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LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 17 of 37 16 April 2010 at 8:17pm \| IP Logged
	Finished Lesson 1 of the AudiaLearn course...It's pretty good actually...Haven't done assimil for a while. Been doing all audio to fit my schedule, I bought the 1995 version of Linguaphone Russian Today Can't wait to get it...it has tapes!!! But for $30+shipping it wasn't a bad deal. 1 person has voted this message useful
datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5576 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French	Message 18 of 37 17 April 2010 at 12:20am \| IP Logged
	Cryllic really isn't hard :) It will give you a thrill once you know what the letters sound like and mean. It will probably take an hour or so to learn them :) 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 19 of 37 17 May 2010 at 3:39am \| IP Logged
	Finished the AudiaLearn course Listening to RussianPod101 lower intermediate series now, and went back to Assimil. Got a digitized version of the Linguaphone audio (will do this course after Assimil) 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 20 of 37 13 July 2010 at 4:57am \| IP Logged
	Switched it up a bit to keep things interesting. I've gone through 3 of the 8 Living Languages Ultimate Russian. The vocab is decently varied, so I'm learning new words and the dialogs are nice and quick. I've found it easier to stay focused by being unfocused. In other words use a different course when one starts to get dry, for new found energy and then bounce back to old one once you've had a little break. I found that this keeps me motivated. 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 21 of 37 22 July 2010 at 5:28am \| IP Logged
	I just estimated the vocabulary of Assimil's Russian with Ease (Spanish) to be around 1500 words. The Penguin Course has about 1500 as well, while the cumulative vocabulary for Modern Russian 1&2 (which I may have forgotten to mention I purchased)is approximately 2800.. Considering any overlaps that maybe would put me at about 3000 words at least (I have other courses as well). So much work...oh the joys of breaking away from Romance and Germanic Languages...Alas I will continue on this wonderful linguistic journey... Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 23 July 2010 at 3:57am 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 22 of 37 13 August 2010 at 4:48am \| IP Logged
	Finished the four "to go" ultimate Russian CD's and worked with the first four lessons of the Penguin course (fantastic book). 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 23 of 37 01 September 2010 at 2:50am \| IP Logged
	Going to review all Russianpod101 lower intermediate lessons, almost halfway through assimil!!! I just bought Living Languages Ultimate Russian Advanced Will do two texts from now. I've started Listening-Reading Children's books. Update 9/3: Just watched "Black Lightning" Read two chapters of Penguin Russian to review my cases. Time to buckle down and get through my materials :) Going to do an Assimil Lesson in a few minutes. I'm going to do Linguaphone after I finish Assimil's course, but I'm going to run the MP3's through Audacity to increase the speed maybe 10-15% to make things more challenging. Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 04 September 2010 at 4:20am 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 24 of 37 11 September 2010 at 5:44am \| IP Logged
	Read another chapter in Penguin, took a break from Assimil, and worked through the first three Lesson of Linguaphone (the course is slightly dated, but EXCELLENT), more podcasts and L-R... 1 person has voted this message useful

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LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 17 of 37 16 April 2010 at 8:17pm \| IP Logged
	Finished Lesson 1 of the AudiaLearn course...It's pretty good actually...Haven't done assimil for a while. Been doing all audio to fit my schedule, I bought the 1995 version of Linguaphone Russian Today Can't wait to get it...it has tapes!!! But for $30+shipping it wasn't a bad deal. 1 person has voted this message useful
datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5576 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French	Message 18 of 37 17 April 2010 at 12:20am \| IP Logged
	Cryllic really isn't hard :) It will give you a thrill once you know what the letters sound like and mean. It will probably take an hour or so to learn them :) 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 19 of 37 17 May 2010 at 3:39am \| IP Logged
	Finished the AudiaLearn course Listening to RussianPod101 lower intermediate series now, and went back to Assimil. Got a digitized version of the Linguaphone audio (will do this course after Assimil) 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 20 of 37 13 July 2010 at 4:57am \| IP Logged
	Switched it up a bit to keep things interesting. I've gone through 3 of the 8 Living Languages Ultimate Russian. The vocab is decently varied, so I'm learning new words and the dialogs are nice and quick. I've found it easier to stay focused by being unfocused. In other words use a different course when one starts to get dry, for new found energy and then bounce back to old one once you've had a little break. I found that this keeps me motivated. 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 21 of 37 22 July 2010 at 5:28am \| IP Logged
	I just estimated the vocabulary of Assimil's Russian with Ease (Spanish) to be around 1500 words. The Penguin Course has about 1500 as well, while the cumulative vocabulary for Modern Russian 1&2 (which I may have forgotten to mention I purchased)is approximately 2800.. Considering any overlaps that maybe would put me at about 3000 words at least (I have other courses as well). So much work...oh the joys of breaking away from Romance and Germanic Languages...Alas I will continue on this wonderful linguistic journey... Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 23 July 2010 at 3:57am 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 22 of 37 13 August 2010 at 4:48am \| IP Logged
	Finished the four "to go" ultimate Russian CD's and worked with the first four lessons of the Penguin course (fantastic book). 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 23 of 37 01 September 2010 at 2:50am \| IP Logged
	Going to review all Russianpod101 lower intermediate lessons, almost halfway through assimil!!! I just bought Living Languages Ultimate Russian Advanced Will do two texts from now. I've started Listening-Reading Children's books. Update 9/3: Just watched "Black Lightning" Read two chapters of Penguin Russian to review my cases. Time to buckle down and get through my materials :) Going to do an Assimil Lesson in a few minutes. I'm going to do Linguaphone after I finish Assimil's course, but I'm going to run the MP3's through Audacity to increase the speed maybe 10-15% to make things more challenging. Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 04 September 2010 at 4:20am 1 person has voted this message useful
LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian	Message 24 of 37 11 September 2010 at 5:44am \| IP Logged
	Read another chapter in Penguin, took a break from Assimil, and worked through the first three Lesson of Linguaphone (the course is slightly dated, but EXCELLENT), more podcasts and L-R... 1 person has voted this message useful