This document provides an overview of Russia, the Russian language, and Russians. It includes brief biographical information about the author Ekaterina Vylomova. It then covers basic facts about Russia, including geography, climate, population centers, and travel destinations. It discusses the history and development of the Russian language. It also compares and contrasts features of Russian and English grammar and lexicon. Finally, it notes cultural differences in greetings between Russians and Americans.
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Welcome to the lesson : Introduction to the Basics of Russian. In this lesson you will be introduced to the origin, nature and structure of the Russian language
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An introductory Ukrainian language course prepared by the U.S. Peace Corps for its volunteers.
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Welcome to the lesson : Introduction to the Basics of Russian. In this lesson you will be introduced to the origin, nature and structure of the Russian language
An introductory Albanian language course prepared by the U.S. Peace Corps for its volunteers.
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An introductory Azerbaijani language course prepared by the U.S. Peace Corps for its volunteers.
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this presentation is about russia, its geography, climate, main industries, government structure, religion, art, culture, etc., its capital, the city of obninsk
Russian is the most spoken and widespread language in Eurasia. It is written using Cyrillic alphabets which are closely related to the Greek alphabets and this language is derived from the old Slavic language. In addition, it has 33 letters and out of which 10 are vowels, 21 are consonants and 2 letters do not have any sound.
Information about Russia, the dos and the don'ts, etiquette, business etc This dcument was made for the project Info4migrants Project number UK/13/LLP-LdV/TOI-615
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Посвящается 300летию со дня рождения М.В.Ломоносова.
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Pop music, a ubiquitous genre that transcends cultural boundaries, has become a global phenomenon, leaving an indelible mark on music history. Originating in the mid-20th century, pop music encompasses a wide range of styles, reflecting the popular tastes of the masses. Its catchy melodies, relatable lyrics, and accessible sound have made it a dominant force in the music industry worldwide. While the genre has its roots in the United States and the United Kingdom, its influence extends far beyond, touching every corner of the globe, including the vast and diverse musical landscape of Russia.
Documenting and modeling inflectional paradigms in under-resourced languages Katerina Vylomova
In this talk, I will present the UniMorph project, an attempt to create a universal (cross-lingual) annotation schema. UniMorph allows an inflected word from any language to be defined by its lexical meaning, typically carried by the lemma, and a bundle of universal morphological features defined by the schema. Since 2016, the UniMorph database has been gradually developed and updated with new languages, and SIGMORPHON shared tasks served as a platform to compare computational models of inflectional morphology. During 2016–2021, the shared tasks made it possible to explore the data-driven systems’ ability to learn declension and conjugation paradigms as well as to evaluate how well they generalize across typologically diverse languages. It is especially important, since elaboration of formal techniques of cross-language generalization and prediction of universal entities across related languages should provide a new potential to the modeling and documentation of under-resourced languages. I will outline the major challenges we faced while converting the language-specific features into the UniMorph schema, especially in under-resourced languages. In addition, I will discuss typical errors made by the majority of the systems, e.g. incorrectly predicted instances due to allomorphy, form variation, misspelled words, looping effects. Finally, I will provide case studies for Russian, Tibetan, and Nen.
this presentation is about russia, its geography, climate, main industries, government structure, religion, art, culture, etc., its capital, the city of obninsk
Russian is the most spoken and widespread language in Eurasia. It is written using Cyrillic alphabets which are closely related to the Greek alphabets and this language is derived from the old Slavic language. In addition, it has 33 letters and out of which 10 are vowels, 21 are consonants and 2 letters do not have any sound.
Information about Russia, the dos and the don'ts, etiquette, business etc This dcument was made for the project Info4migrants Project number UK/13/LLP-LdV/TOI-615
« Архангельская область – родина М.В. Ломоносова»TaNuNu
Урок по английскому языку с использованием национально-регионального компонента по теме « Архангельская область – родина М.В. Ломоносова»
Посвящается 300летию со дня рождения М.В.Ломоносова.
The Russian Language_ Learning Opportunities in Sharjah.pdfnourelmadrsa
The Russian language holds a prominent position as one of the world's important languages, captivating learners worldwide. With Russia being a major global power in terms of economy, culture, and politics
Exploring the Melodic Charms: 15 Best Russian Pop SongsBnher.com
Pop music, a ubiquitous genre that transcends cultural boundaries, has become a global phenomenon, leaving an indelible mark on music history. Originating in the mid-20th century, pop music encompasses a wide range of styles, reflecting the popular tastes of the masses. Its catchy melodies, relatable lyrics, and accessible sound have made it a dominant force in the music industry worldwide. While the genre has its roots in the United States and the United Kingdom, its influence extends far beyond, touching every corner of the globe, including the vast and diverse musical landscape of Russia.
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Documenting and modeling inflectional paradigms in under-resourced languages Katerina Vylomova
In this talk, I will present the UniMorph project, an attempt to create a universal (cross-lingual) annotation schema. UniMorph allows an inflected word from any language to be defined by its lexical meaning, typically carried by the lemma, and a bundle of universal morphological features defined by the schema. Since 2016, the UniMorph database has been gradually developed and updated with new languages, and SIGMORPHON shared tasks served as a platform to compare computational models of inflectional morphology. During 2016–2021, the shared tasks made it possible to explore the data-driven systems’ ability to learn declension and conjugation paradigms as well as to evaluate how well they generalize across typologically diverse languages. It is especially important, since elaboration of formal techniques of cross-language generalization and prediction of universal entities across related languages should provide a new potential to the modeling and documentation of under-resourced languages. I will outline the major challenges we faced while converting the language-specific features into the UniMorph schema, especially in under-resourced languages. In addition, I will discuss typical errors made by the majority of the systems, e.g. incorrectly predicted instances due to allomorphy, form variation, misspelled words, looping effects. Finally, I will provide case studies for Russian, Tibetan, and Nen.
The Secret Life of Words: Exploring Regularity and Systematicity (joint talk ...Katerina Vylomova
In this talk, we discuss computational approaches to modeling form–meaning interactions.
The first part of the talk presents computational models of morphology. More specifically, we focus on the task of morphological inflection addressing the following research question: how well are data-driven models able to learn declension and/or conjugation systems? We first introduce a universal morphological annotation schema, UniMorph, that allows an inflected word from any language to be defined by its lexical meaning, typically carried by the lemma, and a bundle of universal morphological features defined by the schema. We then continue with a description of a series of shared tasks (2016–2020) where systems competed in their ability to learn representations of inflectional systems across many typologically diverse languages. Finally, we provide a taxonomy of errors made by most systems and various challenges the systems typically face.
SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological InflectionKaterina Vylomova
The SIGMORPHON 2020 shared task on morphological reinflection aims to investigate systems’ ability to generalize across typologically distinct languages, many of which are low resource. Systems were developed using data from 45 languages and just 5 language families, fine-tuned with data from an additional 45 languages and 10 language families (13 in total), and evaluated on all 90 languages. A total of 22 systems (19 neural) from 10 teams were submitted to the task. All four winning systems were neural (two monolingual transformers and two massively multilingual RNN-based models with gated attention).
Evaluation of Semantic Change of Harm-Related Concepts in PsychologyKaterina Vylomova
The paper focuses on diachronic evaluation of semantic changes of harm-related concepts in psychology. More specifically, we investigate a hypothesis that certain concepts such as ``addiction'', ``bullying'', ``harassment'', ``prejudice'', and ``trauma'' became broader during the last four decades. We evaluate semantic changes using two models: an LSA-based model from \citet{sagi2009semantic} and a diachronic adaptation of word2vec from \citet{hamilton2016diachronic}, that are trained on a large corpus of journal abstracts covering the period of 1980--2019.
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needed to achieve performance parity with inflection-generating systems.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Evaluation and Modelling of Verbal A...Katerina Vylomova
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Take and Took, Gaggle and Goose, Book and Read: Evaluating the Utility of Vec...Katerina Vylomova
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1. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Russia, Russian language and Russians
Ekaterina Vylomova
Fulbright scholar at Montclair State University
March 19, 2014
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2. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Brief bio
Brief Bio
MSc, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
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3. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Brief bio
Brief Bio
MSc, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
BSc, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
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4. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Brief bio
Brief Bio
MSc, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
BSc, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Yandex School of Data Analysis (Moscow Institute of Physics
& Technology)
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5. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Briey
Brief Information
the largest country in the world
bordering with 18 countries
65% of its territory is permafrost
the lowest temperature is -71 C(-95.8 F)
Population
143 million people
Moscow: 12 million people
Saint Petersburg: 5 million people
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Moscow. Red Square
Ìîñêâà. Êðàñíàÿ ïëîùàäü
Moscow.Red Square
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Saint Petersburg
Ñàíêò-Ïåòåðáóðã - îêíî â Åâðîïó
Window to the West and the Venice of the North
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Saint Petersburg
Ñàíêò-Ïåòåðáóðã - îêíî â Åâðîïó
Window to the West and the Venice of the North
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Travel across Russia
Ïîåçä Ìîñêâà-Âëàäèâîñòîê! Moscow-Vladivostok train!
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Travel across Russia
Ïëàöêàðòíûé âàãîí(Platzkarten-Wagen) - èäåàëüíîå ìåñòî äëÿ
îáùåíèÿ! Couchette car: a perfect place for communication!
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Travel across Russia
Èëè ïîåõàòü íà ìàøèíå...
or go by car...
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Travel across Russia
Àëòàé. Ãîðû
Altai mountains
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14. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Travel across Russia
Óðàëüñêèå ãîðû
The Ural mountains
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15. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Travel across Russia
Àëìàçíàÿ âîðîíêà, ã. Ìèðíûé, ßêóòèÿ
Massive diamond pit in Mirny, Yakutiya
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17. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Travel across Russia
Ïåòðîïàâëîâñê-Êàì÷àòñêèé
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
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20. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
Basic Facts
Briey
Most common languages
more than 100 languages
92% are Russian native speakers
Most common: Ukrainian, Belarusian, Armenian, German,
Tatar
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
Briey
Turgenev I.S.,1882
Âî äíè ñîìíåíèé, âî äíè òÿãîñòíûõ ðàçäóìèé î ñóäüáàõ ìîåé
ðîäèíû,- òû îäèí ìíå ïîääåðæêà è îïîðà, î âåëèêèé, ìîãó÷èé,
ïðàâäèâûé è ñâîáîäíûé ðóññêèé ÿçûê! Íå áóäü òåáÿ - êàê íå
âïàñòü â îò÷àÿíèå ïðè âèäå âñåãî, ÷òî ñîâåðøàåòñÿ äîìà? Íî
íåëüçÿ âåðèòü, ÷òîáû òàêîé ÿçûê íå áûë äàí âåëèêîìó íàðîäó!
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23. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
Briey
Turgenev I.S.,1882
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fortunes of
my native land, you alone are my support and stay, o great, mighty,
truthful, and free Russian language! If it weren't for you, how could
I not help falling into despair in view of everything that is taking
place at home? But it is impossible not to believe that such a
language was given to a great people!
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24. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
Briey
History of Russian language
Slavic language of Indo-European family
IX cent. Cyril and Methodius(Thessaloniki) established Russian
alphabet
IX-XVII church language only
Peter I reforms: beginning of Russian literary language
(Derzhavin)
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25. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
Briey
History of Russian language
XVIII: Russian poetry era
Alexander Pushkin: founder of modern Russian literary
language
Russian language proved to be suitable for the poetry
development. This is the best criterion for estimation of
phonetic properties of language.
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26. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
Briey
Àëåêñàíäð Ïóøêèí
ß âàñ ëþáèë: ëþáîâü åùå, áûòü ìîæåò,
 äóøå ìîåé óãàñëà íå ñîâñåì;
Íî ïóñòü îíà âàñ áîëüøå íå òðåâîæèò;
ß íå õî÷ó ïå÷àëèòü âàñ íè÷åì.
Alexander Pushkin
I loved you; even now I may confess,
Some embers of my love their re retain;
But do not let it cause you more distress,
I do not want to sadden you again.
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
Number poems
Cheerful
2(dva) 15(pyatnadtsat') 42(sorok dva)
42(sorok dva) 15(pyatnadtsat')
37(tridtsat' sem') 08(nol' vosem') 5(pyat')
20(dvadtsat') 20(dvadtsat') 20(dvadtsat')!
Sad
511(pyat'sot odinnadtsat') 16(shestnadtsat')
5(pyat') 20(dvadtsat') 337(trista tridtsat' sem')
712(sem'sot dvenadtsat') 19(devyatnadtsat')
2000047(dva milliona sorok sem')
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28. Introduction
Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
What does Russian speech look like?
What does Russian speech look like?
I have always thought that the Russian language is a mixture
of Spanish with a rounded 'r' , French with a 'zh' sound added
and rough German sounds. (Jeremy's teacher, USA)
For me, the Russian language is something between a walrus'
growl and a Brahms' melody. (Abe, an accountant, UK)
Russian language is like a very badly adjusted radio: it is full of
extra rustles, crackling and squeaking. (Maria, a translator,
France)
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
Tongue twisters
Tongue twisters
Øëà Ñàøà ïî øîññå è ñîñàëà ñóøêó
Sasha walked down the avenue and sucked a biscuit.
Íà äâîðå òðàâà, íà òðàâå äðîâà,
Ðàç äðîâà, äâà äðîâà, òðè äðîâà
Íå ðóáè äðîâà íà òðàâå äâîðà.
There is grass in the yard, there are logs on the grass, don't
chop the logs on the grass of the yard.
Íå õî÷åò êîñîé êîñèòü êîñîé, ãîâîðèò, êîñà êîñà.
A hare does't want to scythe and says that the scythe is skew.
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Russia
Languages in Russia
Russian language
Russians vs Americans
History
Russian phonetics
Russian lexicon
Russian grammarsyntax
Russian and English
Facts about Russian lexicon
Facts about Russian lexicon
Almost all the words starting with 'À' and 'Ô' have foreign
roots: àëãåáðà (Arabic 'al-gabr'), àëüáîì (Latin 'albus'),
ôóòáîë (English 'football').
Many words from France, Germany, Holland (Peter I), Greece,
Poland, Turkic and Arabian origins. Very few from China and
Japan.
Nowadays there are plenty of English words (from IT
business areas): êîìïüþòåð(computer), äåâàéñ(device),
ïîðò(port), òèì-áèëäèíã(team building),
äåâåëîïåð(developer)
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Facts about Russian grammarsyntax
Highly inexional morphology
The word order is usually SVO, but it's not xed (ß ïîøåë â
øêîëó. (I went to the school). Ïîøåë ÿ â øêîëó. Â øêîëó
ïîøåë ÿ. Â øêîëó ÿ ïîøåë.). The semantics of each case is a
bit dierent
There are no articles(no the/a/an), so many Russians have
problems understanding them in languages like English
There is incredible number of exceptions to the rules. Just
repeat and memorize!
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Examples of dierences
YOU
Dierent meanings of 'You': 'âû' if talking to many people, 'òû' if
talking to your friend/family member or person of your age and
'Âû' if talking to somebody you don't know/a person older than
you
False friends
Ìàãàçèí(magazine) - shop, Ëóê(look) - onion,
Àðòèñò(artist) - actor, Ïðîñïåêò(prospect) - avenue
Êëåé(clay) - glue, Ëèñò(list) - leaf
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Greetings
Two forms of greetings: 'çäðàâñòâóéòå'('zdravstvuite', polite,
formal) and 'ïðèâåò'('privet',informal)
Russians usually don't ask how are you?everyone, but once
they are asked they start giving full and detailed answer:)
Russians say greetings just once. If you keep saying 'Privet'
many times during the day to the same person, he/she will be
confused and saó 'Ìû óæå çäîðîâàëèñü'('My uje zdorovalis').
Russians don't say 'Hi' to anybody on the street and people
they don't know.
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Smiling
Most of Russians don't just smile. Russians perceive smile like an
informative sign meaning there is a great sympathy or any other
mix of feelings
Sense of Humour
Russians have a great sense of humour and love telling short funny
stories (we call them anekdoty)
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Comfort zone
Russians stand very near to each other in lines, and the 'comfort
distance' in general is much shorter than in Europe.
For Russian people CZ doesn't extend beyond their own
apartments/cars/clothes/etc. They don't care much about others
and everything out of their CZ.
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Buses
if a person is running after bus, the bus most likely will stop
and let the person in
if you want to get out of a crowded metro or bus, you keep
asking the person in front of you, if she or he is also getting
out('Âû âûõîäèòå?'), and go on like this until you reach
person that is going out, and wait peacefully
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Most of Russians
are very friendly to foreigners
believe in faith
always complain about their lives/president/politics
ascribe every ailment known to man as 'äàâëåíèå'(pressure)
believe that black cat crossing their road is a bad sign
consider whistling brings bad luck and no money
celebrate SO MANY holidays(New Year, Christmas,
International Women's Day, Victory's Day, Independence Day,
etc.) having 3 more weeks each year for vacation (which is
usually 28 days a year).
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Most of Russians
don't pay for their education (our Govt pays for it)
travel for vacation to Turkey, Egypt and Goa(India)
'êîñÿò îò àðìèè' - try to avoid serving in Russian army (each
male is required to serve one year)
like playing with words and nd origins ('âðåìÿ'-'âåðòåòü'):)
are very hospitable:)
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Ñïàñèáî!Thank you!
Âîïðîñû? Questions?
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