When I was in Russia this year, I knew the most important letters, and was surprised how many signs I could read.

I will be joining a beginners russian course mid september, it is a 48 lessons class, 2 lessons once every week. The course at university is probably better, but I can't get that much time off at work. It is 2 days with 2 lessons, and 1 day with one lesson every week until christmas, so it would bring me far in little time.

I have downloaded Rosetta Stone, Primsleur and the Princeton course material. And the Penguin course is on backorder at the bookshop. But I do plan to get a headstart before the course.

Even if she learns english or danish, it would still be nice to speak to people when we visit her home country. Very few people I met in Kolomna speaks english, even though most supposedly learned in school. And the people seems very proud, but not the stupid french way.