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.

Give it a try, why don't you?

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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