how long do i have to study Russian until i can speak fluently?
Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at
7:10 pm
i am currently studying Russian but not in Russia. I live in Hong Kong. I have been studying for about 2 years but...i find that i can only understand a few words from passages!! in addition oral communication is difficult...i can only pick up occasional words!!??? how can i improve?!?!
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I am just starting to learn Russian, so I can’t really help you, but here is a site where you could ask.
http://www.livemocha.com/
They have a forum, and there are a lot of polyglots on there-people who are serious about learning languages and most of whom have studies several. I’m sure you could get a lot of help on there.
This is my favorite language site:
http://www.livemocha.com/
Also, here’s the program I’m using to learn Russian. I really like it, not everyone does, but it’s worked well for me.
http://www.learnables.com/
Hope something here helps.
the best way is hearing and speaking it. read as many russian books as you can, watch russian tv programs, speak with russian people. this is the quickest way to learn.
Only being able to understand a few words in passages I have frequently in German, a language I would say I am fluent in. But, I also have this problem in English (in textbooks, older texts, fiction writing) but not as extreme. Remember, that you’ve had years of constant exposure to your native language. You might have had more exposure to English (or whatever language you use predominately) in the past week than you have had with Russian in the past 2 years. You need to constantly expose yourself to Russian. Find almost any Russian newspaper online, read about things that interest you on the Russian Wikipedia, watch Russian videos on YouTube or some other site, listen to Russian music with the lyrics in another window or tab, and you can probably come up with more ways to expose yourself.
Do all of this and do it with a dictionary handy either one at the desk or one online in a second window or tab. This is one of the better russian dictionaries I’ve found:
http://www.rambler.ru/dict/
Also, use a resource for Russian grammar that you can consult whenever you’re not sure about a certain inflection or other grammatical issue. This is a very good one:
http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/
To sum up, expose yourself to Russian constantly with a dictionary and grammar reference on hand to fall back on.
Try to use your Russian as well, find Russian forums, chat rooms, or pen pals. Here too keep your dictionary and grammar reference at hand. The more and more you use the language, the deeper and deeper it is ingrained in your head.
Listen Russian, repeat many time,
memorize Russian poetry
read books in Russian every day
speak with Russian
and get good results in a short training period
I speak language fluently. Ya otlichno govoru po russki. In govoru, the letter u sounds like English letter u and in russki, the letter u would be like in English word do, too. Than Russki, should be really rooski but it is never spelled like that. It is hard to say for me how long will it take you to speak Russian fluently. There is also slang words that come into play and they are also acceptable depending on the meaning of sentence. I wish you good luck.