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2 Questions:

1) Are there any sounds in Russian that, when combined together, make the same sound in English? My best two examples would be p+h=f, and if that means П+Х=Ф. Another would be K+N=N (like in "know") so К+Н=Н?


2) I keep having problems with -ь words, and how I am supposed to pronounce them. I know that to a Russian, т and ть are two totally different sounds. Same with л and ль I believe. Can anyone help me with what difference I am supposed to pronounce when I try to say one and not the other? I recall something about pronouncing "y" and the same time as the consenant, but I just can't!

Thanks if you can help me!

what leval am I at?

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Hi All,

I'm going to graduate school in the fall for political science and also plan on continuing to learn russian. I'm not sure which classes to take though and I'm not sure what word to use that would acuratly describe how much russian I know. Is there a test I can take that would place me?

My backround with Russian is this.

Taken Rus 101 + 102 at college (2001-2002)

spent 6 months in Russia (the city of Syktyvkar, so fab!) (2002)

took a higher leval Rus class-unfortunatly it was all review for me because other students in my class were way below my leval (2003)

I visited Russia this winter, 2004 but only for a couple weeks.... I havn't been keeping up my language lately... pretty lazy of me actually, but I always try to speak russian with russian friends of mine and I also try to think in russian so I don't loose what I do know

So.... I'm not sure I'm ready to take graduate leval courses in russian but I really don't want to take another class where fellow students can't even remember the days of the week, I want chalenging content and a fast pase

I want to be fluent before I get my PhD..... :-)

any thoughts?

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