Thread: Language exchange? Chinese or English for Russian?

I am an American teacher living and working in China. I have a good level of Chinese if anyone would be interested in trading Russian for Chinese or English.
A little background. I studied Russian in college for 3 years and studied an intensive course in Petrozavodsk in 1999. I have not been using the language for the last three years, but can pick it up quickly again.

Hope to hear from you.

Awesome! I'd love to but I don't have any good Chinese books. I started with Beijing University's beginning Chinese course. I'm thinking of getting the "New Practical Chinese Reader" series sometime later. But really I'm sick of learning languages from books(which I did for Russian). If I want to learn Chinese I'll probably spend some time at a Chinese university someday. Anyhow, I'm sure Jasper will be all over you. And I don't mean it in a good way. You'll unlock Jasper's amazing Netherlandish passion. Actually, he's not fluent in Russian. Maybe that Dimon guy will come back, he's studying Chinese.

I understand very well you frustration with Chinese learning material. A lot of it is really unuseful stuff like talking to the bus driver about Tiananmen Square while on the way to the Great Wall. It is horribly 爱我中华. "Love my China" and worst of all it has almost no use in everyday conversation.
Having said that, I studied Russian for several years before going to Russian and it was a hard transition too. Listening was not easy.
I dod not know if you can find it, but the Beijing Language and Culture University has a good series of books. No English name on it, but it is the first year/second year/ etc/ series.

Indeed, I'm not fluent in Russian, but are you implying that you are, my Pravichushka? Or is this my Netherlandish passion showing up again? Shouldn't be so touchy.

Anyway, I've stopped studying Chinese for a while, I'm going to concentrate more on Russian.

hello stavrogin2001 !!!!!!
i`m 15 years old girl , i`m Russian and i interested in Chinese very much!!i would like to learn some of it..or even more...but don`t know from what.........maybe you help me

Originally Posted by stavrogin2001

I understand very well you frustration with Chinese learning material. A lot of it is really unuseful stuff like talking to the bus driver about Tiananmen Square while on the way to the Great Wall. It is horribly 爱我中华. "Love my China" and worst of all it has almost no use in everyday conversation.
Having said that, I studied Russian for several years before going to Russian and it was a hard transition too. Listening was not easy.
I dod not know if you can find it, but the Beijing Language and Culture University has a good series of books. No English name on it, but it is the first year/second year/ etc/ series.

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