Russian Materials for Young Learners

[Laura Kline]

There are two items, Teach Me Russian for Children (a book and audio set)
and Bilingual Baby for Russian (a video), available at
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/russian.html. Russian fairy tales are on
tape and CD at: http://www.babayaga.com/. You can get First Thousand Words
in Russian (a book) at Amazon.
Best,
Laura
 
 
 


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Hi Kari,



The basic Russian-teaching material for little children is the (ABC) 
reader practiced in the Soviet Union and is still in use today. In 
Russian it is called "Bukvar", which means "Letter" or "a set of 
letters" or just "Letters".


But for your 13-month old baby, it is too early for now, except, 
maybe, for the ABC itself. So you can try to teach your baby Russian 
letters at this step.

Right now the most effective way of language acquisition by your baby 
(not you) is listening to Russian mucis, Russian songs, especially 
Russian cartoons (any kinds of songs and all kinds of songs); watching 
TV at a later stage. Anything that is concerned with Listening. 
Listening without being taught how to listen.

Also you could hire a maid who would spend all her time with your 
baby, taking care of your baby and talking only Russian to your baby.


If you really want your child to know Russian, you can go to Russia 
and leave him/her with a Russian kindergarden somewhere in Moscow or 
St. Petersbourg (best places) or live with your baby there  - for 
awhile.


As an English teacher myself (by education), I once had a dream to 
teach a Russian baby English in Russia, back at home. Now I am in 
Canada, translating poetry from Russian into English.

OK, good luck to you, Kari.



Sincerely,

Ivan.


On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:24:21 -0400
  Kari Fisher <karifisher at COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> Please help. I obtained a NY state teaching license in 1993 from NYU
>in
> secondary english education. Now, I am a full-time attorney and 
>full-time
> mom trying to teach my 13-month old Russian.  I don't speak it 
>myself.  I am
> a member of NNELL, MFLA and ACTR, to name a few, with the main goal 
>of
> getting access to useful materials to help teach myself and child at 
>the
> same time.  I am looking for something similiar to the Muzzy Series 
>but in
> Russian. [http://www.early-advantage.com/] Or CDs like Baby's First 
>Steps,
> but in Russian.
>
[http://www.randomhouse.com/livinglanguage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=978060
> 9607404] I would love to find a site like www.chinasprout.com or
> www.Alphabet-Garten.com but for Russian materials.
> 
> I read the ACTR journals as they are sent.  I've read the articles
>about the
> big push for Russian AP testing and the importance of starting 
>Russian
> language instruction as early as possible. I've also read many 
>articles in
> the news and in teaching journals about the shortage of foreign 
>language
> proficiency, at least in the United States.  And yet, there doesn't 
>seem to
> be much material (if any?) available in Russian for our young 
>children or at
> least that I've been able to find. What are teachers using for pre-K 
>or 1-6
> instruction in elementary schools?
> 
> If you know of anything, even if just the names of publishers of
>Russian
> teaching materials, I'd be most appreciative if you could contact me 
>with
> the information. Also, I'd like to thank the handful of members who 
>have
> already contacted me.
> 
> Warmest regards,
> Kari Fisher, Esq.
> 
> 
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