Learning Russian with News
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The Russian News for language students series by Learn Russian (Stanislav Chernyshov) is mediocre and outdated. 19 brief items in this playlist for those nevertheless interested.
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There was certainly no shortage of YouTube channels teaching Russian, but there’s always room for one more – therefore, also always for more than one. Here are seven pretty new ones, worth checking out.
Amsterdam, November 4. In the queue of people waiting in front of the doors of AFAS. Where Zemfira will soon be performing. Left, right, front and back: Russian everywhere. My company almost feels at home.
VERB VOCABULARY
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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.
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
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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.
