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Russian TRKI 2nd and 3rd Certificate materials reviewed

01/12/2019 By Gareth Leave a Comment

If you want to pass the Test of Russian as a Foreign Language Second or Third Certificate exams, you need to get good at Russian across all four language skills (reading, writing, listening and reading). You also have to train up for exams themselves. Russian learners at all levels will find that there are far fewer materials than for comparable widely-spoken languages (German … [Read more...]

Why learn Russian? 10 reasons

13/03/2016 By Gareth 1 Comment

Why learn Russian? When I started learning Russian as a young graduate student of history, achieving fluency seemed an unattainable dream.  Now I've been functionally fluent for years but I'm working hard to try to up my game at the advanced level.  My flawed, stumbling efforts leave me ever more humbled before this immense language.  Challenging though the process often is, … [Read more...]

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