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| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5336 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 13 January 2012 at 9:42am | IP Logged |
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Привет. Я изчсаю русский язык. Я знаю трудно. I still want to learn it, even if it is. I
find it a very beautiful language, and just can't resist learning it. Right now I do struggle with some pronunciation, but it will get better with time. I'm using Colloquial Russian, and I like the book. It has a lot of exercises in the book. I'm only on the second unit, because I've been struggling the with that unit for a few weeks. I guess just scared to actually learn it, and the deep road ahead. I'm not going to give up. Hopefully in due time, it will be better. As of right now. I can understand the words I know, and can read sentences that contains those words. I'm just getting used to the spelling rules, and the nominative case endings. The cases aren't really the problem, since I am used to them from German. I just need to learn the endings. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5336 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 5 22 January 2012 at 2:44am | IP Logged |
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I've managed to learn quite a bit more words in Russian. I've been listening to Michel
Thomas Russian. While I know it won't give a lot in return, but it has helped with my pronunciation. I really enjoy it a lot. I'm still using Colloquial Russian too with Anki. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5336 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 3 of 5 27 January 2012 at 12:14pm | IP Logged |
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I've been listening to MT Russian a lot. I think I do about 10-15 a day. I'm currently
now on CD 5-8 as of writing. I'm getting the words down really good. There are at times I might forget, but for the most part. I have no trouble. I just learned the past tense form of Знать. Hopefully, that I will learn more. Probably in a week, or two. I should be on the end of the advanced course, or on the vocabulary one. Then I will start doing Pimsleur. Some people say I should do them both together. I'm not really sure, that is the best decision to do, unless others agree. When I finish Pimsleur. Hopefully it will give me a good path to continue on with Russian. I'm really going to try and get this language down. I really want to be able to go to Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russian, then go to Kiev and Pripyat in the Ukraine. Yes, I really want to go on the tour at Chernobyl ;P. I will take pictures, if I ever get the chance to. I also just bought the Barron's 501 Russian verbs book for really cheap. I'm still waiting for my English-Russian dictionary to come in the mail. I don't know when I will get it, since it has no tracking number. I do wonder how long it will take for me to be able to run Windows 7 and Linux desktop completely in Russian. Probably take a good 3-4 years (estimation). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5548 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 4 of 5 27 January 2012 at 3:30pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck with your Russian this year Zeke! I always found the Colloquial course a little intimidating, and don't think I ever made it past lesson 7 (I always found the woman's voice a bit too scary). So don't worry too much if you find yourself initially struggling with this book. I think MT and Pimsleur will give you a good basic foundation and may be more fun right now. :) Edited by Teango on 27 January 2012 at 3:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5336 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 5 05 February 2012 at 5:16am | IP Logged |
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I have finished the first 8 CDs of Michel Thomas Russian. I am very happy with it, even
though I did forget some words once in a while. I am happy with my progress in Russian. I just wish I had more words to be able to write in here without using English, but that will come soon. Hopefully by June, or July. I will be able to converse. That is my goal for right now. By the end of the year I want to be able to read a book in it, even if I still have to look up some words. I'm going to really do my best to stick with Russian and not give up on it, or forget about it. Я хочу говорить...нет. Я БУДУ говорить и Я буду понимать по-русски. Ж) Edited by zekecoma on 05 February 2012 at 5:18am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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