kaffeesahne: Last year, when I was in Germany, a friendly German asked to teach him Russian formulas of politeness, such as “thank you,” “please,” “hello,” and so on. I made him a table - the word in Russian, the same word translated, translation. All honestly, without foolish jokes. She explained that as used, read out loud, he printed the table, put it in a visible place, then we regularly remembered and repeated... in general, after a month of stubborn classes he knew three words in Russian: devil, sova and eg.