So, the recent thread have shown that most of our folks do like the idea of merging with /r/Russian. So be it! I have made the sub restricted, so that new posts could not be added, except by us, mods. You can now unsubscribe from /r/LANL_Russian and subscribe to /r/Russian.

I and /u/happybadger will meet you there. The sidebar and the logo will be there as well.

Have a great day, всем удачи!

So I recently started to (seriously) learn Russian on my own, as I can't really afford school here in the US, and I had been talking to a Russian native up until I got a job recently, which started taking up a lot of my time and energy. Plus, the times when he's awake, I'm either too tired or already asleep so I can get up early for work. I haven't been able to practice with him in a while, which I do feel bad about, but I at least try and make the effort to learn with the help of the internet. I can read without much struggle, but my pronunciation is god-awful and probably my biggest problem at the moment.

Since I work at a pet store/retail environment, I was wondering what phrases I should learn and practice, even if it is unlikely — but not impossible — that I'll be getting Russian-speaking customers.

I didn't find any sort of thread in this subreddit on utilizing Russian in a retail environment, but I suppose it wouldn't be all that popular regardless. If there is one I missed, my bad for not being thorough.

Hello, fellow /r/LANL_Russian subscribers.

Recently, a representative from the other Russian language-oriented Reddit community, /r/Russian, have proposed a merge between our two subreddits. Us, mods, are mostly OK with that. What do you, the community of /r/LANL_Russian, think about this idea?

http://www.russianlessons.net/

I'm curious as to the accuracy and effectiveness of that particular site, as I'm always looking out for resources in addition to the few books I've been using to teach myself Russian.

Thank you, E

I'm having a hard time remembering what the correct form of expressing necessity is for certain situations. For example, when to use Нужно, нужен, нужна, надо..ect

Which ones are use for actions? Which ones are used for nouns?

I have a minor in Russian, and I'm kind of embarrassed that I've forgotten the exact rules.

What are some of the best modern Russian T.V shows?

What do you guys think is the best app for learning Russian on an iPhone?

Hello, I am russian, and I have noted that sometimes we pronounce "х" as a velar and sometimes as uvular (a bit more throaty way). Does it considered to be an allophone/free variation?

Could it be related to a stress placement around the phoneme?

I know when to use the non reflexive versions. For example, Студент получает степень в начале каждого семестра. But when do you use the reflexive version?

Anyone know any good Russian bands? Its fairly easy to find Russian pop or rap but are there any russian "indie" or alternative artist that you like.

Sorry this is not directly related to learning russian but its not, not related to it either.

I am taking rosetta stone for russian, and I don't understand the grammar part distinguishing between which ending to use for certain objects.

Hello fellow Russian Students,

I was wondering if anyone has good recommendation for a website that allows you to look up a russian word and then gives you all the information for it, including imp/per aspect pairs and past, present future conjugations. Also, nouns in all the cases and adjectives in M/F/N/PL.

I've been using masterrussian.com and have become pretty fed up with not being able to find certain words on there. Thanks!

I know that expressions like this come with an implied, yet omitted "я желаю тебе/вам.....". I'm just curious why they're taking the genitive form instead of the accusative form.

What do you think?

My boyfriend taught me the alphabet by writing it out, but that doesn't really help me when we communicate over skype.

Hey i am trying to do this lesson on learnrussia.rt and i cant figure out what is wrong with my solution here: http://imgur.com/v4PW3Nv

In the Russian language, all nouns fall into two categories — animate and inanimate. The first unites human beings (including professions and places in society), animals, birds and fish. All of these words answer the question кто это? The second category includes objects which answer the question что это?

Help much appreciated thank you!

Is it acceptable to mix the cursive and the "text" when writing? Eg. writing the g instead of Д but writing t instead of the m?

I understand all the letters (both cursive and print) on their own but cursive is making things more difficult/annoying when reading my own writing due to similarities between letters in my shitty handwriting.

I remember learning French and reading "Le Petit Prince". Is there a sort of Russian equivalent? A rather famous book, but also a fairly simple one?

Thanks.

I've gotten used to the english phonetic layout, but I think this is going to hurt me in the long run. I think that I should learn "proper" layouts.

Thoughts?

I'm trying to refine my own studying. Do you do flashcards for vocabulary? Translation exercises? Do you write stories, sentences? Open up your grammar book and study a concept? If you would be so kind as to highlight what "studying" looks like to you, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Всем привет!

I like to think I generally understand the distinction between imperfective and perfective verb usage when I see it. Occasionally however I don't.

In the 2002 pop hit Я сошла с ума, the phrase "я себя не пойму" occurs. Can anybody briefly explain to me why the perfective is used here? If it were past tense поняла it'd make sense to me, but referring to her current state of mind, why isn't it just imperfective понимаю?

It's a small thing, but the more I wonder, the more it annoys me..

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ADD: thanks all for your replies, especially Ainar-G and rmdkoe! Though it's really non-intuitive to me, the paraphrases "cannot have it understood" and "never will be able to understand" cleared it up.

So I'm studying abroad in Russia after taking two years of it in college. However, the honest truth is - I'm still at an incredibly basic level. I was actually worried I was going to be too overwhelmed studying there and almost backed out, but the professor from the program assured me I'd take a placement test and be put in an appropriate group level, and encouraged me to come out. And I thought it would be a fun and worthwhile experience since I've never traveled before either.

So my main question is: How much is it possible to improve while there? My main problem has been I was always taking tons of credits while at school and I never really focused on Russian as I should have. I was just too lazy about it and definitely regret it. I never dropped it or anything, I just didn't put nearly as much time as I should have into it. I'm pretty much at a basic sentence level and even then sometimes I'll mix up cases and grammar rules, and my vocabulary is lacking. I'm just a bit nervous I'm going to get there and not be able to understand anyone at all!

I'm going to be staying with a family as well, so I'm effectively going to be immersed 24/7. I'll be taking classes five days a week. I'm not asking how much I can improve in eight weeks because I'm trying to hit some goal or anything, rather I'm just curious as to what the potential here and I guess I'm looking for a bit of encouragement as well. Is it even feasible to hope to be conversational by the time I get back? Also, any tips in general about learning while studying abroad or just being in Russia in general (in this case, St. Petersburg) would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, I am graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and I am researching golden king crab and there is a lot of literature from Russia that has a lot of great info, but it is in Russian. My Russian is very limited, I took 2 courses at the University level and just returned from a 2 week vacation there. I've been using Google Translate to translate sections of the book but obviously Google Translate only gives me the "gist" of each translation. Anyone willing to help me out? The book is titled "Биология равношипого краба Lithodes Aequispinus Benedict у островов Курильской гряды" I can scan the book into a .pdf file and its about 160 pages with many graphs and figures.

What's a word or phrase I could use to move onto a new topic in a conversation. I was thinking "Also, ..." would be good, but would тоже be the correct word for that?

I'll be going to Russia in 7 weeks to meet my girlfriend's family. Nobody in her family speaks any other language than Russian, and I didn't want to rely on my girlfriend all the time to comunicate.

I'm willing to put around 2h per day to study Russian as much and as efficiently as I can. Essentially, my goal is to be able to have a simple conversation, even if not everything is grammatically correct.

I've signed up for learnrussian.rt.com and also downloaded the Rosetta Stone course, but are these really good methods to learn quickly, and focused on conversation? If so, should I try to do both, or just focus on one? Or is there an even better method/website/book out there for my goals?

Any tips are welcome!!!

This is the best Russian tutor I've ever had, so I thought I'd recommend her to you guys. I've studied Russian at the university level for three years then lived and studied in Russia for a fourth and out of all my teachers, this one was the best. So send her an e-mail if you want to take some lessons with her. Anyways, good luck everybody! Russian is not an easy language. http://learnrussianfast.webs.com/

Hi community! I know that make translates is bad for learn a new language but i can learn a lot of vocabulary making this, so i want to read and maybe translate some shorts lectures from russian to english or spanish. Do you know some good author or some lecture to do this? Thanks!

I am specifically looking for tv shows or movies with text of the dialogue available to read along with the audio. For instance, I have access to the audio file of the show "Воронины" but I cannot find the text of the dialogue anywhere.