Brief Video Interview: Should they rename Volgograd?

[Joseph Kautz]

Thanks Ben. This was wonderful. Great colloquial kusochki too. As a bit of an aside and the pedagogy police will get a kick out of this, I happened to READ the paragraph below the the clip first and then watched the clip. Okazyvatets'a, chro Irene Thompson was right. That bit of textual orienteering on my part, (i.e. reading) made the video clip much easier to understand. 
I was astonished how much my comprehension level went up. After watching it, my next thought was, I should watch more of this kind of stuff. Had I had less success? I was wrong Irene, you were right. 


Joseph 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Charlotte Rosenthal" <crosenth at USM.MAINE.EDU> 
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 2:12:08 PM 
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Brief Video Interview: Should they rename Volgograd? 

Thanks so much Prof. Rifkin. Do not miss some of the hilarious counter-suggestions below in the commentary section. 
Charlotte Rosenthal 



Charlotte Rosenthal, Ph. D. 
Professor of Russian 
Dept. of Modern & Classical Langs. and Lits. University of Southern Maine 
Portland, ME 04104-9300 U.S.A. 

crosenth at usm.maine.edu 
http://blogs.usm.maine.edu/crosenth/ 
>>> Benjamin Rifkin <rifkin at TCNJ.EDU> 02/02/13 11:03 PM >>> 
Dear SEELANGers: 

This brief video could be very interesting for Russian classes, even at the late first- or early second-year level: 

http://www.gazeta.ru/social/video/opros_nado_li_vremenno_pereimenovyvat_volgograd_v_stalingrad.shtml 

Best wishes, 

Ben Rifkin 
The College of New Jersey 
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