Russian Dialect Packet

Matt McLean
Tovah Close
4/21/15
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery
inside an enigma Winston Churchill

Russian Sound Changes

TV/Film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YLbkov9wug
-Dragos Bucur in The Way Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xQs3CVyuU
-Colin Farrells Russian accent in The Way Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uia6y9SRsj4
-Tom Hardys Russian accent in Child 44
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-olyapovlatsky/n45573
http://www.hulu.com/watch/631158
-Kate McKinnon as Olya Povlatsky on SNL
Native Speakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2e6IpdadFE
-5:30 to end-Mikhail Baryshnikov interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS3dd-OhsP4
-Interview with Yul Brynner
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/russia-2
-IDEA Website: Russia 2 (Moscow)
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/russia-4
-IDEA Website: Russia 4 (Odessa)
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/russia-12
-IDEA Website: Russia 12 (Kholmsk)
-I dont have a recording of him, but my Russian Literature teacher Ilya
Kliger has a superb accent for this dialect, and he is indeed from Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf8I9GtM8dc
-Artem Anisimov of the New York Rangers post-game interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xks7xtwhRY8
-Ivan from Siberia doing Russian accent tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnbbn1BFEz
-Vladimir Monastovskiy: How to Curse in Russian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GDSw3AU2KU
-Regina Spektor (interesting listen, very Americanized and rhotic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K3johUezdg
-Vladimir Putin Sochi Olympics opening speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IGbjPqFFvA
-Joseph Stalin, 1941 speech
Songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cu-cvfSzn8
-Yul Brynner and Aliocha Dimitrievitch sing Russian gypsy song
Traveling Gypsies

Russian Practice Sentences

Lee: These three can guarantee the suite for sweet Phoebe.
Will: This is his distant cousin Irina.
Let: Ten of the seventeen men were from the West End.
Pat: Anne can stand to fan with her hand the mans back.
Pass: I cant ask Frances for hald the dance.
Stir: The girls birth was the first in the world.
Surprise: Amidst the middle of America is an incomparable sofa.
Cup: Trust that love will come from the sun.
Who: You two are blue in the tooth.
New: The Duke and the tutor played new tunes on the tuba.
Would: Would the hooker take the hookah to Wooster?
Obey: The poetically romantic hotel was an oasis.
All: All orphan daughters thought they bought straw.
Bond: The hot copper coffee pots popped their tops.
Father: The Shah made pasta for Papa and Stalin
Hey: Take the paper from the mayor to the lady of the lake.
Shy: The night was white with light from the sky.
Boy: Destroy Troy with your joyous boisterous voice
Go: Dont go to the road show, its slow.
Now: How do the cows know how to plow?
Here: She spilled the beer and was near to tears.
Their: Where there is care, share the fare.
Poor: The rural juror is the poorer boor.
Ford: The door was shorter than before the war.
Car: Park the car in Harvard Yard.
H: Hello, how are your homogenous hormones today Hattie?
Th: There are three things that you think thoroughly through.
W: Wendy wants to wear her wedding gown to Washington.
Linging K: The growing animal crying everywhere throwing artichokes
died today.
Tr/Dr/Str: Try to drink with a straw; trouble is striving to remain dry.