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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 41 of 88 29 September 2013 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I wish you a lot of success with learning Russian, even though it will be useless to you in the Czech Republic unless you intend to spend your time only in the community of russian immigrants. It is the same everywhere in the Central Europe. However in the Eastern Europe, such as the Belaruss or Ukraine, it should be helpful.
While I have only dabbled in Russian, I wouldn't ever dare to not try to learn proper pronunciation of any language, no matter how difficult it may be. After all, very few people get near perfection even when trying. Giving up is just as a wrong advice as the opposite (one Czech based French textbook doesn't encourage learners much, it tries to protect fragile ears of the natives from learners instead right in the introduction :-) ). Lots of listening and comparing yourself to audio can do miracles, Cristianoo, don't give up. How are you progressing? Is the Pimsleur Russian good? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 42 of 88 29 September 2013 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | ||
That's not true. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4122 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 43 of 88 03 October 2013 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Cavesa,
Pimsleur is great, and I dont intend to give up. Thanks for your words of encouragement :) My progress is a little slow, but I learn a bit more everyday. Report: I finished Pimsleur 1-7 and studied Penguin lesson 7 (Adjectives). I feel that I need to do some review and training before proceeding to the next lessons. Edited by Cristianoo on 03 October 2013 at 1:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4122 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 44 of 88 17 October 2013 at 2:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I've finished Pimsleur 9 and decided to start Assimil because I'm overwhelmed by
penguin's vocabulary and grammar lessons. I will go back to it as soon as I feel ready again. Words and pronunciation rules in pimsleur are starting to glue in my mind, thanks god. Also, I'm reading a little faster cyrillic texts, but not enough yet. Got a lot of french lessons to study, so things slew down a little with russian. I hope I can speedup things again this week. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4122 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 45 of 88 02 January 2014 at 2:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Finally I can get back on studying Russian!
I might say, I've got some problems with the language at the beginning. I got thoroughly lost and I started to feel that all I need was sometime to reorganize things and try to plan before act. Well.. I did and now I hope I can accomplish things in a better way this year. I will be using Assimil for vocabulary acquisition and general learning, Pimsleur to improve listening and Penguin for grammar. I've divided these 3 in 7 cicles that I hope to have them finished by the end of 2014, I'll be posting here the results once a week, 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4122 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 46 of 88 04 January 2014 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 1 post:
Cicle 1: Assimil: 1-7 (most of then were reviews of a previous study) Pimsleur: 1-12 (1-9 was a review) Penguin: caps 1 and 2. I found it awkward the cursive writting. There are some letters which are easy to be confused one to another. I'll leave it to be studied later... I have too many things in my head now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4712 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 47 of 88 05 January 2014 at 1:20am | IP Logged | ||
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I hope you don't mind me asking a question to other posters in your log! Mark, if you
come across this again, I'd be glad what combination of sources you would suggest for a beginning studier of Russian. It seems most are inadequate in some way, so what would you say is the combo to go with? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4122 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 48 of 88 09 January 2014 at 6:39am | IP Logged | ||
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@leosmith
I didn't check (yet) the Princeton course because I had a hard time finding it but now I finally got it, so I might take a look later. Thanks for the tip. I'm trying to avoid transcription as much as I can because it's very important to me as a future traveler to learn how to easily read cyrillic. So I'm investing some extra effort on that. @марк - Thanks for your help. I'll try reading them later. I did try to read some texts right at the beginning but due to my completely lack of vocabulary and language knowledge, it became a painful boring activity, so I tried a little more and finally I gave up. So now, I'm using Assimil which is great and it is slowly introducing basic vocabulary. I'm using Anki to fix then into my brain (or at least try to :)). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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