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Hello / Привет!

I was wondering if someone here could do me a small favour. My Love is away, so I cannot ask him to do this - and my command of Russian is too weak to do it on my own.

I'm looking for two things!

1. A transcript for the movie Alexander Nevsky. I do not know if this is hard to find or not, so please don't tax yourself!

I'm just absolutely in love with this movie right now, and have been using been watching it with subtitles to help my Russian. This has been helpful, but at this point I'd really love to go back through the movie with the Russian transcript in hand - to try writing out and practicing sentences along with the movie.

2. Russian lyrics to the song 'Rise Up, Ye Russian People" - which I am obviously in love with since watching the movie. (Dima found it very funny to come home one day to "вставаите люди Русские!" ;) Imagine if I know the whole song when he gets home! It'll also be a good way to learn some new Russian.

Thank-you / Спасиба!

ps. Just because! Today I realized for the first time, I'm actually really able to think in Russian and construct full sentences on my own rather than repeat memorized ones. I'm really happy and excited! In a year of studying Attic Greek, and despite my much greater knowledge in that language - that's something I was never able to accomplish. This is the first time I've self-taught myself a language, and I guess that shows I'm doing something right!