Web sources for students

[trilbyhat.livejournal.com]

Hello,

A friend of mine is wondering if someone knows a good web source for an intermediate student of Russian. What he wants is a source of relatively simple texts, preferably with stresses indicated, best of all - accompanied with audio tracks. (The guy is French and Russian stresses is a big problem for him). I suggested sites of radio broadcasters like echo.msk.ru, but I am sure there must be something somewhere which is easier to use and more suitable for students.

Ideas?

Привет. Мой знакомый спрашивает, не знает ли кто-нибудь хороший сетевой ресурс для изучающего русский язык. Ему нужен источник относительно простых текстов, желательно с ударениями, а лучше всего - с сопровождением аудиотреков (парень француз, и ударения для него - серьезная проблема). Я предложил сайты радиостанций вроде "Эха Москвы", но наверняка где-то должно быть что-то попроще и поудобнее для обучающегося.

Есть предложения?

PS He's got a decent vocabulary and understands written Russian. The problem is oral communication.

Tnx

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[nekotjonok.livejournal.com]

My students are almost done with "Troe iz Prostokvashino"  book - and they just love it. They are adults and I am looking for the next book to read with them - something modern enough ( they are tired of Chekhov;-). What would you suggest?

A really funny story

[scifigal.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'm leaving Ukraine in 4 days, after having spent 2 years here. I was going through old papers and notebooks I'd written in and I came upon a story I wrote. It made me laugh so hard that I cried, totally due to the mistakes.

So I'm NOT asking that anyone correct these mistakes, but that you have a laugh along with me. These are mistakes I made around 1 to 2 months in to learning Russian.

I wrote this story. I loved writing stories and found them very motivating for me.

Рики Мартин любит его попрофессиу. Вечера знаменитый директор позванил ему и сказал ему еграть в новом филме с сестрой дирестора. В филме, Рики Мартин любит Тану и званит её порню*, Сергею. Он гаварит Сергием, что Рики Мартин убьют убивать Сергея есле он не распаданется с тани. Рики сегодня еграл первой раз с актёром. Актёр выл <<Сергей>> и он выл очен убедительный. Рики думает актёр отлични, Рики думает что Сергей еграет луче счем он. Сечас ему нада позванить и сказать <<Тане>> ей что он любит её.


* This was my conjugation of the word парен aka "boyfriend", not "porn" :)

So yeah, this made me laugh so hard, from the misspelling of Director to saying that someone HOWLED "Sergei" instead of "was" Sergei, especially when they "howled convincingly" hahahahaa

Hope you enjoyed it and got some laughs.

Oh, and typing that with all the mistakes was REALLY HARD TO DO. It's nice to see where you came from. I just had my Russian tested and i earned an "Advanced Low" which is great especially considering I couldn't even recognize Russian letters when I first started learning 2 years ago. :)