How to learn basic Russian???

As in Mr.Chris's blog said,teachers now prefer learning more foreign languages and it could be taught by students so I will post a small way to learn Russian.Actually Russian is a complicated language so here are just clues and usual phrases to communicate...!

An interesting article from today's Financial Times:

"Lee Iacocca, American businessman and known for his revival of Chrysler in the 1980s said: “Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they’ll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking’. And when they begin to respect you, they’ll follow you to the death.”

Ignore language and you ignore most of the world. In today’s business environment most global businesses receive the majority of their revenues from countries other than their own. When you speak to someone in their own language, you connect with them and bond with them in a way not possible in a language other than their mother tongue."

"Many companies simply ignore language because it is too costly, too timely or complex to handle. The latter is true for businesses handling large volumes of data in multiple languages. There are many vendors to deal with on the translation side; there are file handling issues back and forth between enterprise and translation vendor and there are many manual processes involved in getting content from one language to the other. And yet leading brands are showing the way in terms of looking to technology to help improve efficiencies in the processes behind doing this.

Take Intel and Philips for example. Intel uses a combination of technology and services to deliver its support website consistently into multiple languages. For the company it is imperative that there is no delay in getting the content out in all languages at the same time and yet many organisations struggle to achieve this.

The company is now also achieving more than 80 per cent re-use of existing translated content by applying some of the latest technologies. Philips also uses sophisticated technology to enable the delivery of all content across consumer electronics, domestic appliances and medical systems in more than 35 languages.

Another area where companies should not ignore language is in customer support. A customer buys a product or service but has questions or difficulties. Providing constant multilingual support is a challenge and cost – finding the people with both the technical and language skills is not easy."

Now, let us imagine you are an A level student, with spare time on your hands. You approach the teachers (and any pupils if interested) and say, 'I am prepared to offer conversational classes in Russian, once a week'. Teachers accept. They gain. You gain - as you become even more interesting to universities.

In this post I will show some basic Russian language words and phrases for people to learn.Some phrases that are daily used!First of all:

The Russian alphabet. with English translation:
А (a), Б (be), В (ve), Г (ge), Д (de), Е (ye), Ё (yo), Ж (zhe), З (ze), И (i:), Й (i), К (ка), Л (el), М (em), Н (en), О (о), П (pe), Р (er), С (es), Т (te), У (u), Ф (ef), Х (xa), Ц (tse), Ч (che), Ш (sha), Щ (sh:a[softer]), ъ (hard symbol), ы (uh), ь (soft symbol), Э (eh), Ю (you), Я (ia)

OR

Here is the link of "Online courses of Russian as a foreign language":

http://rs.wl.dvgu.ru/index_1.php?id=en/pr_3&menu_id=menu_2.

_If you are interested in studying the Russian language, literature, culture, history or economy

- if you studied Russian before and want to maintain and improve your level;

- if you don't have an opportunity to come to Russia at the present time, you are welcome to try online courses of Russian as a foreign language offered by FENU Russian School for International Students.

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Here are the links with general daily phrases with English explanations and also have record audios for pronunciations. It is Very useful:

http://www.masterrussian.com/blday_greeting.shtml

http://www.masterrussian.com/blday_introductions.shtml

http://www.masterrussian.com/blday_goodbye.shtml

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Here are some videos helping you to learn Russian and also it's easier to learn because you can repeat their pronunciations...