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| Peter97 Newbie United States Joined 4970 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 11 20 May 2011 at 10:53am | IP Logged | ||
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The past week I learned the Cyrillic alphabet and some basic words, but do not know where to go from there. While I am a bit young, I hope to make this summer a productive one. So, if any of you could share some tips/resources to a newbie it would be appreciated. Thanks :) Edited by Peter97 on 20 May 2011 at 11:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radu-1987 Diglot Groupie RomaniaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5017 days ago 42 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: Japanese*, English Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 11 20 May 2011 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Choose a song and find its lyrics and listen.
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| Mrs. Dalloway Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 4997 days ago 70 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: GermanA2, French, Danish | Message 4 of 11 20 May 2011 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
This technique will be very confusing at the beginning, because you'll meet words you actually know, but which are declined in cases that may be unknown to you and won't recognize them (: I'm sorry, but I can't help you here. My learning started when I arrived here in Russia. Intensive full-time immersion, that is. I got dipped in the language and learnt by osmosis! Still, I'd say: learn the cases, one at a time; read; listen to a lot of Russian to get used to the sound of it. Don't hurry, just try to make out the general sense of the words or the topic which is being treated. I guess I can't say anything more. Good luck! Edited by Mrs. Dalloway on 20 May 2011 at 7:57pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5348 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 5 of 11 20 May 2011 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Check out the following two threads. That should get ýou started.
Online Russian Courses? Skype? Princeton Russian Course Edited by Doitsujin on 20 May 2011 at 8:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5409 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 6 of 11 20 May 2011 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can go to your local library and pick any self-learner method, preferably with CDs. Teach Yourself is usually pretty good, but I don't know about the Russian version specifically.
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6474 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 7 of 11 20 May 2011 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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New Penguin Russian Course is excellent, albeit sans audio. You could try hunting down a
copy of Russian without Toil (Assimil), but the better versions are either in French or German, so unless you speak / read those, that's out. So, I'd recommend: * New Penguin Russian Course (widely available, and it costs like $12 new from amazon) * Princeton Russian Course for the dialogues and audio. Just make use of the vocabulary lists to help understand the dialogues, and skip the rest. I've found NPRC's treatment of grammar far more straightforward and clear than the Princeton Russian Course. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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