Learning Russian & Kazakh

Resource for both languages:

• TONS of links from KazakhAdoptiveFamilies.com for both Russian and Kazakh. Look around this website if you havent - awesome site
• If you're not already a member of the Kazakhstan Adoption Yahoo Group, then join. They have some good files on learning the languages. One is in Russian-Kazakh-English (this file is called "English to Kazakh Phrases"), including phrases appropriate for traveling and to speak to children, and another file in just Russian for speaking to children (called "Russian Child Talk" or Russian/English phrases).

Learn Russian for free:

• Learn Russian for free at MasterRussian.com
• Learn Russian for free at Hello-world.com
• Learn Russian for free at AlphaDictionary.com
• More free Russian lessons at Russian.Speak.7.com
• Learn Kazakh Russian for free at PeaceCorps.gov also get this document to learn from also from Peace Corps
• Learn Russian for free at RussianLessons.net

Learn Kazkah for free:

• Learn Kazakh phrases from the Kazakh Embassy
• Learn Kazakh online for free from Arizona University (this looks hard)

Don't bother learning at all, but be able to communicate anyway:

• Kwick Point Consumer Translators using universal images from KwickPoint.com