community about russian literature

[sonicsonia.livejournal.com]

i dont know if this community approve that i ask their members about to start an other community.

i am very interested in russian CONTEMPORARY literature, art, popular and art music, cinema etc etc etc. but i need some others to communicate with, and i prefer in english. so, is there any interest here in this community?

cyrillic confusion.

[frolicsome.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else still mix up the alphabets when, damnit, you should know better? I've had a year of Russian and am studying Bulgarian now, yet, much to my embarrassment, м often becomes т when I am writing. Sometimes even writing English words (particularly ones that begin with pr) can be a bit of a challenge...


Will I ever snap out of it, or is this the type of problem that continues to linger?

Russian and Russophile AIM users

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine recently provided me with this very valuable secret.

Ok, so for those of you who know how to type in Cyrillic and Roman alphabets (and use the shortcut Alt + Shift), and are frustrated with the fact that AIM doesn't support Cyrillic because it ends up showing as vowels with accents, here's a juicy secret:

Go to My AIM - Edit Options - Edit Preferences - Font - Click on Font - Now within this pop-up box, towards the bottom you'll find "Script" and "Western" is selected. Click on the drop-down box and select "Cyrillic" and you'll find that all those vowels are replaced with the actual Russian alphabet.