Speak German or Russian?

[KestrelBike]

I'm curious if anyone speaks conversational German or Russian and would like to work on their skills. Or if you're a native speaker, would be patient enough to want to talk with a non-native speaker to help them improve.

I took 4 years of Russian in school and 2 years of German, but I'm much better in the latter due to vocabulary familiarity w English.

Just throwin it out there! No politics involved, just love languages and hate to see my skills rusting.

[fitz19d]

My germans pretty much fallen apart, now at probably a 1st year level with a bit of random higher stuff. Was too young to learn when I was there. Could never conjugate well. I do have a friend who is 100% fluent read/write who would probably be happy to talk on facebook with you about random stuff. (Into random wierd stuff but guns too) Think he even knows a tiny bit of russian.

Also still have my awesome German teacher from high school who does yearly exchange trips there. He'd possibly be an options. (Knowing him might be cool with someone sitting in on some german 3 and 4 classes or even have you guest speak on something random.)

If you want PM me a facebook screen name and I can try passing you along to one or both of them.

[ANADRILL]

some german, mostly read it...

[patrick0685]

how hard was Russian to learn?

[centrarchidae]

I know a little German. He's sitting right over there.

[MrPrena]

Good luck on foreign language.
German is not a easy language to learn.
I took Spanish as a foreign language, and I couldn't pronounce words on GER/ENG/GER dictionary.

Lucky that majority of percentage of German I dealt with in Germany already knew how to speak English. Made me right at home.


I am fairly sure local university paper will have language friend pair. You teach em ENG, and a foreign student teaches you the language.
I know Front Range Community College near HWY 36 has many foreign students for their esl language course.

[Goodburbon]

If you were closer...

[Holger Danske]

Just started the kids on rosettestone German. They are digging it.

[Hoser]

I took two years of Russian. But that was many years ago during the cold war. If I am around it a bunch some comes back, but for the most part its gone.

[cstone]

Check the library in Glendale. They have current Russian publications and literature. Some of the librarians are fluent. About half of the waitresses at Pete's Greek Town Cafe are recent arrivals from Russia. They are willing to listen to me butcher their language.

For German, you may as well listen to Deutche Welle online. Most of the Germans I've run into here would rather sprechen sie die English.