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| Tortoise Newbie United States Joined 4674 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 9 09 February 2012 at 3:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm just beginning my studies in Russian, and I'm wondering if the easiest solution to learning stresses is by pure memorization while learning the vocabulary. I've decided to learn vocabulary by means of word lists, should I mark the stressed syllable for each word in the list?
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| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 9 09 February 2012 at 4:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I have that problem also. The best thing, that I've come up with is just learn it
while learning the words. Yes, put the stress marker, or colourise the letter, bold it, or whatever you want to make it be known. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 9 09 February 2012 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I look up Russian words I always include the accent (which is there in all my dictionaries), and the same applies to those of my wordlists which are directly based on dictionaries. Besides I have one history book in Russian with accents. But I suppose you have to listen to a lot of spoken Russian in order really to get really comfortable with those accents - and I haven't listened to enough Russian so sometimes I'm bound to put them in the wrong places.
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| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4750 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 4 of 9 10 February 2012 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oxford Russian Dictionary puts a graphic accent (stress mark) on the stressed syllable.
I can highly recommend this dictionary. Edited by Camundonguinho on 10 February 2012 at 1:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 9 10 February 2012 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||
So does Langenschedt's Russian-English/English-Russian Dictionary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 6 of 9 10 February 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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so does word reference
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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4667 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 7 of 9 25 February 2012 at 8:36am | IP Logged | ||
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One problem for nouns is that the stress can shift when the noun is declined, like oknó (nom. sing.) but bez ókon (gen. plural). You might expect there to be set patterns, e.g. “a noun of type “X” has final stress in the singular, penultimate stress in the plural.” But I don’t recall being taught such patterns when I studied Russian. And the Russian-English dictionary I have (Smirnitsky) doesn’t seem to indicate this either.
Apparently there is a linguist named Andrey Zaliznyak who has defined six such stress patterns – here’s a link: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Russian_stress_patter ns Anyway, good luck – I recall stress as one of the big headaches of learning Russian. It sounds nice when you listen to it in any case – that’s one motivation/consolation… Edited by viedums on 25 February 2012 at 3:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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