I know I don't post as much as I should be, its just that things are a little bland other than the nice weather.

Although, the previous weeks friday, I was told about a wrestling match between an American team and a Russian Team. One of the coaches happens to be the Varsity wrestling coach at FHC. I introduced him to some sources and gave him some russian vocab. Even if the said vocab was incoorect or didn't suit the formality of the occasion, the effort counts and is a sign of respect.
I convinced my mother to drive me to Sparta High. I spent a bit of time on google and mapquest to get the precise locations but the services only recognize larger roads with more than one commute relationship.
I left at approximately 6:15pm but turns out I-96 was murder with traffic. By the time we got to Plainfeild it was well past 7, the assigned time for the match. I would have missed most of it by the time I got there, and I wouldnt get good seats. I believe America won if I'm not mistaken :D
Also, my skype project failed. The active hours here=odd hours there. from mid-afternoon here is like late night through noonish.

Other than that, I have a textbook finally. Living language beginners course.

Adopt a Russian

No I do not mean literally.
I signed up for skype to help some English learning Russians (possibly some eastern Ukrainians( I heard they were more ethnically Russian east of the nations dividing river. I know the separation of the U.S.S.R has something to do with the Russian-Ukranian relationship but it's a vague subject to me)). They made an exchange with me, my english for their russian.

Although it's more like they adopted me more then me adopting them...nevermind.
www.masterrussian.net if interested.

2nd post for today lol

yeah I know its my 2nd post today but...

Heres some Russian techno for ya. Feel free to sing along :p

I did some research on which languages are the hardest to learn for an engish speaker.
Indonesian, Italian, Spanish and Portugese>>2/5 east
French, German and Dutch>> 3/5
Balkan area Languages>>4/5
Finnish>>4/5 Hardest when it comes to European and Germanic.
Other Scandinavian languages and Danish>>3/5
Manderin>>5/5
Japanese>>5/5
Arabic>> 5/5
Russian>>4/5 but just a bit easier than Finnish

The site (url posted below) say Esperanto is the easiest but I still say Pig Latin is :p
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/index.html

The difficulties with the Russian language...and Im glad to find out its not just me... is the verb conjugations, tenses, noun genders and plurals, and everything in between.

Verbs, plurals, turds.

Heh...well no one said learning a language was easy... Im trying to understand verbs better as far as tense.

What I know is

Past: Many scenerios may apply

resent: theres only one word the present verb which is the verb its self. so "look
="looking"

Future: you add the word for "will" and the present tense verb\

What I dont get is the past tense verb, which is not just changing the last letter, but disecting and inputing.

~where do I disect the word?

Plurals

~Do I add the plural when I add the gender mark or do I leave it neuter?

I guess I will have to find out.

Other than that I notice my pronunciation getting better as well as my word recognition.

First Few days

Привет! (Privet!)

Me and a good friend of mine, Nathan developed an intereste in Russian. His reason I am not even sure but my lead on that is his love for russian girl band t.A.T.u. I remembered the alphabet almost immediately the day I learned it. Above is the Capital/lower case versions of the

Russian letters. They all have a sound with the exception of hard-Ъъ and soft-Ьь sounds. They effect the preceding consonent. I wont go over everything I know but if you want to look at more.
~ www.masterrussian.com
~ www.masterrussian.net is a bbs for the .com , its mainly english-russian russian-english help, but there are forums for the slavic, western and eastern European, Arab, Japanese, and spanish languages.

Also, heres a GREAT help when it comes to the actual sound of the words in sound.
Look for "a spoonful of russian" in itunes store. It's totally free and theres no need to sign up for Itunes store account.

До Свидания(Do Svidania) for now