riff Newbie United States Joined 5292 days ago 32 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian
| Message 9 of 29 02 January 2013 at 2:53am | IP Logged |
Howdy, ancpem1! Just dropping by to wish you luck with your Greek and Russian studies
this year. That's fantastic that you've already got the Cyrillic alphabet down. Now comes
the hard part :).
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stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5830 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 10 of 29 02 January 2013 at 7:36am | IP Logged |
Good luck with your studies ancpem1. I'll be interested to see what similarities you discover between Koine Greek and Modern Greek as you progress this year.
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Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5678 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian
| Message 11 of 29 02 January 2013 at 8:31am | IP Logged |
Hey ancpem1! Glad you managed to make it to the team! :D As a beginner myself, websites
like russianforfree.com have been indispensable. The basic Russian course is gold, use it
to supplement whatever materials you are using at the moment.
Good luck!
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Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4637 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 12 of 29 02 January 2013 at 10:00am | IP Logged |
Hello ancpem1. As a fellow Sparta team member I just wanted to wish you a happy new year and lot of success with your studies. I will also follow your progress in Russian. I do that language myself for TAC on an individual basis, but as there are now a few of the Sparta team members who are also on MIR, I will lurk in the shadows of that team.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 13 of 29 02 January 2013 at 4:53pm | IP Logged |
Hello ancpem1. I really hope you get to a higher A2 or even B1 by the end of 2013!
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ancpem1 Groupie United States Joined 4386 days ago 56 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Greek, Latin, French
| Message 14 of 29 02 January 2013 at 8:02pm | IP Logged |
Today I'm working on learning the Cyrillic alphabet. I hope to have learned it before Friday.
I still need to find materials, so I welcome any recommendations for inexpensive resources.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 15 of 29 02 January 2013 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
Hugo's Russian in three months is inexpensive, I suppose, and better than TY or
Colloquial usually.
New Penguin Russian Course is the usual choice, but it lacks audio.
There's also Princeton course which you can get for free, but I assume you mean something
in paper.
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 16 of 29 03 January 2013 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
I think there's a list of Russian resources on the front page of the team thread. I know there's lots of free material out there, but Assimil would be a good choice if you can afford it. I think Schoenhofs has the set for about $50 if you're in the US.
Good luck with your TAC goals this year!
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