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learn_russianПривет, Я говорю немного по-русски. Меня зовут Китти или Кэт. Очень прияатно ^_^;
You can tell I am a beginner, but hoping to get more skilled with the language. I can read the Russian cyrillic almost fluently now, but I am not too good with understanding words or making my own sentences. I am teaching myself the language and have been trying for a few months now. None of the colleges or schools offer Russian, so it's a bit difficult only going by what the book tells you. I don't always understand the placement of the words (noun, verb, adjective, etc) or which word to use, so that dosen't help much either.
In a month or so at most, I will be going to Russia to meet a good friend of mine. He understands English very well, but can't always understand it when spoken. I'd like to do my best at speaking Russian, but with so little time.. :\ I only know some basic sayings. Is there a good program I'd be able to find for download, free trial, or a free version? The most I've had to work with is my Babylon Russian-Eng-Russian dictionary.
Also, do any of you know of some other good Russian bands? I'm not too fond off all the techno that comes on the radio so some industrial or rock would be nice. So far I like БИ-2 (BI-2), Сплин (Splin), Тату (Tatu), Clava Crash and Serch (I'm not sure which way is correct to spell those in Cyrillic. But, that's mostly what comes up in searches.
Спасибо!
You can tell I am a beginner, but hoping to get more skilled with the language. I can read the Russian cyrillic almost fluently now, but I am not too good with understanding words or making my own sentences. I am teaching myself the language and have been trying for a few months now. None of the colleges or schools offer Russian, so it's a bit difficult only going by what the book tells you. I don't always understand the placement of the words (noun, verb, adjective, etc) or which word to use, so that dosen't help much either.
In a month or so at most, I will be going to Russia to meet a good friend of mine. He understands English very well, but can't always understand it when spoken. I'd like to do my best at speaking Russian, but with so little time.. :\ I only know some basic sayings. Is there a good program I'd be able to find for download, free trial, or a free version? The most I've had to work with is my Babylon Russian-Eng-Russian dictionary.
Also, do any of you know of some other good Russian bands? I'm not too fond off all the techno that comes on the radio so some industrial or rock would be nice. So far I like БИ-2 (BI-2), Сплин (Splin), Тату (Tatu), Clava Crash and Serch (I'm not sure which way is correct to spell those in Cyrillic. But, that's mostly what comes up in searches.
Спасибо!
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Date: 2004-02-02 12:20 pm (UTC)Пришелец means an alien, not a newcomer. :)
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Date: 2004-02-02 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-02 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-02 03:14 pm (UTC)http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/russian/
The Yamada guide has a lot of resources also:
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/russian.html
As to bands, check out Leningrad. They're cool. Also look up Cheburashka or Krokodil Gena -- they're from an ultra-cool old cartoon.
Spoken Russian...
Date: 2004-02-03 10:46 am (UTC)I finished level 1 and could get by with very basic Russian. Levels 2 and 3 will most likely get you to an intermediate level in spoken Russian. The courses cost about US$300 each level, but you can get cheap copies on Ebay for a few dollars. Try out the "Quick and Easy Russian by Pimsleur" if you need a taster - I think it's about US$20 and contains 10 lessons to get you started; and if I'm correct, it also contains a US$20 voucher to go towards the cost of the full course.
Hope that helps... and GOOD LUCK!
Re: Spoken Russian...
Date: 2004-02-03 02:46 pm (UTC)Re: Spoken Russian...
Date: 2004-02-11 08:43 pm (UTC)Re: Spoken Russian...
Date: 2004-02-11 09:20 pm (UTC)If you do one lesson a day, you should be able to complete it in a month, assuming you have the 30 lesson course. Then you'll be able to talk about simple things in Russian AND have a fairly good accent!
Do svidanya, tovarish!
Re: Spoken Russian...
Date: 2004-02-12 06:53 am (UTC)До Свидания ^^
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Date: 2004-02-11 07:04 pm (UTC)Feel free to ask anything that seems difficult in Russian ;) Mail me if you want..
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Date: 2004-02-11 08:41 pm (UTC)My opinion...
Date: 2004-02-12 04:16 am (UTC)