Visiting the MOTHERLAND this summer

>>1197199
- As much as you can, but don't panic if you don't know any. (You will just be ripped off more.)
- Yes, learn Cyrillic at least. It's easy, and will save you time. Reading menus will be quicker, too.
eg. pizza vs пиццa, vodka vs вoдкa

>>1197212
Thank you.

>>1197199
I was there this summer in the same two cities and I got by fine without knowing any Cyrillic.

>>1197199
No need at all. Anyway, just take a Russian to your company (at couchsurf, for ex), this should solve all possible problems.

>>1197199

Yeah Cyrillic is easy to learn honestly. Just do Duolingo Russian for a month and you should be basically fluent in the alphabet.

>>1197861
>month
You can learn cyrillic in a few hours.

I started to learn Cyrillic whilst playing DayZ. Took me about a month to learn 70%. There are still a few characters that confuse me but it was really useful when driving to stP

>>1198702
>month to learn cyrillic
>only 70%
Lad…
It shouldn't take more than 5 days to learn that. It's easier to learn for latin script users.

Я нe гoвopю пo-pyccки тoжe

>>1198732
I mean if he learned it while playing the game it's fine.
I learned cyrillic at school when I was 12, probably took <10 hours over the course of 2-3 weeks. Now actually learning Russian is another thing and 10 years later i'm still struggling.

>>1197199
Agree with general consensus here. Learn Cyrillic - it's quick and easy. About half the letters are essentially the same as Latin script, of the rest a fair proportion look like Latin letters but have the sounds like a different Latin letter (p = r, for example) , only a few entirely new ones to deal with. Don't mix up the soft sign (which is more or less silent) with b or v, and all will be fine.

Of course...ideally you'd learn a decent amount of Russian too. But realistically - try and pick up the key words that will be useful for you - eg that you will see on signs. Although these days much of that stuff is duplicated in English in Moscow and Piter anyway. But frankly I only became even half-way fluent in Russian after studying it for two years at Uni, a summer course there, then during several months of living and working there, living with a family - on ly then did it really click. It's moderately tough..... Grammar is the problem more than the vocab

This might be a stretch, but has anyone here been to the airport in Perm? If so what's it like? I'm going to be going there by train, but when I leave Russia I'll fly back to Sheremetyevo.

>>1200171
Oh and one more question. I already have a visa, but I won't be staying in a hotel this time. So I can just register my visa at the post office, right?

The only words you'll need to know

>cyka (soo-ka)
>blyat (bill-yet)
>blin (bleen)
>mayonnaise (mayon-yez)

I'm going there in February. I can read cyrillic. Many words in Russian sound like their English equivalent, so I guess it'll help us. Not freezing my balls off will be harder I guess.