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| FromSpain Diglot Newbie Spain Joined 3888 days ago 20 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 1 of 6 04 August 2014 at 1:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I started to learn Russian with Assimil a few days ago and obviously everything is
different and new. I've realized that no matter how many times I learn the meaning and the pronunciation of a word. I tend to forget them straight away. What do you do to learn Russian words? I can spend several minutes when it comes to writing a single sentence in Russian... Edited by FromSpain on 04 August 2014 at 1:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4834 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2 of 6 04 August 2014 at 3:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Keep repeating the words until they stick. The first baby steps in a very different language are always difficult. I remember I couldn't memorize the simplest greetings when I started learning Scottish Gaelic, because everything was so alien. Keep listening and reading the dialogues and you will start to get a feel for the language. Also, repeat the dialoges loudly and speak the words to yourself. That will do the trick. Edited by Josquin on 04 August 2014 at 3:09pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4243 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 6 04 August 2014 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I memorize Russian words together with their etymological roots and an analysis of how the word is formed.
This is the same example I've given about the very same subject in another thread; современный -> со | времен | ный -> with | time | -adjective thus the word for 'modern' means literally 'with time', hmm... oh wait, that is exactly the same reasoning as in the word con-tempo-rary! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4697 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 6 04 August 2014 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Even better, you can "be with the times" in English. Which means you are up to date or
modern. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arnaud25 Diglot Senior Member France Joined 3832 days ago 129 posts - 235 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 6 04 August 2014 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | ||
That's also what I do. But when you begin to learn russian, it's difficult to implement: you don't know yet how work the prefixes and suffixes and each prefix and suffix have several meanings. Another thing to know is that some nouns are also built like that: самолёт: сам-о-лёт: itself-o-flight: the machine that flies by itself: the plane. паровоз: пар-о-воз: steam-o-carry: the steam machine that carries : the locomotive. The letter "o" or "e" serves as a link between the two roots. Knowning the russian roots is a enormous help to guess the meaning of words in context, but it takes a lot of time to learn. At the beginning, just try to note the similarities between words: they have probably a common root (of course, there are also "faux-amis" like in all the languages) Edited by Arnaud25 on 04 August 2014 at 7:21pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michel1020 Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5007 days ago 365 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Dutch | Message 6 of 6 04 August 2014 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | ||
If you started a few days ago - "many times" can't be that many yet. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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