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[ex-solar-leo857.livejournal.com]

Hello! Don't beat me for my first post like this :)
I found this community and it is really interesting for me 'cause I'm russian and I see that I'm not the first here :) So hello also to my compatriots! It's always very curious to see how people learn your native language :)
My name is Lena, I'm 21 and live in St.Petersburg, Russia.
I know that our language is difficult, so if somebody needs help, i can explain something :)
Instead, if somebody here could help me with Italian or Croatian languages I will appreciate it!
And good luck in your studies!

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[maa-baby.livejournal.com]

Hello Lena ^^

I'm Italian so if you need any help you're welcome!

Ciao

Martie

[ex-solar-leo857.livejournal.com]

wow great! thanx :) so if you need help in russian, you're welcome too!

[maa-baby.livejournal.com]

thanks ^^ ..I'm in a study break now but from Monday I'll kick my lazy ass to come bak to my beloved Russian book ..and then I'll surely need help ..

[ex-solar-leo857.livejournal.com]

the same with me :) i took an italian book from library, but can't make myself start reading it!
if you have icq or msn you can ask me questions easily, i'll give you contacts

[maa-baby.livejournal.com]

yeah I do have both ^^
my msn contact is eyelinercombatbootsangel@hotmail.com and the other one is 109032791.. may I also add you to my friend list?

[ex-solar-leo857.livejournal.com]

sure :) and i'll add you in both messengers.
mi icq is 223313138 and msn elena.yellow@hotmail.com

[letnja-kisha.livejournal.com]

Privet Lena, I speak Serbian (and I know most correspondences for Croatian), let me know what questions you have.

[ex-solar-leo857.livejournal.com]

Now i'm trying to cope with my pronunciation, 'cause it's not easy :) and i'm just starting..
and you also study Russian?

[letnja-kisha.livejournal.com]

No, Russian is my native language :-)

Yeah, I bet it must be hard to get all the "hardness" of pronounciation.

[ex-solar-leo857.livejournal.com]

it's funny we both have russian as mother tongue and speak here in English :)

[ex-solar-leo857.livejournal.com]

the first letter you told about is "P" in Russian and it's pronounced as English "R", but the english equivalent is softer - you pronounce it like you have balls in you mouth. but russian "P"(R) is sharper. but nearly the same :)
try to say a word "rabbit" very sharply and loud like you hate all the rabbits - then maybe you'll see the difference :) or imagine lion's roar - it's like russian P - "RRR!"

The second letter is written as X, but "kha" - it's the name of the letter and its' sound is like english "h". in english it's usually not pronounced, but in russian you need to pronounce it. like in word "xop" = "chorus"

Then, about letters Ш and Щ
The first, Ш is the same as english sound "sh". like in word "shy" for example
Щ has more soft sound. like in word "shiver" for example.
if you could see the difference in would be great :) i believe that for not native speakers it's difficult.

I hope you will be successful in your studies :) Sorry if i couldn't explain something properly.. But i hope it will help you. If you have some other questions or you need better explanation, don't hesitate to ask.

[kaersaij.livejournal.com]

I don't think your language is difficult, but that may be from 10 previous years of studying German, which I still don't think I know. Welcome.