I've recently become interested in learning the russian language. The only problem is that I've no idea which organisations/schools offer russian as a foreign language, so right now I'm trying to teach myself using internet and audio clips. I really want a tutor to teach me the language properly in person so that I'll be able to learn it faster instead of trying to figure out how the language and various variations to pronounciations/sentence structures work on my own. The 3rd language centres over here don't offer russian as a foreign language, and it's really hard to find russians in singapore. I'm currently in the music conservatory at NUS, and I only know 2 russian teachers of mine. But it's kind of hard to ask them for proper russian lessons in the conservatory when my timetable is getting fuller by the semesters. Plus they aren't trained in teaching languages.

Does anyone know where I can go for proper russian lessons, not counting internet, books or going to russia?

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

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?

I was surprised to read on some forum dedicated to Russian as foreign language talks about how ppl want to learn it, how beautiful it is. I think it's a challenge cause Russian is or thought to be one of the hardest languages.

I would like to find places where I could learn both of these languages.

I am making T-shirts and I needed the translations. Also, if you know any other languages with the translation then that would be appreciated also.

My friend's birthday is coming up and he studies English, Russian and German so I figured I'd write Happy Birthday in those 3 languages on his card.

Obviously, the English isn't a problem but how do you write "Happy Birthday" in German and Russian? Please don't give me any insults in hope that I'll include them in the card! Thanks!

I love languages. I learnt english and spanish by myself and now I would love to learn russian

I was wondering what other languages are similar to russian or could be easily picked up due to fact that you could speak russian (e.g. german-dutch, croatian-serbian). Thanks!

I've been wondering this for years, Polish is easy, but Russian takes tongue and throat work. Chinese is tonal, writing system is difficult, the pronunciation though is somewhat easy, but thats my opinion. Do you agree that Russian is the hardest language. I'm asking those who have experiences with languages or regular people who think they can answer this question.

How closely are the two languages related? I want to speak ukrainian but it seems like the training to speak russian is easier and more available

I know this is a random question but I was listening to a song that was russian and I've heard that Russian is one of the hardest languages to learn. So I was wondering what made it so unique that it became one of the harder languages and I was thinking most languages originated from something and changed from region to region so I was wondering where it originated from.

Does anyone know where Russian language originated from and why its so hard to learn?