Russia: Language

Research

Teaching

Dictionaries

Research

• Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics (a web site for a book series published by Rodopi)

Teaching

• Interactive On-line Russian Reference Grammar (by Robert Beard, Bucknell University; an online introductory grammar of the Russian language with live morphology and interactive testing.
• Interactive Exercises for Golosa, 2nd Edition (by Andrew Drozd, U. of Alabama)
• Russian Cyrillic Alphabet (an interactive tutorial)
• Online Language Learning Resources (produced by ACTR/ACCELS; interactive Russian language-learning modules, including modules on Russian history, Russain women, life of Russian high-school students, Russian fairy tale, and 15 modules of Business Russian for all levels of students)
• Russian Language Resources at the Middlebury College Library
• Materials for Teaching Russian (the electronic version of an essay by B. Rifkin on resources for teaching Russian  (including information about CD-ROMs, satellite and internet-broadcasting useful for the teaching of Russian; from The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages. Edited by Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2000, pp. 655--80)
• Textbooks and Other Materials for Russian as a Foreign Language Published in Russia (the electronic version of an essay by O. Dedova (from The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages. Edited by Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2000, pp. 695--700)
• Resources for Teachers of Russian (the electronic version of an essay by Karen E. Robblee; from The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages. Edited by Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2000, pp. 681--94)
• Anna Kuchta's teaching materials, Seton Hall University (a collection of classroom handout materials, review sheets, answers to all exercises in  Ben T. Clark's textbook "Russian", audio portion  (for all 27 Chapters), syllabi,etc. for 6 language courses, and for 2 Russian lit. classes, and more; some files are password-protected).
• Online Language Learning Resources (from ACTR/ACCELS;  the site contains interactive Russian language-learning modules, including modules on Russian history, Russain women, life of Russian high-school students, Russian fairy tale, etc.)
• Serendipity-Russia (operating the American Home in Vladimir since 1992. their main projects are the American English & Culture Program for which they hire teachers with native fluency each year, and an Intensive Russian Program--for which anyone can apply.)
• Russian Language School: Enjoy Russian (information about the school, an on-line Russian test and scholarship applications for the most motivated students)

Dictionaries

• Russian Language ("Gramota.ru") (a reference portal sponsored by the Ministry of Publishing, Television and Radio Broadcasting and Mass Media of the Russian Federation; besides discussions of difficult issues in Russian language and the language policy the site includes search in several Russian dictionaries, including spelling and stress dictionaries)
• Rubricon (a reference site featuring fully searchable texts of 35 Russian encyclopedias, most of them free of charge, including Bol'shaia Sovetskaia entsiklopedia, Brockhaus and Efron encyclopedia, Vladimir Dal's dictionary, etc.)
• English-Russian and Russian English dictionary (an interactive online dictionary on "Kirill i Mefodii" portal)
• English-Russian dictionary (Multilex) (an online English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary based on the dictionary by E. M. Mednikova and IU. D. Apresian)
• English-Russian, Russian-English dictionaries
• New Lexicon (a project of the ETS Publishers; includes a periodically updated list of new words in Russian language and a list of new Russian abbreviations)
• Online dictionaries (a collection of various dictionaries from ETS Publishers, fully searcheable)
• Russian dictionary with sounds and images (by Sarah Withee)
• Language Master: Multilingual Translation Software - English, Ukrainian, Russian