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| moorea21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5111 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 14 18 November 2010 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi,
After a break of about a year, I'm trying to resume learning Russian. One aspect of this that I particularly enjoy is learning vocabulary; I don't attempt to speak the language yet, but for some reason I find it soothing to run through Russian vocab in my mind, and out loud... I think it's my autistic side showing through! Elsewhere in this forum, Teango mentioned having had limited success with flash cards gleaned from the above mentioned book... I think this method of vocab learning might suit me, but I fear Teango speaking of it in the past tense must mean it no longer exists! Does anyone have any electronic flash cards, with well pronounced audio, for at least some of this book? A copy would be a great help, I would return the favour somehow. Thanks, Richard B 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6263 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 2 of 14 20 November 2010 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Any connection to Nicholas Brown's Russian Learners' Dictionary? That is a very good resource but did not have flash cards, unless a new edition has them.
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| moorea21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5111 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 14 20 November 2010 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's by the same chap, he used to lecture in Russian at Bristol University, up the road from me. No longer there
unfortunately. I agree his books are well written, and approachable for a slow learner like me. But alas no flash cards, electronic or otherwise! I have found software with Russian audio flash cards, though, by a company called 'Declan' I have to run it on my pc rather than my mac, which is a shame as the sound card in the pc is poor, so I can't tell how good the audio quality is. Also, it doesn't do spaced repetition like Anki. But I'll try it and see... I notice you speak Turkish;- That's the other language that interests me; a gateway to the other Turkic languages? I find central Asia and Eastern Europe fascinating. I have a Turkish friend who struck up a conversation with a Kazakh without any difficulty. But then she is Turkish! Nice people though. Richard B 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tiberius Diglot Groupie Moldova lawinmoldova.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6279 days ago 70 posts - 85 votes Studies: Romanian, Russian*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 4 of 14 21 November 2010 at 11:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Why not make your own cards. It takes a lot of time.
But it's SO MUCH more efficient. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| moorea21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5111 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 14 21 November 2010 at 1:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think you answer your own question there! It takes too much time. Anki is fiddly, too.
Maybe I will try, I'm just lazy and busy... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tiberius Diglot Groupie Moldova lawinmoldova.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6279 days ago 70 posts - 85 votes Studies: Romanian, Russian*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 6 of 14 21 November 2010 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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But I also mentioned the flip side of that coin: efficiency.
I'm also busy as hell, believe me (a family man with a kid and a practicing lawyer). And still always prefer to make my own cards when studying. Eventually, on the long run the efficiency of making it by yourself will save more time than using ready-to-use materials. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| moorea21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5111 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 14 22 November 2010 at 2:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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You sound pretty convinced, maybe you will change my opinion... Do you use Anki? Or something like it? I dimly
remember finding Anki really slow to make cards with. I'm not sure whether to do word lists or sentence lists; do you have an opinion on this? I'm more interested in reading Russian than speaking it at this stage, but because I read aloud I have to mind how I pronounce things. I know how hard it is to change how I pronounce something if I practice it wrong only for a short time, so I need to make sure I know individual words pronunciations rather than trying to apply spelling rules to new words. I can hand write cyrillic pretty quickly and keep it readable, so maybe once I get the meanings and translations for a lot of individual words down, I should stick to composing and hand writing sentences... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6541 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 8 of 14 22 November 2010 at 2:32am | IP Logged | |||||
I think there are some exceptions, but in general I agree with this. btw, are you a Captain Kirk fan?
I generally only use sentences when I'm trying to learn grammar. I rarely need a whole sentence to memorize a vocabulary item. I use cards both ways. I try to minimize card usage as much as possible, so that I can maintain/improve my language by using books. Flashcards are just a temporary tool for me. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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