speak russian

Plan on studying intensely for next 3 yrs as my college major!
Got my work cut out for me, I know. Hopefully will master the alphabet in the next 3 months!!

my whole family (my mother, my father and me) were born in russia i moved here at9 and am now 14 i can read write and speak russian as well as i do in english but i also wanna learn scientific phrases to help me in school and im taking japanese so i can become a western russia translator(we’r from SAKHALIN!!)

I’m not ashamed to talk about it and it usually helps me to do so. My mother was 100% Russian and when I was 12 she committed suicide. I was so angry and hurt that I basically went through all the things I could change (maybe not physically) that reminded me of her and I changed them. I changed my religion, I stopped celebrating certain things that were part of the Russian culture (food, dancing, music etc.) and above all I stopped speaking Russian. I absolutely refused to do it. My grandparents and I would have conversations that consisted of them speaking to me in Russian and me answering back in English. I held my anger in for a long time until I met my husband and learned that I wasn’t the only one who lost a parent to suicide. Since then I have been gradually starting to let go of my anger and have started to incorporate some of the things I use to do into my daily life again. After all she was still my mum, and yes what she did was selfish, but I have to learn to forgive sometime and I can’t spend the rest of my life being angry. I’m lucky I have a husband who speaks Russian as well. He can help me brush up on mine. Ah he’s my life saver :-)

Why don’t you practice Russian by Skype? It’s free!
Learn about skype at www.skype.com and let’s speak Russian and English. My skype name is KVoloshenko and I’m from Russia

ill try to shuv this in my routine together with learning to speak german :P

Not sure how you spell it using English but it still narrows down to “Holy Sh**!” I just have too much on my plate to try to take this up again. It’s been a long time and although it would come back, I am redefining my goals into the ones I really REALLY want!

hey, I know russian, since it was my birth languege, And i want to help anyone that wants to learn

I’m a Web Programmer, and all of my teammates are from Russia and surrounding countries. When they get into heated architectural debates, I’m left out, because I can’t understand a single thing they’re saying. I can pick up most Spanish and some French stuff, but Russian might as well be gibberish to me. Anyway, I picked up the Pimsleur set for Russian and start my first lesson today. :)

I want to learn Russian for many reasons. I have friends who’d love for me to speak to them natively as I do in English. It would not only keep them smiling a whole lot more but it would make it so much easier for them to explain what they really mean when talking to me.

That and poetry.. I hear that Russian poetry is quite sublime and ought to be appreciated in the natural language. Being a sometime poet myself I wonder if I can find a Blake or Wordsworth to inspire me in a different way :)

I used to speak Russian – in high school. But that is a long time ago and if you don’t use it, you lose it. I lost almost all of it and I know I could get it back quickly. I want to find the time to do this again. Then I would like to read the entire Bible in Russian!