How to Use The RTG's Resources:
All of the RTG's resources are accessible via our GoogleDrive. You will have access to our drive of resources shortly after you sign up to become a member (this may take up to 1 week for this to take place). You will need to:
1. sign up for a Google Account using the email address you have given us (clicking on "I prefer to use my current email address"):
2. start using your new Google Drive by signing in; here's a video giving you a quick overview of how to use it:
Новая
Искра
The Novaya Iskra Russian course, primarily targeted at the GCSE syllabus, remained a Nuffield responsibility for a long time. Due to Russian remaining a "small/lesser-taught" language, it was never fully viable commercially as an independent course.
The materials went through various editions, including a home-produced (‘samizdat’) edition distributed from the general editor’s garage, then it was published by Stanley Thornes, then there was a new edition produced by Nuffield and published by John Murray.
From 1995 to 2010 the course was supported by the Nuffield Curriculum Centre. Novaya Iskra easily covered its costs, and reprints of the books were paid for out of the share of the income from sales due to the Nuffield Foundation.
Later, the materials were hosted by "Tracks4Learning", but have subsequently become the responsibility of The Russian Teachers' Group. While the materials are now out of physical print, we are happy to host them in the electronic version so that you may print your own copies / host them on your own VLE.
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Teaching
Tools:
Cyrillic-friendly crossword puzzle maker
Free Online Russian Touch-Typing Course
Free Online Russian Touch-Typing 2
Grammatica (inserts stress marks into Russian texts)
Media in Russian:
List of Russian Online Radio Stations
Free Online Russian Literature Classics
Watch Russian TV Shows Online - Videozal
Russian News Clips (w. transcripts)
Language Reference:
Russian Online Dictionary (w. sounds)
ABBYY (online dictionary, great for inflections / examples)
Gramota.ru (online dictionay)
Collections of Resources:
Learn Russian (from Russia Today)
Russian From Intermediate to Advanced
Russian Authors (LSE materials)
Resources4Russian (R4R)
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