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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

This is a question out of blatant curiousity, so I don't know whether or not it's appropriate. I find this to be truer and truer the more I find out both in my community and online that a vast portion of those who are learning Russian and are interested in Russian, are in fact, gay. Is there something that's so appealing about Russian to homosexuals? Did I miss the "Gay Russia" meeting? If you're a homosexual yourself, please tell me why you're into the language. I myself started for the alphabet and upon hearing people speak it, they just sounded so smart.

And while on the topic, is Russia conservative on the homosexual issue?

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[villanova.livejournal.com]

hey im new to this community, i love the russian language, but have nowhere near me that could teach me how to speak/write in russian.

so i've joined to pick up some pointers and other usefull things.

p.s this community is great :)

Russian classes in Moscow...?

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

Ok, so this is awfully lazy of me to use this list when I have a whole city...

But...well that's almost half the problem. I don't know where to start.

Plus I have a few issues. My level is somewhere around elementary/pre-intermediate depending on the school standards...I can understand a lot but my grammar is awful.

Many classes I've come accross are either too high level, or beginners. I am neither which I've discovered makes me very difficult to place.

I want a class. Not a one-to-one. I've tried one-to-one and I'm just a bad student in that situation - I need to be in a group, so when I don't do my homework, it's my loss and the lesson isn't held up on my behalf.

And I need to have the class in the mornings. Finishing by midday at the latest.

So. Suggestions? I know that MGU is meant to be good...but...well...I wouldn't even know where exactly to go. Reconmendations for other places? I really wanted to make a go of it this year, but with work and everything else it might land up being next to impossible *sigh*