Category: Resources

The new episode of Foreign Language Teaching Podcast is out!
This is a second part of our interview with William Comer, Professor of Russian and Director of the Russian Flagship Program at Portland State University.

Podcast new host Izolda Savenkova and her guest are discussing approaches to teaching grammar.http://alturl.com/bz2q2

If you missed the first part of the podcast on teaching reading skills, you can listen to it here: http://alturl.com/2aexm

Dr. Comer has published numerous articles in national journals including the Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Language Journal and Foreign Language Annals. His pedagogical edition of Viktoria Tokareva’s short story A Day without Lying (Slavica, 2008) was awarded the prize for Best Book in Language Pedagogy by American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in 2010. In August 2009 he won the University of Kansas W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. He is co-author of Mezhdu nami (=Between you and me), an online, open-access textbook for elementary Russian. At Portland State he teaches courses in Russian language, literature and culture, and directs the Russian Language Flagship Program.
Podcast host Izolda (Iza) Savenkova is a Visiting Assistant Scholar at Dickinson College, PA. She has been teaching Russian for 7 years after graduation from Lomonosov State University with a Master’s degree in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language. The main sphere of her academic interests is Russian for Specific Purposes. She is currently completing her PhD in Teaching Russian as a Second Language at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before coming to Dickinson College in 2018, she taught courses in Russian language, literature, and culture and assisted a Dickinson-in-Moscow program at Russian State University for the Humanities. During the summers of 2018 and 2019 she taught at Middlebury College Cathryn Davis School of Russian.The podcast is created by TeachRussian.org.

About APS:
We are a Texas non-profit organization established in 2005. Our goal is to spread Polish culture in the Austin area and beyond. Our programs include the Polish language school, Austin Polish Film Festival, monthly movie screenings, Polish History Club, social gatherings, Polish music concerts and more. 

How to join and get involved in the Austin Polish Society?

Volunteer

·   Do you have time, talent, ideas? Is there any specific

·   event or project you would like to contribute to? Sign up here

·   to join a team of volunteers 

Become  a member: Renew or sign up for a membership here!

·   Members are eligible to vote for the board of directors or become a member of the board. Membership dues support this organization financially and help fund events and projects.  

·  Come to the 2020 Annual Planning Meeting on January 19th at the Riverplace Country Club conference room 4207 River Pl Blvd, Austin, TX 78730.

Time: Whole Day 10am – 4pm or Half Day: 1pm – 4pm  

The New Review Inc. has uploaded a free digital collection of our archival issues – more than 30 old copies of the Noviy Zhurnal in a digital format. The project of digitizing the entire book archive of Noviy Zhurnal / The New Review – over 200 unique copies from 1942 to 2000 – has been started!

Please go to www.newreviewinc.com – Archive to view.

Russian Language podcast designed specifically for Novice and Intermediate learners of Russian.

The podcast features short audios with transcripts recorded by native speakers of Russian who talk about themselves, their families, hobbies, etc. This free podcast is available here: http://russianrocket.libsyn.com and also on iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify.

A curated list of other resources for independent learning can be found here: https://dontforgetrussian.weebly.com/connect-to-people.html

To facilitate and encourage research abroad, SRAS recently launched a series of guides on GeoHistory, a part of their Family of Sites. 

Our guides include a general introduction: https://geohistory.today/introduction-russian-archives/

They also have several individual guides. These currently include AVPRI, AVP, GARF, RGASPI, RGALI, and The Russian State Library. You can view all current entries here: https://geohistory.today/category/archives/

As you likely already know, bureaucratic requirements in Russia tend to change quite regularly. Therefore, they’d like to ask you to inform them of anything that you know of that might need to be updated in these guides. They are bullet-pointed for quick review of issues like documents needed for a propusk, maximum delo that can be requested at one time, and overall ease of entry and working within the archive, for instance.

If you have researched at an archive or facility not listed here, they’d also love to include that facility in our list of guides. You can find a rubic to fill out here: https://geohistory.today/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Archive-Rubric.docx

If you have a good picture of the facility (inside or outside) they’d love to see them for any new entry – or to update their old entries.

Any questions/updates can be directed to jwilson@sras.org .

On the occasion of the thirty years’ anniversary of the fall of
communism, we have broadcast, on the Czech cable TV station
Regionalnitelevize.cz, exclusive interviews with Petr Pithart, the first
Prime Minister of the post-communist Czech Republic and a close
collaborator of Czechoslovak President Václav Havel:

(The interviews are in Czech with English subtitles)

https://youtu.be/eP7b0Jhzlnk
Britské listy Interview 232: Petr Pithart: 1968 was the only time when
I believed that the world might be better

https://youtu.be/QRm6tYbPFg4
Britské listy Interview 233: Petr Pithart: Why were the Prague Spring
politicians such cowards?

https://youtu.be/D6WSHQ1Wjwo
Britské listy Interview 234: Petr Pithart: Post-invasion decades in
Czechoslovkia: An era of timelessness

See also:

Britské listy Interview 220: Petr Pithart about current threats to
democracy: ” I never thought that the past was so powerful”.