OT: Russian Language Lessons

[slim 1,533]

It's a good word. Do I have to give you credit when I use it?

[slim 1,533]

See! Online gaming is good for something.

[Fuzzified 0]

Oh...and just wanted to add that the further I get into this, the more I realize what a load of ####### Rosetta Stone is. It's not just overpriced, I'm seeing that it actually has disadvantaged me to an extent. I'm constantly "un-learning" things.

Rosetta stone is definitely overpriced, but it is working pretty well for me so far. It can be tough to figure out what exactly the picture might be asking at times, but through much toil and a possible aneurysm in my future, I figure the stuff out.

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

Not off-topic at all. At least not here, where a thread about wedding rings can turn into a thread about the best recipe for free-range armadillos.

Hot dog we are finally going to talk about free range armadillo's thems are good eatin!!!!

[slim 1,533]

And how would you know if your only exposure is Rosetta?

Like most other things in life, to be truly successful, diversification is required. Sure, each progam is going to help you in some way or another, but if you use only one program you're bound to miss something.

Once you run through a couple different programs you'll be able to spot the mistakes in each and simply disregard them and focus on what you need.

One other thing to keep in mind is you can always do the hand to mouth motion of eating so if you know the words for I and rice, you should be able to be understood. If you foul up a few words here and there, you may even get a funny story out of it. And while it's important for you to learn some Russian, it's MUCH MORE important for you to help your S/O learn English. Part of doing that is finding a common language to communicate in and knowing a few words will help. But, the focus should be on them learning English, not on you learning Russian, and the more they're "helping you" by speaking Russian, the more it's "hurting them" by not speaking English.

[Mags 112]

Okay, this thread is absolutely NOTHING to do with the Russia forum. I'm going to move it to...

*does eeny meeny miney mo*

...how about, I dunno, erm, K-1 Case Progress Reports? How does that sound?

[Mags 112]

Okay, this thread is absolutely NOTHING to do with the Russia forum. I'm going to move it to...

*does eeny meeny miney mo*

...how about, I dunno, erm, K-1 Case Progress Reports? How does that sound?

General Polls. Definitely General Polls.

(And you are a bigger trouble-maker than I am justsoyano!)

Not a troublemaker - just playful.

[slim 1,533]

It seems even the mods need translation of our pie-filled conversations. And not the Rosetta Stone translation, a real translation done by a tutor.

Does your tutor make pie?

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I'd like a tutor, but I'm not going to find one anywhere around here, so aside for my Ira, Rosetta stone is the best thing I've got.

Though Ira is bent on teaching me actual "Ukrainian" which I want to learn but even Rosetta stone doesn't have that. So I'm learning a mixture of the two, Ukrussian, or Rushkrainian if you will.

They're similar, but just enough difference to make me even more confused.

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Yea Mox, she's from L'viv. So pretty much everyone speaks Ukrainian, but I'm told MOST can speak Russian too. I'll look into a tutor. Craigslist is God's gift to the world!

[slim 1,533]

Craigslist is God's gift to the world!

If God's intention was to ease finding an NSA same-sex partner and make it extremely difficult to legally sell firearms. Yep, I'm sure He woud've went the Craigslist route.

While we're at it, is God a PC? (Or is he a Mac?)