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[specialkatsc.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm new to this community. I was procrastinating and someone suggested this to me. I've been learning Russian for a long time (5-6 years) and next year (actually the end of this August) I'm going to Russia to study abroad for 10 months so I'm trying to step up my outside of class studies a bit. I feel like I just don't know enough WORDS. I know how to use them (gramatically) but I always find myself in the middle of a sentence having to use an English word :( Anyway, Hello everyone!

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[b0bb.livejournal.com]

Proven advice. Not questionable at all.

By just reading books you may never get to learn how to use these couple of hundred words and expressions that are the core of any language. Don't worry about the vocabulary - it will come afterwards, naturally.

[lovimoment.livejournal.com]

You'll notice that she's not in Russia yet. How likely is she to find a non-English-speaking Russian man in Northampton, Massachusetts, who can enrich her vocabulary to the point that transitioning to Russia would be easier?

When she's already in Russia, it would help - certainly much more than dating an American while she's there, who she'd most likely speak English with. But it's not everything. It still depends on whether the person you're dating is a good conversationalist. I, for instance, dated a guy in SPB who couldn't carry on a conversation about anything except cars. I learned lots of car vocabulary, but not those "regular" words you need for a conversation.

In the end, the books can't hurt, and they're a lot easier to learn from than websites and blogs, where no one spells anything correctly.