by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | Russian Culture, Russian updates, Russian Zone
Jane Henderson (King’s College London) LAW AND POLITICS Lenin famously asserted: ‘Law is a political measure, it is politics’. This might sound like the cynical carping of a disgruntled former law student, which indeed he was. However, his original expression «Закон...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | Russian Practice, Russian updates, Russian Zone
Nadia Griffin (Russian Teachers’ Group UK), Katya Feoktistova (Oxford High School), Natalia Tronenko (Language Vision, London) Судейская коллегия, состоявшая из первоклассных специалистов в области русского слова, провела долгие часы, скрупулёзно оценивая работы...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | Russian Reviews, Russian Zone
The following titles are reviewed in this issue: Michael Ransome and Marta Tomaszewski, На старт, Внимание, Марш!. Reviewed by Jane Nashvili Michele A. Berdy, The Russian Word’s Worth. A humorous and informative guide to Russian language, culture, and translation....
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | Russian Reviews, Russian Zone
Andrew Jameson, Reviews Editor (Editor’s Note: All reviews are by Andrew Jameson unless otherwise indicated.) RUSSIAN TEXTBOOKS На старт, Внимание, Марш! Michael Ransome and Marta Tomaszewski Available from http://www.classroom-resources.com Classroom Resources, PO...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
Anne Preston, Paul Seedhouse, Patrick Olivier, Daniel Jackson, Phil Heslop, Jürgen Wagner, Thomas Ploetz and Saandia Ali (University of Newcastle) This article reports on the French Digital Kitchen, a French language learning project developed by human-computer...
