Motion Verbs

[lady-of-the-sea.livejournal.com]

In my independent study right now, we're studying motion verbs for the whole first half of this semester. And it's not going terribly, I just wish it hadn't taken so incredibly long for us to start learning them. I know they're complicated, but putting it off until the fourth year, in my opinion, makes it a lot more difficult to get the hang of.
This got me wondering, are there any little (or long!) poems, or memory things that Russian children are taught, to help them remember when to use what? I know in English we have some little songs, and rhymes, and mnemonic devices about grammar and spelling - are there any for motion verbs in Russian?

Спасибо!

Comments

Re: Do not worry about motion verbs.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_christine/]

This is very true. I really didn't understand verbs of motion beyond the theory of when and how they are - I can recite the explanation as well as the next person, but in practice they didn't come naturally until I was studying in Russia. I just started listening to which verbs the native speakers around me were using when they were in which situations and mimicked that. So now I know which is a уехать and which is a поехать and so forth. You really must be in the context, in my humble opinion, to pick it up.

Re: Do not worry about motion verbs.

[lady-of-the-sea.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I guess I was hoping to find something that would help me put them in context, since I do not often get to see them used in their natural habitat.