I'm thinking about taking a Russian or German class as my foreign language for school. I just wanted to know if any experts can tell me which one is easier to learn?

Cobbler is a fruit pie with a biscuit crust only on the top.

English is my 1st language (obviously...) - suppose I want to ask someone, in Russian: "Excuse me? Do you understand English?"

If I were to write what I think the Russian translation sounds like in latin characters, I'd guess it was close to this:

"EEZ-vn-EET-ya? VOY PU-nee-my-EET-ya pan-GLEESK-uh?"

(assuming I'm using the russian wording: "Вы понимаете Английский?")

does anyone know if you have to roll your tongue in the russian language?
is it hard to learn?
what do you think is most challenging?

Nice answer Kelly but remember Alaska was Russian territory before America purchased it.
Nice point John, I had never though of that.
Thanks again kelley I need to start paying more attention to the professors, I thought Eisenhower bought Alaska in th 50's lol.

I've giving up on czech so i'm going to learn russian instead.

I need my russian people on this, or is there a site that i can go to and write any sort of word and have it written in different writing. Thanks

i was just wondering how does Russian sound to non Russian speakers. Does it kinda sound German?

This one barely has any people in russian its all americans.
I dont hate americans just want to talk to russian people since i am russian.
I cant write or speak russian thou because i moved early but will learn it in a month but i can speak it. Any place for russian people?

Without learning cyrillic. I just want to be able to read/write Russian in Latin letters, and not have to learn a new set of letters. Is there anywhere online that has this for free?

Please convert Shakira to russian and japanese letters.
In Greek too

I have taken 2 years of high school Russian and am wondering if taking/learning polish will be easier or about the same as learning, say Swedish.
I have noticed that Russian and Polish share some of the same words (exp. Kto? is "who" in both) So would it be easier to learn Polish now that I have the Russian base?
This would be my third language (English base, French and Russian), and I have a polish heritage.
Help would be appreciated!

As much as I know, Russian doesn't have any influence upon (Latin) America, Africa, & Australia, but perhaps it is generally regarded as an important language in Europe & Asia, the question is that, how important is Russian respectively in Europe & Asia. & Is Russian really harder than German in aspects of grammar, cases, gender, & syntax ? And is Russian really much easier than Arabic? Thanks !

I want to learn it, i glanced at some langage things in the library, looks hard...but i think the books were written in 1975 though -.-

Is it easy if i buy some langage tapes or something?

My friend from Russia in middle school taught me how to write it in cursive, and I would like to be able to do it again. I have some idea of how to do it, but I'm not sure. Please, make sure it's cursive, not print. Thank you. My name is Sabrinah, btw.

"double double E"

he pronouned it funny but the WWE should call him up from florida in his dark matches he would win every match easily he sorta reminds me of a russian brock lesnar haha

Does anyone have any tips on how to learn Russian without a teacher/class?

Ive done the following:
~Learned a few words
~Downloaded Russian For Dummies
~Learned the Cyrillic Alphabet

Cheers!
Please DO NOT advertize the books you are selling <.<

I know the languages are different but still...I wondered.

Okay, I'm doing a report for school, and I need a English to Russian translator, but the Russian translation must be in NON-cyrillic. A last resort could be a translation between cyrillic Russian and non-cyrillic Russian...
I don't just need a single translation. It's a continuous project which I am going to need an ACTUAL TRANSLATOR like a website or something.

What im wanting to know instead of using 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 does russian have a different representation for those numbers?

h word?

I want to become a Russian interpreter to help Russian speaking refugees/immigrants.

"Hello. Thank you for calling. My name is Phil. I can only speak a little Russian but I can get a translator. Would this be OK?"

Thanks!

Phil

Does anyone know any movies where the characters speak with good caribbean, cuban, or russian accents?
i am trying to find some movies where the actors are speaking english but with a russian, cuban or caribbean accents...does anyone have any ideas?

i have opened flock along with yahoo.my space is in russian. i want to change it to english.how do i do it.i can not read russian.

i think it would be better to learn portuguese because it will help ALOT with brazillian portuguese but the russian language looks sooooo hard to learn! if im going to learn two languages with a language in writing im not familiar that will be hard wont it!?
i already speak french and english but is it possible in a lifetime i can learn both languages?

Is there anyone who's initial language is english that learned Russian fluently? If so, how did you do it and how was it? I'm looking into learning the language myself?

Hi everyone! I am writing from a St. Petersburg internet cafe. I hope you are all well. I am very good, St. Petersburg is a great city. Today we go back to Moscow. It's been an amazing trip, and when we get back we will have a big party in my flat to celebrate my friend going home to Mexico. I miss you all and love you lots. Hannah xxx

I recently bought a new laptop for a Russian-speaking friend in Ukraine. He speaks some English, but mostly Russian. However the laptop's operating system is Vista Premium English. How can I change the operating system's language to Russian, short of paying 0 for an upgrade to Vista Ultimate? Is there some way I can trade in my license for a Russian one, or maybe get a discount?

I've been wanting to learn Russian for some time now, and I already know the fundamentals (verb aspects, comparative, adjective and noun cases, verb tenses, word order in sentences, reflexive verbs, telling the time, etc.), but I hardly heard it spoken and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a site with spoken conversations (audio).

Im russian/armenian and i want to talk to russian/armenian girls. We have lot only armenian girls in my school but i dont realy like that kind. I would like to talk to russian girls or armenian/russian girls where can i talk? Btw im not good in armenian. Only can talk a little. In russian i can talk but not read or write.Any advice? My school is in glendale california and i barely see russian girls. I got some russian friends but we dont got many russian girls at our school it suck..

Like what are some decent books or dvds?
For a 13/14 year old native English speaker?

You look very sexy today.
You make me smile
Do russia have beaches?
At night I dream about you
I wish i could kiss your body

Translation English to Russian please. This will be said to a female.

I prefer the text to NOT be in cyrillic please. Thanks