Learn Russian with Effective Techniques - Oxford University
Angelos Geograkis gives a talk at Oxford University Russian Society on how to learn Russian through films and effective techniques such as 'walk and speak Russian loudly', 'grammar sacks', 'break it down' etc.
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TRANSCRIPT
Hello everyone, Всем привет!
My name is Angelos. As Valeria said, in the last six months I totally immersed into the Russian language and culture. I had a clear goal in my head - to speak good Russian. Learning a language obviously requires effort, lots of studying, and I am sure you would all agree here that Russian is not the easiest language to learn. However, this time I tried to make learning a little bit more fun and also I wanted to experiment with different learning techniques. Tonight, I would like to share with you some of those techniques that proved effective in my case.
But before I start with these methods, I would like to stress here that the most important element one needs to speak good Russian, or any language, is love for the language. Maybe that love comes from the Russian literature, music, travelling...WOMEN??? Oooops, I forgot to take that out… Now, you all know why I learnt Russian. No, seriously, in my case, music was a catalyst. I play the bouzouki, a Greek musical instrument very similar to balalaika. A red army choir CD fell on my hands and introduced me to classics like Moscow nights and Katysha. I loved that music. As a mathematician, I was fascinated by the life and vision of Andrey Kolmogorov, the Russian mathematician who set the foundations of probability theory. I was fortunate to have lots of connections with the Russian culture. I encourage that you find your own love for Russian language. Different starting points and passions can lead to the same end, to speak good Russian.
Films
Films is a very effective multisensory method which involves images, sound, and most importantly emotions. The visual content is engaging...who doesn’t like watching films? You then listen to tons of dialogs which helps you develop a sense for sounds of the language can dramatically improve your pronunciation. Especially, Russian language has a very wide sound frequency range from 100Hz to 12000Hz. You need to train your ear and listen a lot to be able to reproduce the unfamiliar sounds. Then, a film makes you connect with the actors and it can evoke emotions; Emotions are very important in learning. Research has shown that knowledge that is tagged with strong emotional value is more easily recalled from our memory. In a film you can feel love, empathy, admiration for the actor even negative emotions like anger. Negative emotions are as effective in memorisation as positive ones. Well, we prefer positive emotions of course. Also, films will help you immerse into the culture, history, and mentality of Russian people.
The questions is now how do you watch a film in a ‘learning mode’? The setup that has worked in my case is three windows opened on the screen: actual film with English subtitles, transcript in Russian and a small Google Translator window. The procedure is: You watch trying to understand as much as possible without looking at the subtitles. When you don’t understand something press pause, look at the translation and the transcript at the left, and then write down on your notebook the new word using pen and paper. The Google Translator window is very useful for different reasons. First, you can confirm that you match word with the its translation.
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