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Привет, 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!