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Two years of intensive study: Russian | ||
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5220 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 9 of 13 28 September 2010 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Sorry I was suggesting that you have your language buddy listen to you read rather than reading to yourself and propagate errors. That is how I started learning Polish with my language buddy. I didn't make myself clear in my original exposition. Merv; your tip of looking for letters by famous people and a transcript is wonderful: thank you so much: I will definitely use that when I revisit my Russian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| option Newbie Canada Joined 5277 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 10 of 13 29 September 2010 at 11:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm in my second year of Russian study at university, and when I was using it this summer in Georgia and Ukraine it really made me realize just how bad I am at actually speaking it. As I started typing this post I realized that I really don't have a whole lot of relevant advice to give you since I'm only halfway through what you plan to do, but I'm going to echo what others said about doing at least a little work on it every day. Cases are difficult if you've never seen them before, but you get the hang of it as you move along. The hardest aspect of the language (IMO) is shifting stress, as there are NO rules that regularly determine it. Just immerse yourself as much as possible, and above all have fun, as it's a very interesting and fun language.
EDIT: For reference, I've been learning through the Golosa texts, and as far as I can tell they're very good. Edited by option on 29 September 2010 at 11:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5586 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 11 of 13 02 October 2010 at 10:53am | IP Logged | ||
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When would someone ever write to you using Cyrillic handwriting?! No matter what
developing country I find myself in locals always communicate with me using voice, text messaging or IM... Just make a Cyrillic keyboard using stickers on your computer instead... The penguin book is very good, it's all you need to start I believe. As well as some audio of course. I think you would be quite fluent after 2 years of study but remember that it would still take some time getting used to the way locals speak, slang, accents etc. Real people don't speak clearly like in the audio material. Maybe if you spoke to someone on Skype everyday for 2 years you could achieve the same, all though you would need a couple of different people, old, children, students etc. because people speak in different ways. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6234 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 12 of 13 03 October 2010 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would recommend NB Karavanova's Survival Russian: A Course in Converstional Russian. If used with Spoken Russian or FAST Russian, you should be able to handle speaking with Russians in most common settings.
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| Oleksiy Newbie UkraineRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5171 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Studies: English | Message 13 of 13 13 October 2010 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello! My name is Oleksiy. I live in Kyiv, Ukraine.
I want to learn English, my level is intermediate. I would glad speak with person who is interesting to study Russian or Ukrainian and to teach me English. My skype-poznyki, ICQ-615180015 Edited by Oleksiy on 13 October 2010 at 7:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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