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This week at LingQ they have launched a proficiency test, which you can take for fun to try to measure your level of proficiency in one of these languages you are studying ... English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Russian. I took the test for Russian and I found the test to be closer to my actual level of proficiency than the number of "known words" on my profile at LingQ. But when I took the test for Spanish, I tested at far below what I actually know because I got two words wrong in a row. So, it is definitely more for a basic idea. Here is the link to their proficiency test... http://www.lingq.com/language-proficiency-test/

You can create your own cyrillic text custom T-shirt at Zazzle.com. I've got these two templates set up with navy and black text, though you can change the font size and color if you pick out another T-shirt. You can even choose white font against some of the dark tee shirt options. Angela Энджела in Russian by annaleeblysse Make your tee shirts custom at Zazzle Angela Анжела in Russian Tee Shirts by annaleeblysse Use the t shirt maker at zazzle.com

A short and sweet video demonstration the non-accented pronunciation of the letter О in Russian. This video introduces how to read and pronounce the Cyrillic alphabet. Take a look at the pronunciation rule and try to imitate the teacher.

Short sweet video introducing the IPA sounds for the vowels and consonants in Spanish that are new for English speakers. They point out there is more information in accompanying videos. Top 5 Spanish Mistakes to Avoid

Russian Grammar Lesson 19: First Conjugation Verbs Read more about the first present tense conjugation of verbs in Russian at the presenter Viktoria's blog post Video: First Conjugation Verbs in Russian . She gives some verbs at the bottom to practice. You can find Russian verb conjugation charts all over the place online. But it's actually not that hard to memorize the endings in present tense (and other tenses for that matter). For instance, if a verb ends in -ать like бегать you remove the -ть and add -ю, -ешь, -ет, -ем, -ете, and -ют. бегать conjugation я бегаю ты бегаешь он бегает она бегает оно бегает мы бегаем вы бегаете они бегают I think this video is helpful because it also describes what to do when a verb ends in a consonant such as the conjugation of жить . As you'll discover, there are thousands of verbs that end in -ать. But there are about 60 that will drop the -ать and you'd have to watch for the consonant ending. A book like Essential

До чего дошел прогресс (Приключения Электроника) (фильм) A Russian song from a vintage film with lyrics in the description on YouTube. Found the link to the video via a Russian song of the week post on  Facebook.

In this interview with famous American ultra-polyglot, Professor Alexander Argüelles, explains how he learns languages and gives and gives an explanation of shadowing in language learning. The description of this polyglot's language shadowing method is pretty basic start to the technique.

Thai Bites talks with Glossika founder Mike Campbell about a joint project for language learning. The basic idea of Glossika is fluency through spaced repetition. Find more information on their books and audio program at Glossika.com . You can find  Glossika eBooks on Amazon .