Hello, thank you for letting me join.

[kernelbogey]

Welcome Vincent!

In days of yore - before there even was a 'Radio Three' (IIRC) - there was an early evening programme (1830?) called Network Three, with good educational programmes - including a Russian Language Course. Lesson One began with a solo trombone playing a few bars of that theme from Lohengin (Prelude to Act III) followed by what became the only four words of Russian I have ever known, or will:

A: Chto eta?
B: Eta trambone!

I have had some success impressing Russians with my impeccable pronunciation of these useful phrases.

(Apologies for my lack of Cyrillic!)

kernelbogey

[AuntDaisy]

Welcome Vincent!

In days of yore - before there even was a 'Radio Three' (IIRC) - there was an early evening programme (1830?) called Network Three, with good educational programmes - including a Russian Language Course. Lesson One began with a solo trombone playing a few bars of that theme from Lohengin, followed by what became the only four words of Russian I have ever known, or will:

A: Chto eta?
B: Eta trambone!

I have had some success impressing Russians with my impeccable pronunciation of these useful phrases.

(Apologies for my lack of Cyrillic!)

kernelbogey

Probably academic, but could it have been "Russian for Beginners", Network 3 2/11/1959 19:10? With dear old Peter Woodthorpe (Max in Morse).

'Professor Sidorov' teaches his pupil 'Tom Davenport' to pronounce Russian names which are known in English e.g. sputnik, Tolstoy. Discussion of syllabic stress followed by pronounciation of Russian town names. Tom is taught the omission of the present tense of the verb to be, vocabulary of Russian for telephone, car and music, and a few simple phrases connected with them: the lesson then shifts to personal and interrogative pronouns. The Professor's daughter appears and revises what Tom has learnt from her father, expanding on musical vocabulary with the use of recordings.
Instruments of the Orchestra - Trombone Lib. No. 22523 - Flute Lib. No. 22439

From the Radio Times listing, a "pamphlet containing vocabularies, grammar, and notes on pronunciation and theory can be obtained, price 5s".

[kernelbogey]

Probably academic, but could it have been "Russian for Beginners", Network 3 2/11/1959 19:10? With dear old Peter Woodthorpe (Max in Morse).
From the Radio Times listing, a "pamphlet containing vocabularies, grammar, and notes on pronunciation and theory can be obtained, price 5s".

Very likely, AD: it was all part, I suspect, of the worldwide hysteria that greeted the USSR's launch of the first ever (unmanned) earth satellite in October 1957 called Sputnik; the West was horrified at this advance. My later wife was being educated at the time in an unstreamed mid-West High School In the US: she said that the whole school (like others throughout the US) was immediately reorganised into classes streamed by ability, and she was catapulted into the top class. (She later In life taught Classics.)

[richardfinegold]

Welcome, from the American Midwest

[Vincent Bach]

Welcome Vincent!

In days of yore - before there even was a 'Radio Three' (IIRC) - there was an early evening programme (1830?) called Network Three, with good educational programmes - including a Russian Language Course. Lesson One began with a solo trombone playing a few bars of that theme from Lohengin (Prelude to Act III) followed by what became the only four words of Russian I have ever known, or will:

A: Chto eta?
B: Eta trambone!

I have had some success impressing Russians with my impeccable pronunciation of these useful phrases.

(Apologies for my lack of Cyrillic!)

kernelbogey

I think you did well to use your Russian rather than learn the trombone to impress anyone!

[Nick Armstrong]

Parrrpp, parp, parrpetty parrrpp!

You’re clearly going to fit in well!

[muzzer]

I’ve enjoyed this forum for years. I’m puzzled by aspects of its new (ish) home. The mobile ‘skin ‘ on the old site was very useful and the What’s New I’m finding v difficult to make work. Please point me in the right direction. Thank you.

[french frank]

I’ve enjoyed this forum for years. I’m puzzled by aspects of its new (ish) home. The mobile ‘skin ‘ on the old site was very useful and the What’s New I’m finding v difficult to make work. Please point me in the right direction. Thank you.

I hate using a mobile. Full stop. For anything. I 'ates 'em. So I can't be much help, but I can get What's New? easily enough by tapping on the three white parallel lines which brings up the menu with What's New?

[eighthobstruction]

....and clearly we will be glad to hear your views [Grumble Thread] on how to best open a coffee package....