mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 545 of 672 11 July 2012 at 11:46pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
...If they had trained more of their
personnel in English and offered excursions in English, not just in Russian... |
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It would seem as an ideal place for me to go 'tourist' (you know how I generally hate tourism), but OTOH in your log you said you managed -stress aside, I hope you recover soon from that- to speak incredibly little Russian, so I'm not sure after all... anyway I hope you really enjoy yourself in there :)
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 546 of 672 12 July 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged |
I'd rather they keep the excursions in Russian, that way I won't get lazy and take the
English tour.
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 547 of 672 12 July 2012 at 2:05pm | IP Logged |
Exactly what I meant...
The only thing I "hate" more than tourists is a tourist guide speaking English to the herd, except maybe if it's butchered English which can be quite hilarious.
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 548 of 672 12 July 2012 at 2:33pm | IP Logged |
I wouldn't use a tourist guide anyway. Why do I need to pay exorbitant amounts of money
if I can go find out myself, at my leisure, using my schedule. The most I would pay for
is a private guide if I was concerned about security, or I'd go with a local friend or
something. I've never done guided tours except for a one day tour or so in Iceland, and
that is because we needed to use the bus and the distances were too big (I don't have a
driver's licence or I could have rented a car).
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 549 of 672 12 July 2012 at 2:54pm | IP Logged |
Something tells me none of us means big bucks for the tourism industry...
Edited by mrwarper on 12 July 2012 at 2:54pm
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 550 of 672 12 July 2012 at 2:58pm | IP Logged |
I'm not their target audience anyway; I would never have been targeted by them.
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 551 of 672 19 July 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged |
Hello everyone:
I wonder if someone knows about youtube videos with Russian movies (with Russian subtitles).
Kind regards
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Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4977 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian
| Message 552 of 672 20 July 2012 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
This Youtube channel has loads of full-length Russian films which you can watch. I'm not sure which have subtitles,
but I'm sure some must:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm?feature=results_main
A good way to go about finding films is simply to look up something like "Best Russian films" on Google or "Best ___
Russian films" (filling in the blank with your favorite genre) and then writing down the titles that seem interesting to
you. From there, search for the film on Youtube, on Google Video, and then just on a standard Google search.
You're bound to find the film with subtitles somewhere abouts on the web.
Here's one movie to start you out with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1lSfKqgGKQ
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