"A complete curriculum for introductory Russian that includes an online textbook, and a set of Ра́бота в аудито́рии (Classroom Activities) and Дома́шние зада́ния (Homework Assignments) that can be downloaded for free in pdf format or purchased in a printed version."
(from the University of Kansas, Lawrence)
https://pressbooks.uiowa.edu/interactive-listening-russian/front-matter/introduction/
"Let's Listen is a free interactive online resource designed to provide Russian language learners with an opportunity to listen to authentic audio recorded by young people in Russia. The resource provides a series of interactive tasks for each audio file: vocabulary lists, questions, fill-in-the-blanks, and translation. The target audience for the Let’s Listen interactive book are learners with at least intermediate level of Russian."
"The Let’s Listen project is based on the proceedings of the Let’s Talk project, a virtual exchange project between the U.S. learners of Russian and Russian learners of English. The audio and video files from Let’s Talk project were transformed into audio files for this OER resource. The quality of the files differs as it was not intended to be a professionally recorded project.."
RUSSIAN TEXTBOOK -- ADVANCED
FREE DOWNLOADABLE VERSION via this website: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/33/
From the About Page:
"The materials presented in this book were developed for an advanced-level content-based Russian language course at Portland State University entitled “Russian Literature of the Twentieth Century: The 1920s.” Literature of this period is a major part of the Russian canon, but is notoriously difficult for learners of Russian to read in the original, due both to its stylistic complexity and the relative obscurity of its historical, political, and cultural references. And yet, this decade is crucial for understanding Russia – not only in the Soviet period, but also today. This was the period, when Mikhail Zoshchenko, Isaak Babel, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Andrei Platonov meticulously documented the birth of the “New Soviet Man,” his “newspeak” and Soviet bureaucratese; when Alexandra Kollontai, a Marxist revolutionary and a diplomat, wrote essays and fiction on the “New Soviet Woman”; when numerous satirical works were created; when Babel experimented with a literary representation of dialects (e.g.,Odessa Russian or Jewish Russian). These varieties of language have not disappeared. Bureaucrats still use some form of bureaucratese. Numerous contemporary TV shows imitate the dialects that Babel described. Moreover, Bulgakov’s “Heart of a Dog” gave rise, due largely to its film adaptation, to catch-phrases that still appear throughout contemporary Russian media, satirical contexts, and everyday conversation. Thus, the Russian literature of the 1920s does not belong exclusively to the past, but has relevance and interpretive power for the present, and language learners who wish to pursue a career in humanities, media analysis, analytical translation, journalism, or international relations must understand this period and the linguistic patterns it established.
The textbook is intended for adult learners, and contains language assignments that would, on the one hand, help students transition to ACTFL’s Advanced proficiency level (i.e., be able to create "narratives, descriptions, and summaries … using paraphrasing and elaboration” (ACTFL 2012: 12).), but at the same time promote meaningful engagement with literary texts. The assignments in this textbook are multilevel ones, and thus offer a solution for multilevel classes that include literate heritage Russian speakers, Intermediate High, Advanced, or even Superior-level readers."
"Russian aspect is complex in all of its dimensions—verbs are marked for aspect by an array of prefixes and suffixes, and the usage of perfective and imperfective verbs can be mysterious even for those who have learned Russian for years.
Russian Aspect in Conversation is aimed at demystifying some important uses of imperfective verbs for learners of Russian at the intermediate level and above. It focuses on patterns of imperfective usage in infinitives, imperatives and the past tense that involve single completed actions and that are difficult for foreign learners to grasp.
Each of the core modules consists of an introductory exercise, followed by more passive exercises focusing on interpretations of aspectual forms and then active exercise in which the student must choose the correct aspect in a context.
The language material consists almost exclusively of conversational dialogues based on attestations in the Russian National Corpus and Russian fiction, films and online content, which utilize verbs typical of most intermediate- and advanced-level Russian textbooks."
Introduction
Main Body
1. Identifying Perfective and Imperfective Verbs
2. Imperfective Verbs Can Refer To Single Completed Actions
3.1 Пожалуй, начнём?
3.2 Хочу купить, но не хочу переплачивать
4.1 Imperfective Imperatives Can Refer to Single Events
4.2 Aspectual Usage in Imperatives: Some Basic Patterns
4.3 Раз хочешь, бери…
4.4 Чувствуйте себя как дома!
4.5 Нет времени объяснять!
4.7 Не надо...
5.1 Ты когда-нибудь пробовал дождик на вкус?
5.2 Приходил Серёжка, Поиграли мы немножко
5.3 Предупреждали, я тебя спрашиваю? ― Предупрежди...дали...дили...
5.4 Я слышал, что жизнь прекрасна
5.5. Повезло тебе, рыбка, я уже обедал сегодня.
5.6. Всё будет хорошо – я узнавала!
5.7. Да кто их просил?
5.8. Слышали новость?
5.9. Как я уже говорил, я никогда не повторяюсь!
5.10 Other Communicative Purposes
5.11 Imperfective Statements of Fact—Final Exercise
Abstract
Let's Listen is a free interactive online resource designed to provide Russian language learners with an opportunity to listen to authentic audio recorded by young people in Russia. The resource provides a series of interactive tasks for each audio file: vocabulary lists, questions, fill-in-the-blanks, and translation. The target audience for the Let’s Listen interactive book are learners with at least intermediate level of Russian.
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