Category Archives: Russian

Setting up a phonetic Cyrillic keyboard in Windows XP

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Josh

I wrote back in January about setting up my computer to allow me to type in Cyrillic. Setting it up was the easy part; the hard part was memorizing what English letters corresponded to what Cyrillic letters. The default Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Russian, Writing | 13 Comments

Russian reflections

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Josh

During the past few months, I’ve really been trying to bring some balance to the amount of time I spend on my two current languages, German and Russian. My German is coming along nicely, as I add more and more … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Journal, Language Learning, Russian | 3 Comments

Learn the basics of Russian through videos

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Josh

While exploring the forums at MasterRussian.com, I came across a post pointing to a set of Russian language learning videos on YouTube. To make it a bit easier on Language Geek readers, here’s all of the links to the individual … Continue reading →

Posted in Grammar, Language Learning, Russian, Videos | 2 Comments

The top 2000 words in Russian

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Josh

I came across a good resource for learners of Russian just now: this page, which has the top 2000 words used in modern Russian. The words provided are based on The frequency dictionary for Russian. According to the frequency dictionary, … Continue reading →

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Russian grammar overview and dictionary from Cornell

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Josh

Earlier today I was looking around online for some Russian material, namely a grammar overview. I ended up finding that, and quite a lot more! For grammar, Cornell has the Beginning Russian Grammar page. While all of the essentials of … Continue reading →

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Looking for a good Russian news podcast? Here’s one.

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Josh

The Slavic department of the George Washington University offers a bi-weekly podcast (or webcast, as they call it). The webcast, entitled News of the week in simplified Russian, offers, as the title of the webcast indicates, summaries of the news … Continue reading →

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More Russian cursive writing videos

Posted on May 26, 2007 by Josh

I posted back at the end of March that Natalia of A Spoonful of Russian was making videos of how to write Russian cursive letters. In the videos, she also sounds out the letters. I hadn’t checked A Spoonful of … Continue reading →

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