Professor Jahn's mailing address:

Program in Slavic Languages and Literatures
320H Folwell Hall

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis MN 55455

Telephone:  612-625-6557
 

E-Mail:

gjahn@umn.edu

Office Hours in 320H Folwell Hall during Spring and Fall Semester:

11:00-12:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays or By Appointment (on Zoom only, Spring, 2022)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 


A copy of Prof. Jahn's 

 

Curriculum vitae. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 



Russ 1101-1102 Beginning Russian


 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
Russ 3421/5421 History of Russian Literature from the Beginning to Dostoevsky


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.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

 


 
 

Russ 1304W Introduction to Literature: 19th Century Russian Fiction


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 

 


 
 
 
 

Russ 3411/5411 Dostoevsky in Translation


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russ 3001 Intermediate Russian


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 

 

 


 
 

Russian Language by Interactive Television

Prof. Jahn has been actively involved in the development and delivery of Russian-language instruction at a distance using interactive television and supplementary technologies such as electronic homework and video conferencing.

A conference paper on this subject by Prof. Jahn is here.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

Computer-Assisted Language Learning Software

The software listed here was developed at the University of Minnesota and is freely available. THE "SENTENCES" PROGRAM IS VERY OLD AND CAN NO LONGER BE RUN ON MODERN VERSIONS OF WINDOWS. THE "RUSSIAN CONJUGATION AND DECLENSION" PROGRAMS CAN STILL BE RUN ON MODERN COMPUTERS, BOTH WINDOWS AND IOS BASED. SEE THE LINK FOR "BEGINNING RUSSIAN" ON THE LEFT SIDE OF PROF. JAHN'S HOME PAGE. The programs require a PC platform for operation. "Russian Conjugation and Declension" runs under DOS 3.3 or later. "Sentences" runs under MS Windows 3.0 or later. These programs are stored here in compressed form. After downloading to your machine, these files will need to be uncompressed. The "Sentences" programs need to be stored in directories immediately off the root directory of your machine, e.g., as c:\lesson.01\.  More up-to-date programs are located here (to accompany textbook Russian for Everybody) and here (to accompany textbook (Nachalo).
General Information on these programs (computer.htm)

Sentences - Data-Base Editor (senttchr.zip)

The Sentences Data-Base Editor is intended for teachers of Russian who would like to create their own drills.

The following program modules contain prepared drills best used with the relevant lessons of Robert Baker et al., Russian for Everybody

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)