Why is it so damn hard to get started reading in Russian?

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Re: Why is it so damn hard to get started reading in Russian?

Postby frenchfish55 » Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:34 am

acorngalaxy wrote:Here are 2 articles that I randomly chose : One in Romanian, the other in Russian. I have never learnt Romanian. On the other hand, I am starting to get back to Russian, but I have serious trouble reading the news.

I haven't translated the articles yet, but I can already guess the Romanian one: Basically, Romania has closed its airspace for Russia on ?

It\s better to start with simple texts for kids or texts from graduated readers,course books.
Rotts are diffrent from romanian languages
Goog news. Listening is much easier because every letter has always the same prononciation... So if you know how to write it,you know how to prononce it properly.
Try ASSIMIL.
Find very simple text in english and translate it into russian with google translate or deepL, translation from russian to eng is good
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Re: Why is it so damn hard to get started reading in Russian?

Postby anitarrc » Tue Aug 09, 2022 11:03 am

Good advice about kids books.

To be honest, I understood next to zero of the Romanian text although I'm fluent in French and Spanish.

The Russian text was easier I had to look up the HIV but it was obvious the were talking about a cure. Reading Russian is not the problem to me, it is writing and the :evil: grammar.

I use Yandex for cheating and it works well for me for all sorts of technical stuff
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Re: Why is it so damn hard to get started reading in Russian?

Postby leosmith » Tue Aug 09, 2022 11:00 pm

frenchfish55 wrote:It\s better to start with simple texts for kids
I disagree with this because material for kids is often strange, and almost always boring to adults. Also, would you mind changing you avatar to something less political?
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Re: Why is it so damn hard to get started reading in Russian?

Postby frenchfish55 » Wed Aug 10, 2022 4:15 am

leosmith wrote:
frenchfish55 wrote: Also, would you mind changing you avatar to something less political?

Are you against cute bilingual innocent child who is interested in ecology?
What's wrong with you? :-)
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