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Siberiano
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 Message 9 of 15
06 August 2008 at 11:41pm | IP Logged 
Volte wrote:
So, who do you recommend for Spanish and Italian music?

Raf, Max Pezzali, Amaral are nice.

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 Message 10 of 15
07 August 2008 at 5:05am | IP Logged 
There are webcasts of news broadcasts in slightly slowed down and simplified, but natural sounding Russian at www.gwu.edu/~slavic/webcast. They are quite short but there are dozens of them with transcripts and lists of key vocabulary.
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Volte
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 Message 11 of 15
07 August 2008 at 12:20pm | IP Logged 
shapd wrote:
There are webcasts of news broadcasts in slightly slowed down and simplified, but natural sounding Russian at www.gwu.edu/~slavic/webcast. They are quite short but there are dozens of them with transcripts and lists of key vocabulary.


Thanks; I'd stumbled across that, but not listened. I just picked the Pavarotti webcast (at random), and without looking at the supporting material, could natural-listen to it. I didn't get every single word and detail, but I understood the gist of every sentence easily. I was sad to hear of his passing - I'd been unaware of it.

www.gwu.edu/~slavic wrote:

"Who can listen? The news items, style, and exercise level are aimed at students with listening skills at ACTFL Intermediate Mid to Intermediate High. In most cases, that corresponds to college Russian at the end of second-year."


This suggests that 45 hours of L-R over two weeks gives listening comprehension comparable to 2 years of college Russian - and possibly better, given the admonitions to read the notes and exercises first. That's..... interesting.

I'll definitely play more with this site, but I'll continue doing L-R as my primary activity for now. I just redid the first chapter of "The Master and Margarita" (this was the 2nd time I L-R it in Russian), at 150% speed, and found I could natural-listen a fair amount of it, and that perhaps half the structure seems transparent (the interactions of prepositions, cases, verbs, and verb affixes is going to take a while yet, I think). Speeding up Russian audio is even more helpful than speeding up Polish audio, because it makes the stress stand out much more clearly.

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 Message 12 of 15
14 August 2008 at 4:22am | IP Logged 
Volte wrote:

Given that you're a native Russian speaker, do you have any recommendations for music, or for Russian books you particularly like (including contemporary literature and non-fiction, not just classical fiction)?
So far, my favorite Russian singer is "Dima Bilan".


Volte,

I happened to have recently put together a short list of some Russian language music. So, here it goes--hopefully you'll find something here that will be of interest and use for you:

Varied Old Songs:
*Алла Пугачева, Мне нравится, что Вы больны не мной http://youtube.com/watch?v=6M33FJpbq7o&feature=related
*Бичевская, Ворон http://youtube.com/watch?v=XEgLY9u6IX8&feature=related
*Крылатые качели http://youtube.com/watch?v=WMAqZ8vaKig
*Сережа Парамонов и Детский хор http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wqLr97Vcmw&feature=related
*Прекрасное далёко http://youtube.com/watch?v=rb0wk32Y9TA&feature=related
*FILM Soundtrack (Жестокий романс) based on Ostrovsky’s “The Doweryless”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMEVNTs3m7o&feature=related
* Русланова http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gix7b9RDJwc&feature=related
* Марк Бернес/Mark Bernes - Одессу Костя/Song About Odessa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CebvBldszqM&feature=related
* Леонид Утёсов, Как много девушек хороших
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s6cPr2Tb0o&feature=related
* Владимир Высоцкий
Кони http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shi_TBr_TbI&NR=1
Охота на волков http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ2E4cf46nw&feature=related
Песня о друге http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3NU1W3AHdc&feature=related
Погоня/Pogonya (Chase) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-m9YqNRMIY&feature=related
* Высоцкий, Мой Гамлет (Hamlet's Monologue) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDS-P-3ei2k&feature=related
* Lube, Там за туманами / Tam za tumanami (Out There Behind The Fogs) -- a song about a drowned ocean liner “Kursk” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3D_0OXDmfM&feature=related
* Sergei Lemeshev, Troika http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=496zJwbh8r4&feature=related

Russian Opera:
* Чайковский. Евгений Онегин / Tchaikovsky. Eugene Onegin (1879)
Tatiana’s monologue in Chaikovskiy’s opera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyLSFjC36Kw&feature=related
See libretto, Act 3, scene 2 at http://www.opera-guide.ch/libretto.php?id=373&uilang=de&lang =en
* Lensky Aria Before the Duel-- Sergei Lemeshev / "Eugene Onegin" Pyotr Tchaikovsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW52SsL4hHo&feature=related
Lensky Aria Confessing Love to Olga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCqFj11PpMg&feature=related

Contemporary Popular and Rock Music:
* Zemfira
Прогулка / Progulka (A Stroll) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8KvCsAGZY&feature=related
Искала / Iskala (I Was Searching For): http://youtube.com/watch?v=s7a7kbfp_d0&feature=related
Хочешь? / Hochesh (Would You Like?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvEfHtPht8&feature=related
Итоги / Itogi (Conclusions): http://youtube.com/watch?v=ns6aODodSiQ&feature=related
Красота / Krasota (How Wonderful) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cGYhVRdPM&feature=related
Печаль/ Pechal’ (Triste) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnQzJp7C5qs
* Vitas, Opera 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEViNPwuU1w&feature=related

Best of luck!

Edited by Cherepaha on 14 August 2008 at 4:22am

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Volte
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 Message 13 of 15
14 August 2008 at 4:50am | IP Logged 
Cherepaha: thank you!!!
I'll check those out this evening.

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 Message 14 of 15
12 October 2008 at 12:06am | IP Logged 
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but is this parallel text of Master and Margarita online somewhere that you could share it with us?
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 Message 15 of 15
12 October 2008 at 3:15am | IP Logged 
BGreco wrote:
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but is this parallel text of Master and Margarita online somewhere that you could share it with us?

I can't help, but let me thank you for resurrecting it, I had missed it.

And thank you, Volte, for the interesting thread. Much food for thought in your first post.



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