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I suppose I could just post like crazy to increase my post count, but I'd rather not post unless I have something worth saying. :roll:

Some of you may be interested to know that there are both Politics AND Serbian forums here. Use them.

Well, I don't plan on spending the summing in Kazan: I'm studying Russian/E. European History, and the Gov't doesn't have many jobs that fit what I want to do AND make use of Tatar.

The reason I'm...

They're not really random, it's based on two factors: what instructors are availible, and what the Government will give scholarships for. If I wanted, the Gov't would pay for me to go study in Kazan,...

I'm sorry we aren't all born with this inbread knowledge of linguistics like you are.

If you don't have anything useful to contribute, please go troll elsewhere.

This is my own ignorance. I speak only English fluently, and all I know of Russian is most of the alphabet. I think my ignorance is excusable. :roll:

Many thanks, Senor Trash :lol:

Can someone at least give a brief summary of all the Cyrillic above?

I don't speak Russian :(

So, are you saying that Polish phonetics are hard? I don't know if you saw in the first post, but this class will be teaching 1 year of study in 9 weeks!

Yeah...Armenain, Albanian, etc were just what all I copied off the school's website.

Thanks for all the help, guys!

One of my favorite books is Europe: A History. In the back, there are a number of charts, tables, pictures, etc. One of them is something like this:

http://www.ielanguages.com/eurolang.html

I think you and I just looked at the same chart 8)

:( I was gonna take Tartar, too, but I don't want to learn to totally separate languages. I guess It's down to Polish and Macedonian, then, and I suspect that Macedonian is closer to Greek than...

Right- I've seen most of those in print, so I know that Tartar, Polish, and I think Macedonian are all similar to Russian, or at least share basic similarites. At least, once you can read "Do you...

My University offers a number of languages as summer courses, teaching 9 months of instruction in 9 weeks. I would like to take one of these this summer, and plan to take Russian starting in the Fall...