Category Archives: Writing

Lang-8

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Josh

Jaered from Lang-8 sent me an email a few days ago, asking me to check out the Lang-8 site, and perhaps blog about it. So, what is Lang-8? It’s a bit like many other language exchange sites – you sign … Continue reading →

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Cyrillic Handwriting – Take Three!

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Josh

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 →

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Cyrillic Handwriting – Should You Learn It?

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Josh

I saw a forum post at How To Learn Any Language which caught my interest. Namely, Iversen (who’s word list method I’m still using, by the way) said: I disagree with Chelovek on one point – his recommandation of cursive … Continue reading →

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Cyrillic Handwriting, Take Two

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Josh

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 →

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Setting up a phonetic Cyrillic keyboard in Windows XP

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Josh

I wrote back in January about setting up my computer to allow me to type in Cyrillic. Setting it up was the easy part; the hard part was memorizing what English letters corresponded to what Cyrillic letters. The default Windows … Continue reading →

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More Russian cursive writing videos

Posted on May 26, 2007 by Josh

I posted back at the end of March that Natalia of A Spoonful of Russian was making videos of how to write Russian cursive letters. In the videos, she also sounds out the letters. I hadn’t checked A Spoonful of … Continue reading →

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