Alexander Koryagin:

AK> Another problem, as I had said once, is that the Russian
AK> language consists of longer words than English,

A language does not consist of words. It  merely  has  them.
You may say that the vocabulary consist of words.

AK> and because of it a Russian thinks and understands slow-
AK> er. ;-)

If you are serious, than I  disagree.  Your  conclustion  is
wrong on so many levels:

   https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.501016043.4131/raf,750x1000,075,t,fafafa:ca443f4786.jpg

  1.  you ignore the amount of words,
  2.  it is likely humans to not think entirely in words.
  3.  learners  of English has simlar problems understanding
      fast Russian speach, e.g.: in this animated detective:

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UlN6Zuz5E0

AK> So, for training hearing skills a Russian  should  start
AK> hearing all the Russian video show and movies sped up by
AK> 1.5-2 times.

He or she had better start with listening to slow and clear-
ly  articluated  English  speech,  as found, for example, in
early sound films.

AK> Unfortunately I have no such a device. To be  exactly  I
AK> have  it, but it often freeze after couple of minutes of
AK> speeded up playing. ;-<

You mean Youtube?  From "Get  lamp" -- a  great  documentary
about  interactive  fiction -- I  know that blind people use
text-to-speech converters at what I cannot  help  designatig
an  incredibly  high rate of fire, but I should never recom-
mend this with real speech, because that way  you  lose  all
emotional content. While remastering old acoustic recordings
of 1900s, where the original RPM was not known and could not
be  determined  by key notes, such as the La at 440 Hz, AML+
determined the correct playback speed by the degree of  emo-
tional  fidelity -- and  never  erred as test with reference
phonograms showed.

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