What is the easiest way to learn Russian?
Monday, August 24th, 2009 at
6:03 pm
There is a new student in my Geometry class and she barely speaks English...she speaks Russian. I know a few words (privyet, paca, da, nyet, ruski) but I want to learn how to speak it more fluently...fast! Help please; it is very tough to teach someone who speaks another language
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The responsibility to learn languages is on your new student. She will have to learn terms for all her different subjects, which is hard … it sholdtake her 3 months if she doesn’t rebel against being in your STRANGE country before then.
If you want to learn Russian faster, do you mean …
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing
- Hearing
they are 4 different things, and I put them in order of difficulty.
You can learn a sentence given slowly to parrot / repeat … so you could Speak
After learning the Russian alphabet, the pronounciation is phonetical (ie, not as many silent letters and spelling rules as in English), so you could Read.
Fiddling around with a dictionary, you could then write.
Understanding the variety of accents when people speak faster than your language tape / teacher takes practice.
Many DVDs have Russian as an option of languages … that will help, especially if you know the movie in English and can grasp what the emotion is while someone is speaking
To help someone who has problems with English,
- speak slower and clearly .. not louder (shouting at them doesn’t help them understand … but the will nod to shut you up).
- If you have a strong accent, you may need to talk differently around that student. (when I taught English in Mexico, I had to loose my Australian accent).
- The good thing about geometry is you have drawings to help explain what you are talking about. Don’t give instructions first and then get them to open their books. Give her a chance to understand from a diagram what the (eg) rhombus is before you talk about working out the angles.
Good luck
live there with a temp VISA
The easiest way to learn Russian would be to be born to Russian parents!. Otherwise, get a Berlitz, Russian phrase book, and a CD so you can hear the words!
Do a search for "the rosetta stone" it’s software to learn just about any language very easily.
Well, the basics are the same for any language. You need a good grammar book, dictionary, audio material is very helpful.
Those will gives you the basics with time and study. Then things like watching DVD’s in that language, television, listening to the radio, reading newspapers will bring you to fluency.
You can’t learn Russian fast though. It is one of the more difficult languages out there. Quite a bit more difficult than any other major European language.
I’ve read figures and with one hour of study per day, it is likely to take a native English speaker around three to four years to gain a high level of proficiency.
There’s no quick and easy way to learn a second language. There are better and more efficient ways, but no matter what it takes a considerable amount of time and effort to learn.
Her being immersed and English being a reletively easy language to learn, she’ll certainly learn to speak English far faster than you’ll gain any level of proficiency in Russian.