DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6143 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 1 of 1 10 December 2010 at 12:34pm | IP Logged |
A very simple technique I found to learn grammar, is to figure out how would you teach the same concept in the simplest way possible.
E.g. In order to learn the Russian spelling rules, I thought about how I would teach them to make them simpler.
The Russian spelling rules apply to two sets of words, the gutturals (Г, К, Х) and the sibilants (Ж, Ч, Ш, Щ, Ц). The gutturals are sounded from the throat, while the sibilants have a distinctive sound corresponding to two consonants in English (sh,ch, ts). The rules are then simply stated as,
1. Never put unstressed O after a sibilant, change it to E.
2. After a guttural or sibilant Я becomes A. (It becomes harder, and isn't palatalised)
3. After a guttural or sibilant Ю becomes У. (It becomes harder, and isn't palatalised)
4. After a guttural or sibilant, with the exception of Ц, Ы becomes И.
By trying to make my own grammar rule, I'll never forget them. The reason it probably works, is that it forces you to understand the underlying rules.
Edited by DaraghM on 14 December 2010 at 12:24pm
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