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Category Archives: Russian
Searching for Russian books online
A quick tip regarding searching for Russian books online: when you’re searching, try the transliterated spelling of the title / author as well as the original Cyrillic version. I was recently trying to find a Russian history book for learners … Continue reading
Grammar For Decoding
Geoff wrote a post a few weeks ago about the idea of learning a language without grammar, and I quite liked this bit: I personally favor the use of grammar for decoding, but am more reluctant to use it for … Continue reading
Posted in Grammar, Language Learning, Russian
Tagged assimil, Grammar, newpenguinrussiancourse, Russian
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Language Geek New Year Intentions
I know, I know – you expected to see “resolutions” in the title. I decided to copy Geoff’s lead, by using intentions rather than resolutions. Every New Year resolution I’ve ever made, I’ve failed miserably at; and as Einstein said, … Continue reading
Posted in All Entries, French, German, Language Journal, Russian
Tagged French, German, Language Learning, Russian, Spanish
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Cyrillic Handwriting – Take Three!
After reading the comments on my last post, along with Geoff’s blog post response, I wanted to clarify my position a bit on Cyrillic handwriting. I think learning the cursive form of Cyrillic is useful for the foreign learner – … Continue reading
Cyrillic Handwriting, Take Two
I posted back in March of ’07 about some videos that Natasha at Spoonful of Russian had made, showing how to write each Cyrillic letter. These videos are still available, but if you’re wanting something a bit quicker, Brown University … Continue reading
WordReference.com Now Has German and Russian Dictionaries
WordReference.com used to have a German dictionary, but for whatever reason, they had to take it down. If I remember correctly, the publisher of the dictionary decided they didn’t want WordReference.com to offer it for free. I was pleasantly surprised, … Continue reading
Posted in All Entries, Dictionaries, German, Russian
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Throttling Russian
I’ve recently throttled back on studying Russian, largely because I feel that I just don’t have enough time to continue enlarging my German vocabulary, learn the basics of French with my Assimil course, and learn the basics of Russian. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in French, Language Journal, Language Learning, Russian
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Princeton Russian in a zip file
Harold let me know that the Princeton Russian course, which I had made a torrent file for, is now available as a zip file from freelanguagecourses.com. I can assure you from experience that getting it from that site will be … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, Russian
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A torrent of the Princeton Russian courses
I posted previously about the wonderful Russian courses available for free from Princeton. They have, however, recently taken the courses down. This happened once before in the past, and the courses were later put back up, but there’s no real … Continue reading
Posted in Learning Methods, Resources, Russian
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What am I doing, language-wise?
I’ve not posted about how my language learning is going for a while now, so here’s the obligatory update. My German is going extremely well. It’s mostly just an activity of vocabulary acquisition at this point. I’m familiar with all … Continue reading
Posted in French, German, Language Journal, Language Learning, Russian
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