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Getting started: alphabet, handwriting, typing, greetings, and names!
Alphabet and writing systems
Alphabet and writing systems
Alphabet lessons (due 8/30-9/5: check assignment schedule!)
Alphabet videos (you will watch these as part of your homework)
More sites for writing practice: Practice Cursive and Script Practice: just print and practice!
Extra credit handwriting exercises: Complete these four practice sheets (А-Й, К-Ф, Х-Я, Cognate practice) for extra credit: just print out the sheets & copy the words as many times as you can fit on the line!
Прописи: Real handwriting primer for Russian children!
Typing in Russian
Typing in Russian
basic greetings and sounds
basic greetings and sounds
Russian names and naming
Russian names and naming
Lists: Russian men's names and women's names
YouTube: the most popular Russian names (for pronunciation)
Russian naming conventions: last, first, patronymic (YouTube video)
NEW: the campaign to legalize matronymics (derived from the mother's name) in Kyrgyzstan!
More on the battle for matronyms
Some articles on Russian pronouns and gender:
2016 article on non-binary Russians (in English)
from nonbinary wiki: the various pronoun possibilities in Russian
Cool resource: nonbinary pronoun guide (across world languages)!
summary: Russian is a highly-gendered language, and is still evolving to meet the needs of speakers who identify as trans or non-binary. For now, in the absence of a widely accepted pronoun like the English "singular they," you should choose the pronoun that "matches" the gender of your name:
men's name (full name ends in consonant): pronoun = он
women's name (full name ends in -а/-я): pronoun = она́
Note: the Russian and Soviet Empires were vast multicultural and multilingual territories, encompassing hundreds of languages from multiple language families (Slavic, Baltic, Caucasian, Turkic, etc.). While Russian names will best "fit" the phonetic and grammatical systems of the Russian language, you should feel free to choose a name from a different language commonly spoken in the former Soviet Union (FSU)!
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