Learn Russian

Oh my God. It's a small world after all. I know you~ You're the friend of one of my friends. xD;;;

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Aw really? That's awesome! Who's your friend?

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Hakkane~ <3

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haha thats awesome :D

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adelaide129.livejournal.com

well here's the trick to any new language: don't associate it with english. because it will phenominally confuse you. example: in russian, c = s, h = n, what looks like a d = b, b = v....it gets confusing. try to learn russian as if you've never spoken any thing else in your life. it makes it easier.

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that does help ^_^
thanks for the tip!

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dearides.livejournal.com

Before I begun courses I familiarized myself with the Cyrillic for a few months (my Spanish teacher was most amused I had Russian up and down the margins of the tarea). If you're a perpetually inspired Russophile like me (I too begun when I was eight, and I'm also to be a senior next year. I have a bit of a theory that might explain this coincidence. >>;), then getting it down loosely should take no time at all. I had it within twenty-four or so hours after I got my hands on a book.

I'd love to scan some of the introductory pages from my book for you, as I've done for another of my friends, but as I've since moved and my new scanner doesn't work (damn thee, windows xp), I am unable to do so. If you fish around a search engine for a moment or so, though, something's bound to turn up. Russia may be outwardly obscure when it comes to their [glorious] culture, but the language has had historic prominence (that it's sure to have again, take that, unsuspecting West) enough to give it a bit of a spot.

Anyway, I'm done now.

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thank you ^__^ anything helps :D

while you can't scan anything, the thought is what counts ^o^

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ars-longa.livejournal.com

Russian is pretty much a phonetically spelled language so the first thing to do is to familiarize yourself with the alphabet. From here you can move to simple words and phrases (children grammar or a tourist's aide will go just fine). I think that's enough for the beginning.

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thats a good one. I tried to do that last year. It would have worked out fine too if I didn't stop >_> But I'm back to doing that again.

Thank you

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ignite.livejournal.com

"repetition is the mother of learning"

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solito.livejournal.com

...and boring, too :)

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haha but it does help.
repition and other mixes are nice

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battersby.livejournal.com

but it works

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ah. thats true. It's helped me with some of it <3

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Where did you get this userpic with a shoulder-strap supposed to represent Russian military uniform? ;-))

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I believe it's from a videogame. My guess is one of the Metal Gear Solid games.

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Hmmm... they should have hire a better Russian military consultant, then :)))

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I believe the character's name is Raikov.

I don't understand the joke, sorry.

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Yes. That's Raikov. hah >>;

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It's not a joke. The shoulder strap portrayed here was all wrong, that's why I asked and that's why they needed a better consultant :))
Below I wrote:
the shoulder strap (it's Major's) is all wrong - the main field must be dark green, not red; the two thin stripes must be red, not dark green; and the single yellow aluminium star must be in the center of the strap, not near the end :))))

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its from Metal Gear Solid (3). The game takes place back in 1964 (obviously during the soviet union) so .. yea.

The character up there is Raikov a member of the GRU army :P

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Hmmmm again :)
Raikov is a Bulgarian last name, not Russian. GRU is not army, it's Главное Разведывательное Управление [Вооруженных сил СССР] (General Intelligence Authority of the Armed Forces of the USSR.) And the shoulder strap (it's Major's) is all wrong - the main field must be dark green, not red; the two thin stripes must be red, not dark green; and the single yellow aluminium star must be in the center of the strap, not near the end :))))

That's why I asked :)

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Ooh! That's very helpful information! They should have looked that up better than huh? o.o;;

I thought you were being mean at first and I was getting worried because I didn't want to start anything XD;; But then I noticed the ":)" haha I hope I didn't come off as sounding rude! o.o;

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Hey, I'm Russian. All Russians are werrry rrrude, mean and baaad, didn't yee know dat? ;-)

To be serious, I'm one of this community maintainers. I'm here to stop mean people from being mean. If I don't sound too polite, it's only because I'm... bingo --- Russian! :)) To be serious again, I'm sick of so-called "political correctness" so I simply call white white and black black... don't take it personal :)))

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aah that makes sense! Sorry ^^ You seem really cool though :O
I wish I was russian o.o You're so lucky! haha
I would take this time to get even more off topic and ask you some questions but I don't want to come off as some crazy psycho you know? haha

Everyone is so hell bent on being politically correct nowadays that it's annoying you know? -_- It's overrated >>;

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Should you have any specific language-related or culture-related questions, just go on and ask me -- here or in my journal.

As for the P.C. -- I grew up under the Soviet regime which was all political correctness (after its own fashion, of course.) So I just had enough of that.

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battersby.livejournal.com

get a russian-english dictionary. buy a berlitz beginners russian book. anything with a tape/Cd will help. If you learn the alphabet and the correct pronunciations, you're studies will be pie. and write down everything you read. it helps your brain to remember (this also works for any other language you wish to study. It's helped me learn 2 other languages)

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