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Summary

This site has a good selection of online games and activities for learning the Russian language.

There are also many other languages available on the site.

From Website

Digital Dialects was launched in January 2007, originally a by-product of a dissertation reviewing web resources for language learning. The site was conceived as an educational tool for learning languages, and as a guide to online resources.

All animation and webpage design is by Craig Gibson. The animated activities are intended to incorporate the interactivity of computer aided language learning software with the web-design principle of simplicity in use and access. In essence the games are intended to provide a relaxed way of acquiring basic language skills, a break from the books!

The site will continue to be a work in progress, and it is intended that Digital Dialects will represent the World’s major languages, with a cross-section of languages from diverse regions. Audio files are to be gradually incorporated into animations for certain languages. The development of particular language sections will be dependant on assistance from translators and native speakers.

Visit DigitalDialects.com Russian Resources

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If you don't know about Wikipedia, now is the time to find out! Especially since it is so useful in learning languages.

Wikipedia is the "Free Encyclopedia", a collectively-authored, dynamic, online encyclopedia that is free not only as in price, but also as in freedom. This means that the content you find anywhere on Wikipedia is free and open in the Public Domain. You can reproduce, redistribute and rehash the information there. This is empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License. This same license protects and empowers the content on Free Language! (How?)

This particular resource links to the Wikipedia entry on the Russian language. This entry contains loads of information for the curious reader as well as for the serious Russian language learner, including historical and linguistic data.

Use this resource to become familiar with the Russian language and its context in today's world, to discover facts and linguistic data about Russian and its many varieties, access further information about and resources for learning Russian, and much more.

From Resource

Russian (русский язык), transliteration: Russkiy yazyk, [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three (or, according to some authorities, four) living members of the East Slavic languages; the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn, often considered a dialect of Ukrainian).

Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards. While Russian preserves much of East Slavonic grammar and a Common Slavonic word base, modern Russian exhibits a large stock of borrowed international vocabulary for politics, science, and technology. Due to the status of the Soviet Union as a superpower, Russian had great political importance in the 20th century. Hence, the language is still one of the official languages of the United Nations.

Russian has palatal secondary articulation of consonants, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found in almost all consonant phonemes and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels, which is not entirely unlike that of English. Stress in Russian is generally quite unpredictable and can be placed on almost any syllable. Syllabic stress is one of the most difficult aspects for foreign language learners.

Link

Visit "Russian Language" on Wikipedia.

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GNU Free Documentation License

Summary

This site is a great introduction to the Russian language for those that have never been exposed to it previously. The site offers introductions to the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, numbers, left and right, restaurants and meals, when and where and important basic words useful to new learners.

From Website

This tutorial is designed as a beginning point for a casual learner. It does not require any special Russian fonts or software.

Why Learn Russian?

* Your company has started doing business in Russia
* You're going on a business trip to Russia
* You're going to Russia for a vacation
* You just decided it might be interesting

Why Learn The Alphabet?

Probably the easiest thing you can do to make a visit to Russia more pleasant is to learn the alphabet. You'll feel much more comfortable if you can read street signs and advertisements; you won't have that absoutely helpless feeling that comes with being illiterate.

If you're learning Russian just for fun, the alphabet is a quick and easy way to get into the subject.

You keep saying "Easy"

Yes. It is easy. Russian is a very phonetic language, which means that, in general, things are pronounced exactly as written. Once you've learned the alphabet, you'll be ahead of the game. Click the right arrow below to find out the big secret to the game.

Visit An Introduction to Russian at langintro.com

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The content on this website is empowered by the GNU General Public License and is, thus, free and open the the general public!

From Website

Welcome to the Russian Wikibook. Russian is an East Slavic language, and is grouped with Ukrainian and Belarusian. Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet. Russian was the official language of the Soviet Union, and remains the official language of Russia. Russian is also an official language in former Soviet countries such as Belarus and Kazakhstan, and it is an official language of the United Nations. Outside the former USSR, there are large communities of Russian-speakers in every part of the world. Even astronauts, who work with the International Space Station, are trained to speak Russian to some form of fluency as there are Russian cosmonauts who operate the ISS.

Knowledge of the Russian language will increase appreciation of a rich and diverse body of literature, and assist in learning other languages of the Slavic family (like Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Bulgarian). It is not an easy language to take on, as an entirely new alphabet and grammatical structure slow down beginners. With practice and immerssion, Russian will become a passion, and soon after, an acquired language.

The Russian Wikibook is structured in a way to present the most integrated material in short, easy to digest lessons. To begin, read the Introduction and learn how best to learn with this book.

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Wikibooks is a great idea. Like Wikipedia, Wikibooks consists of content that is public domain. That means that anything there is reusable in any fashion, such as for teaching.

Visit the Russian Language Wikibook.

Website Content License

The content on this website is empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL) and is, thus, free and open for everyone.

Free Beginner Russian Lessons with Audio

Listen2Russian.com is a great website for acquiring and listening to real Russian language material from native speakers. A free introductory course is offered for total beginners.

The website contains audio covering such themes as the Russian alphabet, common words, numbers, seasons, nouns, pronouns, phrases and more.

Free Online Russian Language Lessons

There is so much content on RussianLessons.net for learners of the Russian language that it is almost too good to believe. It is impressive, to say the least.

The site has very well-organized and complete lessons for beginning to intermediate Russian students. Starting from the Russian alphabet, the site takes you through over ten complete lessons, complete with information about the Russian case forms (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive), nouns, verbs, pronouns, plurals, basic phrases, numbers, aspects, grammar, verbs, months of the year, days of the week, and so on.

Truly a solid resource for learning Russian.

Resource for Free Online Russian Lessons

Master Russian is a powerful resource for the beginning to intermediate Russian learner. Lots and lots of information and resources for learning the Russian language, including reading, writing, tests, crosswords, fun stuff, literature, proverbs and much more.

Master Russian's free online Russian lessons cover Russian alphabet, names of letters, pronunciation, nouns and gender, case forms, pronouns, lists of the most common nouns and verbs and more.

You'll also find sound files for the basic Russian phrases the beginner needs to know - handy for travel!