Posts under ‘Russian’

Map of Almaty, Kazakhstan

Nov 30th, 2009

My friend here in Denver has a company called Umapper (www.umapper.com), which lets you make custom maps and applications. So i was testing it out, and made a map of Almaty, Kazakhstan and wanted to post it here on the website.
Having lived and visited several times in Almaty, hopefully I labeled some places on [...]

Tips for Learning Russian

Dec 22nd, 2008

by Yulzopolis.

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I learned Russian in a very unorthodox way. As a result, I am conversational, can read at an intermediate level (but somewhat slowly), but can hardly write. I spent most of my time practicing speaking and learning grammar and vocabulary. But I never spent much time on spelling or writing in cursive (which all Russians [...]