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Learn Survival Russian

Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Russian phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Russian is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

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Learn That Language Now! is a truly excellent, highly useful e-book for learners of any language - available for instant download to get you learning better right away. The study approach presented in the book is refreshing, exciting and even intoxicating, because it works so well once you start using it! Having personally learned six languages to varying degrees myself, I was pleasantly surprised to find many new tips and tricks that I'd never come across in over 15 years of studying and practicing foreign languages.

The author offers language learners perspective (earned through years of learning multiple languages) as well as practical methods you can start using right away to improve your language study flow and achieve fluency many times faster than with standardized methods.

This ebook provides essential information that will save you time and energy, helping you reach your goals faster and with more confidence. And with a price tag of only $29 USD - and instant delivery to your email - you will have a hard time finding a more valuable investment in your foreign language learning endeavors.

Finally, teachers will also benefit greatly from this book as it will give them insight into creating better study programs and stronger learning tools for their students.

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If you don't know about Wikipedia, now is the time to find out! Especially since it is so useful in learning languages.

Wikipedia is the "Free Encyclopedia", a collectively-authored, dynamic, online encyclopedia that is free not only as in price, but also as in freedom. This means that the content you find anywhere on Wikipedia is free and open in the Public Domain. You can reproduce, redistribute and rehash the information there. This is empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License. This same license protects and empowers the content on Free Language! (How?)

This particular resource links to the Wikipedia entry on the Russian language. This entry contains loads of information for the curious reader as well as for the serious Russian language learner, including historical and linguistic data.

Use this resource to become familiar with the Russian language and its context in today's world, to discover facts and linguistic data about Russian and its many varieties, access further information about and resources for learning Russian, and much more.

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Russian (русский язык), transliteration: Russkiy yazyk, [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three (or, according to some authorities, four) living members of the East Slavic languages; the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn, often considered a dialect of Ukrainian).

Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards. While Russian preserves much of East Slavonic grammar and a Common Slavonic word base, modern Russian exhibits a large stock of borrowed international vocabulary for politics, science, and technology. Due to the status of the Soviet Union as a superpower, Russian had great political importance in the 20th century. Hence, the language is still one of the official languages of the United Nations.

Russian has palatal secondary articulation of consonants, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found in almost all consonant phonemes and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels, which is not entirely unlike that of English. Stress in Russian is generally quite unpredictable and can be placed on almost any syllable. Syllabic stress is one of the most difficult aspects for foreign language learners.

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Visit "Russian Language" on Wikipedia.

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This site is a great introduction to the Russian language for those that have never been exposed to it previously. The site offers introductions to the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, numbers, left and right, restaurants and meals, when and where and important basic words useful to new learners.

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This tutorial is designed as a beginning point for a casual learner. It does not require any special Russian fonts or software.

Why Learn Russian?

* Your company has started doing business in Russia
* You're going on a business trip to Russia
* You're going to Russia for a vacation
* You just decided it might be interesting

Why Learn The Alphabet?

Probably the easiest thing you can do to make a visit to Russia more pleasant is to learn the alphabet. You'll feel much more comfortable if you can read street signs and advertisements; you won't have that absoutely helpless feeling that comes with being illiterate.

If you're learning Russian just for fun, the alphabet is a quick and easy way to get into the subject.

You keep saying "Easy"

Yes. It is easy. Russian is a very phonetic language, which means that, in general, things are pronounced exactly as written. Once you've learned the alphabet, you'll be ahead of the game. Click the right arrow below to find out the big secret to the game.

Visit An Introduction to Russian at langintro.com

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The content on this website is empowered by the GNU General Public License and is, thus, free and open the the general public!

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Welcome to the Russian Wikibook. Russian is an East Slavic language, and is grouped with Ukrainian and Belarusian. Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet. Russian was the official language of the Soviet Union, and remains the official language of Russia. Russian is also an official language in former Soviet countries such as Belarus and Kazakhstan, and it is an official language of the United Nations. Outside the former USSR, there are large communities of Russian-speakers in every part of the world. Even astronauts, who work with the International Space Station, are trained to speak Russian to some form of fluency as there are Russian cosmonauts who operate the ISS.

Knowledge of the Russian language will increase appreciation of a rich and diverse body of literature, and assist in learning other languages of the Slavic family (like Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Bulgarian). It is not an easy language to take on, as an entirely new alphabet and grammatical structure slow down beginners. With practice and immerssion, Russian will become a passion, and soon after, an acquired language.

The Russian Wikibook is structured in a way to present the most integrated material in short, easy to digest lessons. To begin, read the Introduction and learn how best to learn with this book.

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Wikibooks is a great idea. Like Wikipedia, Wikibooks consists of content that is public domain. That means that anything there is reusable in any fashion, such as for teaching.

Visit the Russian Language Wikibook.

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The content on this website is empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL) and is, thus, free and open for everyone.