How to teach a language to beginners? (Russian or any other)?
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TPR--total physical response (for beginners).  (Google)\nTPRS-entire method--works wonderfully and engages students\ninfo gap activities--prepare a master with information about your topic (what people look like, where they're going).  White out half the information on each of two copies.  Give half the students one sheet and half the other.  They speak to each other to find the rest of the info. (google information gap)\nflyswatter--write a lot of vocab. on board or project lots of pictures.  You call the target language word and they rush to slap the English with a flyswatter or you call the English and vice versa.\nTeam picture telephone.  Have a good picutre using vocab. you're working with.  several kids look at picture.  Run to next person on team and explain picture.  That person runs to next person and explains picture.  That person runs to last person who draws.  At each stage students can run back and forth to the next person, but not all the way.  Target language only.  Fun chaos.\n\nThere are lots and lots of websites with games and activities for second langauge learning.  Try eslcafe.com (easily adapted to different langauges.) Google Foreign Language methods, or FLTeach (language teachers listsev) and access the archives.  Or join FLTeach and ask your question on list.
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language? example of what you want to do?
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Pick something from a different family instead.  Russian or Greek.  It would be more challenging than any of the ones you mentioned because it isn't Germanic (like English) or Romance (like Spanish).\n\nBut if you want something easy, go for Italian.  If you speak Spanish, you will learn Italian in no time--assuming you don't get confused and start using words of one when you mean the other.
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Check this out. This is the number one learning software of languages. Here is the website. http://www.rosettastone.com/en/?a=b
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Depends on the type of language (the same language groups as yours or not), and on task you wish to accomplish.\nShould you talk or write more?\nIn some languages you need to start from scratch even in alphabet. \n\n * If you gonna be novelist, it's very tough.\n   Theodor Dreiser did it the whole life, and still \n   his German English was not perfect enough\n * do you need verbally communicate in very efficient way:\n   (for example, convincing others to give up their \n   money for some good/bad/unknown purpose)?\n * do you need just read technical manuals?\n\nThe best way to lean new language is to forget your native language for a while. For example, babies learn language fantastically quickly. \n\nConclusion: be baby! (seriously) Open your mind to new.\nOur problem with any education is that we're pretty much the grown-ups in all and stopped being surprised (part of mind job) and absorb new things in the easiest possible way.
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I personally reccomend the Rosetta Stone language education software. It's specifically designed to teach people fast. My father was at conversational italian after an hour a day for six months, and was reading and writing it by the end of the year. I'm going to get a copy before I go to Japan. It comes in almost every language, too.
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That's tough. I was born in Leningrad myself, so I understand your language problem. For me the solution was to watch lots of local TV. That's how I learned the language, but this idea is not for everyone of course.\nMaybe this would help you. There is a Russian chat room on virtualflowrs.ru \nAt least there used to be. Some people who live in Moscow and speak English go to hang out there, but I cannot guarantee their ages. Hope you find someone cool there.\nGood Luck.
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Go to www.bbc.co.uk and there's something called ESL or English as a second language. You get a lot of material there to learn english as a beginner. \n\nOtherwise go to www.google.com and search for "English basic tutorial" or "English basics" You will get tons of sites to teach english from
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I found learning the Russian language to be very enriching. However, it was also extremely useful to me as I grew up in Alaska and MANY spoke Russian. I think it depends on what you wish to do whether or not it would be worthwhile for you. Learning Russian can help greatly with learning other languages such as Greek, Persian, and even Chinese. It can be very useful if you wish to go into International Business or International Law. Also, if you plan to study dance, art, or music the Russian peoples made many great contributions. I found studying Russian to be worth my while.
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Do you really need a RUSSIAN one?\nJusr buy a regular button accordion:\nhttp://search.ebay.com/button-accordion_W0QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfromZR10QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsacatZQ2d1QQssPageNameZWLRS
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all slavic languages are pretty close to each other, they say that if you know one slavic language you can understand about 30% of another. I know in russian there are 6 different cases, while polish has 7, czech don't know, also around 6. But russian has no present tense of "to be" while czech does. plus in Russian you have endings like -ая where in polish you will have just -a. it seems that they shorten the endings in other slavic languages, and quite a few of the words are interchangable, expect for the verb in russian "to remember" means "to forget" in polish and "to forget" in russian means "to remember" in polish. but if you already know one slavic language well, it will be easy to learn another slavic language. so, if you know russian you might understand a couple words in polish or czech, but you'll have trouble really understanding what is said
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Try the Muzzy Language Courses. The site below gives a 30 free trial.\nESLKidstuff has flashcards and worksheets\nESLkid has more
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I suggest you buy "Teach yourself Croatian" by David Norris. This book is simple to use, moves at a quick pace and has relevent texts. \n\nI suggest in the beginning (unless you know a language with cases such as latin or german) not to worry too much about the cases it is about communicate something, anything, at first. And people can understand the meaning without the cases. \nBUT I would learm the basic grammer such as the endings (sorry can't describe it well but in croatian for 'I GO  you dont need to say ja(i) idem(go) just idem(i go) because the endings indicate the meanings. You will find the rules are very regulaur. Once you have understood them you will see how easy it is to make short sentances . And now you are speaking :-)\n\nWhen you get a little better I would use the internet. There are many sites in croatian. And chat rooms are a great place to start because the language is easy. That way you build up your vocab, and you actually see how people write and speak in real life because they use alot of slang.\n\nOf course use every oppourtunity to practice with native speakers (or anykiind :D) Go on holiday there, seek out Croats in your local community, listen to music if can bregovic, zabranejo pusenje -no smoking-, are cool, for easy lyrics try pop and turbo folk type music, watch tv etc etc\n\n SRECNO :-)
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As for the ??????s, that can only mean that the application you were using doesn't support Russian text. Look for a something on the appropriate web-site, or try an application that DOES support Russian text.\n\nWith the IM, it's more than likely that although it supports and shows Russian, it doesn't have any suitable software for actually translating it. Short of having a Russian in the room with you, try pasting the IM message into an online translation engine. I know they're rubbish, but it's got to be better than having no translation at all!
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I can't answer that, but type in BBC languages and they teach German, it's free interactive and very good\n\nAuf Wiedersien
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It would be cool to learn Russian and the langauge that girls use... you know thw one that boys cant understand.