Talk:Russian/Contents

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I'll use Russian:Various stuff to practice my own Russian. Probably it will contain stuff that can be used later at other places. Guaka 00:36, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I vote for using Unicode stress marks to indicate stress (as in Russian:Possessive pronouns) and reserving boldface for emphasis (e.g. to highlight changing word endings). This would be more consistent with traditional textbooks. For new content, you can copy and paste the stress character if you don't have another way of inputing them. Any thoughts? Fleminra 20:21, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Would it make more sense to put the stress marks over the vowel of the syllables?

I agree about the stress marks- the way it looks right now is very confusing. Paul_Lynch DettoAltrimenti 02:06, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Verbal Aspect
I've added as section on verbal aspect to the grammar section of the page. I am not a native speaker of Russian, but rather an American who has studied Russian. If I've made mistakes, particularly in examples, please feel free to correct them. In any case, I believe the addition of the verbal aspect page was needed, and what I've put up is a start. (No user account - 8 April 2005)

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I guess that `Самый лучший урок русского языка интернета только на земле!' is a joke, since the sentence is translated as `The best lesson of Russian language of Internet only on earth.' Please, state its status to avoid confusion among non-speakers.

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I am a russian. And I hope I can help you. Do not hesitate, ask me your questions. User:Nemoj 07:50, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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Can accent marks be added to indicate the stressed syllables?

Who is writing this book?
I'm new here, and can see some obvious things that should be changed, and other things that should be added... should I go ahead and change them, or is there someone I should check with for? (don't hate me for being new) Paul_Lynch DettoAltrimenti 02:09, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Planning
After 6 months of being away (studying in Moscow) and no one doing anything to this wikibook, I'd like to start the page Russian/Planning. This page will state what this book needs (and it needs a lot) and how it should be organized. If anyone at all still looks at this wikibook, please leave me a message on my user page. I plan on going onto the russian wikibooks site in the next few days, to look for native speakers to help with audio files, dialogues, and exercises. I would really like this wikibook start to resemble something close to the French or Spanish wikibook, or something even better than those. Any help would be appreciated! DettoAltrimenti 14:19, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Why is some of the language links go to the French Wikibooks?--68.170.86.111 22:29, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Never mind. I figured it out. For some reason the Russian Language template interwiki linked to the French Language wikibooks in several languages. I removed that.--68.170.86.111 22:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Download
It says download or print version, how do I download the wikibook

Construction
Planning seems to fall through after a couple of efforts, so I propose we structure it here and play it by ear. Mostly, editors come on spurts and then get bored and leave. I for one hope I can stay to improve this lacking Wikibook, and it won't work if we're all afraid to go against a plan. I'm going in. ALTON .ıl  05:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Note: NEVER hesitate to change something! If you disagree with it, change it. Wikibooks is not that large enough of a project to get picky over things like proper references and things. I'm trying to start a general restructure, so try to follow that, but if you hate the seal on the front page, go change it (I think it's nice-looking though). ALTON .ıl  05:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Note: Be harsh on the Stage templates, please. A cursory glance through most articles gave me the impression none of it is more than 25% done. Even though Lesson 1 has much of the basic text, I rate it 25% because it is hardly structured and formatted as a lesson. It has a while to go before it is of much use. ALTON .ıl  05:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Note: I like the cheat sheet in the Esperanto book. ALTON .ıl  09:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Thus begins another attempt at working on this book. ALTON .ıl  09:03, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Removed intro: may use later, but seems to be most effective when getting right to material:
 * Welcome to the Russian Wikibook. Russian is an East Slavic language, and is grouped with Ukrainian and Belarusian. Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet. Russian was the defacto universal and official language of the Soviet Union, and remains the official language of Russia and the CIS. Russian is also an official language in Belarus and Kazakhstan, and it is an official language of the United Nations. Outside the former USSR, there are large communities of Russian-speakers in every part of the world. Even astronauts, who work with the International Space Station, are trained to speak Russian to some form of fluency as there are Russian cosmonauts who operate the ISS.


 * Knowledge of the Russian language will increase appreciation of a rich and diverse body of literature, and assist in learning other languages of the Slavic family (like Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian and Bulgarian). It is not an easy language to take on, as an entirely new alphabet and grammatical structure slow down beginners. With practice and immerssion, Russian will become a passion, and soon after, an acquired language.


 * The Russian Wikibook is structured in a way to present the most integrated material in short, easy to digest lessons. To begin, read the Introduction and learn how best to learn with this book.

ALTON .ıl  01:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Any new lessons coming soon?
Could someone Russian talking create some easy texts with translations because it would be alot easier to learn Russian with examples and by seeing the language in use? --Mikaell (talk) 14:20, 17 April 2008 (UTC) I am a native speaker. Often too busy but willing to help bit by bit. Throw some ideas about what you learners want to see here and I will see what I can do. You can also help by structuring the lessons, so a native speaker could only fill the gaps - Russian text, pronunciation etc. If interested post to my talk page. --Atitarev (talk) 12:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Textbook-style?
I admit that I am no native speaker and can only contribute with a limited level of Russian, but I'm currently learning this language with an 1982-issue (sorry, there isn't a newer one here) of a Russian textbook meant for Chinese learners with a 15-lesson Pronunciation Course(correct me if I'm wrong about this translation of Вводно-фонетический Курс) and a 40-lesson Basics Course (Основной Курс), as well as about 1200 words, concentrating on a few aspects and bringing in the language cases according to their frequency of use (Basically Nominative-Accusative-Prepositional-Genitive-Dative-Instrumental). Should the Wikibook about Russian be structured like this or should it be made like something else? Varxo (discuss • contribs) 12:19, 15 December 2016 (UTC)