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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 33 of 63 21 December 2009 at 6:03am | IP Logged |
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So I only got to do some German today, but MY particular language schedule is made for reschedulings. So tomorrow is my Swedish day. I have a poem in Swedish, and I have my grammar packet. I'm going to look up some more Swedish material online tomorrow during lunch break, and I'm going to get ready to do my hardcore Russian workout on Tuesday with some native material and my Penguin Russian book. I want to fully attack the prepositional case and take it down!!! Hopefully I'll finish that chapter and move onto the next.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 34 of 63 22 December 2009 at 10:10pm | IP Logged |
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I think today I might try to find some cartoons in Russian. I really think that would help me gain a more basic understanding. After that I'll finish up the prepositional case and then do some Czech ;).
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 35 of 63 22 December 2009 at 11:06pm | IP Logged |
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Ok so I looked at my team for TAC 2010 and I am team J with Doviende and Egill (sp?). Our common language is German and I plan to view their logs and correct them if necessary. I am really getting into Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen. I have read the Harry Potter books before, so it's cool to see how they are different from language to language. I really need to start drilling the prepositional case, which I have a new goal for:
Be able to take any word (including irregularities) and inflect it to the prepositional case by the end of tonight... GOTTA GET WORKING! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 36 of 63 22 December 2009 at 11:24pm | IP Logged |
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So here is my marker for my log (I've been putting it on a little post it note).
German: 6 hours of reading and speaking. Swedish: 3 hours since I started Swedish. Russian: 9 hours of practice and regular learning activities. Czech: 8 hours of practice and regular learning activities. I don't have enough time :(. I should be getting more done, but at least it's better than nothing :/. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 37 of 63 27 December 2009 at 4:58am | IP Logged |
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I'm going to do about an hour of Russian grammar study since I have time, and then I will probably do some activity in which I will read, write, or listen to native material. I wish that I could watch some of my favorite movies in Russian, but they don't have the option. Anyone know any good Russian movies that are action/thriller, WITH Russian subtitles??? Just wondering.
Anyways, after that I think I might do some Czech, although I'm getting less concerned with my ability to write or make PERFECT sentences, just looking forward to the ability of speaking faster and with a bigger vocabulary. I'm going to read more of Harry Potter in German, and hopefully I will be able to get even further. Hebrew and Swedish are suffering, but it's ok, I'll get to them in due time :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 38 of 63 27 December 2009 at 7:16am | IP Logged |
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Just did about 10 minutes of prepositional and plural practice here. It is really useful because you can choose the cases you will practice (plural, prepositional, accusative, etc.) I'm entering things into this post as I go along so the next time I write will be in this post, and then when I am done, I will post the whole thing.
I just went over a few chapters of my Living language Ultimate Russian. I learned how to express the verb to have through 'у (accusative) есть' or just 'у (acc.) I only learned the pronouns so I can't say something like "Katya has a dog." The forms are: у меня у тебя у него у неё у нас у вас у них I'm pretty sure it's the accusative. The genitive and the accusative pronouns are exactly the same so it doesn't really matter. I have been going over the dialogs, and I plan to be doing that more often, by typing them, and loading them as PDFs into my new iPod touch :)... I got it for Christmas and I'm so excited. I have like five dictionaries on there already. So this is all I'm going to do. It's pretty late so I'm going to go to bed now, but hopefully I can do a lot of study this week since I have it off. До свидания! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SII Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5796 days ago 184 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Russian* Studies: English | Message 39 of 63 27 December 2009 at 10:08pm | IP Logged |
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The genetive case is used in sentences like "У Кати есть собака". So "у меня" etc are genetive. But when "Katya has a dog" is translated word-to-word, the result is "Катя имеет собаку" -- "собаку" is accusative. In addition, some pronouns have two forms in some cases; these forms are used in different situations: него/его, неё/её, них/их. For example: "У него есть собака" (He has a dog) and "Это его книга" (This is his book) -- in these sentences "него/его" is used in genetive. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5697 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 40 of 63 27 December 2009 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
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Hi ruskivyetr, best wishes with all your languages! I'm reading "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen" too, so it's cool to know someone else will be working on that. :)
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