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2016 Postmortem

MineralMan

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3. There's a lot more to learning Russian than learning its alphabet.

Reply to Danmel (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2016, 11:31 AM

Dec 2016

Learning the Cyrillic alphabet is easy. The rest is a big challenge for most language learners. Knowing Latin helps, due to the highly inflected grammar of Russian. There are several very good websites, though, that can help you learn the language. Just search for Learn Russian Online and have a look at the websites. You'll find one that works best for you.

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Guess it's time to learn Cyrillic [View all] Danmel Dec 2016 OP

And I've heard there's one dialect of Russian that is nothing but obscenities. Ken Burch Dec 2016 #1

It's called Mat and it revolves around 4 or 5 words. NWCorona Dec 2016 #6

At least Carlin's list had 7 Glassunion Dec 2016 #8

I still have that album. He would have a field day with this election NWCorona Dec 2016 #10

There are a lot of folks I'm sad did not have a voice during the election. Glassunion Dec 2016 #11

From here on, we should write "Republican" and "Republican Party" using the Cyrillic alphabet The Genealogist Dec 2016 #2

There's a lot more to learning Russian than learning its alphabet. MineralMan Dec 2016 #3

I think the Russian alphabet is pretty easy with only 33 letters NWCorona Dec 2016 #7

right. because you think the commissars are going to take over the federal and 50 state governments onenote Dec 2016 #4

I know right? Glassunion Dec 2016 #9

This was illustrated in one issue of the old "Mad" paperbacks Ken Burch Dec 2016 #12

At least we'll get to hear more great Russian pop music. Kotya Dec 2016 #5

I see. Feh! MineralMan Dec 2016 #13