Russia Experience » learning Russian http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk Trans-Siberian Railway Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:10:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3 Pronunciations and tribulations #2 http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/russian-language-guide/ http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/russian-language-guide/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:18:59 +0000 http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/?p=5648 Last week I started running through the masochistic minefield that is Russian language practice. It’s brutally good though! Each new word: a speck of grit gained on the upward ascent. Each phrase: a step-and-jump over a chasm as progress is made. Oh yeah, we were running through those nagging,...

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]]> http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/russian-language-guide/feed/ 1 Pronunciations and tribulations #1 http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/pronunciations-and-tribulations-1/ http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/pronunciations-and-tribulations-1/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:16:32 +0000 http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/?p=5640 The struggle continues: an ongoing, cautionary tale on the road to learning Russian (or the road to somewhere else). Searching on Google for linguistic tips and traps can be an experience that is enlightening, reassuring and depressing in equal or varying measures. It becomes apparent that there has...

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