Introduction

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Hello. Finally. It's about time we had a community for non-native learners of Russian - I only hope there's enough interest to keep it going. :)

I'm a second semester student of Russian and plan to continue on to next year. I'm a bit of a language geek, so I'll be here, asking and answering questions left and right. I only ask that you forgive me when I make mistakes.

Comments

[centralasian.livejournal.com]

поздравляю! но вам нужно писать по-русски ^_^

самоуправство, однако.

[yers.livejournal.com]

Ahem... I thought I was the admin.
No. The language of this community is going to be English. Because it is intended for people who study Russian as a foreign language, some of whom - if not most - aren't fluent enough to post in Russian. The one thing I don't want this community to become is a clone of pishu_pravilno.

Please don't be telling people what language to speak.

Re: самоуправство, однако.

[centralasian.livejournal.com]

well, i put ^_^ to exactly hint that i am TOTALLY serious :)

i agree, that the working language of this community should be english... yet i also believe that a piece of russian would't harm ;)

[yers.livejournal.com]

oh, then I'd suggest a different wording:
поздравляю! но вам бы стоило нет-нет да и написать что-нибудь по-русски ^_^

Re:

[centralasian.livejournal.com]

вы будете смеяться, но я примерно такую фразу и держал в голове... но потом начал делать "скидку на аудиторию" :)

да, очень бы я хотел посмотреть на лицо "начинающего", когда ему попадется фраза с "нет-нет да" :)

зы: правильно ли, что после "нет-нет" нужна запятая?

[yers.livejournal.com]

не уверен. по-моему, это идиома из тех, которым за выслугу лет разрешили гулять без запятых... что-то такое есть... это надо в пишу_правильно уточнить.

Re: самоуправство, однако.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Errr ...

Perhaps you should put that in the userinfo. People unfamiliar with other learn_x-language communities might not understand that. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing posts in Russian, as long as a translation is mandatory.

[langwidere.livejournal.com]

I could have written that introduction! Except that I'm in my fourth semester. =)

This should be a lot of fun and hopefully a great learning experience.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

I could have probably written it, too - oh, you mean in English. I thought you meant a Russian version! Yeah, I probably could have written it in Russian, but it would have taken me half an hour due to vocabulary searches. ;)

Anyway, welcome!

Now I need to scrounge up some questions for the group ...