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[Digital Prawn]

Sorry for offtopic: Digital Pawn, you speak russian very well, thank you, it's so glad to see you can write on cyrillic. How did you learn russian?

Hi sq/skrju,

Thanks for the question.

Truthfully, my knowledge of Russian is only very basic, but just about enough to communicate!

Two years ago, I learnt the Cyrillic alphabet from the internet (wikipedia I think). I memorised it and then learnt to type it slowly on a UK keyboard.

I have only remembered about 100 basic Russian words or so, and I still have much more to learn about grammar.

For all other words I use the PROMPT online translator and a Russian-English dictionary program. It is better than babelfish. This is why I sometimes use the wrong word, but I still try to remember more Russian words without using the translator.

I became interested in Russian ZX Spectrum games e.g. "Dizzy XII Underground". Now I can play them, which is really enjoyable for me!

Last year, I also needed to grab some screenshots of Russian software to help the Administrator of the "World of Spectrum" archive. For example, the program "GRAF 3". To do this, I needed to translate Russian documentation into English.

I have not yet visited Russia. The furthest East I have ever travelled is Modra, Slovakia.

Your English is very Good!

Regards, DP