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Slavic, Central, and East European Studies

Russian Language

Ethnologue : Russian Statistical information on Russian
Gramota (Gramota: Russian Ministry of Print, Television and Radio and Other Means of Mass Communication). Includes online dictionaries and reference materials on the Russian language.
The Russian language today / Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke and Terence Wade (1999 online)
Russian : a linguistic introduction / Paul Cubberley (2002)

Language Instruction

Basic Russian: a grammar and workbook / John Murray and Sarah Smyth (1999)
Intermediate Russian: a grammar and workbook / John Murray and Sarah Smyth (2001)
Rus' : a comprehensive course in Russian / Sarah Smyth, Elena Vyacheslavna Crosbie (2002)
Using Russian vocabulary / Terence Wade (2009 Online)
Modern Russian grammar/ John Dunn and Shamil Khairov (2009 online)

Russian Grammar

Modern Russian grammar / John Dunn and Shamil Khairov (2009 online)
Using Russian : A Guide to Contemporary Usage/ Derek Offord 2nd ed (2005)
Russian/ Edna Andrews (2001)
Russian Reference Grammar (online)

Transliteration, Romanization, and Translation

Transliteration (online) Transliterate text from Cyrillic to Latin or Latin to Cyrillic.
Library of Congress Romanization Tables Useful for searching library catalogs for non-Latin scripts, including Russian.
Google Translate Translate text or webpage from Russian into English.

Russian Word of the Day

Dictionaries online

Slovar' Russkogo iazyka (Dictionary of the Russian Language) Online version of the Russian Academy of Sciences 4-vol. dictionary of contemporary Russian literary language
English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary From freedict.com
Your dictionary.com - Russian Links to numerous free online dictionaries, general and specialised.
Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo iazyka Ushakova Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language (1935-1940)
Slovar' Russkikh Sinonimov Russian Dictionary of Synonyms

Print Dictionaries (English-Russian)

Concise Oxford Russian dictionary (Russian-English) (1998)
Transliterated dictionary of the Russian language (1979)
Etymological dictionary of the Russian language (1951)
Russian-English dictionary of idioms (1995)
Dictionary of Russian slang and colloquial expressions/ Vladimir Shlyakhov and Eve Adler (2006)
or browse call numbers PG6240 in Koerner library for other Russian dictionaries

Print Dictionaries (Russian)

Bolʹshoĭ slovarʹ russkoĭ razgovornoĭ ėkspressivnoĭ rechi / V.V. Khimik (2004) Dictionary of Spoken Russian.
Uchebnyĭ slovar ̆glagolʹnykh form russkogo i︠a︡zyka : dli︠a︡ izuchai︠u︡shchikh russkiĭ i︠a︡zyk kak innostrannyĭ (1988) Russian Language dictionary of verb forms for non-native learners
Tolkovyĭ slovarʹ russkogo i︠a︡zyka : 80,000 slov i frazeologicheskikh vyrazheniĭ / S.I. Ozhegov i N.I︠U︡. Shvedova (1998) Four-volume dictionary in Russian.

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Subjects: Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Russian & Slavic Studies

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