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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1 of 9 22 April 2009 at 2:17pm | IP Logged |
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Hello
I am studying Russian ab initio at university, and although I understand grammar very well, my vocabulary is not where it could be and my listening skills are not brilliant to say the least. I am going to Russia for two weeks in July and am spending the academic year starting September 2010 in Russia. Are there any sites you can recommend where I can listen to Russian; not just the news, although that would be very helpful, but also just general conversation, perhaps radio or something. Thanks you for your help. Большое спасибо за помощь. Jack 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6444 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 2 of 9 22 April 2009 at 2:42pm | IP Logged |
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The Princeton Russian course, which is freely available here, has a huge amount of audio, complete with transcripts and vocabulary lists. I've only gone through the first few lessons, but the audio seemed to mostly be everyday life dialogues, so it should work for your purposes.
The Assimil Russian audio is also available online, and if you search the forum here, you'll find a link to it. Edited by josht on 22 April 2009 at 3:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 3 of 9 22 April 2009 at 3:36pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the help, josht. I have just tried to download the Princeton Russian course, and for some reason it will not allow me to do so.
http://languagegeek.net/?s=princeton+russian It says here that Princeton have since made the course unavailable, and the "language geek" 's attempt at making the Princeton course accessible again since that time doesn't seem to work either... I don't seem to be able to access his link either. Do you have any suggestion as to why this might be, as I'm the world's worst with computers, unfortunately... Thanks Jack 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6444 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 4 of 9 22 April 2009 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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There was an error in the link I provided; I left out the http:// bit, and so the forum software made the link point towards itself. Geekiness aside, the link is fixed and is now working. :) On the linked page, there's another link to download the course in ZIP format.
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 6 of 9 22 April 2009 at 8:43pm | IP Logged |
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Всем большое спасибо за вашу помощь и ссылки, я вам очень благодарен.
Thanks to everyone for your help and the links. I am very grateful. Jack 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 9 23 April 2009 at 12:38am | IP Logged |
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Despite the "news" content, I like these podcasts:
"Russian Webcasts are posted to the web twice monthly and deliver a survey of the previous two weeks' news in simplified standard Russian Listeners of Voice of America's "Special English" broadcasts will recognize the slightly slower rate of speech and textual redundancy which characterize these webcasts." http://nclrc.org/webcasts/russian/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 8 of 9 23 April 2009 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
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Спасибо за добавочную ссылку, jeff lindqvist.
Now that I have a few good resources, I'd be interested to read how you would use them. When listening to a report in a language, would you listen a few times and write down the main points of what was said? Our lecturers encourage us to listen to a text and transcribe what has been said. Thanks for your responses. Jack 1 person has voted this message useful |
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