audio books in russian
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learn_russianSo I've realized, living here not in Russia я теряю свое знание русского не по дням а по часам (I'm losing my Russian by the hour).
I have a lot of novels and such books which I read, but unless I'm doing a serious amount of workbook type exercises to go along with it, new words don't get into my memory as well as if I'm listening to them.
Does anyone know where I can find audio books in Russian, of novels or short stories that are a native speaker might listen to, but which is not written in a roundabout literary way?
A friend of mine gave me Akunin's Azazel, but the language is of a very embellished and ornate style that feels completely over my head at this point. I've been listening to BBC russian and the programs on webtelek.com when I can, but they're often unreliable and don't work.
If you recommend a book in particular, please at least let me know what it's about, and if you possibly can, where i could find an audio book of it.
спасибо заранее!
I have a lot of novels and such books which I read, but unless I'm doing a serious amount of workbook type exercises to go along with it, new words don't get into my memory as well as if I'm listening to them.
Does anyone know where I can find audio books in Russian, of novels or short stories that are a native speaker might listen to, but which is not written in a roundabout literary way?
A friend of mine gave me Akunin's Azazel, but the language is of a very embellished and ornate style that feels completely over my head at this point. I've been listening to BBC russian and the programs on webtelek.com when I can, but they're often unreliable and don't work.
If you recommend a book in particular, please at least let me know what it's about, and if you possibly can, where i could find an audio book of it.
спасибо заранее!
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Date: 2007-12-15 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-15 03:44 pm (UTC)enjoy)
Date: 2007-12-15 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-15 03:49 pm (UTC)Re: enjoy)
Date: 2007-12-15 03:50 pm (UTC)are there any stories in particular that you recommend?
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Date: 2007-12-15 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-15 04:54 pm (UTC)Perphaps you could try listening to "Moscow 2042" written by Войнович (not sure how to spell that name in english tbh).
It's a satirical-antiutopia novel. Main hero is the russian writter who travels half a century in future via time machine. Ta-da! He finds that communism was victorious, but discovers that everything is not so cool and arranges a revolution. -)
Hope that helped.
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Date: 2007-12-15 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-15 05:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-15 06:59 pm (UTC)most of it is in english, but they are expanding literally by the week their foreign language offerings, and I know there are at least some in russian (although I can't be sure they're native speakers since I haven't listened to them).
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Date: 2007-12-15 07:29 pm (UTC)I personally love Bulgakov, so I'd recommend anything he wrote. The's a rumour that Zamyatin is great - I haven't read him yet, but I thought you should know.
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Date: 2007-12-16 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-16 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-16 08:59 am (UTC)Most of them play music, but there are some with news only or business or talkative