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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > HOW TO LEARN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ? Author Post Bagira Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/16/2005 10:37:17 PM   I agree,"Rosetta Stone" computer course is excellent. spirittraveller Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/16/2005 11:58:13 PM   Hi Elena,nice to see you again. Hope everything in your world is good !!! izifaddag Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/17/2005 12:16:23 AM   Baggy you are back. I missed you kissy kissy. :))) ania Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 4:08:09 AM   Hi, I speak a bit of Russian, I used to speak it at elementary school. Now I am not using it and slowly forgetting it. The language is not very difficult but you need to learn the Russian letters first. Any method is good if it works but the ideal situation would be combining some of them: a course on cd, some website on internet to learn russian, some coursebook with cds or cassettes, a native speaker of Russian could be of use, reading, reading, reading, writing, listening (tv, radio)and finally speaking, first to yourself in front of the mirror and then invite some Russian friend to visit you on holidays or go there to visit some Russian family. Don`t worry, a lot of Russian girls speak English!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So don`t mind if you find the language too difficult! :-) Love from Poland Rich, Ania Annika77 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 4:32:40 AM   If one slavic person study language of other slavic nation...here isnt any difficulties in my opinion! ania46972000 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 4:49:07 AM   you are wrong annika, the similarities in 2 languages provoke more problems, it doesn`t help much, u simply get confused - the words are so similar you take too much for granted and make a lot of mistakes. For a Pole it is easier to learn English than Russian, I can assure you, I have been studying both languages! Learning any language requires work and a lot of effort, unless u r lucky and learn it in no time!(which also happens) Annika77 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 4:53:08 AM   Its strange, hard to belive because estonian is similar to finnish and its very easy to learn! Ptichka Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 5:01:30 AM   I studied Polish, and I find it to be very similiar to Ukrainian, which was a great help:) And I know people from Western Ukraine, who go shopping in Poland, and they speak there Ukranian, and everybody understands them and they understand everybody:) OK many words are different...but it is easy to understand them:) At home we watch Polish channels on TV, have to admit that I understand everything:) Though I studied Polish for 2 months only:))) Annika77 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 5:09:10 AM   Yes I NEVER dont belive russian is harder to learn for polish than english! ania46972000 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 5:09:16 AM   Ptitchtka, I studied Italian in only 2 weeks and was able to have a normal conversation with Italian people. Ucrainian is maybe similar, my father was Ucrainian too. But I never managed to understand when he was speaking his language :-). I guess it is because I didn`t have any access to Ucrainian television! ania46972000 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 5:10:00 AM   so tell me annika why my russian is so poor! Annika77 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 5:11:28 AM   Anna, how old are you? ania46972000 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 5:13:44 AM   33 and learning russian took me 8 years at school! Thunderdome Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/18/2005 2:19:44 PM   And then it became quiet. Ominously quiet..... :)) Did somebody welcome you here already Ania? No? Tsk tsk, what has become of the gents of this world - Welcome to this forum! I of course say that just because you're female, but read around, you'll find that the males here are biased towards women, and I'm no exception to this ;-) ania46972000 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/19/2005 7:39:11 AM   No,nobody has. Thank u very much Thunderstone. You r a real gentleman. I guess some have taken offence for what I said. :-) I really felt terrible about it and considered not returning here anymore. But curiosity was stronger.... :-)I guess it is not really the case of men biased towards women, I guess we r all biased towards somebody just because we don`t know them well and believe certain stereotypes. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/19/2005 8:15:01 AM   I guess I got it from my mother. My mother collected weightloss books. While she was in her 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's - ANY new book on weight loss that came out she was likely to have. But she never lost any weight but she had the books. Well, I'm using the same technique to learn the Russian language. I have SHELVES full of books, cassettes and CDs including "Teach Yourself Russian", "Russian in 60 Minutes", "The New Penguin Russian Course", "The (Old) Penguine Russian Course" (I'm not kidding.) "A Basic Course In Russian", "The Rosetta Stone Russian", "Language/30 Russian", "Talk Now, Russian", "Hugo, Rusian in 3 Months", "Russian On The Go", "Barrons Learn Russian", "Pimsleur Russian, tapes and CDs, Complet Course and Comprehensive (they are different), Beginning and Intemediate", "Linquaphone Russian", "Russian Now!" CDs, "Living Russian, The Complete Language Course" and of course "The IDIOT'S Guide to Learning Russian." All in all I'm doing about as well at learning Russian as my dear old mother did in losing weight. Maybe less well. I look forward to eventually being able to order off the menu with no help or being able to tell a taxi driver where to go. Those goals are a long way off. Did I mention that language studies are not my strong point? But I'm pretty good at buying books. ania46972000 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/19/2005 8:24:35 AM   I really liked what u have written and especially the last sentence jetmba! izifaddag Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/19/2005 9:32:53 AM   Jet I agree thoroughly. You cannot learn language from cassettes, books or CDs unless you have a real ability with language. You need to be immersed in it. There is just no other way. As I have already mentioned I learned Spanish in Guatemala in Central America and used it every day. You have to continually say a small phrase over and over again for it to sink in. Then you add another to your repetoire. Slowly it builds. If you are trying to learn from a book it is stagnant before you close the pages. Likewise it is impossible to book learn grammar. For me it is an after the fact process. Sort of monkey see monkey do. I say something and memorise it and try to sort out the grammar later. I did learn grammar but I was living there immersed in it. That is a different situation. As we get older it becomes progressively harder to learn. Therefore I am at peace with the fact that this ship has definitely sailed. I have a little book (Lonely Planet) about Russia with phrases and words and I will struggle with that. It has already been very useful. I am going to enrol in an adult education course at the local school. Recently I have found out where Marina picked up her English. As I have mentioned many months ago she had an American 'boy friend' (or as I like to think of him "the bastard") before. She could barely speak a word of English when she first met him back in 2003. She visited America many times and practically lived here for a while. That is how she learned, just practicing and making mistakes. However she cannot write English. She speaks English much better than she thinks she can. I will teach her how to write properly. First she needs to be immmersed in an English culture. Ok an American culture. The English language is a personal interest of mine and I was even studying to be an English teacher at one point. Between my input and an ESOL class she will be fine. I estimate a year no problem. ania46972000 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/19/2005 11:48:52 AM   Yes, immersion is a great idea. It must work, it will! spirittraveller Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/21/2005 12:16:44 PM   If you cannot live in the country of your language choice,I think it is best,as Jet has written,to have more than one learning choice. It has been a little while since I studied,but I also have many books-not just one. I have said before that it is possible to get some really inexpensive language courses. I checked out the Pimsleur course (4 CDs?) from the public library,then went to an internet cafe to burn them. Total cost-3 dollars. You really have to hear Russian spoken too. My girl laughed at me because the way I read the word for love from the book was leeoobleeoo when it is really closer to loobloo Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > HOW TO LEARN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ?
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