Spicy Details:

Worrying about picky details and trying to do everything perfect are enemies of progress. As Noam Chomsky observed in Syntactic Structures (1957), children have an astonishing facility to learn "the rules of natural language no matter how complicated" and they do so "incredibly quickly from what are often imperfect and degenerate samples." People make lots of mistakes when they are learning something new and often their teachers and the materials they use while learning are less than perfect, yet with persistence all the imperfections get worked out and coherent knowledge emerges.

Rusky Ed presents his lessons with a strong accent of unknown origin and many claim that he often mispronounces Russian words. While this is true, the tendency to over-emphasize pronunciation early in the learning of a lesson is counter-productive. First one develops a basic vocabulary, then one learns the grammar, next reading and listening fluency become the focus, and only after all these stages does pronunciation become of prime importance. So, keep this in mind and concentrate on the appropriate focus at each stage of your learning of the Russian language!

Rusky Ed is just about through with his second review video for the first Russian Grammar unit. Rusky Ed is putting out one lesson per week at this time, but hopes to increase his output in the not too distant future. Rusky Ed is also quite pleased to have accumulated over one hundred subscribers on YouTube. It is his hope that all who view his videos are either entertained or edified, or a little of both!

The long awaited units on Russian Grammar are now being produced and uploaded. The introductory lesson for this unit can be viewed by clicking here! As has always been the case in the past, a new introductory song is used for this unit.

Rusky Ed kicked off the Russian Verbs unit just a few days ago. You can watch the preview video for this unit by clicking here! As is the case with the previous units, this unit will include a total of fifty lessons.

UNITS 1 to 3: Vocabulary Building - Introduce various categories of words with an emphasis on spelling. Grammar and pronunciation are not priorities here. In fact, grammar is pretty much ignored and pronunciations are a bit Americanized without attention paid to stress or anything like that.

UNITS 4 to 6: Grammar - After a foundational vocabulary of about 900 words has been built up it is time to start worrying about word forms and stringing words together to form phrases and sentences. Pronunciation is still not a priority.

UNITS 7 to 9: READING - The goal in these lessons is to develop reading fluency and seconarily to work some on writing skills. Pronunciation is still not really an area of focus.

UNITS 10 to 12: SPEAKING - At this point grammar rules should be understood and it is now time to work on real time production of language. This is where pronunciation becomes a key focus.

Video Intro Song
Video Conclusion Song

The Super Note contest was a little contest held between some prominent YouTubers to see who could accumulate the largest number of video responses in which people held a note on a single breath for as long as possible. The winner was determined by adding up the total number of seconds that notes were maintained in their video responses.
Super Note Song

Click here to watch СВЕРХНОТА (supernote) at YouTube!!!