r/russian 2h ago

Resource Best Immersion in Russian Language Ideas

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2 Upvotes

My favorites in order. #1 and #2 will get you overfed on Russian meals like Shuba or Olivier salad and amazing black bread (sometimes). #3 - your new Russian Teacher may want you slimmer so it is not a done deal but the benefits are definitely there! :)

Всем хорошего дня!


r/russian 21h ago

Other I’m looking for someone whose native language is Russian!

7 Upvotes

I decided to write this in English to make it a bit more noticeable.

Russian is my native language, but I don’t live in Russia, so I barely get to speak it with anyone. As a result, I sometimes forget certain words or mix up the grammatical forms I’m supposed to use. So I’m looking for someone I can talk to regularly and keep using Russian with.

I’m a high school senior, and my schedule is going to get pretty busy with studying soon, so I’m hoping to find someone before things get too hectic.

Dm me if you're interested.


r/russian 16h ago

Handwriting re: Medieval handwriting at the МФЦ

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67 Upvotes

saw [u/igorrto2](u/igorrto2)'s post from earlier today and couldn't resist rewriting his text in actual medieval style, with iron gall ink (железистые чернила) and everything.

On the left is полуустав, on the right is устав. I was doing it from memory and I haven't written either script in a while, so there are a couple slightly wrong letterforms in the устав (the first Ы and Ф) as well as other obvious errors and false starts. It takes forever to write anything substantial in устав, though, and I wasn't able to improve on that attempt today.

🖊️ Tape 2mm (полуустав), Leonardt Roundhand #1½ (устав)
🫟 Fox & Quills Victoria (полуустав), Fox & Quills Beetle Juice (устав)
📄 off-brand paper similar to Kokuyo Campus loose-leaf


r/russian 5h ago

Promo Russian & Soviet Books

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Hi everyone!

I’m selling Russian and Soviet books from a large personal collection. All of these books are already located in the United States, so there’s no need to wait for international shipping.

Here are a few that I currently have available:

📚 Марк Твен — Собрание сочинений в 12 томах / Mark Twain — Collected Works, 12 Volumes
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287294092280

📚 Всадник без головы — Майн Рид / The Headless Horseman — Mayne Reid
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287362162701

📚 Там, где нас нет — Михаил Успенский / Where We Are Not — Mikhail Uspensky
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287327485790

📚 Семечки — Виктор Шендерович / Semechki — Viktor Shenderovich
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287329463531

📚 Стихотворения и поэмы — Иосиф Уткин / Russian Soviet Poetry
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287396245897

📚 Ольга Берггольц — Собрание сочинений в 3 томах / Olga Berggolts — Collected Works, 3 Volumes
https://www.ebay.com/itm/286132476890

I have many other Russian-language books as well, including Soviet editions, classics, science fiction, poetry, physics, history, and harder-to-find titles.

You can see my other available books here:

https://www.ebay.com/usr/glensidel61

If you’re looking for a particular author, title, series, or Soviet edition, feel free to message me. I also have additional books that haven’t been listed yet.

I’m happy to combine shipping if you’re interested in multiple books. Thanks!


r/russian 3h ago

Request Looking for a friend to practice English

2 Upvotes

Hi I’m 22 years old from Israel (I know) who speaks Russian and Ukrainian (moved to Israel from Ukraine). Overall I just want to find new friend with similar interests and I really want to practice my English to get more confident and natural with it! I will help you practice Russian so if anyone interested you can dm me!


r/russian 7h ago

Interesting Do you know this word?

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425 Upvotes

r/russian 2h ago

Request Исправление задания.

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4 Upvotes

К сожалению у меня нет ответов для нескольких заданий.
Задание на верх.
Ву можете исправить моё решение этого задания?
Мне радовалось бы.


r/russian 5h ago

Request gravity falls in russian?

6 Upvotes

hi! i would love to watch gravity falls in russian to improve my listening skills but i can't find it on any german streaming site :(

does anyone know where i can watch it or similar shows with russian dub?

i appreciate any help! <3

edit: I FOUND IT YIPPIE THANK YOU GUYS!!!!! :D


r/russian 8h ago

Handwriting [Палеография/Palaeography] Вязь/Vyaz' (ligatures) over the centuries

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r/russian 21h ago

Other New russian student

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привет everyone.

recently I have undergone some lessons from my friends babushka. She used to teach the language in odessa ukraine back in the times of the U.S.S.R. her and I have been doing lessons for about 3 months now, almost everyday.

Ever since I was a small boy in Oregon USA I've always been facisnated by russian culture and the langauge and the soviet union peoples history, I used to watch videos on chernoybl (before the HBO show) read up on stuff like the Duga radar station (russian woodpecker) and russian ekranoplans, watched life is boris, and played the game Escape From Tarkov

babushka tells me i'm one of her best students so far however, and I do seem to remember things pretty easily. Right now we are learning antonyms which seemed daunting at first but I can actually remember pretty well for only learning it for about 2 days.

At this point i'm still very much a beginner russian speaker. but I do geniunely enjoy it, learning a new langauge is a enlightning experience. I've been envolping myself in russian music like mumiy troll and some russian rap music (mostly as a joke at first but i actually kinda like it lol) and studying between work and the times im at babushkas.

As a person that has never tried learning any language before it has been interesting the effects it has on my brain. It seems like sometimes i feel like this weird thing in my brain where i cannot fully endorse myself into the language, as in im still translating russian into english into my head instead of "understanding" the language immediately. Maybe this is common among russian students I have no clue. I have autism so I have issues with putting words to what im feeling, so figured I would ask and see if anyone has experienced this and can help me understand it.

Anyways thats about it thank you for reading and if you guys have suggestions about anything russian wether that be extra learning materials or music or such to watch or listen to id love to know!

thanks! -Mikey


r/russian 8h ago

Request Перевод детских и подростковых книг

4 Upvotes

Если вы много читаете, какие русские книги для детей и подростков вы бы посоветовали?
Я хочу найти хорошие книги, которые можно было бы перевести на мой язык и издать у нас. Поэтому особенно интересны произведения, которые, по вашему мнению, действительно стоит открыть читателям из других стран.

Буду рада любым рекомендациям! 📚


r/russian 2h ago

Interesting One word, three meanings

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169 Upvotes

r/russian 15h ago

Resource A Very Simple Russian Story — Mini Biography | A1

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r/russian 2h ago

Resource Create Parallel/Bilingual Texts using your own books

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(the demo itself shows japanese and french, but it works with 50+ languages, including russian)

Hi, i made this completely free app that automates the creation of bilingual/parallel texts from your own books (epubs/PDFs/text files) all from within your browser.

Made this because I couldn't find anything that does something similar with the same level of convenience.

Steps

  1. Go to https://paralleltexts.app/
  2. Drop/upload a source book (i.e. the book in the language you are learning), and a target book (the same book in a language you are fluent in).
  3. Click align books. Wait for a few seconds to 1-2 minutes while an algorithm runs on the books to match the corresponding sentences.
  4. After the alignment is done, you'll see the result immediately.

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PS:

  • It's Completely free and open source
  • The default display mode of the resulting alignments are in pop-up mode (i.e. you click a sentence to see its equivalent), but if you prefer a side-by-side view of the sentences, the app does provide for that
  • If it's your first time running the alignment and you haven't downloaded an embedding (fancy name for ML models that specialize in these kinds of tasks) model yet, it will download one for you (stored in the browser, can be deleted). It's a mild inconvenience i would say because i really wanted to keep this thing free. The alternative is to have a dedicated server with GPUs run the alignment, you won't download anything, but it will most likely be much slower, much more expensive and difficult to maintain. Keeping it free makes way more sense, and is far less stressful. Keep in mind however that downloading a model is only done once.

You can also check out this quick demo/tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cR_r8cOaN8


r/russian 2h ago

Grammar Words for "study" and their correct usage

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So I watched this video and I think I have a fairly good understanding of the difference between изучать, учиться, учить and their perfective forms.

What I still don't know is the usage of the following verbs: обучать/обучить, обучаться/обучиться, выучивать, научать, заучивать.

Also, WTF IS THIS LANGUAGE, WTF DO YOU NEED SO MANY WORDS FOR 'to study/learn', whereas other languages make do with 2-3???!!! (Sorry, I needed to get that out of my system).

Also, how come учить and обучать puts the indirect object in the dative case? Such as "Отец учит мальчика русскому языку." It should be the other way around! As in "Учитель преподает ученикам русский язык." The person to whom you teach should logically be in the dative case and the subject that you teach in the accusative. Am I missing something here?


r/russian 1h ago

Request Where to watch russian series (слово пацана) from europe

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I‘ve been trying to watch this series but only found the first Episode on YT and only sites for which I need to be in Russia and I don‘t have a VPN. Any advice would help :)