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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5171 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 193 of 464 27 March 2014 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Anyone ever used these videos?
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| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5194 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 194 of 464 28 March 2014 at 3:47am | IP Logged | ||
My life is too short for 40 hours of passive video instruction! I haven't seen many good Russian videos. Instead I signed up for 36 hours of classes. A lot more expensive, but more likely to work (for me). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| andy123 Newbie Russian Federation Joined 4323 days ago 14 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Russian* Studies: English, Spanish | Message 195 of 464 30 March 2014 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | ||
For me, her English pronunciation sometimes is awful and she speaks English too slow, like she thinks you're studying English too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4259 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 196 of 464 31 March 2014 at 3:38am | IP Logged | ||
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March Challenge:
So initially I wasn't sure I was going to do the march challenge, because my study so far has been passive. I try to take notice of grammar points when they're explained in a course, but so far I haven't committed many to memory. But recently I started going back through Beginning Russian Volume 1 by Richard Leed, Alexander Nakhimovsky and Alice Nakhimovsky. There's a rather simple point they explain in the beginning, about how sometime the Cyrillic alphabet obscures the real stem of a word and makes different cases seem more complicated than they actually are because they're explained in terms of spelling rather than in sound . I've noticed a lot of quick reference grammar websites don't explain the cases this way, and I'm wondering if there are any advantages to explaining it one way over the other. Here's quick summery of how it's explained in Beginning Russian. So of course everyone knows about the pairs of vowels. ы - и э - е а - я о - ё у - ю и, е, я, ё, ю represent palatalization or a ь sign when they follow a consonant and when following another vowel they indicate a й sound, or in English spelling a consonant 'y'. Beginning Russian explains that this makes spelling words shorter, but sometimes makes grammar more complicated than it actually is. So for example when looking at мой, моя, моё one might conclude that it has the stem мо and the endings -й, -я, -ё. When it might be simpler for the learner to realize that in terms of pronunciation the stem + endings are more simply shown as мой-#, мой-а, мой-о or moy-#, may-a, may-o. The й sound is always there just obscured by spelling. Where as some websites I've checked will gives rules like saying that in feminine accusative you either change а -> у or я -> ю without mentioning that both are the same change in sound and the difference is only in how it's spelled. I haven't gotten through the whole book yet, and I'm wondering if it's always simpler to think in terms of the change in sound rather than the change in spelling? Is this actually the correct way of thinking about Russian, or are there problems with this method? Edited by YnEoS on 31 March 2014 at 3:56am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4363 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 197 of 464 31 March 2014 at 8:38am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll unfortunately pass on that challenge, but I'll read with interest all the answers from you, dear friends. I don't want to write something in haste, although I could.
My March review is deplorable: languages went out the window this month, and russian was no exception. I humbly confess. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4336 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language | Message 198 of 464 31 March 2014 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I will post for the challenge, but sadly, not tonight. I was supposed to be finished work
at 7pm, but one teacher had to leave for personal reasons, so I ended up staying until 10pm, and only got home at 11:30. :( I'll be writing about participles, which may sound simple enough, but they stumped me for the longest time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4802 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 199 of 464 31 March 2014 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't done much in terms of language study this month, either, although I did read a
bit for the Tadoku contest the past couple of days. Hopefully April will be more constructive. And yes, none of the challenges have been completed, I admit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 200 of 464 31 March 2014 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I won't make it tonight either. Could we have a 24 hour prolongation, just in case some of us manage to do it
tomorrow? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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