Verbs: pick the aspect

This is a little true-false quiz on aspect. You'll be given a verb and you'll pick the aspect.

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Fore-wards

This quiz deals with the prefix пред-.

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Cloze Translation

This is a cloze translation exercise. You'll be given Putin's speech from Medvedev's inauguration in Russian, with a partial English translation, and you'll fill in the blanks.

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Parts of Speech

This quiz gives you related words and asks you to translate them into the correct part of speech.

For example, is деятельность "acted", "actionable", or "activity"?


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Colors of the world (IV)

In this matching game, the Ukrainian color word is paired with something that is that color. Note that the colors are all in masculine, so they won't necessarily match the other word in gender!

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Colors of the world (III)

This matching game pairs a Ukrainian color word with the English name of something that is that color.

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Colors of the world (II)

In this set of matching exercises, you match a Russian color with a word naming something that is that color...

Note that all the color words are in masculine, so they won't necessarily match in gender!

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Colors of the world (I)

In this set of matching exercises, you match a Russian color with an English word naming something that is that color...

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Scrambled Parties (Ukr)

Unscramble the Ukrainian political parties before the little bear dies! Unfortunately, the flash software doesn't support Cyrillic, so it's in transliteration...

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Russian Morphology Diagnostic

Though this was written for our RUSS2102 review course, anyone's free to take it. Just don't enter your name!

The quiz is on the basics of morphology: using the form of a word to predict its part of speech or its gender, and matching up words that share a root.

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Morphology in Context

Here's a quiz on morphology, using context. You'll be given partial Russian sentences and their translations. You'll use your knowledge of prefixes and suffixes - and the context! - to determine which would be the best fit.

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Making new words with suffixes

Here's another matching exercise on suffixes. In this one, you're given a root and a meaning for a new word to be made from it (for instance, дум: thoughtful) and you pick the right suffix (which would be чив, in this case).

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Fill Vowel Challenge

This activity is called a "challenge board". It's kind of like Jeopardy, in that it has categories and columns, but the points are awarded differently.

This particular one is on fleeting (fill) vowels - providing the correct form (with or without) when given an example of the other one.

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Fleeting Vowels

Here are two activities you can do to practice identifying fleeting vowels in Russian words. One is a matching game, and the other is concentration.

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CSI Perm

This is a quiz on identifying, and then translating, Russian verbal adjectives (participles) and verbal adverbs (deeprichastie, or 'gerunds'). It uses a news article about a murder investigation.

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Prefixes in Jeopardy

Yes, another review of Russian prefixes, this one in a Jeopardy! style game.

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Suffixes in Jeopardy

Here's a Jeopardy!-style game for Russian suffixes. It covers 10 each noun and adjective suffixes, and five verbal ones. Although it was designed as a review for our Morphology/Word-Building Course, there's no reason that anyone else couldn't use it.

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Subpar

This matching exercise deals with the prefix nedo-.

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What's the Infinitive?

In this quiz, you're provided with a conjugated verb, and asked for the infinitive. Pretty easy!

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Scrambled Idioms

Here are 20 Russian idioms, with an equivalent English meaning, all of which are scrambled. Your challenge: unjumble them!

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Suffixes and Meanings

Here is a set of activities for suffixes - noun, adjective, and verb - and their meanings. You can do flashcards, concentration, or a matching exercise.

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Compounds with Quantities

This quiz deals with Russian compounds that contain numbers and quantifiers.

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Calques

Many Russian prefixes can be translated using calques, Latinate prefixes such as re-, ex-, trans- etc.

This quiz is on matching prefixes with their calques.

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Pri-paired

This quiz is on the prefix при-; it consists of matching nouns, adjectives, verbs, and phrases with their English counterparts in ad-.

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Scrambled Parties

Your task: to unscramble the names of ten Russian political parties.

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Cloze Translation

Here's a cloze translation exercise for Putin's New Year speech. You'll get the Russian, and then have some choices for some of the words and phrases. Pick the one that's best!

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Bad Words

Here are matching, concentration, and flashcards for bad character traits.

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Good Words

Here are matching, concentration, and flashcards for a set of words for good character traits.

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Can it be который ?

Long-form verbal adjectives not only directly modify nouns, but can head a clause. They are semantically equal to another kind of clause: the который clause.

In this activity, you'll be asked to rewrite participial clauses into который clauses and vice versa.

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Participial Adjectives

This one is a matching exercise on, yes, Russian Participial Adjectives: participles used as attributive modifiers. Not long - 24 in all.

Aspect Pairs

Here some exercises on matching aspectual pairs of verbs. You can do matching, concentration, or flashcards.

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Three Meanings of O

This quiz is a matching exercise for the prefix о- (об-) - nouns and verbs.

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Putin's New Year Speech

Here are a number of activities - flashcards, matching, and concentration, using terms and idioms from Putin's New Year's speech.

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Parts of Speech

Here's an exercise in identifying parts of speech, in an address given by Putin on New Year's Eve.

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