My brain keeps trying to decode license plates, it's getting annoying, but funny when I catch myself doing it. I find myself driving along and I see something like 284 - XTE and find myself going 'khhtyeh' before by brain kicks in. I accidentally pronounce any Cyrillic/Latin similar letters (would they be called cognates?) when there's a couple of them bunched together, even when it's obviously not meant to mean anything in Russian or English.

Just a dumb side-effect I thought I would share with you guys.

The Case Book for Russian

By our linguist friends at the University of Chicago. Very accessible and incredibly thorough, though it may be best for those who've had some exposure to the Russian language already. (I.e., I wouldn't recommend starting here.) Packed with examples of actual Russian prose to illustrate usage.

(Sidebar: it might be worth it to download the separate chapters for posterity, in case UChicago someday decides they no longer want to host content for free that they're selling in a book for $55. Call me cynical. It has the same title as the website, if you're interested.)

So, as you might know, I am the new moderator of this subreddit, and I want to make it a bigger thing. I want to make it a helpful community for everyone trying to learn my native language, which can be quite a job. But I won't be able to do this without you guys, so I'm asking you to help me a bit.

First of all, you might have noticed that I've slightly edited the sidebar and added some links. But those are hardly enough. If you know any good sites or posts that helped you personally, post here or PM me and they will be added to the sidebar.

Secondly, if you know someone who could commit to the community or who's learning Russian, but doesn't know where to ask all his question, show them this place.

And thirdly, be nice and respectful. Remember, Learning = Making Lots of Stupid Mistakes. It is always like that.

P.S. English is not my native language, so if you see any mistakes on the sidebar or in my posts, feel free to correct me. I love Grammar Nazis.

Edit: I've just looked at the moderation queue and OH SHI~. For the last year many good posts have been marked as spam! I wasn't a moderator back then (in fact, I wasn't even a redditor back then), but still I feel bad about those posters. Sorry guys! Won't happen again.

So, the recent thread have shown that most of our folks do like the idea of merging with /r/Russian. So be it! I have made the sub restricted, so that new posts could not be added, except by us, mods. You can now unsubscribe from /r/LANL_Russian and subscribe to /r/Russian.

I and /u/happybadger will meet you there. The sidebar and the logo will be there as well.

Have a great day, всем удачи!

Hello, fellow /r/LANL_Russian subscribers.

Recently, a representative from the other Russian language-oriented Reddit community, /r/Russian, have proposed a merge between our two subreddits. Us, mods, are mostly OK with that. What do you, the community of /r/LANL_Russian, think about this idea?

I'm trying to refine my own studying. Do you do flashcards for vocabulary? Translation exercises? Do you write stories, sentences? Open up your grammar book and study a concept? If you would be so kind as to highlight what "studying" looks like to you, I'd greatly appreciate it!

I can read/speak russian decently, but I have troubles understanding people speaking russian, so conversation is a bit hard. For other languages I have found that watching foreign TV series with the foreign subtitles on helped a lot, so I'm just looking for one in russian.

I'm thinking the russian equivalent of How I Met Your Mother or the like, with regular, everyday spoken russian. What would you suggest?

I'll be going to Russia in 7 weeks to meet my girlfriend's family. Nobody in her family speaks any other language than Russian, and I didn't want to rely on my girlfriend all the time to comunicate.

I'm willing to put around 2h per day to study Russian as much and as efficiently as I can. Essentially, my goal is to be able to have a simple conversation, even if not everything is grammatically correct.

I've signed up for learnrussian.rt.com and also downloaded the Rosetta Stone course, but are these really good methods to learn quickly, and focused on conversation? If so, should I try to do both, or just focus on one? Or is there an even better method/website/book out there for my goals?

Any tips are welcome!!!

LANL was a great idea but it never really took off (bled into the University of Reddit I believe, though that never took off either). I completely forgot it was even here, but looking at our subscriber numbers there's a decent jumping off point if anyone would like to commandeer it.

Who wants a subreddit?

I thought you guys may enjoy knowing that chinaSMACK opened a new sister site called russiaSLAM.

russiaslam.com

Basically they translate new, and popular trends, and news stories from Russia with user comments. If you mouse over the English, it will show the original russian.

Enjoy!

I remember learning French and reading "Le Petit Prince". Is there a sort of Russian equivalent? A rather famous book, but also a fairly simple one?

Thanks.

It's called [1] /r/RussianImmersion.

The idea behind it is to have a sort of sandbox to practice and make friends in while speaking only in Russian. It's brand new, and I'm not quite as fluent as I'd like to be in Russian, so if anyone finds a mistake feel free to send me a PM and I'll fix it.

I'd like to see some native Russian speakers there to help too. If anyone has some suggestions for this subreddit, let me know and I'll get implementing.