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Offline aemxr

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Русский (Russian)
« on: November 09, 2010, 07:19:20 PM »
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So I don't know Russian very well yet, but I can explain a little bit about the language in terms of spelling and pronunciation.

The Russian language uses letters from the Cyrillic alphabet. There are 33 letters in total: 20 consonants, 11 vowels, and 2 pronunciation characters. Some of these letters are the same as ones in English, others, may have similar sounds but different symbols. In order, here are the letters:



You may want to bookmark or print this list, it helps to remember the letters so you don't have to look silly going back and having to find the letter you forgot how to pronounce.

I have a few complaints about some of the letters in the chart. The letter "е" is often pronounced without the y in front of it. Additionally, the letter "й" is a subtle "y", like "boy" (on the chart), not harsh like "yarn". Make sure you don't confuse "з" and "э", while one is pronounced "z", the other is pronounced "eh" (respectively).

The easy part about pronunciation is that most of the time, letters are pronounced the same way no matter how they're arranged; English is much more difficult in the sense that vowels change how other letters are pronounced.

Here are a few examples (use the above chart unless you already know the letters/already memorized):

привет - preevet - Hello/Hi
да - da - Yes
нет - nyet - No
лол - lol

Useful resources:
http://www.russianlessons.net/lessons/getting_started.php
http://www.russianlessons.net/lessons/lesson1_main.php
http://www.russianlessons.net/lessons/lesson1_alphabet.php
http://www.russianlessons.net/lessons/lesson3_main.php

So you might be asking yourself, "Self, how the залупа am I supposed to type this on an English keyboard?" Well, it's actually quite easy if you're on Windows. Simply go to Control Panel, click on Regional and Language options, go to the Keyboards and Languages tab, then click the Change keyboards button. In there, you can add keyboard layouts for various languages. I'd recommend the standard "Russian (Russia)/Keyboard/Russian" option, although there are other mappings as well. Then click the Advanced Key Settings tab and choose key sequences for switching between two or more languages. I use alt-shift because it's the only one that doesn't conflict with anything else. Then simply press alt-shift whenever you need to type in Russian. :D
Sorry, don't know how to do it on Mac :(

One potential problem, however, is learning where the keys are. There are several solutions to this. The one I'd recommend is a nifty piece of shareware called Frontype. Frontype shows keys you're pressing on a semi-transparent HUD overlay that can be configured to show up only on certain programs. What's useful, however, is that when you switch to another key mapping such as Russian, Frontype will change the characters it shows as well. It works free for 7 days then stops showing keypresses and doesn't reflect on keymap changes.  :(
« Last Edit: November 27, 2010, 10:02:23 PM by aemxr »

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Re: Русские aka Russian FTW! :D
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2010, 07:59:27 AM »
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Bulgarian is pretty close too. ;)

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Re: Русские aka Russian FTW! :D
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2010, 01:15:09 PM »
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I want learn russian. Is cool, but isn't easy...
I hope speak very good russian...
Как это?

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Re: Русские aka Russian FTW! :D
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2010, 06:43:43 AM »
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I always thought Russian was the coolest sounding language ever. :)

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Re: Русские aka Russian FTW! :D
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2010, 05:07:34 PM »
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I always thought Russian was the coolest sounding language ever. :)
Same, but the large number of Russian minges made me stop thinking about that.

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Re: Русские aka Russian FTW! :D
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2010, 05:27:38 PM »
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Same, but the large number of Russian minges made me stop thinking about that.

lol ikr

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Re: Русские aka Russian FTW! :D
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2010, 08:01:24 PM »
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I am Soviet Canadian. :D
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Re: Русский (Russian)
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2010, 08:16:01 AM »
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I do Russian at school, it's pretty fun and unique (As in most of the schools in England don't teach it). I know how to read and write well too, which helps :P


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Re: Русский (Russian)
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2010, 07:57:06 AM »
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I do Russian at school, it's pretty fun and unique (As in most of the schools in England don't teach it). I know how to read and write well too, which helps :P

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Re: Русский (Russian)
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2010, 09:57:27 AM »
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russian i have been learning it since i was 7 :D


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Re: Русский (Russian)
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2010, 01:51:20 PM »
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ого, не знал что англоязычный народ хочет знать русский... афигеть  :trollface:

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Re: Русский (Russian)
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2010, 07:43:59 AM »
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русски язык очен интьиреснo но я не очен хорошо знаю етот язык


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Re: Русский (Russian)
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2010, 09:46:55 AM »
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Русский язык очень сложный... его долго учить и в нём есть очень много нюансов