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What about Russia?
« on: February 20, 2005, 01:51:03 PM »
Hi there
what do u think about Russia and russian enternatnment web-portals?

thx
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2005, 01:55:56 PM »
Do you have any examples?
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2005, 02:10:13 PM »
/me looks blank then stares accusingly at Gemm

I... I played on a russian CS server once.

They sucked.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2005, 02:17:07 PM »
Good work Entropy. Now let's go lynch Gemm because we have no concrete evidence except general suspicion.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2005, 08:14:33 PM »
Well, two of my siblings lived in Russia for some time. One is still there, at least for the next couple of weeks.
They loved it there, but I think they are a little biased.

My brother tried to get me to listen to some Russian music he had brought back with him. I didn't really get into it.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2005, 01:27:42 AM »
In Soviet Russia, car drives you!
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2005, 01:41:28 AM »
I took russian in college.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2005, 01:51:52 AM »
I have taken Russian for three years now, but this is high school Russian, so it is probably equivalent to one year of college.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2005, 01:56:19 AM »
Knowing what I now know about Russian,  I plan on taking espanol when I go back to college.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2005, 02:00:01 AM »
Why do you say that? I think that studying Russian would be more fun than studying Spanish, the language is completely distinct from English, whereas Spanish is a lot more similar.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2005, 02:03:17 AM »
I saw a Russian movie once. Was really... strange. Especially at 2 or 3 AM. It was about some guy being friends with a kid because they had a common like for this tractor. It ended with them walking off together and framing it on the tractor. Yeah....

But honestly, I'd love to know more about the place.

And screw you Entropy. =P
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2005, 02:11:06 AM »
Learning a second alphabet bit... I loved the speaking part... but I kind of want to be literate in the second language I speak...
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2005, 02:24:31 AM »
It isn't all that hard really, you just have to sit down for a while with the list of letters, and their pronunciations, and memorize. Then you can get into reading, and you won't even notice. The interesting part for me is that I occasionally start writing Cyrillic in the middle of a sentence for something completely unrelated. I have earned a couple weird looks for that. But you will get used to the alphabet, I read it about 75% as fast as I read normally, about the same as I read upside down.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2005, 02:32:47 AM »
It's not the alphabet that's hard, it's the grammar. I've taken two and a half years of Russian, and my grammar is still atrocious.

And I took Russian when I returned to college because Chinese seemed too hard. I still can't distinguished between second and third tones. Even when mapped out on paper.
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Re: What about Russia?
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2005, 02:33:48 AM »
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