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| bporcher Newbie Canada Joined 6564 days ago 20 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish, German | Message 1 of 5 23 August 2009 at 8:19am | IP Logged |
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Hey everyone,
First of all, I'd just like to thank everyone for their contributions to the plethora of useful information on this forum. I haven't posted much, but I've been reading for quite a while. Basically, here is my situation: I've been studying Spanish and French for a while, and I will continue to study them full time in university starting in a couple of weeks, along with German. I've reached an intermediate level with French and Spanish, and it will be my first experience with German. However, I've always been interested in Russian, and I've been dabbling in it for the past few weeks. Depending on how it goes learning Spanish, French, and German at the same time, I'm planning to also take Russian in the second term this year. Until then, I am planning to study Russian solo and at a slower pace than my other languages. So far, I don't have much of a base in Russian. I've done about half a dozen Pimsleur lessons, and I've also been learning from "Living Language - Ultimate Russian: Beginner-Intermediate". I have a Russian friend, and I've been considering getting him to tutor me a bit, mostly just teaching me the alphabet and helping me with pronunciation. My only hesitation (from ignorance) is that he is from Yekaterinburg. Does this make much of a difference? That is, is there much of a difference between the Russian spoken in Yekaterinburg as compared to somewhere like Saint Petersburg or Moscow? Also, what resources would you recommend for learning Russian? Thanks, Ben 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5605 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes  | Message 2 of 5 23 August 2009 at 9:23am | IP Logged |
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Russia has not very much dialectic variation, if you consider the size of its territory.
I do not think the people of Yekaterinburg use such things as okanye or yakanye, i.e. variations of unstressed vowels. And your friend will be certainly able to speak in a neutral accent. Not accent but jargon is the problem which hinders that I understand the russians well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| antitrustfund Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5575 days ago 17 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Japanese, German, French, Polish | Message 3 of 5 26 August 2009 at 10:44pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, I'd suggest Pimsluers! Try poking around on this site too www.livemocha.com
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| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5910 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 4 of 5 27 August 2009 at 1:28am | IP Logged |
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I'd suggest Michel Thomas over Pimsleur, it's cheaper and I find it a lot better.
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| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6239 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 5 30 August 2009 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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Govorite pravil'no! Kurs russkoi razgovornoi rechi (Survival Russian) will cover more ground.
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