Today we’d like to tell about a wondeful place – a National Nature Reserve Krasnoyarsk Stolby. “Stolby” is the plural of “stolb”, the Russian for “pillar”. The regular Stolby goers call themselves “stolbists”, and the public activity as a whole is termed “stolbism”. It is an exceptional activity with a long history of over 150 years and old customs recorded in a special folklore.
In the series «Word of the Week» we choose an interesting Russian word and provide you with examples of its use, synonyms, derivative words, related phrases and etymology (when possible). Additionally to this you have an audio track read by a native Russian speaker which is recorded at three different speeds: slow, adapted (slower than normal) and normal.
In order to truly master a language you need to be able both to understand people around you and to to express yourself. In today’s quiz we offer you to practice your communication skills.
Here is a set of phrases which you might need travelling over Russian cities. All phrases are given in English. Your task for this quiz is to choose the most appropriate translation for them.
We continue to review some important Russian grammar point and dedicate today’s lesson to the two Russian pronouns: сам and себя. We’ll cover the declension of this pronouns in different cases and give some examples sentences in order to help all Russian learners to master their use.
Read the lesson and listen to the audio recording which contains all today’s examples. Fell free to listen to the audio as many times as you need until all the words sound familiar.
Today, we invite you on a journey through the northern tundra. You will get to know the locals and learn about how they live in such severe conditions. There are also some photos to make your journey more interesting.
As always, your task for this lesson is to listen to the audio recording and try to understand it by ear, after that we’ll ask you some questions on the topic of the story, which you have to answer as detailed as you can. At the very end we’ll repeat all the questions and give you example answers.
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The ability to use Russian verbs in different tenses with confidence makes you a much more advanced Russian speaker. In this lesson we are going to practice Russian verb conjugation with two verbs:
- убира́ть (to clean up, to take away, to remove)
- убира́ться (to clean up, to tidy up, to go away, to get out)
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Let’s find out how well you did with the last dictation ‘How to get to the cinema?‘.
Read the text and compare it with your version. We recommend you to write out all the words you don’t know yet and memorize them.
Listen to the audio one more time to reinforce the result of the studies.
In today’s dictation we have a short humorous story with instructions ‘how to get to the cinema from your house’. It’s written in language simple enough, so even learners of the beginner level can try to test youself with this excercise. Notice that the instructions are given in a formal tone.
It’s time to check your homework – the text about birthday wishes.
We highlighted the errors in red and the correct answers in blue.
After the corrected text you can find the audio recording of this exercise and to compare your pronunciation with the pronunciation of a native Russian speaker.
Today we have a lesson of the ‘Error correction exercises’ series instead of the ‘Vocabulary lessons’ which was published out of its turn on December 24, 2012.
In this lesson we are going to read an example of birthday wishes which one could say on a birthday party. As always, a few mistakes are made in this text. Read the text a few times and try to spot these mistakes. As an additional practice the text aloud.
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