I've always used Skype when teaching my lessons. I use it for the video and screen sharing tools. But what do you (students and teachers) use? Google Hangouts? Zoom?
What gives you the most stable connection?
I want to improve my conversational Russian by watching Russian movies. I think this will give me very useful exposure to the Russian colloquial language as well as Russian culture. But two questions.
First, what strategies do people use when watching movies to learn Russian. Do you just watch the movie, maybe with the help of subtitles, or do you do any language analysis? I try to write down some useful phrases from the movies I'm watching (which needs Russian subtitles).
Secondly, what Russian language movies do you recommend, preferably with Russian subtitles.
To get the ball rolling, I'd recommend the movie 'Lilya 4-Ever' about a 16 year old girl abandoned by her mum who is forced to turn to prostitution. Sad film, but on YouTube is has transcriptions of both the Russian and English subtitles, which makes it a great resource. Does anyone know of anything else like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3vkirgG9kk
спасибо!
