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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5058 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 545 of 1511 06 March 2013 at 8:33am | IP Logged | |||||
Слава Богу! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 546 of 1511 06 March 2013 at 9:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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Я в него не верю. Что вы имели ввиду? Edited by tarvos on 06 March 2013 at 11:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 547 of 1511 10 March 2013 at 1:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think Mark wanted to say something along the lines "Thank God you didn't do any Russian". If there ever was a post that would have deserved a negative "useful" vote, this one would have been it.
Anywho, how are things? Still polyglotting around or busy with graduating? By the way, how did you go about studying Russian after completing your textbooks? Do you simply chat a lot with native speakers or how do you work on your vocabulary? Thanks to Colloquial Russian, I know "one-way syringe", "free economic zone", and "nature protection", but I sometimes lack the most elementary words such as "to fall", "to hold", or "to hang". That's a bit insatisfactory, to put it mildly, so I thought about making wordlists with very common words. What did you do? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5058 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 548 of 1511 10 March 2013 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
Colloquial Russian has an appropriate name. The words you mentioned are not trivial from the morphological and lexical points of view. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 549 of 1511 10 March 2013 at 3:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
I am polyglotting and graduating, yes. I don't consider what I do "studying" as much as "randomly talking to native speakers". I have taken some private tutoring classes concerning Russian and I pretty much use those to get practice speaking and understanding in. I already knew my teacher because she also teaches me Swedish so I take classes more or less simultaneously. I don't have a failsafe way of knowing vocabulary - I don't make wordlists or anything - but my teacher provides me with some translations to make me remember vocabulary from previous lessons (which can be very colloquial language, actually). But I have a good enough base in Russian that I don't need to use it every day for me to be able to get around in it. I recently went to a Russian shop and I was perfectly able to communicate with the shopkeeper, also about more complex things such as privatising companies. (Hence why I have it as basic fluency in my list). My other languages have been stalling here and there. I have been feeling sick occasionally and I am graduating. I plan to do some Breton later today though, and maybe some Romanian or Hebrew tonight.
To fall and to hold are words you can find in Assimil, so I have those. I forgot "to hang". But protection is quite a useful word, I use that quite a bit. Disposable is also useful if you want to go hiking f.e. and if you're going to a hospital (which can happen in an emergency). Free economic zone I don't care about, but that one is kind of easy to "approximate". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5058 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 550 of 1511 10 March 2013 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't think so. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 551 of 1511 10 March 2013 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks, it seems you have a lot more active practice in Russian than I do. I have started listening to podcasts in order to get more exposure to spoken language and to get away from texts a bit. Hopefully, I can learn some common vocabulary that way.
@Mark: I don't get your point. Colloquial Russian does teach morphologically and lexically complex verbs, otherwise the only verbs I knew would be читать and работать. Often the most common verbs are irregular, that's right, but that doesn't change the fact that they are very useful to know. EDIT:
Making grammatical mistakes doesn't make people bad persons. Edited by Josquin on 10 March 2013 at 5:53pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 552 of 1511 10 March 2013 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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He has a completely different view on language learning than I do. I'm not a linguist so
I don't care about making a grammar mistake or two. What matters is getting my point across in a nice and accurate way and if people want to rag on me for that it's their problem. Luckily there are other people who are more accepting of my view and are more than happy to listen to me bumble along in Russian and appreciate what I do. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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