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    New Here

    I'm trying to learn Russian. However I also have to take a language in high school and the best one available is German. So I was wondering how hard it would be to learn German at school and teach myself Russian in the few spare minutes I have each day. Also I was wondering if there were any good, affordable language programs available.
    I'm just trying to learn Russian.

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    Re: New Here

    Quote Originally Posted by Yakov
    I'm trying to learn Russian. However I also have to take a language in high school and the best one available is German. So I was wondering how hard it would be to learn German at school and teach myself Russian in the few spare minutes I have each day. Also I was wondering if there were any good, affordable language programs available.

    Not hard. It's exactly what i'm doing.

    I've been in highschool german for 3 years, and learning russian for not even 2, and my russian is 1000x's better than my german (i still get an A in the class though, we have to remember, it's "america" standards.)

    Pravit took French and german in school and tought himselfl ike 57 languages at home, and he did ok.
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    Re: New Here

    Quote Originally Posted by Yakov
    Also I was wondering if there were any good, affordable language programs available.
    Try this link http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/russian.html
    I wouldn't say it's the best one affordable but can be of a help though
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    Although it's nice to be described in such flattering terms, for the record, I only know Russian and German fairly well and I can scrape by in French if I have to. The other 57 languages(Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Thai, etc.) all ended either because I got bored or I couldn't find any good resources for learning them. So technically I was only able to learn one foreign language by myself.

    I wonder how Jasper's doing with Chinese. He disappeared several months ago, ostensibly to return in a year's time with enough knowledge of Russian, Chinese, Pashto, Punjabi, Arabic, Vitjakki, and Somali to put me to shame.

    BTW, I agree with Dogboy, should be no problem. If you keep up your Russian enough. Maybe 1-2 hours a day in the beginning stages? When I was beginning, I did put in an hour or so almost every day to get basics down. After that I kind of slacked off. But make sure that the learning is interesting to you, as opposed to learning 1-2 hours every day just to get the time in - you'd be bored rather quickly like that.

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    Thank You

    Thank you for the advice. Although I am not sure if I have the time to practice for 1-2 hours a day, I will try to fit in as much as possible. I have been looking into computer courses, and I have found an interesting one, and I would like your opinion of it. It is called Unforgettable Languages. Here is the link. http://www.unforgettablelanguages.com/frames_a6.html
    Once again I would like to thank you.
    I'm just trying to learn Russian.

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    that website was cool. they gave out some words and how to memorize them.
    ya plokha gavaryoo pa rooskee!!

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    Im a pretty big nerd. But that website is waaay to nerdy for me.
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    Lol. I've seen that one before! I did the demo once. Even though it was weird, I remember the words! The pronunciation obviously is off, but I thought it was funny once I got the correct way to say them. And I wouldn't mind running my Kar-ova a cow...I can only imagine what the words that you pay for sound like!
    Я тебя люблю , большой монстр!

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    hahaha!!
    ya plokha gavaryoo pa rooskee!!

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    Re: Thank You

    Quote Originally Posted by Yakov
    Thank you for the advice. Although I am not sure if I have the time to practice for 1-2 hours a day, I will try to fit in as much as possible. I have been looking into computer courses, and I have found an interesting one, and I would like your opinion of it. It is called Unforgettable Languages. Here is the link. http://www.unforgettablelanguages.com/frames_a6.html
    Once again I would like to thank you.
    You're welcome! I haven't heard "thank you" in a long time.
    If it wasn't clear from all the other posts, no, it's not a good site. Personally I think it's gimmicky rubbish.

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    I don't remember how I did it, but back when I was a senior in h.s. I was in my 4th year of Spanish when I started Russian I (in school, that is). There were some problems - I started pronouncing unstressed Spanish /o/ as /a/ (аканье), which my Spanish teacher noticed right away. Buenas dias! :^)

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    Thsnks again

    That's what I thought, but a friend of mine said that he used and that it worked well.
    I'm just trying to learn Russian.

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