I use dictionary.com/translate for things I want to look up in another language.They do have Russian available but it won't help much with pronounciation.Go to your favourite large corporate book chain and look in the reference section.You should find several books from dictionaries to phrase books with phonetic pronounciations.BERLITZ is a good book to check out.

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you know if i could remember what i read i would be doing good lol

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Everyone's had some great ideas; you might also see if you can find a generous professor or student in the Russian dept at any of the universities or colleges offering it in your area who would be willing to read it out loud for you so that you can write it down phonetically. I used to be fluent in Russian and still use their alphabet to make out lists so that no one knows what I've written, but I'm not fluent enough in it any more to be able to be sure I'm not making any mistakes for you.

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My current problem is that the program I made the damned confounded book in, does not recognize the Russian characters

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I'm not sure I understand (computer illiterate that I am); are you saying that there is no way for you to print out the text in Russian to show anybody? Can it be e-mailed to anybody (like someone in a Russian studies dept)? I do think that just using the phonetic pronunciation of the alphabet to help you would be a very daunting task. It would be so much easier if you could actually hear someone pronounce the words for you.

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no I was trying to print the Russian words in the book. I am going to have to remake the book in a dif program, one that recognizes Russian characters.

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Oh. You poor thing...what a project...fun but hell at the same time.

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One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

it was over 20 years ago, but I did take a couple of quarters of Russian in college ... still remember how to count to 5 and to say hello, good buy and thank you. if I can be of help, feel free to email me.

TY I just may hit you and Blueswede up for some quick lessons, if I get the words in the book.

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<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

I'd be happy to help in any way that I can.

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Here is one resource: http://www.cyrillic.com/russian.html

and another couple:

http://www.stanwardine.com/russification.htm
http://www.qsl.net/kd4whz/russian/word.html

From what they say, it requires some of the texas two step approach to install and enable cryllic on a western keyboard based system. But MS Word does have a downloadable multilanguage support package.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...?displaylang=en

That package does include a form of cryllic. There are also other packages for sale which also enable that.

Good luck!

kisses for you ^^^^ TY I will try that!

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One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

You are most welcome. That should enable you to get the document into the most capable bowers of the Blue Swede.

By all means, have a fluent Russian read your work - and if possible even translate it back to English - to uncover any grammatical or semantic errors. Russian (I had a few courses) is still a rathe "literal" written language, but as you noted, the speaking of it DOES use inflection and other audible cues to get it understood correctly. Also make sure you concentrate on teh dialect - While Russian and Ukranian (for example) are similar, they are not the same -and there is some mingling of the two in the border areas....

Good luck and Das Vedanya!!

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