Thread: Message from Russian VSE4X4 club

Originally Posted by cookiesa

Welcome! Great pics, I used to own a Lada Niva, Almost the best 4x4 I have owned!

Would love to hear the story behind the short wheelbase with the ripped front gaurd! (anyone wish to translate?)

Thanks! Nice to hear that you have Lada Niva! In Russia it's one of the best off-road cars. Here you can buy not bad Niva for 1500-2000$. But the best Russian jeep it's Gaz 69

Originally Posted by cookiesa

Welcome! Great pics, I used to own a Lada Niva, Almost the best 4x4 I have owned!

Would love to hear the story behind the short wheelbase with the ripped front gaurd! (anyone wish to translate?)

Here are a link of Russian jeeps gallery.
Russian 4WD cars. - ÀâòîÊîñìîñ

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Originally Posted by stevo68

Welcome, good pics on the site...even if I dont understand the language, the pictures tell the story,

Regards

Stevo

For your convenience we make an English version of our forum!
For it you must to click on the British flag in the left corner of the page!
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Waiting for your messages and stories!

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

That Shorty is an interesting mix of the parts bin,Defender nose roof and screen,wind up windows,Series body.Almost certainly leaf sprung given the narrow track.
I wonder if its a Santana???
Andrew

No, it's not Santana, it's Pazhan from Iran under license of Land Rover. It's engene 2.5L petrol.

Originally Posted by DRanged

Alexander welcome

Great to see Russian 4x4 enthusiasts. I have done some off road in Siberia in the 90,s whilst working in ''Surgut'' and had a great time trying to explain things with no interpretor. Have also spent some time in ''Krasnodar'' down near the Black sea.

Could you put in an english section for your forum sign in as my cyralic is a bit rusty.

Justin

We have done an English version of our forum.
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Originally Posted by amtravic1

...My kids often bring home primary school homework which for some reason they are made to do in another language (German). ...
regards
Ian

Ian

I know that this is off topic, however I think that primary school children learning another language is a great idea. The language centre of the brain is fully developed well before a child reaches 10 years old, so the learning of a second language after primary school is much more difficult.

This is one area where we in Australia are very insular and it makes our dealing with the world that little bit more difficult. In Europe you can travel across several different language zones in an afternoons drive, so a European speaking as many as 8 European languages is very common.

At the present time we have a Prime Minister who is fluent in Mandarin a fact which has amazed news commentators as far away as the BBC in London.

Good on your child's teacher for developing 2nd language abilities when the children are best able to learn.

Keep it up I say.

To you Ian and I say this is with no disrespect, I do understand your reasons however this is one occasion where, for your child's betterment it is possibly time for you to bite your lip and say nothing to deride the learning of German (or any other language).

Diana

I agree to the learning of a second language although I think our kids school language is Japanese, at least German will get you by in several other countries in the area, Japanese to me is more learning a language for the sake of learning one.

Like most of the world I am not overly fond of the French but to me it is a more practicle language to learn. There are other examples that are at least a little more universal.

The only gripe I have, which I have taken up with the school is that there is more time allocated to "learning" the basics of Japanese than English (The response thus far has been but the learning of english also goes on during other lessons with corrections to spelling and grammer