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 Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes  Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 73 of 248 05 March 2009 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Don’t worry, come that day when I actually start speaking gibberish I should be fine. Once I get more advanced I’ll be doing another type of drill. Since I have all these audio words files (and a bunch of sentences too) , it only makes sense to start hammering out my accent. I’ll do that by recording my voice and comparing it to the native speaker audio and doing it again and again till I feel it matches. If I have to repeat it ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times...ten thousand times...it will match...no matter how long it takes. It might sound a little extreme, but seriously I will not dedicate an insane amount of time to a language only to sound like a dog choking when I speak it. I want to charm the women, not kill them with laughter. Hmm, practice Russian, sounds fun...though I’ll need abit more time. I’d like to go through my grammar books first before I open a butcher’s shop. I’m only at day 24...but by day 60 I’ll be ready to play...or be chewed up and spit out by everyone who ‘actually’ knows Russian lol. Either or. Edited by Brian_N on 06 March 2009 at 3:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 74 of 248 06 March 2009 at 3:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Just finished downloading a Russian grammar book from ebooks.com. Its called
Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook by John Murry and Sarah Smyth (MS Reader Version) It’ll give me something to cut my teeth on while the other grammar books make their way here by snail mail. Found another ***free*** Russian resource. I’ll post the links up tomorrow with a complete list of all my learning materials that I’m using. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 75 of 248 06 March 2009 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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March 6th – Day 25
----------------------------------------------------------- Russian Vocabulary -(+14)=> 375 Nouns – Part 1-6 => Complete Nouns - Part 7 => (26/50) Verbs – Part 1 => (42/50) => Under Review Verbs – Part 2 => (6/50) => Under Review Verbs - Part 3 => (1/50) => Under Review Verbs 4-5 => Pending Daily Quick Review => Complete Daily Deep Listening => Skipped Grammar Study => Starting Up ---------------------------------------------------------- Chinese Vocabulary -(+1)=> 4 Nouns - Part 1 (4/50) => Under Review 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rafey Newbie United States Joined 5764 days ago 24 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English* | Message 76 of 248 06 March 2009 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Grammar? Who needs grammar? Anyway, let me know when you are ready. The Murray/Smyth text is not a particulary useful text other than as a reference once you have really studied the language and the "workbook" is not really a workbook in the true sense of the word. Again, the Brown text is OutstandinG (expecially as it contains loads of idiom and contextual pointers for everyday conversation __between couples__ ... right down your alley, I believe ... and loads and loads of vocabulary) and, once you have completed it, you'll be ready for really advanced work.
Мы будем говорить снова позже. РАФИ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 77 of 248 06 March 2009 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Кто нужд грамматика? Я нужд грамматика. Я чувствовать бы несчастный когда Русские начните использование меня как грамматика тренировка коррекции для их детей. Edited by Brian_N on 06 March 2009 at 11:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rafey Newbie United States Joined 5764 days ago 24 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English* | Message 78 of 248 06 March 2009 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was surprised that I was able to understand most of what you said. I am just finishing my study of the Subjunctive (бы ... чтобы , etc) so it was a pleasant surprise to see such use in your communication. I only had to look up three unfamiliar words and one with which I was familiar but was unable to recall the precise meaning. Another way of asking "Who needs grammar?" is "Кто из грамматики начинаются?" This is more idomatic, as you can see. 'Когда русский язык начинается' is a more reflexive way of saying 'when I began to study Russian' and 'русский язык' is a more formal expression for 'Russian (Language),' the 'я' being pronounced 'ee' instead of 'ya' when placed before 'з.' 'обучение ' is another way of saying 'training.' At any rate, you can see how flexible the language is.
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| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 79 of 248 07 March 2009 at 12:00am | IP Logged | ||
I think im more surprised that you were able to understand that at all. I actually have no clue what subjectives are, I just happened to find it in a few of the couple hundred sentences I mined to put that little bit together. I am actually no where near that level yet,(and by that level I mean any step higher than the floor) so please don’t think i am and start throwing advanced stuff my way lol. 'русский язык' Actually its funny you should mention that. I just learned that myself this morning as I was playing with the dictionary. I was like Russian tongue...that’s a weird name for a textbook, a couple of minutes later it clicked in. Hey wait a minute lol. Edited by Brian_N on 07 March 2009 at 6:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 80 of 248 07 March 2009 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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March 7th – Day 26
----------------------------------------------------------- Russian Vocabulary -(+9)=> 384 Nouns – Part 1-6 => Complete Nouns - Part 7 => (35/50) => Under Review Verbs – Part 1 => (42/50) => Under Review Verbs – Part 2 => (6/50) => Under Review Verbs - Part 3 => (1/50) => Under Review Verbs 4-5 => Pending Daily Quick Review => Complete Daily Deep Listening => Complete Grammar Study => Pending ---------------------------------------------------------- Chinese Vocabulary -(+0)=> 4 Nouns - Part 1 (4/50) => Under Review Edited by Brian_N on 07 March 2009 at 5:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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