Getting started

In fact, this page contains only a part of the program description relating to basic ideas on how to use songs for learning Russian. Also, you can find the description of basic program features based on those ideas.

Looking through this part of the description can help you to decide by yourself whether this program is reasonable and suitable for your purposes, or not. Though, if you are really going to learn Russian, this program undoubtedly will be very useful for you regardless of your level of knowledge of Russian. You may even not notice that you have loaded into your memory the vast portion of real Russian language! This program is to help you to be in state of comfort during the process of learning Russian.

No doubts, you are closely familiar with the notion of a song. But this program presents you with the set of means, which can really help you to get the unexpectedly big knowledge from songs. For better understanding of our theoretical approach, read articles of the Introduction section.

In the Modes section, the four main approaches of song learning are described. In addition, you can find a lot of theoretical materials which have been applied in this program.
In the Interface section, you can find the screenshots of main windows of the VStoR program (ver. 1.2). Also, you can find the commentary to each window.

Please Note: If you are serious about learning Russian, read the information presented in the following articles. Perhaps, these articles can help you to form your own ideas on how to learn foreign languages.

• Introduction
  • Say Yes to Russian Songs
  • Welcome
  • VStoR Main Opportunities
  • Linguistic Teaching Decomposition
  • How Can I Use It?
• Modes
  • First Run
  • Independent mode
  • Listening mode
  • Singing mode
  • Exercises mode
• Interface
  • Song Presentation Window
  • Sentence Analysis Window
  • All Words Window
  • User Voice Recording Window
  • Dictionary
  • Tutor