers. No prior grammar knowledge is needed. You can start learning immediately. Improve your language skills for work, travel or as a hobby.
- ie Languages – Learn basic phrases, vocabulary and grammar. Lists of vocabulary and verb conjugations are available. Some of the tutorials include audio files and interactive exercises and authentic visual examples of language use
- Games – Language learning games. Numbers, phrases, colors, days, months, fruits, animals, vocabulary, food, verbs, clothes, times and nouns.
- Live Lingua Project – Learning materials that contain courses, ebooks and audios.
- My Languages – Site which focuses on grammar and vocabulary. Lessons, grammar tips, vocabulary, phrases, language tools, and audio files to download.
- Surface Languages – Thousands of phrases and hours of audio spoken by native speakers along with flashcard, multiple choice and language learning games. Learn colors, numbers, basic phrases, food words, basic conversation phrases and build your vocabulary.Improve your fluency and confidence through learning many different sentences in your target language.
- Master Any Language – Learn playing games, take tests, audios, alphabets, numbers, greetings, food, months, days, native speakers and links to resources such as music, foods, apps, books and movies.
- Lingro – A free multilingual instant search dictionary and language learning web site. Paste in the URL of a newspaper and each word in the text becomes clickable and gives access to its dictionary.
- Unilang – Free courses, podcasts, videos, phrasebooks, games and exercises.
- Open Culture – Links to various language learning sites.
- Forvo – Pronunciation examples.