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[yers.livejournal.com]

Put up a provisional link list on the community info page, to be expanded and categorized. URL contributions greatly welcome.

And please, can we pause the вы/Вы debate for now?
It seems as ambigous as whether or not it is correct to use "their" in English instead of "his or her": I've heard qualified opinions both for and against "their".

In pre-Soviet orthography, Вы as the polite form of addressing a single person was unconditionally capitalised.
Nowadays, it's somewhat confusing.

When this question was asked in pishu_pravilno, 2 people said the polite вы should not be extensively capitalised except when addressing a definite single person (which is, more or less, my point of view which no one here seems to agree with), one person said it always should be, and one person, that "it depends on your regard of whomever you're talking to".

Honestly, I doubt that we'll get anywhere with this argument. :(

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[bugtilaheh.livejournal.com]

http://anaproy.homeip.net/lmc/learnrussian_en.php
masterrussian.com

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Piffle. All that means is that I can never be wrong! ;)

As for links, definitely MasterRussian.com (http://www.masterrussian.com). They have lots of useful tutorials and exercises.

[bugtilaheh.livejournal.com]

It seems as ambigous as whether or not it is correct to use "their" in English instead of "his or her": I've heard qualified opinions both for and against "their".

It's better to just make the subject plural and avoid words like anyone, anybody, everyone, everybody, etc. That way you don't have to use wordy things like 'his or her'. *shot* =P

I say it's okay in spoken speech to use their instead of his or her, but in writing it should be avoided. *shot again* Hey, my English professor will mark off if we don't use his or her/their correctly! =P