Information posted on the Russian 1310 Class Home Page will be archived here after it is removed from "active duty."
Share!
We are trying to enlist students to share an experience they have had in Russia or in the Russian class. Would anyone like to contribute to the website?
Actually, you will have to contribute for five class points before the end of the semester. I would like for you to start thinking about what you will write. I will most likely have the deadline sometime around early November, but students who would like to submit sooner, or who would like to submit several times, may feel free to do so.
I know that some of you have been to Russia. I would love for you to write a paragraph or two about your experience so that we can post it. When anyone has anything to post, just E-mail it to me, and I will make sure it gets into the right hands! I look forward to hearing from each of you. Do svidanija! Toddm@mail.uca.edu
S I N G , S H O U T ,
R E M E M B E R .
Try to think of ingenious ways to help you with your numbers and colors. For example, take a couple of minutes in one of the rooms in your house or apartment and shout every color that you see. Exercises like this might seem ridiculous at first, but you are reinforcing your visual learning, with speaking and auditory cues.
Children use this method all of the time. However, when we become adults we feel more insecure about acting like this. True, I wouldn't suggest this kind of behavior when you have company, but if you try and remember the ways that you learned English as a child and use some of those same techniques, you will be surprised how much faster you will learn and retain your Russian.
Another suggestion: Do you sing in the shower? Why not trying counting from one to ten? Do you get bored and feel like you are wasting time standing in a long line at the supermarket? Why not practice counting or saying your colors to yourself under your breath?
The more you revisit these words, the better your mind will retain them.
These are suggestions that work for me. Maybe you have some of your own special learning techniques that you would like to share with me or with the class? Let me know and we'll post your suggestion on the website!
HAPPY LEARNING!
Todd Alden Marshall, Ph.D.
Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Irby 415
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR 72035-0001
(501) 450-5096
Toddm@mail.uca.edu
*This is the next step toward THE One World Language.
Step Twelve: *Your past participle in the fish bowl!
Planet Russkij is ruled by Dr. Todd Alden Marshall, professor of Russian and Slavic Linguistics at the University of Central Arkansas. An independent entity in the CornDancer consortium of planets, Planet Russkij is dedicated to the study and exploration of the Russian language, culture, and society. CornDancer is a developmental website for the mind and spirit maintained by webmistress Freddie A. Bowles of the Planet Earth. Submissions are invited.
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