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To: Lumper20

I also started learning German from a native German in a Department of Defense Dependent school in Germany, took two years of it in college, and spent my junior year in Germany. I also took classes in Russian, a language that seems to have been deliberately designed so as to be impossible for outsiders to master.


26 posted on 12/15/2017 7:30:44 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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I have no clue with Russian but their expletives after crashing their cars are amusing, whatever they mean.


32 posted on 12/15/2017 7:58:54 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Fiji Hill
I also took classes in Russian, a language that seems to have been deliberately designed so as to be impossible for outsiders to master.

Now that i am teaching a class on the Eastern Front, a class on the Siege of Leningrad, and working on Russian Civil War class i have not only gotten into romanticized Cyrillic but some Finnish. My understanding is Finnish is so difficult 25% of Finns speak Swedish. Since we are here does anyone have a source that can show me how to pronounce "englishcized" Russian words and names like a Russian instead of pronouncing them as if they were English words. Spasiba

37 posted on 12/15/2017 8:09:48 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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