Studying vocabulary
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learn_russianMy Russian is slipping terribly because I haven't been using it. I need to continue studying, and I think that focusing on vocabulary will be the most useful for me.
How do you choose *which* vocabulary to study?
I don't want to just translate news articles, because that isn't the kind of language that one is going to hear in casual conversation. Likewise, simply opening a dictionary and picking words at random won't direct me to the words I should *focus* on.
Are there any books like "essential Russian vocabulary" or whatnot?
How do you choose *which* vocabulary to study?
I don't want to just translate news articles, because that isn't the kind of language that one is going to hear in casual conversation. Likewise, simply opening a dictionary and picking words at random won't direct me to the words I should *focus* on.
Are there any books like "essential Russian vocabulary" or whatnot?
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Date: 2005-11-03 10:50 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-11-03 11:26 am (UTC)Moa
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Date: 2005-11-03 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-03 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-03 12:05 pm (UTC)http://www.petropol.com/ - In russian, but seems to have generally popular books.
http://www.ruskniga.com/ - Perhaps some magazines/newspapers would be helpful?
http://www.bolero.ru - These guys are actually in russia, though they should ship to the US. You are likely better off with the above two links.
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Date: 2005-11-03 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-11-03 01:46 pm (UTC)http://www.lib.ru/PROZA/ - contemporary Russian authors
http://www.lib.ru/RUSS_DETEKTIW/ - detective stories. Unfortunately, they don't classify them into thrillers, suspense novels and ladies' crime, but here are some that I like (the language is not too, er, complicated, and at the same time not too horrible to read, having some plot, etc.):
http://www.lib.ru/RUSS_DETEKTIW/PEWZNER/
http://det.lib.ru/k/kljuewa_w/
http://www.lib.ru/RUSS_DETEKTIW/LAWROWY/
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Date: 2005-11-03 01:47 pm (UTC)especially under Любовные романы.
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Date: 2005-11-03 02:09 pm (UTC)And nobody refuses to explain it ;)
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Date: 2005-11-03 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-11-03 03:26 pm (UTC)Anyway, maybe ЖЖ-slang is not as original as it seems:
( Seriously though, stick to proper grammar :)
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Date: 2005-11-03 05:38 pm (UTC)-- the 10,000 most frequent words, gathered by some computerized analysis of texts. I didn't actually use that book but heard it's useful, particularly as you'll come across words you'd've thought you should've known.
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Date: 2005-11-03 08:11 pm (UTC)I got the words from this source: http://www.artint.ru/projects/frqlist/frqlist-en.asp
My post was removed from the community 10 minutes later. The moderator said:
"Advertizing websites or communities is prohibited by this community's rules, unless they're valuable linguistic resources (which this page isn't.)"
Maybe it will not be removed, and it will help you in some way. I personally printed by now the first page. And I've noticed there are words I _should_ know. Words I wanted to learn, but don't keep in my head, and I forgot later look for them in the dictionary.
Don't print the whole :) Only the first pages should help. But the file is not big. :)
Good luck!
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