Hi!

[lady-of-the-sea.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know where I can find an e-mailed Russian Word of the Day thing? I've been looking for a while and can't find one :(

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[nymphatacita.livejournal.com]

I can't find one either. russian_wotd died off, sadly...

[zarxos.livejournal.com]

I think learningrussian.com has one.

Fun but maybe not what you want?

[bhv.livejournal.com]

I think you may enjoy this a lot, and do want to encourage you, but when I was in Kiev recently I found that my Russian speeaking host knew at least two or three thousand English words, but still couldn't speak English.

Knowing a language is not the same as knowing a lot of the words in that Language.

I'm a big fan of the Russian language programs from Pimsleur. They will start you right off learning useful (and fun) phrases. Whatever you do, don't start with Rosetta Stone. It starts you off with a list of words and belive me it's a long time before you need such Rosetta stone early phrases as "The boy is under the Airplane."

Re: Fun but maybe not what you want?

[lady-of-the-sea.livejournal.com]

I am taking Russian now, it's just that in class our vocabularies are so limited that all we talk about mainly is where we live, what languages we speak, customs, etc. So I was just hoping to start learning some more useful things. I'll look at the Pimsleur ones.

Thanks for your help ^.^

Phrase of the day?

[bhv.livejournal.com]

For me, learning a phrase is just about as easy as learning a word. For example a Russian speaking freind of mine recently told me this phrase. When a love affair or a business relationship has cooled down and isn't really what it once was you can say, "Lyubov' proshla, zavyali pomidory." ( Любовь прошла, завяли помидоры )Or "Love is over and the tomatoes have wilted."

I have a good audio clip of my Russian friend saying this, but I don't know how to attach it to this post.