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| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 17 of 62 12 January 2012 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
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@Марк: Вы правы. Что это? Это книга.
I have a lot to learn yet :) Would you care to elaborate a little bit more about changes in life and language, after the fall of the Soviet Union? I remember that very little information arrived from the USSR to Mexico. I was 20 years old in 1991. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 18 of 62 18 January 2012 at 12:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Logbook update:
I keep reading my Russian history book, reading is a little bit more fluent by now. I ended two CDs of the Assimil course, and reached lesson 37. Now it starts the active way of learning, but it is not different from what I have been doing so far. I learn an interesting verb: договориться. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 19 of 62 18 January 2012 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good news! Хорошие новости! I read chapter 7 of my Russian book in one shot, dictionary not needed. I could manage to infer new words from context.
Of course it's a very brief chapter (two pages) but this something like this seemed quite difficult to achieve six weeks ago. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4798 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 20 of 62 27 January 2012 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome aboard, drsarvo! Your passion really shines through, and is a great source of
motivation. No worries about your lack of consistency, we're all in the same boat, and we're all here to cheer each other on. I agree with you on language learning milestones. You just start to do everything all at once. I'm constantly noticing it with my Japanese, albeit in tiny bites, and I hope I do get to that level in Russian too. Best of luck! I hope TAC 2012 will be THE year for all of us! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 21 of 62 28 January 2012 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well done! Russian is difficult, so any progress is good.
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| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 22 of 62 01 February 2012 at 12:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Update January 31:
Yesterday was my daughter's birthday, the little princess's got 9 years old. Of course she is daddy's crown jewel. As for Russian, internet has proved to be a gold mine of language learning resources, it gives enough material for a lifetime. IPhone app for Russian TV: RusTV Pro, several channels, quite fun. Another app: Russian cartoons (мультики), there is a cartoon about a boy named Pyotr and Little Red Riding Hood (1958). TunIn: app that allows you to listen to Russian radio broadcasts. I have been reading about Krokodyl, a Soviet era magazine, some of the finest Russian and Soviet cartoonists worked there. Chapter 9 of Russian history book: How Genghis Kahn conquered Russia on the XIII century. Some exercises about something that I believe is the passive voice. A lot of vocabulary, but I managed to read it in a reasonable time. Chapter 40 of Assimil: very interesting examples and explanation of how the Russians use the instrumental case, very subtle nuances, how some sentences change their meaning... Russian is proving to be very subtle and elegant language, a lot of surprises yet to be discovered, it will be a lifetime for studying it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 23 of 62 01 February 2012 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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How Genghis Kahn conquered Russia on the XIII century
He didn't. He died in 1227, wile Mongols invaded Russia ten years later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 24 of 62 01 February 2012 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the reply. However the authors of the book I am reading, declare in the prologue that they did not intend to write a scientific textbook on Russian history, just some texts that could give students a tool in order to begin studying both Russian language and Russian history. So a little historical inaccuracy has to be expected from my comments about that book. My apologies in advance. Supposedly the first battle between Mongols and Russians occured in 1223 (Battle of Kalka River), so Genghis Kahn was still alive. It is not clear if he attended the slaughter :) Are you a Russian native speaker? Have you considered to join the Sputnik TAC 2012 Russian team? It would be a very valuable asset, no matter you are not studying Russian for obvious reasons. Thanks for reading this log. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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