Dictionaries
- Multitran: Probably the best online dictionary for Russian!
- Gramota.ru.: It’s a dictionary of Russian IN Russian.
Translation Help
- Reverso: GREAT quick English to Russian / Russian to English translation site. You see how language is actually used in real examples and not just literal translation.
Keyboard
Russian.Typeit: Great resource for typing in Russian AND for adding stress marks. Useful if you are waiting for keyboard stickers or just need to type something short.
News
- Meduza: Receive news updates (in English or Russian) on the ‘Real Russia Today‘.
- Top Russian News RSS Feeds: Subscribe to any or all of the most popular Russian News feeds online.
- The Weather in Russian.: Start getting used to weather vocabulary and see what is going on with Russian weather! Also, has access to local (Russian) news.
- Behind the Scenes: Get in depth articles (in English) about the goings on in Russia or controversy around Russian officials!
- Риа Новости: world news in Russian.
Russian Culture
- Russian Life: Read about the people and places of Russia. Subscribe for their weekly emailLinks to an external site., updating you on their most interesting human interest stories. This is also a great place to buy books about and things related to Russia.
- Russia Beyond the Headlines: Available in Russian and English languages, RBTH is a great source for Russian news that may answer American questions
- RockinRussian: Made right here at UT! Watch some specially curated Russian music videos.
- Mosfilm: Watch real Soviet films with English subtitles!
- Natalia Mikhaylenko: Creates visuals of Russian food, cultural sites as well as information about Russian attitudes.
- Зелёная лампа: Podcast in Russian directed at children (or Russian language learners – :)) to encourage the love of books.
- ProspektMagazine: This page lists recommended Russian podcasts!
- Dia Films: I somehow stumbled on this one day and it’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Russian language cartoons frame by frame!
- RusRadio: You can always go to YouTube. It’ll always be there, but consider checking out Russian radio online.
YouTube Channels
- Easy Russian: part of the Easy Languages channel on YouTube. Explore the various lessons, led by a native speaker in Russia!
- Be Fluent in Russian: Watch the short videos to learn about aspects of Russian pronunciation, grammar, and vocab!
- Real Russian Club: Watch short lessons in Russian. A native speaker discusses various aspects of Russian culture and its intersection with essential vocabulary.
Russian Language Learning Sites
You may want to consult the following pages to supplement your study of Russian in this course. This list is not exhaustive. It is meant to provide a glimpse of the types of resources available to you on the internet:
- Learning Russian: Really useful when drilling new subjects. Good source of grammar tables and phonetics!
- WordPress/grammar: Good for lots of supplementary grammar explanations and other fun stuff
- Cursive Practice: Practice, practice, practice! You can download cursive writing sheets to practice writing the whole Russian alphabet! УРА! Tip: скачать = download.
- Folkways: An entire site linking to various types of resources for students of Russian!
- Read Russia: English language articles about Russia. Lots of opinion pieces related to news from Russia, but also information about travel and culture.
- Луч Света: Fun collection of Russian media / pop culture for students of Russian. Learn the stuff you won’t find in a textbook here. OK – some of the stuff.Links to an external site.
- Reading Russian Short Stories: An awesome collection of Russian short stories in Russian (some with audio), collected by Filip Zachoval of UT. Lessons included!
- Russian Learn (or Learn Russian): An online reference grammar, replete with all the rules for case endings, verb conjugations, all the irregular stuff, etc.
- Practice Russian: A Russian language learning website.
- Master Russian: Russian language lessons by topics of interest
- Russian Language Lessons: Just as you’d think – Russian language lessons.
- RT: Well, it’s RT but they have Russian language lessons that are pretty legit.
- Language Exchange in Russia: Online language exchange
- Learn with Oliver: Another language learning site that includes Russian among its offerings.
- Russian Chat: Devoted to small talk. Worth a look!
- Busuu: An app / language learning blog that includes Russian among its offerings.
- Project Modelino: An online catalog of language learning resources for Russian and other languages.
- Transparent Language: A site with Russian language lessons