1e4e6 wrote:The Northern European countries are known for their low university fees or free in general. It could be worse though--in North America they pay a lot more. I heard that it is normal in the USA to pay something like £150000 for a BSc, and then spend the next 20 years in debt repaying loans. Continental Europe are so lucky
Hey this is very true! Germany is the most obvious choice for me because I have already been to Germany several times, I've studied in Germany and I can speak German, and mein Herz schlägt schwarz, rot, gold!
Quick update
Russian: I haven't actually done any German lately (I swear I will!) so this is what I'm writing about. I gave up on the idea of reading Агент 013 because intensive reading is very boring to me if I don't understand most of the text already, and even when I have to look up words in German texts, it makes me roll my eyes. So that's out the window. I've been working through Colloquial Russian 2 again, I've nearly finished Unit 5 now, and I've also found a copy of Living Language Ultimate Advanced Russian which I a-hem acquired a while ago on my laptop. I saw they have audio files for "on the go learning" which is a really sick idea, so I've downloaded them onto my iPod. I also saw that it was recommended by Expugnator on his language log on the .com website. I recall him saying that it made the transition from B1 to B2 slightly easier, which is exactly the view I have in mind for my Russian in the near future, so I'm definitely going to give it a go once I've worked through some more of Colloquial.
In addition (I love this website) neofight78 tipped me about Star Media and many of their TV shows being available on YouTube with Russian subtitles. I already had access to transcripts of Кухня and a few other shows through Polydog, but I watched the first episode of Кухня and really disliked it. However, Star Media has done this TV show called Бомба which is set during the Great Patriotic War and seems more interesting to me (a significant reason I started to learn Russian was because I studied Russian history at college and I wanted to understand those weird letters on the propaganda posters which were blu-tacked up in the history classroom as decor). There's a bit too much romance in the first episode for my taste but I really can't afford to be as picky as I am. I probably also like it because I find it easy to follow with the subtitles and the sort of "military language" which I've become accustomed to through translating newspaper articles for my course at uni.