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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5052 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 57 of 71 25 January 2013 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
Just curious, what level are your students at in English?
Don't English rainbows have seven colors too? ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5020 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 58 of 71 25 January 2013 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm not sure. What are the colours in them? ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5189 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 59 of 71 25 January 2013 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I always learned ROYGBIV. :)
R(ed) O(range) Y(ellow) G(reen) B(lue) I(ndigo) V(iolet) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5474 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 60 of 71 25 January 2013 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Richard of York gave battle in vain.
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5052 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 61 of 71 25 January 2013 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, that's what I was referring to, haha. :) Although, I understand that "indigo" is not a common color for people to talk about in English like синий is in Russian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5020 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 62 of 71 25 January 2013 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
Exactly, so "not common" that a Russian friend of mine who teaches English in Moscow was completely baffled when she sat to prepare some rainbow-coloring activities for the kids in one of her classes -- all the pre-made stuff, drawings, sketches, and whatnot that she could find were/had... 6-colour rainbows! BTW 7-colour rainbows is the standard here as well ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4509 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 63 of 71 25 January 2013 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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We have 7 here as well, we use VLAVAAV.
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| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5474 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 64 of 71 03 February 2013 at 11:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Today's been a good day; I finally spent some quality time with my Russian text books. I went to a beautiful park yesterday near Polevzhaevskaya with some friends. It was a forest covered in gorgeous, heavy snow. We'd intended to do some cross country skiing but couldn’t find the ski rental place. We eventually found it, near a huge frozen lake. One of our friends wanted to rent skiis, but the other had other plans that evening and we wouldn’t have had much time. Not to mention the snow had soaked through my boots and my feet were freezing! We’ll definitely go there again though, and get some skiis too.
I was amazed that the ice gets so thick here that you can walk on it. In the UK that amounts to suicide, but people were skiing, making snowmen and ice fishing! My Russian is coming along at a pleasant rate. I hear words that I’ve studied come up in conversations amongst my students. Speaking of which, I got a lovely gift from my students this week - a Starbucks flask, with Russia written on it! I can have very basic Russian conversations now, not fluent at all but enough that I feel a definite improvement since even a fortnight ago. I’m quite behind on Anki. I have to upload some Assimil vocab at some point today. I’ve lost that 5 lesson/day lead due to being busy but I review everything in the book when I have a spare moment. I’d like to finish the book in under three months though - my boyfriend could use the book when I’m done and I could revise it at home. The fear is that I read through it all and think I understand it before I actually do. Then again, I have Anki to help stop that from happening. Now I need to think about my February goals! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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