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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1 of 1511 21 January 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I started learning Russian last fall. It's been a strange little ride for me since
then, because I only started just taking evening classes - I am a university student, and if I don't have motivation or time to work on this sort of thing, then I wanted the freedom to do that - and the evening classes seemed to go at a really slow tempo (something I didn't mind a priori, but grew increasingly frustrated with). In response, I started searching for ways to improve my Russian on my own. I had study material belonging to the course (it used a Dutch-Russian textbook and an English- Russian workbook, based on the Ruslan company). The material in the book was not bad, but it was really quite limited and I found that because we were not even going to cover the entirety in class this year, that I should really need to supplement it with something else. Luckily, I've found plenty of other materials online. I've decided, for now, to use the Teach Yourself: Complete Russian study materials for now. This log is meant to document my progress in Russian using that and the aforementioned classes. I have now covered Unit One of the TY book - it was fairly identical to the first lesson in Ruslan 1 - covering material I already knew, but mostly the grammar in a really much more thorough way. Ruslan really skirted the gender of nouns for a while, and also the possessive pronouns - TY gives me a comprehensive overview. I ran through the lesson quite quickly and found I could easily understand the entire dialogue and do the exercises. I am sure it will get harder quite soon, but it's good to know that at least the very basics are working - making possessives agree with gender, and greetings and such, are already ingrained in my brain. I will review it, though - I keep forgetting that you have to use Вот он/она/оно/они a lot. As for now, I know who I am, and I shall introduce myself in a few short Russian sentences: Меня зовут Ёрн ван Схайк. Я голландец. Я из Пейнакера. Я студент университета Делфта. Мне 22 лет. Я люблю футбол и мызика. У меня есть семья. У меня есть брат и мать и отец. I am sorry, but I am going to cover verbs soon. We did cover genitive already though in class for a few prepositions, and the locative. I shall soon return with more information in this log. - Tarvos Edited by tarvos on 01 January 2015 at 9:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 2 of 1511 21 January 2012 at 3:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Great start, Tarvos!
I'm currently studying Russian and Dutch, maybe we could help each other! Feel free to PM me and we can add each other on Skype or MSN! До свидания! Doei! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 3 of 1511 21 January 2012 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Мне двадцать два года. Я люблю футбол и музыку. У меня есть мать, отец и брат.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 1511 21 January 2012 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm... what is the difference between the way you represented my age, and the way I wrote it?
I assume the second one is a case I got wrong. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 5 of 1511 21 January 2012 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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You used the word лет, while I - года. Then I wrote numbers in words.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 1511 21 January 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is there anything wrong with using the word лет instead? I checked my textbook and it definitely states лет.
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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 7 of 1511 21 January 2012 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't know if you've learned about the cases yet, but when it comes to numbers, the rule is: 1 - год, месяц, ... (nomminative case) 2,3,4 - года, месяца (genitive case - singular) 5,6,...20 - лет, месяцев (genitive case - plural) And that goes on for every number with that ending. For example: - 21, 31, 41 will always be год. - 22,23,24,32,33,34,42,43,44 will always be года. - 25,26,27,28,29,30,35,36...etc, will always be лет. I hope my explanation is not too confusing ahahaha Edited by fabriciocarraro on 21 January 2012 at 4:55pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 8 of 1511 21 January 2012 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah, I knew about 1 through 4, but not after that.
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