I am Italian of heritage with a passport and hence a whole EU passport. Considering that Russia is not a part of it and i live in Australia is their any point learning it when i have family in Italy and full rights as a citizen in the EU? And how could i practice it when Italian is only a step away and considered easier?

Im doing some short essay on what kind of people join the russian mafia and what kind of people get into it. My question is when someone decides to become that kind of criminal what is his motives? Will he go to college and get a higher degree? or will he turn his back to society and just become a full force criminal awaiting prison? Are these people intelligent? Im talking about Russian criminals in America and Russia. Would someone who moved from Russia to America be a mafia type is that like what they are looking for in America? please help thanks

I am from Russia to each other and want to know English. We can be useful to each other.

i want to become a linguist in russian but im unsure if alot of people speak the language and if it would be a popular language to work with in the U.S. i know russia is a big country but so is china (population-wise) which has many languages so again would this be a good language to work with?

i am very interested in becoming fluent in many languages.
i am only in high school , and have taken 5 levels of spanish, and 2 of french, however i have met some natives of russia and their culture and language really interests me, so i would like to learn russian, and later in college, german.
is there a particular program, book, anything that would be good to learn russian?
of course i could ask my russian co workers how to say certain phrases,or if i have specific questions, but i want to learn the language! how should i start?

I've always wanted to travel to Russia and I'm learning the language right now, slowly by myself. None of the colleges around me has classes for the Russian language, so appearantly it's not that big of a concern to them. Do you see any real benefit to learning this language?

I have emails from my uncle who lives in russia and who can only type in russian. My computer can't read it. It like shows up as these weird characters. Can someone help?

the alphabet is quite different, and we have until 2014 Olympics to learn how to read a menu and get around Russia.

yahoo answers is not having Russia , though small countries like Taiwan, Quebec are represented.

My husband is from US, I am from Russia, and we are moving back to Russia. I gave birth to a baby girl 2 months ago. I currently speak in Russian to her, my husband speaks in English to her. Is this bad? Could it effect her learning?

I am getting married in December and need an officiant that can speak Russian / English for the bride's family that will be attending from Russia. I've searched and searched and haven't found any that speak Russian, maybe I don't know where to look.

I have been talking to someone through yahoo e mail and there from Russia. I don't think they understand me when I write back. How do I compose a e mail in english, then have it translated to Russin when I send it?

Hello!
привет!

I was wondering how long approximately it would take me as an absolute beginner to learn russian. in a couple of months i will be living in russia for approximately 2 years as i am doing my studies out there. I will also be taking russian lessons at the school whilst there and studying in my free time. i'll have people living with me who are native russian speakers too. With this in mind how long do you think it will take me

I can already speak 4 languages and i want to learn one more. I really want to learn either russian or portuguese. Portuguese is a really beautiful language and brazil and portugal are two very beautiful countries with lively cultures. I also know that portuguese would be a lot easier than russian. Russia is not as beautiful a country, but the russian culture is still fascinating as well as russian history and literature. Can you help me decide which language I should choose.

I'm trying to find out what the most common foreign language (not Russian) taught in Russia is, and what is the main foreign language taught - they might not be the same.

I was thinking English, but maybe German or other European language

I need someone to talk to me in russian. i was adopted from russia when i was 13 and im 20 now. im in a real need to find someone to talk russian to and practice. if anyone can help me out, i would greatly appreciate it

GOTSALKS. its my last name and my grandfather was born there so it must be able to be translated. i have tried on google but i'm not 100% sure if i was right.
well that could be true i spose. my great grandparents left russia in 1946 to come to australia, and my great granmother was born in latvia so i just assumed it was russian but thanks anyway. if it can be translated can somebody please?

I recently got the rosetta stone program for Russian, and was quite excited to use it. Me and my fans think Russia is awesome, and wanted to learn some Russian and take a trip there. Unfortunately, it seems that you have to be quite fluent in the Cyrillic alphabet to use the program. I was wondering if I am right in this, and if so, if anyone can give me any pointers in learning the cyrillic alphabet/Russian in general.
спасибо! (Thank you)

I bought a blackberry 7150 for my dad to take to russia. It is unlocked and is working fine with his sim card. The only problem is that I do not see Russian as a display language? Is there a URL Where I can download the language package? Thanks

I have been thinking of learning a new language for a while now, I've tried to learn Japanese but it wasn't anything for me.
I have some Russian friends both in Russia and here in Sweden and I'm going to Russia next year so I think it would be fun to be able to speak Russian.
I do also have a big interest in their culture and history. =)

I was originally born in Russia and I came here to the U.S. when I was 5 1/2 years old. I used to speak Russian, but I lost it because my adopted parent doesn't speak english. I am now 17 and trying to learn Russian again. How long would it take me to relearn the language? Would I ever be able to get my accent back?

I started getting into learning the Russian language. I would love to visit Russia one day, but I would also love to visit a country in Europe too.
And I was just wondering if there was ANY countries in Europe that spoke or can at least understand Russian. Just out of curiosity (:

I would love to get in to some Russian music, since I love the language, but I can't seem to find any. I can't find any Russian bands on iTunes, but their browsing isn't that helpful when it comes to looking for international stuff. Anyone who could reccommend me some stuff that's popular in Russia would be most appreciated, as would YouTube links, but that's not neccessary. Please help!

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 would like to know the differences in the language that Russian Molokans speak compared to just regular Russian. For example: "God" in regular Russian is "Бог" while "God" in the Molokan Russian is "Спотсе" (sp?)
The Russian Molokans are a religious group originally from Russia, who because of religious freedom, migrated to Guadalupe, Baja California in 1805. This might help someone answer my question ( :

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.

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

I want to learn how to speak Russian but all the books and tape recordings I keep finding are for those who are traveling to Russia and the vocab and lessons are based on hotel experiences and shopping. Any suggestions?

so ive decided on my career path but one of the things i need is to learn russian, im still in high school and will be looking for classes in college that teach russian but i was wanting to get a head start on learning it. any advice? obviously i cant go to russia right now so thats out of the question. thanks.

How I can change the language of Yahoo from English to Russian? while creating yahoo email it is indicated the language setting which is Russian language also included, but now I can not swich from English to Russia

I would like to learn to speak and read Russian. Does anyone know of a free and easy way to learn Russian? I would prefer to find online lessons, particular any mp3 podcasts or something of that sort that I can import into my Ipod . . . thanks!
by the way, I have a Russian girlfriend, hence the motivation to learn in a more formal way. We are both too busy, and live in different cities, so I have to find a way to learn on my own.
Thank you all for your suggestions. Many of your sources point to expensive materials, however. I should emphasize that I'm looking, if possible, for something FREE, and moving to Russia is neither free nor a feasible option for me right now. Thank you again for your suggestions so far. Keep 'em coming!

I talk with russian to parents family relatives and stuff but i want to talk russian more but problem is we cant move to russia yet.I was born in Russia but now livign in california for like 12 years. I miss talking russia and getting tired of speaking english all the time.What can i do to talk more russian? It seems like i forgot 10% of russian speaking.. Andd i dont even know how to write or read russian because i never learned school in russia cause we mvoed usa when i was 4. I might join a russian place where a teacher teaches you how to write and read russian maybe that help me get my speak back but i want to talk russian more!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, I happened to see a sentence in my English textbook.
"There are also two million Russian speakers in the USA, including 600,000 in New York!" I was wondering why does Russian so popular in the US. Is there something to do with the large number of immigrants from Russia to America. But shouldn't it be Chinese?
In fact, I have began wondering it since I saw an advertisement slogan written in Russian in an American grocery in the movie"Wanted". So I want to ask Americans about my doubt.
Thank you!

russian soldiers raped at least 2 million german women aged from 6-90
i think most of them were innocent civilians
nobody knows how many of them have been killed after getting raped
russian soldiers would shot their husbands,rape every women and girl they could see as they advance to berlin
berlin along had 130,000 women got raped
but i never heard international commit blame russia's atrocities
most countries just turned a blind eye on it
why?

I know it's a hard language to learn and yada yada, but I really want to learn it! Some day I plan to go to Russia to study and I would like to start learning now so I can be fluent in it by the time I'm 18. How do I do a russian accent?