Learning Russian with News
Even with bad news there is good news: there is a lot to learn from it. Russian news articles are excellent teaching material, even for the more advanced student.
Series
Yaroslava Russian has quite a range. From Prigozhin’s Plane Crash (2023, 29 m) to a Documented Alien (2024, 27 m). Collected in a playlist, including.
- 7 years in jail for anti-war price tag protest (2023, 23 m)
- New Argentinian president deports all Russians from Argentina (2023, 23 m)
- Russian President resigns in New Year’s night (2024, 55 m)
- Russia might have a new candidate for president (2024, 36 m)
- The biggest meteor in 100 years Explodes in Chelyabinsk, Russia (2024, 30 m)
- Victory Day | Germany’s Surrender in WWII (2024, 33 m)
Learn Russian with News | Why books in Russia are being censored
(2024, 24 m)
Article on
realnoevremya.ru.
Grammar
Russian with Julie deploys the terror of all language students: the super fast-talking newsreader(s). Each snippet ( Vladimir Zhirinovsky died, Putin congratulates Aleksandar Vučić) provides material for minutes of analysis and (especially) grammar.
Learn Russian with News
(2022, 17 m)
Wimbledon
Anna Cher (Russian From the Heart) was helpful enough to go through a (slightly abbreviated) BBC article three times. First slowly, then with explanations, and at the end quickly - though for her в нормальном темпе, at normal pace. What at first seems completely inimitable soon becomes clear. Anna is thanked, and for two years missed, too.
Russian News Reading: Уимблдон и российские теннисисты
(2022, 20 m)
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Boost Your Russian made eight episodes of News in Slow Russian, collected in this playlist. “News” is a big word for items like Skinniest House in London (2021, 6 m), Postcard from Titanic (2021, 7 m) and Unusual spots for wedding (2022, 7 m), but that matters little: Kristina’s (read-aloud) voice makes everything indigestible.
Russian with Nastya covers news vocabulary in Understand Russian News | Advanced Vocabulary (2023, 22 m).
The Russian News for language students series by Learn Russian (Stanislav Chernyshov) is mediocre and outdated. 19 brief items in this playlist for those nevertheless interested.
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Language
VERBS
Language
Verbs work for those who want to make sentences. There - work and make, there you already have two. And try to make Russian out of that sentence if you if you don’t know работать or делать. So work, also on your vocabulary.
Learning Russian with News
Language
Even with bad news there is good news: there is a lot to learn from it. Russian news articles are excellent teaching material, even for the more advanced student.
SIXTH NOUN: LOCATIVE/PREPOSITIONAL
Language
The sixth noun, in Russian предложный падеж, is for most students the first one they learn. The reason is simple: the sixth grammatical case itself is.
OPERATION WAR
Language
And then it became war. Or should we say began the special military operation. On
February 24 2022 Russian troops entered Ukraine. It was allowed
neither war nor invasion be called, but it was akin to both.
This often comes as a setback for students of Russian: of (almost) every Russian verb there are two. Which do mean approximately the same thing, but express very different things. So you need to know both, and of both learn the conjugations.
Making mistakes in Cyrillic is no big deal. Everyone does. But wrong Cyrillic, that’s the biggest mistake you can make. And the worst thing you can do with that noble Cyrillic can do.
