The Midget Corral

I’m an aspiring teacher and this is shit that kids do that you forgot you did

[brucebocchi]

(via reddit)

[the-midget-corral]

Before and after I give in to my Kirby Instinct

[brokenstick]

she ate

[languagemoon2]

Hi!! Could you perhaps list some blogs/resources focusing mainly on Russian? Thank you! :D

Sure thing, anon! Now I’m not super focused on Russian atm but I’ve managed to scrounge up something for you :)

Free Online Russian-Learning Websites:

http://www.study-languages-online.com/

http://masterrussian.com/

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/

http://www.yesrussian.com/

http://www.russianlessons.net/

https://www.duolingo.com/course/ru/en/Learn-Russian-Online (I’m sure you’re familiar with this one)

Cyrillic Alphabet:

http://masterrussian.com/russian_alphabet.shtml

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/russian.htm (I absolutely love Omniglot and would recommend it to anyone with a general interest in languages)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKX9RYOX5w (For children, but good for learners as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrSpf8kaqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vWY8YIijY

Russian Keyboard:

http://www.apronus.com/internet/ruskey.htm (Online Cyrillic keyboard)

http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm (A downloadable phonetic keyboard instead of the Microsoft keyboard that is already formatted in Microsoft computers, the phonetic keyboard is easier to use because Cyrillic letters are placed with the closest roman letter equivalent on an English QWERTY keyboard)

Online Dictionaries:

http://www.rustran.com/

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html

http://www.lexilogos.com/english/russian_dictionary.htm

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-russian/ (Reverso is pretty good in my experience)

Immersion:

http://www.bbc.com/russian

http://ria.ru/radio/ 

http://all-radio.ru/

http://www.rususa.com/fun/radio/

http://ru-news.ru/

http://rusnovosti.ru/ (News)

http://www.pravda.ru/ (News)

http://rutube.ru/ (Russian youtube)

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33661.Best_Russian_Children_Books (For some beginner’s reading)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYC—L3hwnJHZZGpCaPo2DxiSFwjkYd (The children’s show ‘Masha and the Bear’ in Russian)

Movies in Russian (Click on title to see the wiki page):

Leviathan (2014)

Solaris (1972) 

Stalker (1979)

The Return (2003)

Hard to be a God (2013)

The Mirror (1975)

Russian Ark (2002)

Elena (2011)

Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

Battleship Potemkim (1925) 

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

How I Ended This Summer (2010)

12 (2007)

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

The Thief (1997)

Faust (2011) 

Mongol (2007)

The Fool (2014) 

A Driver for Vera (2004)

Russian Music:

Aria (Heavy metal)

DDT (Rock)

Kino (Post-punk)

Nyusha (Pop, R&b)

Yulia Savicheva (Pop rock)

t.A.T.u (Pop, electronic)

Nautilus Pompilius (Alternative, post-punk)

Russian Novels:

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) (BEST)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

Dead Souls (Nikolay Gogol)

A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Apps - Android specific (Sorry, I don’t have Apple ios so I cannot offer anything there):

Duolingo 

Memrise

Mango Languages (Offers a free trial)

Babbel

Learn & Speak Russian - Mondly

Radio Russia

Learn Russian by Babel Yak

Learn Russian 6,000 Words

Verses of Russian poets

Multitran Russian Dictionary

Tumblr Blogs:

@learn-russian-language

@russiangrammar

@rashn

@gemrussian

@lovsiberianhusky

Haha, this may be more than you were asking for but it was fun to make and I hope that this helps you and anyone else who may be studying Russian!

[obsessedwithlanguages]

thanks for this post!

[erlenwein]

Okay, so. Movies listed here are all rather serious and depressing, so I would like to add some, which are more fun.

First of all, Leonid Gaidai. Check this guy out, he is INDREDIBLE.

Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures (1965)

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

The Diamond Arm (1968)

The Twelve Chairs (1971)

Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)

It Can’t Be! (1975)

Also:

The Hussar Ballad (1962)

Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995)

Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)

Peculiarities of the National Winter Hunt (2000) - there’s also 4th movie in this series, but it’s very bad. these three are classics.

Books!

Mikhail Bulgakov, although I’m not a big fan of him (we have some strange cult of him which I do not understand at all):

Heart of the Dog

A Country Doctor’s Notebook

Zoyka’s apartment: A tragic farce in three acts (a play, I LOVE IT SO)

PUSHKIN WHY THERE’S NO PUSHKIN

Yevgeny Onegin 

The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin

The Captain’s Daughter

HIS POETRY

FAIRYTALES

Other cool ones:

Brodskiy!! you probably know him anyway

Gaito Gazdanov - very underrated, but so much better than Bunin IMO

Ilf and Petrov - early soviet prose, HILARIOUS

Chekhov is famous, read his short stories.

Teffi - she was awesome and funny

Maxim Gorky

Gogol - so-called Peterburg Tales (Nevsky Prospect, The Portrait, The Overcoat, The Nose, Diary of a Madman)

Vladimir Mayakovsky (poetry) - there are records of his voice!!

Vladimir Vysotsky - POET & SINGER. He was famous for his songs, was a great actor, there’s a lot of records (he has a remarcable voice, so check him out)

Music!

Agata Kristi (post-punk)

Undervud (rock)

Splean (Сплин) - indie rock

Aquarium

Golden Ring (Russian: Золотое кольцо) - folk music, very cool IMO

and again Vladimir Vysotsky!!

[learn-russian-language]

There are A LOT of cool options here! There is even a mention to my tumblr in there, I can’t believe I didn’t see this before!

[the-elf-draws]

Asking for directions

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I mean i quite like my brain, i’m really very fond of it i just think it’s a design failure that i can’t pop it out of the ole skull basket every night and plug it in to recharge. travesty really

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we share one collective braincell and that braincell desires a bath apparently

[stalkingchair]

This is brainwashing propaganda

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#actually yeah #i do want to give my brain a warm bath #tuck it into bed #on a really soft pillow

[quousque]

Oh my god literally sleep. You all need to sleep. Lie down horizontally and shut your eyes for a few hours. When you sleep your brain is bathed in spinal fluid to wash away the daily buildup so if you have the urge to wash your brain literally take a nap

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

ARE YOU FRUCKING WITH ME

[the-midget-corral]

Student: *dejected* “my skin fell off yesterday”

Other teacher: “that’s nice honey, please stop moving you need this sunscreen”

Me: *horrified, but in need of answers* “do you mean your bandaid!?”

Student: “ummmmmmmmmmm, yeah”

[the-midget-corral]

One of my kids just went into a full plank to say “I’m sorry!” to another student after accidentally hitting his hand I love this job

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

what’s the opposite of “i ship it”? i don’t mean anti-shipping i mean more along the lines of “this couple got together in canon and i want front rows seats to their future bloody bloody divorce“

[the-midget-corral]

Ppcp, piss poor canon pair

[adhdandcomics]

don’t make me tap the sign!!

[the-midget-corral]

IF YOU HAVE AN ACCOMMODATION IN MIND OR JUST KNOW SOMETHING ISNT WORKING TELL YOUR TEACHER BECAUSE THERE IS LITERALLY ALWAYS A WORK AROUND

[the-midget-corral]

Huge adhd win, I can wear headphones when I’m not directly interacting with students!

[mathprofessorquotes]

“Quick, pretend that you’re working!”

— Algebra teacher upon seeing the school principal walking towards the classroom

[the-midget-corral]

I’m rocking one of my geese to sleep and I think I’m more likely to fall asleep than her, this shit comfy kids are crazy for dirting on naps

[the-midget-corral]

The mental health of teachers and people is in decline because somewhere along the way politeness got mistaken for being allowed to aggressively control another human being and them not being able to speak against it without severe social ridicule and or job loss, oh yes excuse me I didn’t mean to block the tea party, do you understand child? *child monster noises*

[the-midget-corral]

One of my students was told to clean up his station as I walked into the room and I was apparently far more entertaining because he monster walked/danced over to me and said “hello! RAWWWRRRR” like bro can you not I’m gonna cry youRE SO FUCKING CUTE ASGSGAKBDBDJSBV

[the-midget-corral]

Tumblr stopped loading like “go the fuck to sleep you’re done” and honestly thanks dad

[the-midget-corral]

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses tell me to go to bed, I’m supposed to be well rested but it’s 5 hours past my bedtime

[the-midget-corral]

Current mood: being yelled at by the other teachers because I impulsively bought a cake for my students because I wanted cake for no reason