Я вас любил...

Перевод...

I loved you once: perhaps that love has yet

To die down thoroughly within my soul;

But let it not dismay you any longer;

I have no wish to cause you any sorrow.

I loved you wordlessly, without a hope,

By shyness tortured, or by jealousy.

I loved you with such tenderness and candor

And pray God grants you to be loved that way again.

Вот вам всем линк на аудио-запись этого прекрасного стихотворения Пушкина. 

An overview of the Russian alphabet

Watch this before Tuesday's class!

Part One...

Part Deux...

Russify your computer!

A video on working with Russian on your computer. 

Russian for Gringos (check for links at the top of the Gringos page for other platforms)
Google Transliterate
Google Transliterate IME (a small, resident, input software package that lets you use the Google Transliterate technology in other programs, e.g., Word)

Lectures on the Russian alphabet

A 15 minute lecture (in two parts) on the consonant-vowel system in Russian. 


Watch these for Wednesday's class!

Some useful resources for learning the Russian alphabet...

Here are some resources for learning the Russian alphabet and the first couple of units of Голоса.  

• A list (in Word (.doc) format) of Russian sight words—these are calques from and homophones of English. (Not all the words are from English—some are words that both Russian and English borrowed from other sources, like Greek, Latin and German.) You received a copy of this list in class. 
• A recording (mp3, your browser should just play it) of me, reading the words above. I’ve slowed down the recording a bit so that you’re better able to hear my pronunciation of individual phonemes.
• If you like flashcards, flashcardexchange.com has a set dedicated to learning the алфавит (alphabet). 
• A creepy version of the Russian alphabet from IKEA (the number one foreign investor in Russia!). In fact, the Russians don’t NEED an alphabet song, and no one sings it and no one teaches it to kids. It’s a phonetic alphabet—there aren’t really standardized names for the letters, as there must be in English. (How else would we explain how to spell our crazy words???)
• The Golosa site, where you can listen to recordings of many of the exercises from the Алфавит (Alphabet) section.
• For those of you who want to perfect your Russian cursive (пропись), some “worksheets” that I concocted (in .doc format).
• And, while I’m at it, a link to the Golosa cards on FlashcardExchange website, where you can find all your work done for you…

Flash Forum this Friday on Pussy Riot

Important dates for Elementary Russian 101

Alphabet and Phonetic quiz (word recognition):  August 30.
Vocabulary Quiz (based on 1-11): September 6
First Portfolio: September 11

Cooking in Kiev...

While in Kiev this August, I filmed a week's worth of shows for a cooking program, Любим готовить! (We Love to Cook). The show airs soon, but this week they're posting the recipes on the show's Facebook page and blog. Here's a link to the Facebook articles. Maybe it will work! If it doesn't, you can see the posts on the Russian Studies Facebook page. (While you're there, LIKE us!)

The GOCAPC Russian School

Anyone interested in working with this new, Russian-language oriented charter school in Palm Coast (about half an hour from here; a real center of Russian speakers) should contact me. Many significant opportunities, especially for anyone interested in education.

Here's some information about the school:

Global Outreach Charter Academy of Palm Coast (GOCAPC) is a school where students from many countries and various cultural backgrounds can experience a safe, student-centered environment, with immersion in a bilingual program that prepares participants for advanced studies at the high school and college levels. GOCAPC is a place where parents and teachers collaborate to ensure that all students meet high expectations in their personal and academic growth. GOCAPC's primary bilingual immersion focus is English-Russian, but is expanding to include English-Chinese, English-Spanish and English-Portuguese.