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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5325 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 81 of 84 09 July 2011 at 10:26am | IP Logged |
I liked your "surprise Russian party idea". The main thing is not to let the language go, but keep working at
it whenever you feel like it.
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| petrklic Triglot Pro Member Czech Republic Joined 5077 days ago 95 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, Russian Studies: Vietnamese Personal Language Map
| Message 82 of 84 19 July 2011 at 1:33am | IP Logged |
nogoodnik wrote:
I bet my spoken Russian will still be bad, but they seem to wholeheartedly believe that even learning to understand Russian out of country is impossible. |
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Yeah, that's nonsense ;)
Not that it's easy to get to the point where you can talk to native casually. But a) something like 90% (whatever that means... recognizably non-native, weird accent, but advanced speaker, I guess) is enough to have rich and meaningful conversation with natives without them being frustrated and avoiding you, and you can get there by diligent study and listening and reading _out_ of the country. At least that's my experience. And b) I think that if you have native boyfriend, you may eventually get over that last hump too.
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| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French
| Message 83 of 84 26 July 2011 at 7:20pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the encouragement, guys. It is really nice to have people stop by :)
So basically I've been taking Cristina's advice and just doing something in Russian each day. I will be participating in the upcoming six week challenge over on twitter, which was a huge motivator in the past. To prepare, I am gathering as many resources as possible: TV, film, music, kids stories and the like. I'm looking forward to digging in when this challenge begins :)
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5325 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 84 of 84 18 August 2011 at 12:22am | IP Logged |
I see that you are doing great on the 6wc, You keep going girl, you are doing good!
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