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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4239 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 65 of 464 13 January 2014 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
No, not at all, but: Здравствуйте! Меня зовут Мартин. Как поживаете? (singular to plural) Я живу в Англии, работаю программистом, и мне тридцать два (32) года. Я изучаю русский язык менее месяца. Это мой первый текст на русском. Я говорю на английском, французском, немецком, испанском и итальянском. Но русский [язык] труднee! Я никогда не был в России, но я серьезно интересуюсь российским кино. До скорой встречи! If something's not clear, feel free to ask :) Edited by Via Diva on 14 January 2014 at 2:59am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4693 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 66 of 464 13 January 2014 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was rather confused and found this explanation, which seems to clear things up:
When talking about your age you need to know the word ‘years’. In Russian this word has an irregular plural: 1: год 2-4: года 5-0: лет Сколько вам лет? - How old are you? Мне восемнадцать лет - I am 18 years old Мне двадцать три года - I am 23 years old. ******** Why "Я говорю на английском, ..."? I still don't understand this correction. Does it have to do with the fact that there is a list, and not just one language? All I could find was this, which didn't help: Вы говорите по-английски? - Do you (formal) speak English? Вы говорите по-русски? - Do you (formal) speak Russian? Я говорю по-английски - I speak English Я говорю по-русски - I speak Russian Thanks! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4239 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 67 of 464 13 January 2014 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, it's just how the language works, we need to put preposition in order to connect words. No, it doesn't matter at all:
Я говорю на русском. Я говорю на русском и английском. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4693 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 68 of 464 13 January 2014 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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So is Я говорю по-русски incorrect?
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4239 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 69 of 464 13 January 2014 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's correct, we just connecting words not with the preposition, but by changing the word - it transforms to an adverb from full adjective.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5061 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 70 of 464 13 January 2014 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, it has an irregular genetive plural. In Russian we use the nominative singular after один (одна, одно), the genetive singular of nouns after два (две), три, четыре and the genetive plural after any number bigger than четыре. One has to take into account that it is the last word in the numeral which determines the form of the following nouns and adjectives. So, один стол, два стола, пять столов, двадцать один стол, двадцать два стола, двадцать пять столов. ********
Well, how do you say: to type English or to type in English? Говорить (which is speak, say, talk, tell) means to pronounce something meaningful. You can pronounce a word, a sentence, a text, but not a language, can't you? So, you can either говорить по-русски (in a Russian way) or говорить на русском (языке) in (lit. on) Russian (I can't say why the preposition на is used here). Edited by Марк on 13 January 2014 at 5:18pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4693 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 71 of 464 13 January 2014 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks! That's very helpful. And I remembered that numbers act differently in Russian, as well as that there was a difference between the forms of the word for "year(s)," but I had forgotten/not yet learned that those two concepts also affect each other like that. (Unlike the user who wrote this intro, I've spent more than a month overall studying Russian, but my current attempt has indeed only been going for about a month.) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4126 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 72 of 464 13 January 2014 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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это мой интродукция:
меня зовут Cristiano. Я живу в Бразилии и учусь pоссии себя I'm a very beginner in Russian. I can produce almost nothing without a dictionary or translators, but I hope I can speak it someday. My goals are: (1) To be able to read cyrillic without much effort. (2) To handle myself in russia in very basic situations, like the ones a tourist may find. These are short term goals (not that I'm stopping once I reach them) давайте учиться! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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