Hi

[anguisettee.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone. This is my first post although I've been looking for a while. My name is Tess. I'm from Minneapolis (grew up FL) but have traveled relatively well for my tender years. What I am writing about is that I would like to be learning Russian, but have been having trouble finding someone willing to teach me - or even just go to stores and talk to me in it, or read books or something . . . Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions? Maybe someone to introduce me to? I would love to contract someone for maybe an hour or two a week for help. None of the schools seem to have anything and I have been looking on the web to no avail. Thanks

Comments

[sugarbeet.livejournal.com]

Hello fellow Twin Citizen!

If you find something local, Please let me know...

Good luck!

[past-the-past.livejournal.com]

Are you in Minneapolis right now? You can very easily take Russian via the University of Minnesota. I just took Russian here last semester. Even if you're not a student you can sign up.

[anguisettee.livejournal.com]

Actually I will be taking russian probably this next summer or at the latest fall, but I want to get a head start, not to mention I've been having trouble picking up the alphabets - the writtten is okay, but I don't know what sounds they make. I just want someone to talk to me so I get an ear for it. Of course I would be willing to negotiate what the fee would be. I simply don't know where to ask . . . thanks though.

Re:

[past-the-past.livejournal.com]

Oh...well you can simply get a head start by merely going to the bookstore and obtaining the materials early. I took the night course, which was mostly self-teaching anyway, so it is possible to do on your own. I'm sure it doesn't cost that much used altogether. The alphabet is the easiest to learn so you won't have much problem with that anyway.

Er, I don't have any other suggestion for you except that sometimes I see ads in the Daily or flyers around campus about tutors. There are quite a few Russians around here so if you were to place an ad about wanting a tutor you would probably get a response. Maybe find out when the Russian club meets and ask them if anyone would be interested in that. For a short while a few of the members indeed were offering one on one practise.

Hope that helped a bit!

[irinta.livejournal.com]

There is an on-line bookstore based in NY, which is the biggest Russian bookstore in North America - www.kniga.com. I took a quick look on their website and found this - "Russian course on CD-ROM" (http://www.kniga.com/books/product.asp?dept%5Fid=1090&sku=A2787). I can't speak about the quality or the content, but you can call them (the phone number is on the top of the web page), and they might suggest something useful. By the way, their shipping cost is $4 for the first book + $0.5 for each next book. I was ordering books from them a couple of times already (in Russian though :) ) and they were pretty fast, delivered in 1-2 days.

A simple search on Google gave me tons of usefull links:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=Russian+language&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=
For example, this site http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/language/ has really good explanation of pronunciation rules.

Sorry, I can't be of more help - I was never really interested in studying Russian as a foreign language .. :) If I find something else useful - I will post it here.

[tucha.livejournal.com]

Hello :-)

Well.. I am Russian. And am studying to become a teacher of Russian as a foreign language. I live in St Petersburg which is a bit far away ;-) but.. yet.. If you ever need to ask anything you are very welcome to. :-)

my e-mail is
tucha_dashka@mail.ru

Re:

[anguisettee.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your reply - I apprechiate it. . . LOL, right now I don't even know enough to know what to ask - eventually I'll need help though . . . If you ever have questions in English I can always return the favor . . .