Thread: Im New!!!!

Originally Posted by DDL

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Welcome!

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

I think a couple of the forumites are pretty advanced like Rtyom, Leof, RedSanchous, Dmitiri and others...

"pretty advanced" = native speakers, lol

Heh, yeah, that's about as advanced as you can get.

Or - it's about as advanced as you can never get because many Russians don't know grammar as well as you'd know if you were as advacned in Russian as me. I mean that you can get even more advanced in Russian in terms of grammar.

How long do you think it would tkae to know how to speak conversational russian at least a little of it not "fluently". a couple of years? like 5 or less? oh and is there some kind of program you use to type in russian?, ide like to know how I can make my keyboard type in russian and english as well. lol Sorry for all the questions just wondering

Originally Posted by *Krysten*

ALL my friends are russian

How is it true? If you live in America, you must have American friends over there. Or I misunderstood your post?

lol well ok I have 4 or 5 american friends but in my neighborhood almost everyone is russian and so is in my school. yalena, irina, elena, ksenya, mira. and only some others are american. ofcourse there are american people but most of my friends are russian. Not everyone in america is american lol. especially if you live between, forest hills and flushing

Originally Posted by *Krysten*

that guy is Dima Bilan, and im a HUGE fan of him lol, hmm...ill try to resize it then so it wont be so big lol. Dima Bilan's whole site is in russian thats one of he reasons I want to learn russian besides the fact that ALL my friends are russian and I love the way it sounds and ive wanted to learn russian since I was 10.

So you wanted to learn Russian for 2 years. Right?

How long do you think it would tkae to know how to speak conversational russian at least a little of it not "fluently". a couple of years? like 5 or less?

I suspect it will take 5 years. It is a rather difficult language.

oh and is there some kind of program you use to type in russian?, ide like to know how I can make my keyboard type in russian and english as well. lol Sorry for all the questions just wondering

Go to the Control Panel and click on the "Regional and Language Options".
Then click on the "Languages" tab. Then click on the "Details" button.
Then click on the "Add" button and add "Russian".
You can jump between English and Russian by pressing "Shift+Alt".

im 15 5 years lol and I still want to

Originally Posted by kwatts59

How long do you think it would tkae to know how to speak conversational russian at least a little of it not "fluently". a couple of years? like 5 or less?

I suspect it will take 5 years. It is a rather difficult language.

I managed it in 3. 1 of that was spent here. The head of the Russian department here puts me in the "heritage speakers" category as though my parents are immigrants or something.

Originally Posted by *Krysten*

im 15 5 years lol and I still want to

155 years old? You old hag :P

Originally Posted by BlackMage

I managed it in 3. 1 of that was spent here. The head of the Russian department here puts me in the "heritage speakers" category as though my parents are immigrants or something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_speaker

lol 15........ive wanted to learn russian for 5 years

Originally Posted by *Krysten*

lol 15........ive wanted to learn russian for 5 years

And in that time you could have by now.

How much do you know already. Or is today the first step?

welcome gal

Добро пожаловать на форум! Welcome to the forum!

I suspect it will take 5 years. It is a rather difficult language.

I think it would take that long to become fluent, but she didn't say she wanted to be fluent, only be able to have everyday conversations. I'd say that would take 2-3 years, depending on how much you study. Plus, you have the advantage of having a lot of native Russian friends so that time could be reduced even more.

I know the alphabet and a couple of words. But I cant yet read err "fluently" it takes me a while to figuire the words out if they are really hard.

My dad tried to teach me some russian that he learned from his friends over at his job but both of us never really kept up with it.

Don't worry, everyone has problems with getting used to the alphabet. Just sound out the words like you did when you were an infant learning English.

Originally Posted by *Krysten*

I know the alphabet and a couple of words. But I cant yet read err "fluently" it takes me a while to figuire the words out if they are really hard.

As a "Heritage Speaker", I can tell you the trick is to listen to music and watch movies. (while reading lyrics and possibly subtitles)

If nothing else, you'll at least learn natural ways of phrasing things.

natural ways of phrasing things.

Это, несомненно, самая трудная область изучения иностранного языка!

I wish I knew what that said ^.......sounds is all I know.....I wish I knew what they meant though. Any suggestions as to where I should go from here, letters and a couple of words......what should I do now I always listen to dima's songs but havent really understood what the heck he was saying in them lol

Originally Posted by basurero

Это, несомненно, самая трудная область изучения иностранного языка!

That is, without a doubt, the hardest region of learning a foreign tongue!

(maybe часть works better?)