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Anyone speaking Russian, can read Cyrillic?

Pantalaimon 5 Feb 18
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I have a BA in Russian and can read and write Cyrillic. It's been a while since I've had the occasion to actually speak Russian, though.

GothicBlue Level 4 Nov 26, 2019
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Slowly getting towards it - it's taken a lot more work than I expected to be able to read Russian at a reasonable speed, and the Cyrillic writing system certainly did cause me a lot of difficulty for a long time, but if you put in the hours, you can see the speed gradually go up. I'm now often able to read protest banners in Russian where in the past they'd be off the TV screen before I'd got beyond the first couple of letters.

What helped me most with Russian was reading a Russian translation of one of my favourite books which I managed to get hold of in electronic form (an illegal copy) so that I could simply paste chunks of it into Google Translate and get most of the words I didn't know translated without having to spend ages looking them up a dictionary. That turned reading in Russian from a terrible chore into a pleasure, and I was learning at least ten times as much in a given length of time by doing this. I also tried reading the book in Russian with the English version of the book open at the same page, but it was harder to work that way early on, only becoming practical by the time I was half way through and had improved my Russian substantially. It was quite a surprise too to find out how many common words the languages courses I'd previously worked through had failed to teach me, such as "up" and "down" which were completely new to me when I met them in the novel. You want to start working with real text rather than the artificial stuff designed for language courses as soon as you've reached the end of the course so that you can get a proper feel for what the language actually is and does. I'm now turning my attention to learning to speak Russian, producing my own sentences instead of just understanding other people's, but that process is going to be much easier from where I am now because I now understand enough Russian to feel as if I already own the language - there is no danger of failing from here.

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Yes, why?

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