Computer-aided instruction and drill
Russian Conjugation and Declension (RCD) is a set of instructional
and drill programs to help you with learning basic vocabulary and
expressions and practicing the many changing forms to which Russian
words are subject. These are quite old programs, but they can still be
used with a program which emulates the DOS computer interface which
preceded both the Windows and Mac systems we know today.
The purpose of this program is to assist students of Russian in learning
and mastering required vocabulary and the various patterns of inflection
which characterize nouns, verbs, and adjectives in Russian. The
individual programs which make up the student delivery system are:
"Russian Conjugation and Declension: Vocabulary" [Assists students in
the memorization of base forms of vocabulary].
"Russian Conjugation and Declension: Nouns" [Teaches students the
processes involved in declining nouns and provides practice in the
creation of the various noun forms].
"Russian Conjugation and Declension: Adjectives" [Teaches students the
processes involved in declining adjectives and provides practice in the
creation of the various adjective forms].
"Russian Conjugation and Declension: Verbs" [Teaches students the
processes involved in conjugating verbs and provides practice in the
creation of the various verb forms}.
"Russian Conjugation and Declension: Vocabulary in Context"
[presentation and drill of active vocabulary from a given chapter of a
particular Russian textbook as used in the grammatical environments
presented in that chapter.]
The program as offered here is intended to accompany the first eight chapters of Beginner's Russian by Kudyma, Miller, and Kagan.
You may download these programs, together with instructions on how to use them, here:
If you have a PC running Windows, go here and follow the on-screen prompts.
If you have a Mac computer running Mac OS, go here and follow the on-screen prompts. When the download completes, decompress the folder "RCD for Mac.zip".
Navigate to the folder "RCD for Mac" (that is, the decompressed folder) and open it.
Inside you will find two more compressed folders: "boxer-1.0.4.zip" and "RCD.zip", and one decompressed text document, "read me first.txt".
Open "read me first.txt" and follow the instructions given there to complete the installation of the RCD programs.
Required readings in electronic form
Karamzin's Poor Liza and The Island of Bornholm
Pushkin's The Stationmaster
Pushkin's
The Shot
Pushkin's
The Queen of Spades
Gogol's The Nose
Gogol's
The Overcoat
Turgenev's
Fathers and Sons
Dostoevsky's Poor Folk
You may click
here for a link to a considerably better translation of "The Overcoat"
(and different translations of "Poor Liza" and "The Queen of Spades").
However, these translations must be read on line and cannot be downloaded.
Russian Language by Interactive Television
Computer-Assisted Language Learning Software
Russian Conjugation and Declension: Nouns (nouns.zip)
Russian Conjugation and Declension: Verbs (verbs.zip)
Russian Conjugation and Declension: Adjectives (adj.zip)
Russian Conjugation and Declension: Base-Form Vocabulary (vocab.zip)