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 Downloaded the Russian Cyrillic Microsoft package, last night (Settings; Add a language). 

Takes quite along time to do (involves speech to text, as well). Here is what the keyboard 

looks like this morning.The first line entry is normal, the second is holding the shift key!

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Ё!"№;%:?*()_+

йцукенгшщзхъ\

ЙЦУКЕНГШЩЗХЪ/

фывапролджэ

ФЫВАПРОЛДЖЭ

ячсмитьбю.

ЯЧСМИТЬБЮ,

Thus equipped, I should be able to reproduce the spoken text from a Russian Learner video,

and ask Copilot for a word by word translation, and an overview of the syntax. C. calls it

'how Russian builds meaning'.

Jungle Drums:

https://youtube.com/shorts/6DJfbAR4Qx4?si=Ys4qmhRiFT0tjao3

Eight guitars:

https://youtube.com/shorts/rULQgoxsxrU?si=E9rQ-eWKQj8JWk8u

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Having a terrible day; cannot get Microsoft text to speech(Russia) to work. There are

consolations. Just got this beautiful poem from DeepSeek;

For example, here is a famous Russian poem by Alexander Pushkin

(Romantic poet, 1799-1837):

Russian Text:

Я вас любил: любовь ещё, быть может,

В душе моей угасла не совсем;

Но пусть она вас больше не тревожит;

Я не хочу печалить вас ничем.

Transliteration (Pronunciation Guide):

Ya vas lyubil: lyubov yeshchyo, byt' mozhet,

V dushe moyej oogasla nye sovsyem;

No poost' ona vas bol'she nye trevozhit;

Ya nye khachoo pechalit' vas nichyem.

English Translation:

I loved you once; perhaps that love has yet

To die down thoroughly within my soul;

But let it not dismay you any longer;

I have no wish to cause you any sorrow.

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Success of sorts; I downloaded the Read Aloud app from the Microsoft store. It works,

but the text has to be on the Web...

                                                                        

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Copilot outputted this simple Russian tale for me. I asked for both a literal and proper 

translation:

В маленьком лесу жила лиса. Она была хитрая и быстрая, любила играть с зайцами и прятаться в кустах. Каждый день она выходила на охоту и возвращалась с добычей.
Однажды лиса увидела странную птицу. Она была яркая, с длинным хвостом и громким голосом. Лиса решила подружиться с ней, но птица взлетела высоко в небо и исчезла.

Absolutely! Let’s break it down sentence by sentence, with a word-for-word translation followed by a natural English version:

🦊 Sentence 1

Original: В маленьком лесу жила лиса. Word-for-word: In small forest lived fox. Proper English: A fox lived in a small forest.

🦊 Sentence 2

Original: Она была хитрая и быстрая, любила играть с зайцами и прятаться в кустах. Word-for-word: She was clever and fast, loved to play with hares and to hide in bushes. Proper English: She was clever and quick, loved playing with hares and hiding in the bushes.

🦊 Sentence 3

Original: Каждый день она выходила на охоту и возвращалась с добычей. Word-for-word: Every day she went out for hunt and returned with prey. Proper English: Every day she went hunting and came back with prey.

🐦 Sentence 4

Original: Однажды лиса увидела странную птицу. Word-for-word: One day fox saw strange bird. Proper English: One day, the fox saw a strange bird.

🐦 Sentence 5

Original: Она была яркая, с длинным хвостом и громким голосом. Word-for-word: She was bright, with long tail and loud voice. Proper English: It was bright-colored, with a long tail and a loud voice.

🐦 Sentence 6

Original: Лиса решила подружиться с ней, но птица взлетела высоко в небо и исчезла... Word-for-word: Fox decided to befriend with her, but bird flew up high into sky and disappeared... Proper English: The fox decided to make friends with it, but the bird soared high into the sky and vanished...

Would you like to continue the story together? I’d love to help you write the next chapter!