TLDR: For each base word (lemma) included in this deck, you will se example sentences with the three most used declensions. Research shows that this will build intuitive knowledge of Russian inflection.
This is one of four decks based on the
SMARTool project. This particular deck covers words at A2 level (elementary).
Credit for the collection and indexing of the original dataset goes to the creators of SMARTool. I thought it would be a great fit for Anki, so I imported it and added sound. Now I'm sharing it, and I hope it works as well for you as it did for me!
Use the deck however you like, but I advise you to not focus too much on the translations. Use it as a source of language input: click "Good" if you comprehend the sentence or "Again" if not. The target word will be highlighted in blue. You can click it to see declensions and other definitions at
wiktionary.org. The English translation of the word will not always be a complete match to the meaning in context of the given example sentence.
Here is SMARTool as described on
the original site:
SMARTool: The Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool
The SMARTool is a free web resource for L2 learners of Russian that implements findings of a learning simulation experiment and corpus research to optimize the acquisition of Russian vocabulary and morphology. Corpus data (Janda & Tyers 2018) reveals that for any given Russian lexeme, only a few (usually 1-3) wordforms account for nearly all attestations, while remaining wordforms are rare or unattested. Our computational learning experiment shows that learning of Russian inflection is best when training is restricted to high frequency wordforms. The SMARTool builds on these findings for a basic vocabulary of 3000 nouns, adjectives, and verbs culled from major textbooks and other sources to represent levels A1, A2, B1, and B2 (CEFR scale). We have identified both a) the three most frequent wordforms for each lexeme (reducing the target number of wordforms to learn from 150,000 to 9,000) and b) the most typical grammatical constructions and collocations that motivate each wordform. We have also created c) corpus-based example sentences instantiating typical use.
Audio for all sentences (in both female and male voices) and English translations are available at the click of a button. The SMARTool has filters that facilitate searching by: a) CEFR Level, b) Topic (such as время/time, еда/food, здоровье/health etc.), c) Analysis (such as Ins.Sing, facilitating grammatical exercises), and d) Dictionary form.
Janda, Laura A. & Francis M. Tyers. 2018. Less is More: Why All Paradigms are Defective, and Why that is a Good Thing. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14(2), 33pp.
doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2018-0031.
Source code:
https://github.com/smartool/smartool-rus-eng.
Team behind this project
Radovan Bast (UiT The Arctic University of Norway): Design and Programming
Laura A. Janda (UiT The Arctic University of Norway): Background research, Concept, Design, Vocabulary selection, Editing of content
Tore Nesset (UiT The Arctic University of Norway): Concept, Design, Vocabulary selection
Svetlana Sokolova (UiT The Arctic University of Norway): Concept, Design, Vocabulary selection
James McDonald (UiT The Arctic University of Norway): Editing of content
Mikhail Kopotev (University of Helsinki): Design, Vocabulary selection
Francis M. Tyers (Indiana University): Background research, Concept, Design, Vocabulary selection
Ekaterina Rakhilina (Higher School of Economics in Moscow): Concept
Olga Lyashevskaya (Higher School of Economics in Moscow): Concept, Design, Vocabulary selection
Valentina Zhukova (Higher School of Economics in Moscow): Content
Evgeniia Sudarikova (Higher School of Economics in Moscow): Content
Elizaveta Kibisova (Higher School of Economics in Moscow): Content