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Cyrillic Reading Speed

I studied Russian for about 5 years (some 10 years ago now, scarily enough) and a bit of Serbian... can decipher Cyrillic script with relative ease, however when it comes to long words or generally reading fluently it's a bit more of a challenge. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to increase reading speed in Russian besides brute-force finding things to read (e.g. common Cyrillic roots, ...

Eng-rus flowers

...West Bengal) source i got a list of flowers or flower related words. I'm not able to translate some words into russian. Please help me: Night-Jasmine Jasmine Night-Queen Chameli China-box Malati Well, jasmine is understood...-Jasmine (what's the difference between Jasmine and Night-Jasmine?). Some words look like non-english, but actually they all are in english only....

there are no words to encapsulate the randomness of this post.

... of all time, is probably Syostry (2001) , "Sisters". It's a Russian film that did very well domestically about two half sisters, 13 and...alone in a tiny appartment, than to her mom, who remarried a Russian gangster after Sveta's dad left, and had Dina, 9, a...and tells people her dad died in Afganistan while worshipping long dead Russian folk icons. The movie is amazing . Seriously, when was the ...

Nikolai Luzhin, Cillian Murphy and Sean Bean - After London

... and steel." Cillian groaned inwardly, then turned to Nikolai, speaking hard and fast at him in fluent Russian. Sean stared, considering punching the tattooed man. He blinked finally as Cillian began to spit foreign words at Nikolai. Answering, throwing his hands up, Nikolai finally had the decency to look chastised, looking away....

... could be considered productive. just broke 14,000 words (so i'm only about 3,000 words behind where i'm supposed to be). i'm at 28....percent completion. if i can average 1,796 words a day i can still finish this one ... badly and have been averaging around 3,000 words a day.... well, since monday) i can't... very loosely based them on a set of russian fortune telling cards i once saw. got ...

Iran's story: The Girl Between the Two Seas - Part 5 [FANFIC]

... ports in the South…” He searched for words that wouldn’t sound inconsiderate, but she... the woman to say anything and her words surprised her more than her speaking. “... mood sank at her departure, the bitter words ringing in her ear. Arthur was mad.... over the other and staring at the Russian smugly. “Fine, I’m sitting. Now ...rose again as he stared at the Russian like a fuming bull. Russia didn’t...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 1

... security?” Schuldig asked Ivan Bakov, in Russian. “I think you are mistaken. There ...,” Crawford addressed the wall in rudimentary Russian. Bakov shrugged elegantly in his colorless suit.... said, and pausing to pick his words. “It’s a pity that the Department...end of the passage. “In 1857, a Russian explorer named Yuri Petrov set out for the Russian steppes, but he didn’t stop there. Commissioned ...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 3

...asked, removing a pen from his inside jacket pocket. Prahanov spoke perfect Russian, but made a note in the margin of his book in German....another note in German, which Demetrius could not understand. The line of Russian above it read: The time is come. Trouble beats its wings -... yourself. The man’s thoughts were too clear, even as his words blended into the rattle of the engine and the sick haze of ...

Death's an Old Joke: Chapter 4

...’s changing.” He repeated Crawford’s words from the night before. “It is.”...“Amlisch has influence with both the Russian and German governments. He’ll go ... two weeks, occasionally allowing a fragmented Russian sentence or a national song to ...." Amlisch was right, though the words of those conversations he could not ..., an incomprehensible string of gutter Russian. Prahanov suppressed this flair of ...