The short videos include selections from more than 30 years of the popular television program "Eralash" and edited versions of feature films and documentaries such as "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears," "The Pyatnitskaya Street Tavern" and "The Courier," as well as short films by Paperno and local filmmaker Slawomir Grundberg. It's not dry like the textbook - they can talk about the characters." "For discussion, we wrote these little dialogues including the material discussed in the film. "The course is structured so that we have two hours of grammar-oriented instruction, one-hour drills and then two hours covering films," Tsimberov said.
That's what makes it a joy to teach a course like BRTF."įilms are not shown in class, he said: "We want each student to confront, take apart and digest these stories on his or her own." "The students want to understand, they want to follow, they want to analyze, they want to talk to other people about all of it. "BRTF puts in front of the student a large collection of snapshots of life seen through the eye of the camera," Paperno said. The films are "not simplified and not censored, but selected in a way that makes these videos accessible to first-year students," Paperno said. The site was originally developed as an experiment in Cornell's Russian Language Program in 1997-98, and the learning materials - including 130 new or improved clips added last summer - are available to anyone.
Digital video on the site allows students to quickly stop, rewind and replay segments of assigned films. A transcript, glossary and exercises highlighting grammar and vocabulary accompany each film. Senior lecturers in Russian Slava Paperno and Viktoria Tsimberov use their Beginning Russian Through Film (BRTF) website to co-teach a two-semester course at Cornell.
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Rather than working from a textbook, students can learn Russian language and culture largely by watching old TV shows and short films.
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