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Cossack Lullaby (Lullaby) 
MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Grandma's Lullaby for Her Little Girl (Lullaby) MP3
Looly-looly-loolenki (Lullaby)
Magpie - Magpie (Finger Play) MP3 
Pat-a-cake (Clapping Song) MP3
Pussy-Cat (Lullaby)
Sleep (Lullaby) Midi
Midi Sleep-sleep-sleep (Lullaby)
Some Russian Tongue Twisters (Tongue Twisters)
The Crocodile (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
The Hussars Are Coming (Nursery rhyme)
The Night Has Come (Lullaby)
The Priest Had a Dog (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
The Russian Doll (Rhyme Game) MP3
Tongue Twisters #2 (Tongue Twisters)
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Here are some of Mama Lisa's recent posts about the music, culture and traditions of Russia:
Open Culture has a page of free language learning links covering 40 languages. Here are some of the languages you can find links for… Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Maori, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swahili,... Read more »
We asked people how they say Murphy’s Law in other languages. Murphy’s Law is the saying, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". Marina wrote from Russia, "…in my country Murphy?s Law has the same name [and is also called] the Law of Meanness, or the law of bread and butter (if it?s falling,... Read more »
Let happiness the guarded treasure be of the mind’s padlock, and true love be key. -from The Padlock (circa 1788) Love Padlocks can bee seen throughout much of Europe and other places around the world like Taiwan. Peter wrote, "Couples put their names on a lock and then lock them onto some... Read more »- Florent is looking for a Russian rhyme or kids song pre-dating 1892. Can anyone help? If so, please comment below or email me. Thanks! Mama Lisa Read more »
Librivox just released another bunch of recordings of fairy tales in various languages, including Hungarian, Russian, German, English, Italian and Portuguese (with links to the text of each tale). This is the 3rd collection they’ve posted. Fairy Tale Collection #1 also includes recordings in Latvian, Danish, Romanian, Yiddish and French. You can also... Read more »- Caroline sent a lovely Russian lullaby with a story about her childhood: I like your site Russian songs for children. I don’t have a Cyrillic keyboard so I’ll do my best to transliterate. Bayou-bayoushkji-bayou, Seedjit kotjik na kriyou, On nje bedjin nje bahat, Oo njevo yestj m’noho rebjat Vcje pah lallichkum seedjatj Kashou smasljetsum yedjatj. Bayou-bayoushkji-bayou. English Translation: Hush-a-bye, Hush-a-bye, Sits a kitty... Read more »
Helen Korablev sent me links to some bilingual Russian English tales online. They were originally written in Russian, but they have English translations next to them. Two were written by the famous Russian author, Pushkin. Helen wrote: Lisa, hi! I’m sending you links to some lovely Russian tales. I hope it will be useful... Read more »- Gilbert wrote: Hi, I would be grateful if someone could help. I am trying to find the Russian lyrics for a children?s song about a bear (Mischa) who goes into the woods and gets a cone dropped on his head… does anyone know the words in Russian? Thanks G If anyone can help Gilbert with the original Russian lyrics... Read more »
- Chris wrote: Hi my name is D. I’m on a mission to find Russian children’s songs. I found your page on the web and liked what I saw. I’m looking to make a CD of Russian children’s songs for personal use. I’ll explain why. My mom is a foster mom for medically fragile kids (wheelchair and medical... Read more »
- Mikel is looking for the lyrics of a Russian song. This song is in the family but they don’t know what the lyrics mean. What they sing sounds like “chisi-chisi ietil uil napanta le vozkutpil”. If anyone could provide the proper spelling in Russian and/or a translation, that would be great. Feel free to write... Read more »
RELATED LINKS
Русский: Справочник
по лексике | Russian: Vocabulary Guide
(In English and Russian)
To read and listen to the basic Russian vocabulary
The Song of the Balalaika
(In English and Russian)
Russian Folk Songs
Internet-Library by Moshkov
(In Russian)
Section with help books for parents and kids books.
Nanya Magazine
(In Russian)
Online Magazine for Parents
Russian Megasite
(In Russian)
Lots of Topics with a Kids Section
Russian Search Engine
(In Russian)
Lalitree's Blog
(In English)
