Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 9 of 58 13 February 2012 at 9:43am | IP Logged |
Adjectives are much easier than nouns. That's a feature of the Russian language.
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4716 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 10 of 58 13 February 2012 at 12:46pm | IP Logged |
I know all the declension rules already... the problem is remembering the right one when speaking in real time.
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 11 of 58 13 February 2012 at 1:52pm | IP Logged |
fabriciocarraro wrote:
I know all the declension rules already... the problem is remembering the right one when speaking in real time. |
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My point exactly :-)
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 12 of 58 13 February 2012 at 4:49pm | IP Logged |
fabriciocarraro wrote:
I know all the declension rules already... the problem is
remembering the right one when speaking in real time. |
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The problem is many nouns do not obey any rules and there are no rules for many
situations. На столЕ, на стУле, на полУ. СтолЫ, полЫ, но стУлья.
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Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4958 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish
| Message 13 of 58 13 February 2012 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
Марк wrote:
fabriciocarraro wrote:
I know all the declension rules already... the
problem is
remembering the right one when speaking in real time. |
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The problem is many nouns do not obey any rules and there are no rules for many
situations. На столЕ, на стУле, на полУ. СтолЫ, полЫ, но стУлья. |
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"Стол" becomes "стуле" at times or is that just a different word?
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 14 of 58 13 February 2012 at 7:05pm | IP Logged |
Стол means table; стул means chair; пол means floor. They seem to be similar but are
declined differently.
Edited by Марк on 13 February 2012 at 7:07pm
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4716 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 15 of 58 13 February 2012 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
Марк wrote:
fabriciocarraro wrote:
I know all the declension rules already... the problem is
remembering the right one when speaking in real time. |
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The problem is many nouns do not obey any rules and there are no rules for many
situations. На столЕ, на стУле, на полУ. СтолЫ, полЫ, но стУлья. |
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Even discarding the exceptions, I still don't think in the language, you know?
When I want to speak, I have to translate from Portuguese to Russian, remember the right case, the right declension for the gender of that word.... it's a lot of job to do in less than 1 second.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 16 of 58 13 February 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged |
Start by learning to understand without translating, then the ability to think in the language will follow:) eventually...
Idk, my problem is more that I'm sick of drilling. With Finnish, exercises were always enough (if there weren't enough excercises I'd make my own sentences with the pattern I was learning), but now in the Romance languages I just don't. wanna. drill. this. stuff. Lol.
Oh and shadowing and reading have helped A LOT as well.
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