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| Jon1991 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5368 days ago 98 posts - 126 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Russian | Message 1 of 10 29 March 2010 at 11:38am | IP Logged | ||
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I know the Russian alphabet by heart and can read Russian text online but I' am slow.
Have you any techniques of to how to improve the speed and clearness of reading Russian? P.S I do all my Russian study including notes in the Russian/Cyrillic alphabet, not the transliterated texts. Hopefully if I keep practising I will be able to read Russian faster and clearer. Cheers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5447 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2 of 10 29 March 2010 at 11:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I do German and Irish at school, and used to do Japanese there too. I also learned Russian for a while (2007, 2008),
but all I can remember now is ''hello'' and ''please''. Haha, still better than most Irish teenagers though. As for the alphabet, I remember eleven letters were the same as English, but six were pronounced differently. I used to just write them out over and over again like how I learned hiragana. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jon1991 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5368 days ago 98 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Russian | Message 3 of 10 29 March 2010 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | ||
Yh I learn how to write in Russian and Arabic by writing letters on paper continously untill I got it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6855 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 4 of 10 29 March 2010 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just keep doing it, it took my girlfriend about a month of college Russian to read it effortlessly. At first she had trouble remembering words because it was hard to use visual memory. That soon became natural as well, so don't worry.
Although I don't speak Russian I sometimes navigate Russian websites (by making educated guesses on cognates). If I were to learn how to read it quickly I would first try to follow a text while listening to an audio recording of it at natural speed, not worrying about the meaning but simply being able to read it. It's an alphabet after all, it shouldn't take too long before I would be able to follow it as fast as the speaker. Normally you read much faster than you speak. It's just an idea, I haven't tried it myself. Edited by Kubelek on 29 March 2010 at 1:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ember Triglot Groupie CyprusRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5406 days ago 63 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French, Greek, Polish | Message 5 of 10 29 March 2010 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have the same problem with Greek. What I find helpful is listening to songs while trying to read the lyrics and sing along at the same time and watching movies with subtitles (with the movies, I don't pronounce the words as I read, but it still helps to develop better reading skills - to reach the level when you can recognize the word without actually reading it through, which is the way we read in our native language
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5538 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 6 of 10 29 March 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've experienced the same thing with Korean (i.e. learning to read and type the 한글 / Hangul script). If you keep using it, though, it just starts to flow more and more over time. I've been studying Korean for about 6 months now and my reading (and typing) speed is notably faster than it was when I started. What really makes you pick up speed is when your mind starts processing entire known words and syllable blocks from unknown words (or rather groups of letters in the case of non syllable-block languages) as entities rather than each letter individually.
As an odd side effect, I've noticed that typing the romanized version of Korean words actually takes me longer than typing those same words in 한글 now as my brain thinks of the original Korean word and tries to hit the appropriate keys for it instead. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6855 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 7 of 10 29 March 2010 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Warp3, I experienced that with kana in Japanese. I always thought that romaji will allow me to read much faster. When I bit the bullet and blacked out all the romaji from my Assimil it took me only a few days to comfortably read it at a speed of the audio recording.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6912 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 10 29 March 2010 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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If it's more a question of getting up to speed than deciphering the Cyrillic, I suggest that you listen to audio with transcript, e.g. audiobooks, news, textbook lessons. It shall not take long to get up to speed. If the content is at your level (or slightly above), you will find it more enjoying and rewarding, as you also will understand a great deal.
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