Links

Go to this Quia board game to take a translation quiz! You can also go to this page and type in my name to do all my kids' exercises (spell it right: Michele Whaley)

You can hear the alphabet read at this page. Just click on the "slower sound" or "faster sound" recordings to hear the letters read as a group. Check out the on-line course content by clicking on "Select Your Next Lesson" and you will see there's a lot there. Find the songs--they're fun--and by scrolling down while they're playing, you can understand them!

[|Russian 1 links] are mostly for beginners. Be sure to look at all the pages here (small type at the bottom left of the page).

Ms. Whaley's Russian class links are mostly for more advanced students, but check them out!

**Learn how to create cursive letters the way the Russians do!**

My kids already knew about this, but maybe someone else doesn't. If you go to www.last.fm you can type in any favorite singer and get a "radio" show of singers like him/her to listen to. But here's the cool part. Cut and paste this name in: Гребенщиков and you will get (my favorite singer!) and all the folks like him! You can also put in Любэ and find another of my favorite groups, or you can just type in Russian pop, or Russian rock...or even Russian children's songs, and you'll get great playlists.

Here's the Russian Word of the Day page. Recent words: mushroom, week, run.

This BBC blog is in English but comments on Russian vocabulary and culture. Be careful; you may end up reading all day!

This doesn't have to do with Russian, but for parents of elementary kids, this video of an interview with Alfie Kohn may make you start thinking about the quality of homework.

Volcano connection