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polyglHot
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 Message 9 of 16
25 February 2011 at 12:30am | IP Logged 
I think that you should make another video, this time longer. I don't know how your
Russian is, because you didn't say much in the video.
What about your Swedish, Spanish and Icelandic, do you study these at university too?
What's your main focus?
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FrostBlast
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 Message 10 of 16
25 February 2011 at 5:32pm | IP Logged 
polyglHot wrote:
I think that you should make another video, this time longer. I don't know how your
Russian is, because you didn't say much in the video.
What about your Swedish, Spanish and Icelandic, do you study these at university too?
What's your main focus?


Swedish is more of a flirt. I can read good enough to go through newspapers and understand what's going on.

Icelandic, I've been to the country so I studied the language for some 6 months before going there. I'm able to express my basic needs and wants, ask where stuff is, ask for a price, and act politely.

Spanish, I've had 3 years of courses at school. I can help customers in Spanish at work but my sentences will be a little broken. I can read Spanish pretty good though.

My main focus is really Russian, right now. I'll probably go back to the other languages later on.
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polyglHot
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 Message 11 of 16
01 March 2011 at 9:47pm | IP Logged 
Cool, I think Iceland is a very exotic place with snow, volcanoes and "hot tubs". How
long were you there, just traveling around or what?
Yeah Spanish is kind of something everyone knows or should know, it's kind of in the
background I guess sometimes.

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FrostBlast
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 Message 12 of 16
02 March 2011 at 8:13pm | IP Logged 
So here's another video. I just went on saying random stuff about an imaginary family, as if i were pointing out people on a picture. I had to write a text that went roughly along those lines for my course, but when I read a written text, I tend to stutter a bit - so in this video, I simply went as close to "free form" as I could get. Maybe some stuff won't make sense, and no, меня зовут не Александр.

Keep in mind that my level of russian isn't high at all right now, and I haven't even learned how to express possession (I have a wife, I have a son, etc). That means I'm stuck to the "point and tell" formulations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Z1-gQj42M

Edited by FrostBlast on 02 March 2011 at 8:14pm

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aabram
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 Message 13 of 16
05 March 2011 at 1:44pm | IP Logged 
Not bad at all from pronunciation standpoint. Seems that you've got good ear, keep
listening to native resources and you get it before long. Definitely promising.
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sb
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 Message 14 of 16
12 March 2011 at 10:43pm | IP Logged 
not bad, keep going
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sb
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 Message 15 of 16
12 March 2011 at 10:46pm | IP Logged 
when you adress to someone you don't know or you adress to an audience I think it sounds
better to say 'zdravstvujte' instead of 'zdravstvuj'
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ExtravaganZza
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 Message 16 of 16
17 March 2011 at 11:41am | IP Logged 
"better to say 'zdravstvujte' instead of zdravstvuj "
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It is definitely so.
In fact "zdravstvuj" isn`t used much (at all?) nowadays. Just use "privet" for informal
and 'zdravstvujte' or 'dobriy den`' 'dobroye utro' 'dobriy vecher` for formal


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