Russian Resources - Tumblr Posts
Rebloggin cause others might need it
Hi!! Could you perhaps list some blogs/resources focusing mainly on Russian? Thank you! :D
Sure thing, anon! Now I’m not super focused on Russian atm but I’ve managed to scrounge up something for you :)
Free Online Russian-Learning Websites:
http://www.study-languages-online.com/
http://masterrussian.com/
http://www.russianforeveryone.com/
http://www.yesrussian.com/
http://www.russianlessons.net/
https://www.duolingo.com/course/ru/en/Learn-Russian-Online (I’m sure you’re familiar with this one)
Cyrillic Alphabet:
http://masterrussian.com/russian_alphabet.shtml
http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/russian.htm (I absolutely love Omniglot and would recommend it to anyone with a general interest in languages)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKX9RYOX5w (For children, but good for learners as well)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrSpf8kaqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vWY8YIijY
Russian Keyboard:
http://www.apronus.com/internet/ruskey.htm (Online Cyrillic keyboard)
http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm (A downloadable phonetic keyboard instead of the Microsoft keyboard that is already formatted in Microsoft computers, the phonetic keyboard is easier to use because Cyrillic letters are placed with the closest roman letter equivalent on an English QWERTY keyboard)
Online Dictionaries:
http://www.rustran.com/
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html
http://www.lexilogos.com/english/russian_dictionary.htm
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-russian/ (Reverso is pretty good in my experience)
Immersion:
http://www.bbc.com/russian
http://ria.ru/radio/
http://all-radio.ru/
http://www.rususa.com/fun/radio/
http://ru-news.ru/
http://rusnovosti.ru/ (News)
http://www.pravda.ru/ (News)
http://rutube.ru/ (Russian youtube)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33661.Best_Russian_Children_Books (For some beginner’s reading)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYC—L3hwnJHZZGpCaPo2DxiSFwjkYd (The children’s show ‘Masha and the Bear’ in Russian)
Movies in Russian (Click on title to see the wiki page):
Leviathan (2014)
Solaris (1972)
Stalker (1979)
The Return (2003)
Hard to be a God (2013)
The Mirror (1975)
Russian Ark (2002)
Elena (2011)
Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Battleship Potemkim (1925)
Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
How I Ended This Summer (2010)
12 (2007)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
The Thief (1997)
Faust (2011)
Mongol (2007)
The Fool (2014)
A Driver for Vera (2004)
Russian Music:
Aria (Heavy metal)
DDT (Rock)
Kino (Post-punk)
Nyusha (Pop, R&b)
Yulia Savicheva (Pop rock)
t.A.T.u (Pop, electronic)
Nautilus Pompilius (Alternative, post-punk)
Russian Novels:
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) (BEST)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
Dead Souls (Nikolay Gogol)
A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Apps - Android specific (Sorry, I don’t have Apple ios so I cannot offer anything there):
Duolingo
Memrise
Mango Languages (Offers a free trial)
Babbel
Learn & Speak Russian - Mondly
Radio Russia
Learn Russian by Babel Yak
Learn Russian 6,000 Words
Verses of Russian poets
Multitran Russian Dictionary
Tumblr Blogs:
@learn-russian-language
@russiangrammar
@rashn
@gemrussian
@lovsiberianhusky
Haha, this may be more than you were asking for but it was fun to make and I hope that this helps you and anyone else who may be studying Russian!