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Resource: GRINT Centre App for Learning Russian

SemesterRus is a free app designed by the GRINT Centre for learning Russian and preparing for the TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) at the Elementary, Basic, and First Certification levels. It includes 60 lessons (3 levels, with 20 lessons in each level, using a standard structure and design) and preparatory Russian language exams for each TORFL level using the in-app Dictionary and flashcards. The app is free to use for every learner from beginning to advanced, and does not include ads or in-app purchases.

Assessments for the Grammar, Reading, and Listening sections are carried out automatically within the app. Instructors from the GRINT Centre will individually grade the Writing and Speaking sections. Any final evaluation scores from the Exams section of the app will be available within 48 hours after completing the test.

More information about the SemesterRus App is available at http://russian-language.ru/

You may download the app directly from
•       Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grint.russem
•       AppStore: https://tinyurl.com/GRINTCentre

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Resource: TORFL Test Prep App

SemesterRus is a free app designed by the GRINT Centre for learning Russian and preparing for the TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) at the Elementary, Basic, and First Certification levels. It includes 60 lessons (3 levels, with 20 lessons in each level, using a standard structure and design) and preparatory Russian language exams for each TORFL level using the in-app Dictionary and flashcards. The app is free to use for every learner from beginning to advanced, and does not include ads or in-app purchases.

Assessments for the Grammar, Reading, and Listening sections are carried out automatically within the app. Instructors from the GRINT Centre will individually grade the Writing and Speaking sections. Any final evaluation scores from the Exams section of the app will be available within 48 hours after completing the test.

More information about the SemesterRus App is available at http://russian-language.ru/

You may download the app directly from
•       Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grint.russem
•       AppStore: https://tinyurl.com/GRINTCentre

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Prof. Dev. : Collections, Services, & Dissertation Research Online Workshop

Event date: February 27th, 2020 | 9 am | Online

The Slavic Reference Service is excited to announce a workshop for doctoral students: Collections, Services & Dissertation Research Online Workshop. The theme of this workshop will focus on conducting a literature review. It will feature scholars and librarians offering helpful perspectives, as well as advice from a doctoral student about his experience conducting dissertation research abroad. Our panelists will include:

·         Zachary Hoffman | University of Virginia

·         Slavic Reference Service | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

·         Angela Cannon | Library of Congress

·         Katya Rogatchevskaia | The British Library

·         Anatol Shmelev | Hoover Institution

The workshop will be held online through Blackboard Ultra on Thursday, February 27th at 9:00 AM CST. After registering for the workshop, you will receive an invitation to the Blackboard virtual conference room in the days leading up to the workshop. You can register for the workshop here: https://tinyurl.com/t2tmsbt.

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Resource: Teaching Grammar Podcast

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.

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Resource: Austin Polish Society

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  

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Funding: US-Russia Partnership Projects

Deadline: January 23, 2020

Eurasia Foundation’s US-Russia Social Expertise Exchange Program (SEE) invites organizations in the United States and Russia to submit proposals for collaborative projects in one or more of the following areas: Social Inclusion, Technology and Innovation for Social Good, Social Entrepreneurship, and Youth Engagement. SEE accepts applications that are jointly developed by at least one U.S. and one Russian partner organization and offers funding up to $43,000 for the implementation of joint initiatives.

Applications are due on January 23, 2020 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. 

For additional information, please visit: https://www.usrussiasocialexpertise.org/partnership-projects-post-2/ 

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Resource: Russian Language Learning Podcast

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

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Resource: Research Guides

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 .

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