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“Total dictation 2018” will be written on April 14, 2018. Where will the “Total Dictation” be written this year, who can become its participant, how to prepare and register, read the RIAMO material.
What is “Total dictation”
“Total Dictation 2018” will be written on April 14, 2018 on more than 1,500 offline platforms around the world, as well as online on the official website of the event. In Moscow it is planned to prepare more than 500 sites for dictation. The start of the action in Moscow and the Moscow region is 14.00 Moscow time.
This year, many residents of the Moscow region will also be able to write a dictation in their city. You can find out whether the “Total Dictation” is held in your city on the promotion’s website: by clicking the “Another city?” button. next to the “Menu” in the upper left corner of the site, the user goes to the full list of participating cities. To view the addresses of sites in a specific city, you need to select the city from the list and open the interactive map.
The final list of venues will be known and available on the website totaldict.ru by April 9. If a dictation is not held in your city, you can write it online or become the organizer of a dictation for the next year (details in the “Become an organizer” section).
All questions regarding the “Total Dictation” can be addressed to the organizers of the event by email: [email protected].
Registration of participants
Criteria for evaluation
The results of the “Total Dictation” will be available to registered users through their personal account. You need to click the red “Find out the result” button on the main page of the website totaldict.ru. If there is no announcement on your city page about the publication of results, then they are not yet available.
You need to remember the name and code word that you indicated on the form when writing the dictation - you will need to enter them on the website to find out your grade.
How to write a Total Dictation with an A, “dangerous” words that will be in the text and tips from excellent students - read the guide from Likes journalists
For all lovers of the great and mighty, who miss school lessons or who want to maintain their literacy at the proper level, we hasten to inform you: on April 14 at 13:00 a Total Dictation will be held in Ufa.
No, no, you don’t need to get double leaves, the action is voluntary, free and only promotes a love of language. The All-Russian, (almost worldwide) literacy test annually brings together thousands of willing people from different cities and countries who write a Total Dictation in the Russian language.
Traditionally, the event takes place at the same time, adjusted for time zones, and the original, previously unpublished text for the Total Dictation is written by a famous writer specially invited for this purpose. This year the choice fell on Guzel Yakhina, the author of the acclaimed book “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes.” According to the writer, the text will be dedicated to one day in the life of a village literature teacher named Bach.
Who is participating
If you are reading this article and know how to take dictation, welcome to Total Dictation. There is no discrimination, restrictions or special division: anyone can write a dictation, regardless of age, gender, education, religion, profession or interests.
How to participate
You can write a Total Dictation in 2 ways:
In Ufa, the event will be held at 27 sites for Total Dictation and 2 for TruD - a special test for people learning Russian as a foreign language. Among the invited readers (they are also called dictators) are professors, teachers and media personalities.
If you have no one to leave your child with, but really want to test his literacy, come to sites where you can leave your child: while you are writing a dictation, animators and educators will take care of him.
If you do not have the opportunity to come to one of the sites, do not rush to be upset: you can write a dictation online on the website. Broadcasts will be available at 8:00, 11:00 and 14:00 Moscow time. Connect to any of the broadcasts, write a dictation in a special window and click the “check” button - the score will appear in your personal account after a while.
In both cases, registration is required on the official website, it is open from April 4. Go to the website, open the page with the city of Ufa, select the site that suits you, click the “register” button and follow the simple instructions.
You can also find out your result on the website: enter your full name and code word (as on the form that will be given during the dictation itself). Each work is checked by philologists, and the analysis of participants’ errors helps in writing scientific papers in the field of modern Russian language. The grading system is the same as in school, you can see in the picture.
How to prepare for a dictation
Those who have been familiar with the campaign for several years have long been aware: Total dictation is preceded by courses. Like the event itself, they are free, voluntary and held once a week for everyone who wants to brush up on the rules of the language. In 2018, courses were held on Wednesdays from February 21, the last “lesson” was last Wednesday, April 4 at 18:30 in the scientific library of BSMU.
Despite the fact that there are several days before the dictation, there is a way out.
Even in such a short period of time, you can improve your literacy.
All on the same official website of the Total Dictation, anyone can access the materials of full-time courses plus an online school. In addition to a detailed analysis of the rules, Total texts from previous years are also presented, including TruD - for people learning Russian as a foreign language. Along with repeating the rules, you can familiarize yourself with dictations, analyze difficult places and common mistakes.
And this item is for the very lazy and busy. What basic rules need to be repeated (or skimmed)?
vowel spelling;
“not” and “neither” with parts of speech;
one and two “n”;
derived prepositions;
punctuation marks: isolation and emphasis of phrases;
formatting direct speech and quotes (the most common mistake!).
Bonuses for readers
If you have read this far, receive a small gift: difficult words that will appear in the text this year.
Platband, front garden, recite, zenith, somnambulist, dial, rogue, pelvis, interspersed, interspersed.
Advice from experienced “totalists” comes down to seemingly very simple rules - read more and love the Russian language.
You can also start writing yourself (if you’ve never written before) - on your desk, in blogs, on a sticky note on your refrigerator. But a universal recipe as old as time is to read fiction as often as possible. There is only one recipe, but there are many advantages: expanding vocabulary, training attentiveness, memory, rich speech and, most importantly, competent language.
What's the point?
Check your literacy. Total dictation is not just another way to remember your school years and hang labels (excellent student, C student and failure). Getting an A, B, or C is not a stigma, but an adequate way to assess your capabilities in order to become better and figure out what to work on. For some, this is a way to awaken a dormant interest in the Russian language, for others, it is to pat themselves on the head and strengthen their own knowledge.
No gingerbread, no gold medals and applause for straight A's, just another way to make sure that this is not just normal, it is necessary, possible and important, being literate is fashionable.
Tips for Newbies
Lidiya Germanova: Just go on an adventure! Don't think about the results, just remember your school years, fall back into childhood. Read your favorite book in a week, then your brain will definitely remember exactly the words you need!
Denis Yamgulov: My advice is not to repeat the rules of the Russian language, especially chaotically, especially on the eve of the dictation. Relax and don’t make things too important, it’s just an assessment. Be patient while waiting for results and don’t scold yourself if something happens. Read more in everyday life. All.
Aigul Davletova: Arrive early to get a closer seat. A lucky hand will not add to your knowledge, and you won’t be able to re-read all the rules. But if a person goes specifically to write for the result, then it makes sense to go to training courses, they begin to be taught in about two months.
This year, the author of the text of “Total Dictation” was Guzel Yakhina. The Kazan writer became famous several years ago after the publication of her first novel, “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes,” about the dispossession of the 1930s.
For the Total Dictation, she prepared three passages called “Morning”, “Day” and “Evening”. They will be included in Guzel Yakhina’s next novel, “My Children,” which will tell about the Volga Germans.
Having received a message with an offer to become the author of “Total Dictation”, Guzel Yakhina did not hesitate for a minute. “I agreed immediately,” she says. “Of course, at first the sense of responsibility weighed down a little: after all, two hundred thousand people who write your text under dictation is a lot.” “Total dictation” was born as a small local action in Novosibirsk. Over these 14 years, it has developed and turned into a powerful international movement. It is written on all continents, including even Antarctica.
Part 1. Morning
Every morning, still in the light of the stars, Jacob Ivanovich Bach woke up and, lying under a thick quilted feather bed of duck down, listened to the world. The quiet discordant sounds of someone else's life flowing somewhere around him and on top of him calmed him down. Winds walked across the roofs - heavy in winter, thickly mixed with snow and ice pellets, elastic in spring, breathing moisture and heavenly electricity, in summer sluggish, dry, mixed with dust and light feather grass seeds. Dogs barked, greeting the sleepy owners who came out onto the porch, and cattle roared loudly on their way to the watering hole. The world breathed, crackled, whistled, mooed, clattered its hooves, rang and sang in different voices.
The sounds of his own life were so meager and blatantly insignificant that Bach forgot how to hear them: he isolated them in the general sound stream and ignored them. The glass of the only window in the room rattled under the gusts of wind, the chimney, which had not been cleaned for a long time, crackled, and occasionally a gray-haired mouse whistled from somewhere under the stove. That's probably all. Listening to big life was much more interesting. Sometimes, having listened to Bach, he even forgot that he himself was part of this world, that he, too, could, going out onto the porch, join in the polyphony: sing something perky, or loudly slam the door, or, at worst, just sneeze. But Bach preferred to listen.
At six in the morning, carefully dressed and combed, he was already standing at the school bell tower with a pocket watch in his hands. Having waited until both hands merged into a single line (the hour at six, the minute at twelve), he pulled the rope with all his strength - and the bronze bell echoed loudly. Over many years of practice, Bach achieved such mastery in this matter that the sound of the blow was heard exactly at the moment when the minute hand touched the dial zenith, and not a second later. A moment later, everyone in the village turned towards the sound and whispered a short prayer. A new day has come...
Part 2. Day
... Over the years of teaching, each of which resembled the previous one and did not stand out in anything special, Yakob Ivanovich was so accustomed to pronouncing the same words and reading out the same problems that he learned to mentally split in two inside his body: his tongue muttered the text of the next grammatical rules, the hand clutched with a ruler sluggishly slapped the back of the head of the overly talkative student, the legs sedately carried the body around the class - from the department to the back wall, then back, back and forth. And the thought dozed, lulled by his own voice and the measured shaking of his head in time with his leisurely steps.
German speech was the only subject during which Bach's thought regained its former freshness and vigor. We started the lesson with oral exercises. The students were asked to tell something, Bach listened and translated: he turned short dialect phrases into elegant phrases of literary German. They moved slowly, sentence by sentence, word by word, as if they were walking somewhere in deep snow - trail after trail. Yakob Ivanovich did not like to tinker with the alphabet and calligraphy and, having finished with conversations, hurriedly moved the lesson towards the poetic part: poems poured generously onto young shaggy heads, like water from a basin on a bath day.
Bach was burned with a love for poetry in his youth. Then it seemed that he did not eat potato soup and sauerkraut, but only ballads and hymns. It seemed that he could feed everyone around them with them - that’s why he became a teacher. Until now, while reciting his favorite verses in class, Bach still felt a cool flutter of delight in his chest. The children did not share the teacher’s passion: their faces, usually playful or concentrated, with the very first sounds of the poetic lines acquired a submissive somnambulistic expression. German romanticism had a better effect on the class than a sleeping pill. Perhaps, reading poetry could be used to calm the unruly audience instead of the usual screams and blows with a ruler...
Part 3. Evening
...Bach descended from the porch of the school and found himself on the square, at the foot of the majestic church with a spacious prayer hall in a lace of lancet windows and a huge bell tower, reminiscent of a sharpened pencil. I walked past neat wooden houses with sky-blue, berry-red and corn-yellow trim; past planed fences; past boats overturned in anticipation of the flood; past front gardens with rowan bushes. He walked so quickly, loudly crunching his felt boots in the snow or squelching his boots in the spring mud, that one would think that he had a dozen urgent matters that should definitely be settled today...
Those who met him, noticing the mincing figure of the teacher, sometimes called out to him and started talking about the school successes of their offspring. However, he, out of breath from fast walking, answered reluctantly, in short phrases: time was running out. In confirmation, he took his watch out of his pocket, cast a contrite glance at it and, shaking his head, ran on. Where he fled to, Bach himself could not explain.
It must be said that there was another reason for his haste: when talking with people, Yakob Ivanovich stuttered. His trained language, which worked regularly and flawlessly during lessons and without a single hesitation pronounced multi-compound words of literary German, easily produced such complex sentences that some students would forget the beginning before they listened to the end. The same language suddenly began to fail the owner when Bach switched to dialect in conversations with fellow villagers. For example, the tongue wanted to read passages from Faust by heart; say to the neighbor: “And your dunce has been naughty again today!” - I didn’t want it at all, it stuck to the roof of my mouth and got mixed between my teeth, like an overly large and poorly cooked dumpling. It seemed to Bach that his stuttering was getting worse over the years, but it was difficult to verify: he talked with people less and less... So life flowed on, in which there was everything except life itself - calm, full of penny joys and miserable anxieties, in some ways even happy.
Is it possible to dictate like Samburskaya, I have never heard a more disgusting reading, people left the hall, Nastya read “At the bottom” of Gorky, do not disgrace yourself and do not disgrace the classics
Advantages: I haven't seen it yet.
Flaws: Disorganized and no notification of changes.
For many years I had been planning to take this dictation to test my knowledge, but it didn’t work out. This year, luck smiled on me and an opportunity arose. I chose a site closer to work, since that day was my shift, and registered on the Total Dictation website (address: Novosibirsk, Krasny Prospekt, 72, Aviation College). I arrived there on the appointed day and time, but, as it turned out, the workers did not know that their establishment was participating in the dictation, that someone had added the technical school to the site database without their knowledge. If this point was removed, then why didn’t I receive any notification, although I indicated this point during registration? And even inside the premises there was absolutely no information about the cancellation of this site, or about the nearest one that was working. Dear organizers, be careful about who and where you include as a platform. It’s a shame to lose both time and mood because of such careless disorganization. It’s okay for me, I just had to cross to the other side of the street, but someone purposefully came from more distant areas... Organizers, be more organized!
I didn’t really like how they read it on our site: the announcer was distracted, started talking about something of her own, building parallels between Ivanov and another author, right during the dictation. Well, she wasn’t very attentive.
But the number of participants who came was pleasantly surprising!
P.S. wrote to ChelSU-3
Neutral reviews
Positive reviews
Advantages: Great organization.
Flaws: No.
On April 8, the annual worldwide educational campaign “Total Dictation” took place, the purpose of which is to popularize the Russian language, education and provide everyone with the opportunity to test their literacy.
The event has been taking place in Gorlovka for the second year. The venue for the dictation this year, as in fact in the past, was the Gorlovka Institute of Foreign Languages.
To participate in the dictation, you had to register in advance. I registered via the Internet; it was possible to register on the spot, immediately before the dictation. The writing of the Total Dictation took place in the assembly hall of the institute; more than 280 people took part in the event in Gorlovka.
Anyone who wants to test their literacy, regardless of age, can write a dictation. Participants are given special forms on which personal data is filled out and on which, in fact, the dictation itself is written.
You could only have a pen and, if necessary, glasses with you.
This is an anonymous action. No one except the person who wrote the dictation will know his assessment.
Before the dictation, participants were warned that, if necessary, the organizers had spare pens.
“Total dictation” is intended to once again remind us all of the great value of the Russian language, and, my personal conviction, to restore people’s respect for literacy, the ability to speak and write correctly and beautifully.
As I already wrote above, “Total Dictation” is an annual worldwide educational event in the form of a voluntary dictation for everyone. Organizer: Total Dictation Foundation (Novosibirsk). The first Total Dictation was held in 2004 by Novosibirsk State University and has been steadily gaining popularity since then. The text of the Total Dictation is written every year by a famous writer especially for the event. The author of the 2017 Total Dictation was the Russian writer Leonid Yuzefovich. He wrote the texts of three dictations.
The Gorlovka site got the theme: “Ulan-Ude. Selenga.” This is not just a dictation, it is an amazing story about the writer’s childhood memories.
Before the start of the dictation, the video contained a video message from the writer Leonid Yuzefovich to the participants of the action, and the text of the dictation was personally read to him for review.
In Gorlovka, singer Yulia Chicherina read the dictation.
I liked writing a dictation, it’s interesting, like at school. The people around were also happy.
After the end of the event, Yulia Chicherina performed several of her own songs for the Gorlovka participants, which was a pleasant gift for us.
I work in government. structure and we received a letter in the mail about the “Total Dictation”. In 2017, it is held on April 8 in Donetsk at 14.00, but from March 28 it was possible to register on the totaldictTOCHru website.
What is “Total Dictation”? Total dictation is an annual educational event designed to draw attention to literacy issues and develop a culture of competent writing.
The essence of the action is a voluntary free dictation for everyone, which takes place simultaneously in dozens of cities in Russia and the world (adjusted for time zones).
The letter stated that it was necessary to register. To be honest, this is where the problems started. Maybe this happened to our city, but... it happened.
To register, go to the city website. And go to your personal account.
- Then we create an account.
- We are looking for the “Total Dictation” sites in your city and below the map you need to click “Donetsk Sites” (you have a different city, therefore other sites).
- From the list of sites, select the one you need and click “Register”.
It is advisable to register early, because, perhaps this year, there were no places available at many sites close to my house a few days after registration began.
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email by email stating that you are registered. The letter indicates your location and time for writing the dictation.
Why did I go to write “Total Dictation”: 1. To prove to myself that I am a literate person 2. To prove to the child that I know the Russian language at a sufficient level and they need to listen to me when we do homework. And mom doesn’t just yell because of grammatical errors: A LITERATE PERSON IS MODERN, PRESTIGIOUS AND HONORABLE :)
This is all I thought when I registered. After registering on the site, I saw a beautiful red button: Preparation for the dictation and Online courses. Since I work, and the children take up time, I think I’ll review the courses one day before starting the dictation. But on this day I had some free time before going to bed and I think let me take at least one lesson. And imagine my surprise when it turned out that you can spend from 1 to 1.5 hours on 1 lesson, and besides, all my knowledge relates mainly to spelling, but my punctuation knowledge is zero, except for the basic ones. HORROR!
The courses are very detailed and you can even check how you have mastered them. At the beginning there are video lessons.
And imagine my surprise that in one dictation I have 10 punctuation errors, really 0 spelling errors. But 10 PUNCTUATION ERRORS!
And then I realized how self-confident I was. In general, since I was already registered, I had to take lessons whenever possible. Of the 11 lessons posted, I only managed to complete 4, and even then with a broken score.
For the future, if next year someone decides to write “Total Dictation” in advance, then start looking at the page [link] from February, then you can have time to prepare and be confident in yourself. But I’ll get ahead of myself and say that all those 11 online lessons that are posted on the site relate specifically to the dictation of this year.
So, April 8th has come, I’m walking and I’m afraid of shitting myself. There’s not a single thought in my head, although what should I be afraid of – they won’t kick me out of school.
This event is absolutely free, I confirm, they even handed out leaflets and I went in without showing my passport, although I took it just in case. There were 60 people writing in the audience, mostly students and 10-15 older people.
As the organizers told us, “Total Dictation” is being written for the 14th time, and this year the author of the text was Leonid Yuzefovich. I’ll say right away that I don’t know such a writer. The text was called: “Ulan-Ude. Selenga".
On a piece of paper you had to write your Last Name or Nickname, First Name and Password, under which you can log into your personal account and view the result.
The dictation turned out to be difficult for me: a large number of names of rivers, cities, as well as punctuation marks. If you want to register next year: BE SURE TO TAKE ONLINE LESSONS. They help a lot in writing a dictation; unfortunately, I didn’t have time to complete most of the lessons. The dictation took only 1 hour 20 minutes, including preparation, writing and testing.
According to the news, it was reported that the total dictation would be dictated by famous people from cinema and television, but our city is not large enough for stars to come to us, so the speaker was a Russian language teacher and, to be honest, she dictated clearly and the articulation of sounds sounded correct, without any hissing or unclear spoken sound.
It also turned out that the dictation can be written online. Which makes it easier for a large number of people to have access to writing dictations - literally without leaving home.
If I get a positive assessment, I’ll post it, but no, it’s too embarrassing :) to post the result.
P.S. I have already checked my dictation: 8 punctuation errors and 1 syntax error.
Dare, improve, study and maybe you will get an A for dictation :)
And I really liked it (wrote in the Biblioglobus store, Focus shopping mall). I would like to note the girls who approached everyone and politely inquired whether the participant had been registered - since the site was closed, with a limited number of seats, registration for it had to be done online in advance, and then “check in”. The girls celebrated the new arrivals, but everything was calm, without fuss.
The text was read by a Russian language teacher and philologist, so there were no problems with dictation (my deskmates answered her question: “Are there any complaints about the dictation?” They answered that the best part of the assessment was her merit). We were pleased with the participants: intelligent, cultured citizens. I also liked the atmosphere: civilized behavior and polite treatment.
In general, a great event, I will definitely go next year.
P.S. The nostalgic text was very touching.
Last year's experience of writing the Total Dictation left a positive impression, and this year we decided to do it with the whole family (with children 12 and 15 years old). Registration for the Moscow sites began on March 29, but by this time the identities of the “dictators” had not been announced. That's why I chose the site.
Registration for the library at Pashkov's house ended very quickly; unfortunately, I didn't have time. When I saw the Museum of Russian Impressionism on the list, I registered there. I read a lot of good reviews about it, I had been planning to visit for a long time, but it didn’t work out, but here is such a reason. A few days later the name of the “dictator” was announced in the museum - Fekla Tolstaya. This also added positive emotions to the anticipation.
The Museum of Russian Impressionism - Leningradsky Prospekt, 15, building 11 - is unusual on the outside and cozy on the inside. A modern building with spacious rooms, friendly staff and wonderful paintings.
We registered with a TD volunteer, received participant bracelets and...we were invited to view the exhibition - a nice bonus from the dictation organizers.
Fekla Tolstaya greeted the participants of the event, we were shown a short news release related to TD - funny and a little instructive, we were reminded of one of the spelling rules, and the dictation started. The TV presenter dictated well, according to all the rules, several difficult words - names of cities and proper names - were mentioned in advance. The text is replete with punctuation marks, especially the final part. The dictation ended with applause for the “dictator.”
Impressions are only positive. We are waiting for the results and will definitely go next year.
