What we use

Books

In our elementary and intermediate Russian language courses, we use books from Slavica Publishers (textbooks, dictionaries, and readers). Most of them were written by former or present members of our faculty.

At the third-level and higher we don't use any created-for-students books.

Please see course descriptions for specific titles.

Audio recordings

All audio recordings for our courses were created at our language lab at Cornell. Most of them are available from Tape Sales.

Films

We use a wide variety of video materials at all levels of Russian language study. Some of these are interactive multimedia programs on CD-ROMs, others are on videotape and DVD. For on-campus use, they're available in the language lab in Noyes Lodge. Off-campus, they are available from the publisher.

Please see course descriptions for specific titles and information on how our video materials are used. See also Transcripts, below.

Film Transcripts

You can view and print the transcripts for the documentaries that we use in our third- and fourth-year courses. The films can be viewed on tape or DVD at the Language Learning Center in Noyes Lodge.

Software

We use a wide range of computer software in our courses, from simple exercises in morphology and spelling to sophisticated Internet-based multimedia courses. These materials were authored by our faculty and are available in the language lab for on-campus use, and also from the publisher. Two multimedia courses are available on this Web site: Beginning Russian Through Film and Lora's Dialogs.

Please see course descriptions for specific titles and information on how they are used.

Free fonts and keyboard programs

Other useful links for russifying your computer can be found here. We mostly use software from Lexicon Bridge Publishers.

Russian Language Program
Department of Russian
226 Morrill Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA
tel. 607/255-8350, fax 607/255-2044
email russlang@cornell.edu

This Web site uses custom RUSSIAN FONTS based on the Windows 1251 encoding standard.

Web site by Slava Paperno
Generous support provided by The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning