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More about me progress with the Russian language.



  There are several of you in Russia who have followed my blog for many years.  It amazes me that I am able to write for people all over the world.  When I was a child it would have been unthinkable.  I am making steady progress with my study of the Russian language.  The software I am using is free but very good although they do ask me quite often if I would like to upgrade and pay for the privilege!  I need to make more progress before I consider that.  The material to learn is split into small modules.  First you turn cards with a picture and the Russian word which is also spoken and with the English meaning given.  When you feel you can recognise these you go onto the next step when you see the Russian word and hear it spoken and you have to say what it means.  The card turns and you see if you had the right answer.  If you did you press “yes.” There is lots of repetition and wrongly answered words are displayed again. The words you know least appear again and again until you get it right.  For me the most difficult step is the next one where you are given the English word and are asked to write it in Russian; a keyboard with the Cyrillic letters is supplied.  This is very hard at first but amazingly becomes easier as one progresses. The software is called Byki and I would recommend it highly.  It provides many languages and I am thinking of brushing up on French, German, Italian, Spanish and Icelandic all of which I have dabbled in to a larger or smaller extent. I have a way by which I could write some Russian in my blog in the proper script, but I’m not yet ready for that.

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