Merry Christmas!

[liveword.livejournal.com]

Hello, My name is Alla. I live in Moscow (Russia).
I have just started producing Russian language videos and publishing my videos in YOUTUBE.
http://ru.youtube.com/user/liveworda

I think the beginners can find it useful. You'll hear how the words sound and you'll see written words and pictures.

 

For example:
This is one of my lessons.
 

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

Not too good, if I may say so. Your transcriptions do nothing to convey the actual Russian pronunciation and don't even show where the stress goes. That's the most obvious flaw, and I could point out a few others.

[liveword.livejournal.com]

It is not transcriptions, it is transliterations.
Someone think my lessons are useful, and someone think they are harmful. I would be happy if I can help to learn Russian even one person.

[liveword.livejournal.com]

Thanks for opinion.

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

A few more comments:

1. You have to stick to one way of pronouncing of unstressed O: either O or A. What I see in a number of cases is that you pronounce it in two different ways: you first read a word basically letter by letter (and the unstressed O sounds as O) and then you read it normally (and the unstressed O sounds as A). To a learner this only adds uncertainty. See for example how you handle the word информация.

IMO, there are other inconsistencies and oddities in the pronunciation that you demonstrate in the videos.

2. Now, what is the use of your videos if they for the most part contain nouns in the nominative case? I mean, come on, there're plenty of dictionaries (aka pictionaries) that do exactly the same. How am I (as a learner) going to describe a car running on the road if I only know машина (car) and дорога (road)? Like this?: машина дорога. What about verbs? In the video about the New Year you have купить подарок (to buy a present), but what about actually giving it? What about celebrating? In another video you mention a number of household items (wall, sofa, armchair, etc etc), but you don't do anything with those things.

The language is pretty much dead if it only enumerates things.

3. There're mistakes like:
туча=rainclouds, туча is singular, whereas clouds is plural.
гостей=gostyeoy
журнальный стол=table for magazine (should be a coffee table)

I believe you should (and maybe even could) do a much better job.
Happy new year!