Dropping the first в helps alot. Because trying to ‘v’ right before going into a ‘st’ was tongue tieing me really bad

Thanks! I’ll probably start looking for some films, there’s one I already intended to watch (but not sure if the pacing would be conducive to learning).

I do have a small collection of Russian music which is slow enough for me to kind of learn, even if pronunciations are stretched a bit.

That makes sense. I’ve been meaning to add phonetics to my flash cards to assist with longer words, здравствуйте has been the hardest to pronounce so far but защищающаяся seems alot worse. I’ll definitely start trying to pronounce it today though.

And being able to get at least an idea of what people are discussing online is really fun. On YouTube I’ll sometimes use random Russian comments as flash cards if they’re short enough.

Thank you!

1. AES means Actually Existing Socialism.
2. If having to buy a phone from any sort of corporate entity, they may prefer a Chinese owned entity because of reason 1.
3. I agree with that, and will provide more options than with a plain Linux phone.

Normally an old soviet Ракета watch (that often sticks) or a shitty Casio with a cloth band. Have a couple of broken Штурманские watches as well that I need to fix.

They’re a state media from Qatar; Pro-Palestine, Anti-Imperialist, usually (unfortunately) Anti-LGBT.

Provides World and Middle East coverage primarily but also I’ll see African (normally northern African) and SEA coverage as well.

I view it in the way as RT or CGTN, use it be aware of developments from a anti-imperialist POV and conduct my own research from there.

Additionally they, like RT and CGTN, also have RSS feeds for news apps. 👍