Soviet Some Tips for Beginners

[order_of_victory]

This is a very intresting thread,i wish Ihad known some of this when I started out

there is ANY way to do so, a beginning collector should develop some degree of ability in the Russian language.

Very well Said Ed

I am curently learning Russian and using awad cards, to practice a) Handwriting b) Numbers

A good refference for any one wanting to learn Russian is www.ruslan.co.uk, they have a great range of teaching aids

But as Iam starting a DDR collection as well I might have to start learning German as well

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[Ed_Haynes]

Looks like a nice website, thanks OoV. I have the Rosetta Stone set for Russian and TRY, but find finite brain cells for language these days.

[David Gregory]

I am curently learning Russian and using awad cards, to practice a) Handwriting b) Numbers

A good refference for any one wanting to learn Russian is www.ruslan.co.uk, they have a great range of teaching aids

But as Iam starting a DDR collection as well I might have to start learning German as well

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order_of_victory

Good for you. Even a very basic knowledge of the alphabet and key words will help to make a lot more sense of what would otherwise remain research by proxy or, at worst, sometimes lead to missing minor details that might be very important.

Don't be put off by the Cyrillic alphabet, it really isn't that difficult to grasp and the inscriptions on awards are fairly self-explanatory.

German isn't too hard, either. When you have acquired an understanding of the language and covered the basic DDR awards, you can start on learning French and cover French and Belgian awards in one go.

David

[order_of_victory]

Hi David,

I am upto intermidiate in Russian, so can hold quite a god conversation if the person speaks slowly

My reading Rssin is coming on

I alreadyhave French sorted as spent two years at college in France

At least German is mostly the same alphabet as most other European languages

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[Kevin HT]

Many thanks for the advice on this posting.