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Some unusual Russian words:

Three "o" in a row, all of them pronounced:
"Зоообъединение" - "Zoological association."

Three "e" in a row, all of them pronounced:
"Длинношеее" - "long necked (animal, n.g.)"

Here is a cluster of seven consonants in a row, all of them pronounced:
"Подвзбзднуть" - joking word, mean "to fart very slightly (in unison with smb)". Can you say that one fast? :-)

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[insaint.livejournal.com]

And for the record, "Длинношеее" is the only word in the entire language that has three consecutive "e"s.

[gjertsen.livejournal.com]

I'm a little bit overwhelmed by the fact that russian has a verb that means "to fart very slightly (in unison with smb)"!
Sometimes I think I will never learn this language...

for those who studying our language

[portugalist.livejournal.com]

don't forget - three letters, but not sounds

in зоообъединение - the third "o" sounds [a]
in длинношее - the first "e" sounds [э], and the 2nd and 3rd - [e]

"Подвзбзднуть" - joking word, mean "to fart very slightly (in unison with smb)". Can you say that one fast? :-)

and can YOU? I'm Russian to the backbone, but I can't. And I haven't seen any person using such a word

[portugalist.livejournal.com]

don't be so sad! I'm Russian but I've never seen this word in my life. It was a joke

[dimon37.livejournal.com]

Not true. There's also змееед (snake eater).

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Hmm. True. I stand corrected.

[dimon37.livejournal.com]

Another interesting word is a word that contains 7 leters "o". Not consecutive. That is a perfectly usable word.

If you add a prefix, you can even make 8 "o"s, but then that word is not exactly meaningful.

I'll tell you later, if I don't forget.

[gera.livejournal.com]

The other two also fall under "useless facts" category.
Russian speakers hardly ever encounter them in their lives.

[gjertsen.livejournal.com]

then i resolve to forget them ;)
*goes back to studying verbs of motion*

[onodera.livejournal.com]

It must be обороноспособность (defense capability).

[gjertsen.livejournal.com]

to get even a bit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[dimon37.livejournal.com]

you got it

[gera.livejournal.com]

May I inquire: what are those scary "verbs of motion" that so many people here complained about as major difficulty of the Russian language?
Which verbs and what difficulties are we talking about?

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[vaguevogue.livejournal.com]

15 mitutes of non-stop practice - and I can really say it fast)
I heard/read some words of the same origin, but never this one, indeed..

[vaguevogue.livejournal.com]

but here are only 7 O's!

[gjertsen.livejournal.com]

Well I'm just starting to really work on them, but here's what I find difficult:
1)there's really no word for "go" or "went". In english I can say "I went to school"(meaning I studied) "I went to the store today."(whether I walked or rode a vehicle) "I went to Russia." (even if I obviously went by plane) "I went sailing." "I went in" "I went out" etc. It's my understanding that in russian I would use a different verb for each situation.
2)It's just seems harder to fake verbs in russian. A lot of the foreigners I know who don't speak very fluent english seem to be able to get around mostly using the verbs "do" "go" and "have" and make themselves perfectly well understood. And I know it's a common complaint that russian words are too long, but it has to be easier to learn the irregular "to go" than to memorize something like
путешествовать
sorry for the complaining tone...I've been studying verbs very hard lately. :)

[unlightened.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it's a perfectly Russian word, entirely corresponding to its grammar and rules of word-constructing, so Russian _does_ have this word :)

[unlightened.livejournal.com]

Контрвзбзднуть - 9 consonants in a row :)

[gera.livejournal.com]

I see.

A few points you should be aware of:
1) verb ездить is kind of universal, not as much as go, but still...
Я ездил в Америку (even if was on a plane)
Я ездил в круиз (even if it was on a ship)
and of course Я ездил - in every situation that involved car or other kinds of ground transportation
2) путешествовать only used to indicate multiple destinations. You wouldn't say Я путешествовала в Лондон, but rather: Я ездила в Лондон.
But you can say: Я путешествовала по Европе (meaning that you visited several places in Europe).
Я путешествовала в Европу - is incorrect, since in this context Europe is a single point.
3) Я ходил в такую-то школу is acceptable, although usually we would say учился.
4) went in, went out - зашёл, вышел - as usual prefixes in Russian reflect prepositions in English (in, out, on, off, away etc)
Still the core word is ходить - go.
5) Here's a trap to look out for:
If someone is on the lookout (no pun intended) anounces: Он идёт!
it means he is coming, not going (leaving).

Hope, it helps.

Re: for those who studying our language

[portugalist.livejournal.com]

I also heard some words of THIS origin, but not with 7 consonants together.

[gjertsen.livejournal.com]

correction: "I went sailing" isn't exactly fair, since "to sail" is really the verb there.

[gjertsen.livejournal.com]

it does help thanks.
And I am starting to be able to hear the prefixes in russian verbs that give me a hint about what they mean...my new favorite verb is беспокоиться because I was able to just figure out what it meant without learning it by rote:
"without peace" = to worry. :)

[portugalist.livejournal.com]

I can create a million of such-a-kind words, they will have our suffixes or prefixes, can be conjugated, all roots of them will be known by the Russians - but they will not be used in our language.

Re: for those who studying our language

[vaguevogue.livejournal.com]

RIGHT

[gjertsen.livejournal.com]

I suppose in english it would be "to co-fart." Comprehensible, maybe, but really nonsense...