learning russian

[jingjoe]

After talking to a few Russian people lately,their opinion is in the next 5 to 10 years,hua hin will have a large Russian population,my guess is a lot of ukranians will move here to escape the troubles.
Do any of the language schools here offer Russian classes,might be a useful language for the locals in the future

[bapak]

After talking to a few Russian people lately,their opinion is in the next 5 to 10 years,hua hin will have a large Russian population,my guess is a lot of ukranians will move here to escape the troubles.
Do any of the language schools here offer Russian classes,might be a useful language for the locals in the future

Sirada - The Learning Centre has a large number if Russian students studying English.
Tend to agree about the future increase in Russian population in Hua Hin.
However, judging by the local negative attitude towards learning English, I doubt any demand to learn Russian. We have not had one request.

You mention, Ukrainians.... we have a number of Ukrainian students but they tend to enrol for Thai language classes.

[dtaai-maai]

After talking to a few Russian people lately,their opinion is in the next 5 to 10 years,hua hin will have a large Russian population,my guess is a lot of ukranians will move here to escape the troubles.
Do any of the language schools here offer Russian classes,might be a useful language for the locals in the future

There are far more Scandinavians here than native English-speakers, and although there are a few (very few, I imagine) Thais locally who speak Swedish or Norwegian (which are in general terms mutually comprehensible), I doubt there is a huge demand for lessons from the general population. By and large, Thais expect farang to speak English, regardless of where they come from.

[jingjoe]

After talking to a few Russian people lately,their opinion is in the next 5 to 10 years,hua hin will have a large Russian population,my guess is a lot of ukranians will move here to escape the troubles.
Do any of the language schools here offer Russian classes,might be a useful language for the locals in the future

Sirada - The Learning Centre has a large number if Russian students studying English.
Tend to agree about the future increase in Russian population in Hua Hin.
However, judging by the local negative attitude towards learning English, I doubt any demand to learn Russian. We have not had one request.

You mention, Ukrainians.... we have a number of Ukrainian students but they tend to enrol for Thai language classes.

If I could change my ed visa to studying Russian instead of thai I would for sure.
I think it would be quite interesting to learn.........plus no problems at immigration,with trying to trick me up on the language

[Taikka]

The easiest way to study Russian is to make friends with some of them )

[jingjoe]

The easiest way to study Russian is to make friends with some of them )

yes very true,the gym I go to on soi 102 has a number of Russians,and cate the thai yoga instructor is picking up the Russian language quite well.i will make more of an effort than just a smile and a hello in future.

[sneg55]

One of my friend opened russian language school for thais at Phuket several years ago, and he told that it's not bad business.

[Pleng]

I would think it would be incredibly difficult for Thais to learn Russian. With the English language we can be pretty forgiving of pronunciation - in that we can still understand greatly mispronounced words. I remember myself trying to learn a bit of Russian from some of my students years back and had great troubles with a lot of the throaty sounds which English doesn't have, and Thai doesn't even have anything approximating.

[Taikka]

I would think it would be incredibly difficult for Thais to learn Russian

Agree, the sounds are greatly different, but for an english-speaking person not so difficult, imho. The difference in english and russian SOUNDS not so crucial - we've got only 3-4 sounds that miss in your alphabet. The most difficulty would be not the prononciation, but grammar.

[Taikka]

There is a great thing to start to learn new language http://www.earwormslearning.com
I tried Italian several years ago and still remember everything from that course, stuck to my brains ))
Try it with Russian, just to see is this language for you.

[Takiap]

Slightly off topic but I was amazed a few days ago when a woman I had been talking for a few hours revealed that she was from Moscow after I asked her where about in the UK she's from. There wasn't even a hint of a Russian accent despite her having lived in in Moscow where she was born. I'll point out that she came across as being a genuinely nice person.

And here I was thinking all Russians have a Russian accent.