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Peter97
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 Message 1 of 11
20 May 2011 at 10:53am | IP Logged 

The past week I learned the Cyrillic alphabet and some basic words, but do not know
where to go from there. While I am a bit young, I hope to make this summer a
productive one. So, if any of you could share some tips/resources to a newbie it would be
appreciated.

Thanks :)

Edited by Peter97 on 20 May 2011 at 11:17am

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Radu-1987
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20 May 2011 at 12:55pm | IP Logged 
Choose a song and find its lyrics and listen.
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Mrs. Dalloway
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 Message 4 of 11
20 May 2011 at 7:53pm | IP Logged 
Radu-1987 wrote:
Choose a song and find its lyrics and listen.


This technique will be very confusing at the beginning, because you'll meet words you actually know, but which are declined in cases that may be unknown to you and won't recognize them (:
I'm sorry, but I can't help you here. My learning started when I arrived here in Russia. Intensive full-time immersion, that is. I got dipped in the language and learnt by osmosis!
Still, I'd say: learn the cases, one at a time; read; listen to a lot of Russian to get used to the sound of it. Don't hurry, just try to make out the general sense of the words or the topic which is being treated. I guess I can't say anything more.

Good luck!

Edited by Mrs. Dalloway on 20 May 2011 at 7:57pm

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Doitsujin
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20 May 2011 at 8:07pm | IP Logged 
Check out the following two threads. That should get ýou started.

Online Russian Courses? Skype?

Princeton Russian Course

Edited by Doitsujin on 20 May 2011 at 8:14pm

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Arekkusu
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20 May 2011 at 8:29pm | IP Logged 
You can go to your local library and pick any self-learner method, preferably with CDs. Teach Yourself is usually pretty good, but I don't know about the Russian version specifically.
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josht
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20 May 2011 at 8:49pm | IP Logged 
New Penguin Russian Course is excellent, albeit sans audio. You could try hunting down a
copy of Russian without Toil (Assimil), but the better versions are either in French or
German, so unless you speak / read those, that's out. So, I'd recommend:

* New Penguin Russian Course (widely available, and it costs like $12 new from amazon)
* Princeton Russian Course for the dialogues and audio. Just make use of the vocabulary
lists to help understand the dialogues, and skip the rest. I've found NPRC's treatment of
grammar far more straightforward and clear than the Princeton Russian Course.
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