Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5331 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 217 of 672 04 February 2012 at 2:50pm | IP Logged |
So how many are joining the Skype session tomorrow, and do you all have Kat's Russian dialogue?
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4712 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 218 of 672 04 February 2012 at 3:01pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
So how many are joining the Skype session tomorrow, and do you all have Kat's Russian dialogue? |
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I am, and I do =)
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4709 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 219 of 672 04 February 2012 at 5:45pm | IP Logged |
I am in, too. I already have the dialogues.
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4709 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 220 of 672 04 February 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
I have a question for the team:
There is supposedly a quote from Pushkin, which says that in the same way he did not like a red mouth without a smile, he did not like Russian language without gramatical errors. I have searched for it on the web, without success.
I'd appreciate if anyone could give me information about it.
See you tomorrow in skype session!
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5331 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 221 of 672 04 February 2012 at 6:36pm | IP Logged |
drsarvo wrote:
There is a young moskovite that has been kind enough to read my log, his name is Mark, I asked him if he would like to join our team, I think he would be a very valuable asset because he is a Russian native speaker.
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Although our team is in principle already bursting at the seems from so many members, I would personally welcome Mark, if he is interested, I cannot speak for the others. In addition to him being a native speaker, he has an interesting perspective on things, and I enjoy his posts, so I am sure he would be a great asset.
My only fear is that I am scared straight as it is, knowing that a bunch of people will hear me speak/attempt to speak Russian. A native speaker might paralyze me alltogether :-) There is however no reason why my personal anxiety should have any bearing on this, so if he would agree to join us I am sure we would all benefit from that. Good initiative!
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4704 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 222 of 672 04 February 2012 at 7:11pm | IP Logged |
I do not have Kat's dialogue - I'll ask her to email it to me
Edited by tarvos on 04 February 2012 at 7:11pm
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5553 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 223 of 672 04 February 2012 at 7:26pm | IP Logged |
Unfortunately something's come up at the last minute and I won't be able to join you guys tomorrow. I hope you have a cool session all the same and look forward to hearing how it went.
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espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5048 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 224 of 672 04 February 2012 at 7:31pm | IP Logged |
drsarvo wrote:
I have a question for the team:
There is supposedly a quote from Pushkin, which says that in the same way he did not like a red mouth without a smile, he did not like Russian language without gramatical errors. I have searched for it on the web, without success.
I'd appreciate if anyone could give me information about it.
See you tomorrow in skype session! |
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Как уст румяных без улыбки, / Без грамматической ошибки / Я русской речи не люблю
Из романа в стихах «Евгений Онегин» (1823—1831) А. С. Пушкина (гл. 3,строфа 28).
Цитируется как шутливая формула самоутешения (извинения) в случае какой-либо допущенной погрешности против правил русского языка.
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As far as I remember, this is the context: Pushkin writes that pretty girls cannot express themselves in their native Russian as effectively as in French (the language of correspondence, high society chatter, etc.), but he does not mind because their beauty makes their bad grammar charming.
Edited by espejismo on 04 February 2012 at 7:51pm
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