Русский алфавит / Russian Alphabet

[irkin.livejournal.com]

Someone here asked about site when they can learn Cyrillic :)
Here is the page about alphabet, you can listen to the alphabet pronounced by a native speaker.

I just took a look at the whole site but I think it's great.

Good dictionary

[irkin.livejournal.com]

In case you didn't know there is a very good English-Russian and vice versa dictionary: lingvo.yandex.ru. It's a dictionary, not a translator, but you can enter the whole expressions there to look up idioms or words in certain context.

Hallo!

[bugtilaheh.livejournal.com]

The name's Bradley (Брэдли?) or Bug (Баг?) and (и?) я учащийся колледжа (I'm a college student; is Я always capitalized like "I" is in English?). I live in the US in the state of Texas, near Houston. Some of you know me from linguaphiles. Anyway, I'm not a Russian student or anything (but a 3-year and 2-semester Spanish student, yes). I'm sort of learning it on my own (I'd rather learn Czech, but Russian's close enough =P). As of right now, I can *barely* hold a conversation in Czech (and Polish). I doubt it; I just know simple phrases, etc. The same goes for Russian; I already have the Cyrillic alphabet down as well, so all's good.

As some of you may know, my dad is full-blood Czech, and his parents used to speak Czech, but they have since forgotten it all (Grandma can remember some words, but if you spoke to her in Czech, or as she puts it "Bohemian," she wouldn't know how to respond) because they speak English now, and my grandfather is no longer alive. You can thank the good ol' USA for being monolingual. :-/

Anyway, I tend to write too much, so here's some questions about numbers... ( Read more... )