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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 801 of 1511 18 August 2013 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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In general it means I don't make many mistakes, but the ones I do make tend to be a lot
of small ones. These generally never hinder speech, they just make a lot of sentences semi-correct or incorrect. Thing is though I've never had problems actually talking when I was in Russia. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 802 of 1511 18 August 2013 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
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Day 7: The Road to Tomsk, Part 1
I woke up refreshed and had tea and instant pasta for breakfast with Vova, a Russian who works as a sales manager for Gazprom. Both he and Sasha were headed to Perm (a stop we'd reach later that evening). Vova was a fun-loving guy who asked me many interesting questions, including asking me to help with a crossword he was trying to solve (unfortunately I came up short for answers every time). My Russian seems to be good for small talk and conversation only, haha... On the way we stopped off at a station (the name escapes me) to buy some supplies for lunch. I like the sausages they sell here. I then spent the rest of the day reading my LP guidebook mostly. Vova and Sasha got off at Perm. I fell asleep a tiny bit later. I don't think that was such a terrible diea though, because although the compartment was empty for the next few hours, I obtained company again during the middle of the night at Sverdlovsk/Yekaterinburg, where a family of three got on including a one-year-old baby. Who seemed to think crying at 3 am was a good thing to do. Day 8: The Road to Tomsk, Part II (Child's Play) This night, I woke up not so refreshed; once everyone had gone to sleep, I managed to catch a few hours of shut-eye though. This repeated itself a few times during the day to make sure I would get some rest in this compartment. Fortunately, I actually like children, and am not averse to them; I actually enjoy playing with them, although Ksusha (the name of this baby) seemed to be either too tired or too hemmed in by the surroundings (platskartny trains...) to sustain interest in any activity for more than 3 minutes. I did manage to entertain her a few times though. She even patted my head, pretended to offer me a drink, and imitated me a fair few times. Apart from that I went to the restaurant wagon to try and have some lunch, but the food was oversalted and there was typical frosty Russian service. It was needed to maintain some energy levels during the day though. The last thing is that I have found that the vocal line in the chorus of "Be Still" by the Killers has made the best impression on me in quite some time; chills and goosebumps. "Don't break character; you've got a lot of heart". Day 9: More Food, Less Fatigue After another horrible night's sleep, I arrived in Tomsk more bleary-eyed than you can imagine. I met Nastya (bless you for getting up!) and we went to her babushka's house for some breakfast. I managed to eat nothing because my stomach somehow decided on nausea. Again. Maybe it's the heat, maybe I'm falling ill. It is insanely hot here in Tomsk. A sweltering 30 degrees if not more (probably more). It feels like my childhood in Canada. Anya (bless you double!) actually met us at work and gave us the key to her apartment so that I could catch up on some sleep. There is WiFi here so I decided to do the prudent thing and recharge my phone while surfing the internet. I also bought some pelmeni. And Nastya got me a present of a pinguin holding an ice cream! (It's a collage). It is beautiful!!! In the evening, I finally managed to eat and I also drew the world's most ridiculous octopus. I can't even draw, but Anya said it was for a concourse (which would earn you free pizza?) so we eventually also made a collage on top of a pizza box. Strange Russian art... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 803 of 1511 18 August 2013 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
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It's interesting that you transliterated Ксюша as Ksusha.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 804 of 1511 18 August 2013 at 10:38pm | IP Logged |
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That's how it's generally written I think. In English, I mean. Do not ask me why. Edited by tarvos on 18 August 2013 at 10:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 805 of 1511 18 August 2013 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
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The softness of consonants is usually indicated by a "y" before u, a, o.
Here the rule i sbroken. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 806 of 1511 18 August 2013 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
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I know that, but I've never seen anyone transliterate it Ksyusha. Always Ksusha. So I'm
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 807 of 1511 18 August 2013 at 10:59pm | IP Logged |
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I've never seen both.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 808 of 1511 18 August 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
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Transliteration can be strange though - в is
transliterated v in Dutch but in publications from some years ago it is always w. My dad talked about Wladiwostok not Vladivostok although the correct transliteration is the latter. Note that w is not English w but something between v and English w usually. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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