Thread: How would you rate yourself as a Russian-speaker?

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I'm somewhere between beginner and intermediate. I've been studying for about a year on the college level so I don't feel as though I am a beginner. On the other hand I wouldn't say that I am fully intermediate yet either. Maybe by the end of the semester or after I return from Russia this summer.

I am most crаppy at speaking because I rarely do it. A little better at listening but I don't do it enough. I'm improving at writing though I still sound very much like a blundering fool.. And I'm best at reading of course, because it's the easiest to practice, and noone can see your embarrassment when you screw up... usually.

basurero I can sign under your words, because you have described my abilities in English dirrectly in every particular!

basurero I can sign under your words, because you have described my abilities in English dirrectly in every particular! Laughing

Да, это то же самое для кучи людей... особенно для людей как меня, которые занимаются одни.

Кстати, я сказал бы you have described my abilities in English in every way!

thank you for correction
I feel always the same - I write anything in English and then some real English write it in the most simple and logical way - and then I wonder why didn't I myself write like he did?

I should, in turn, advice you too :
...особенно для (таких) людей, как я...
that is right case in this phrase.

I am an elementary native speaker.

Originally Posted by adoc

I am an elementary native speaker.

How come?

MasterAdmin - you have forgotten a category.



I speak по-туристски and would immediately be shot down on this forum for using computer translators.

Only, I don't.





So, somewhere seven steps below "Beginner".
My passive knowledge would probably be something like elementary.
Maybe.

I rate myself intermediate.
I am in my second year of self-study.

Originally Posted by Rtyom

How come?

'Cause I can't speak. I understand just fine, but explaining anything - I leave it to textbooks and therapists.

Intermediate... and that's pushing it...

I am the most boring Russian speaker ever. Yes-es and no-s from me along with some mumbling and weird groans.

Originally Posted by adoc

Originally Posted by Rtyom

How come?

'Cause I can't speak. I understand just fine, but explaining anything - I leave it to textbooks and therapists.

But you can tyPe!