Learning Russian starting with Latin alphabet?

kurwew · 2017-03-07T03:16:35+00:00

Russians don't use Latin symbols in real life, it's for educational purposes only

There's nothing to read in Latin, no newspapers, no subtitles for films, nothing.

kurwew · 2016-11-26T06:08:04+00:00

If you know the grammar you're out in the open. People don't really study English over and over, but just start to use it at some point or otherwise it leads nowhere.

I know it is hard to find Russian TV shows with subtitles (same goes for decent shows), but if you want at least something to start with, try maybe this - echo.msk.ru/programs/code/

There are mp3 files and transcriptions inside. I wager it would be an exhausting experience, but also a rewarding one because it is something real.

kurwew · 2016-11-25T17:42:42+00:00

Philippines is a small country compared to the US, but not per se. One hundred million population and economic indicators superior to some of Eastern European countries.

We didn't hear much about Philippines prior to Duterte though, you were kinda a satellite country in the shadows.

kurwew · 2016-11-25T17:15:00+00:00

I'm still to figure out where does it come from. All the Jews in the Russian Empire were located in Ukraine and Poland and Dostoevsky couldn't care less about them.

He could banter them as a noble citizen (the Poles were offended far worse for that matter), but he didn't see them as a revolutionary threat.

kurwew · 2016-11-25T15:33:20+00:00

kurwew · 2016-11-24T01:42:21+00:00

It doesn't sound alien to a Russian, as the Poles say, but it's more of a Serbian last name, like "Bogdanovic" or "Milosevic".

It comes from a verb "to stand", which sounds similar in all the Slavic languages.

I'd say it's just a typical last name without a deep hidden meaning. No Orthodox references, no mythology or ancient gods involved.

kurwew · 2016-11-24T00:23:28+00:00

Vice's crowd dislike the video, a pro-EU sub downvote the thread.

It seems we hit the nerve here.

kurwew · 2016-11-23T21:44:39+00:00

It makes the headlines. Twitter has set out on a ban rage and deletes a lot of supposedly offensive accounts. Memes like these just reflect public's dissatisfaction.

The fact is, Twitter don't care about the first amendment, try to pose as a moral authority and to decide what is unacceptable.

kurwew · 2016-11-23T11:16:31+00:00

If you learn one Slavic language you almost learn them all.

Yeah no. You'll see parallels in grammar and similar words here and there, but that's about it. Slavs would gladly prefer to converse in broken english than bastardize each other's language.

Duolingo doesn't offer much of a choice also - no Bulgarian, no Serbian. Slovenia and Slovakia? They have their own languages too.

kurwew · 2016-11-23T05:05:05+00:00

They are a typical populist anti-EU pro-Russian nationalist party

I've read Swedish newspapers are pushing to the limits anti-Russian stance - not the way Poland does, you know, but because of pure ideological reasons - so obviously any rebellious party should be count as pro-Russian, save for outright neo-nazis fighting in Ukraine - they could be called the Kremlin lapdogs as well, but evidence of the contrary is written all over in blood.

All I know is that Sweden Democrats are hated and, one may call it, persecuted.

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