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| Keilan Senior Member Canada Joined 5171 days ago 125 posts - 241 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 4 25 March 2013 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
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Hey all,
For the past few months I've been happily studying Russian through a mix of Anki for vocabulary, a grammar book for the technical details, weekly Russian lessons for some practical grammar and questions, plus lots of broken Russian conversation (hard to avoid when you live in Russia). However, I have just recently learned about Russian verb aspect (which in hindsight, is probably one of the big causes of how broken my Russian sounds) and I'm not sure how to incorporate it into my study method. In short, I'd like to know if I just have to memorize it (in which case I'll probably just go through the verbs in my Anki deck and add the aspect information to the cards), or if there is a smarter way to do it. How do other Russian learners handle it? Do you always learn verbs in pairs? Or do you ask people what aspect a new verb is in? Any advice would be really appreciated. :) -Keilan 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5141 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 2 of 4 25 March 2013 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
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You have to learn the aspect of each verb, and learning verbs in pairs is not a bad idea
because most verbs are in pairs. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4724 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 3 of 4 25 March 2013 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
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I always try to learn the verbs in pairs. I also pay extra attention to those cases where conjugation differs markedly in the two aspects or is irregular in one of them, e.g. the pair брвть/взять. A good grammar should indicate these, but there are also books out there which give you the complete conjugations of hundreds of verbs in all tenses.
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| jamesleecoleman Newbie United States Joined 4572 days ago 38 posts - 52 votes Studies: Russian, Persian | Message 4 of 4 25 March 2013 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
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If you practice writing them out then you'll memorize them.
When I started to learn verbs, I would practice conjugating both aspects of the verb. There's a book that I used when I was in Russia and it was really good at teaching grammar. It doesn't have all the verb aspects but it has some of the important ones in it. I'm not sure if you'll be over your head with the book because it's mostly in Russian. The book is called "Russian in Exercises" and the ISBN is: 9785883371553 If you head over to http://www.ilearnrussian.com (down now) and go to the grammar section on the left, the book should be under the "B1" or "A2" section. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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