Доброе утро! and all hail my ghetto fabulous keyboard. =0P

[nur-ein-tier.livejournal.com]

I finally solved my typing-in-Russian problems. I painted an old keyboard with black nail polish. I still type slowly, but at least I can tell which letter goes with which key now. =0P

In other news, I put up a few reviews of teach-yourself Russian courses on my website, if anybody's interested:
Barrons Express Track to Russian
Language/30: Russian
A Simplified Russian Grammar

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[padruka1988.livejournal.com]

I'm a little confused about something...

How do you say "ever" in Russian? I cannot find anything in my dictionaries or textbooks (strange?) about this.

"Do you ever go to the movies?"
"Have you ever seen Fantastic 4?"
"Would you ever see it again?"
etc etc.

My Ukrainian friend said "вообще" is always used, but my boyfriend said something different (if you haven't read some of my other posts, he's from Yekaterinburg... and I generally go to him with my Russian questions, but this time I'm not entirely sure)...

Also, when do you know to put the и after the word? The only example I can think of is, "Даже и если"... If you know what I'm talking about, could you kindly explain?

two completely unrelated questions

[lexabear.livejournal.com]

Are there phrases in Russian that people use all the time that are technically incorrect, but sound much more natural? I was thinking of the common English phrase "Me and Bob went somewhere," where "me and Bob" is technically incorrect, but what (most) people say casually anyway. In this case, saying it the correct way ("Bob and I") can sound stilted. Are there examples of this sort of thing in Russian?

In a completely unrelated, and much weirder, question -- has anyone read the Russian version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series? I was thinking about the section where it talks about time travel and verb tense, and was wondering how that was translated.