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learn_russianI am in the first part of two beginning summer Russian courses at my university. This is my third week. I am wondering if someone can explain the difference in usage between:
она / oн
and
её / его
The course I am taking is taught with the Начало text which can be a bit frustrating at times because it doesn't explain all the words it uses.
Also, any tips about learning Russian? I hope to get a pen-pal/chat thing going on sometime later in the year when I can actually say more than a few sentences but mostly I am pretty bad at pronunciation. The course moves really fast (one Начало chapter a week out of seven that comprise the book) and sometimes I'll only hear a word spoken by the professor once--in passing-- if it is not on the CDs that accompy the book.
Are there any good russian dictionaries with audio online?
спасибо!
она / oн
and
её / его
The course I am taking is taught with the Начало text which can be a bit frustrating at times because it doesn't explain all the words it uses.
Also, any tips about learning Russian? I hope to get a pen-pal/chat thing going on sometime later in the year when I can actually say more than a few sentences but mostly I am pretty bad at pronunciation. The course moves really fast (one Начало chapter a week out of seven that comprise the book) and sometimes I'll only hear a word spoken by the professor once--in passing-- if it is not on the CDs that accompy the book.
Are there any good russian dictionaries with audio online?
спасибо!
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Date: 2009-07-01 03:13 am (UTC)она = she, он = he
ее = her, его = his(him)
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Date: 2009-07-01 03:24 am (UTC)"Ona sidit tam" (she sits there, she is sitting there), and "ego kofe" (his coffee).
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Date: 2009-07-01 04:13 am (UTC)Where is your pen? - Где твоя ручка?
I don't know where it is. - Я не знаю, где она.
What a lovely girl your sister is.
Yeah, she is very beautiful. - Да, она очень красивая.
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Date: 2009-07-01 05:58 am (UTC)Grammatical gender is a very important issue in Russian language. Inanimate things have gender too, and it is not always possible to tell by a given noun whether it is feminine or masculine. Usually the nouns ending in -a, -я are feminine, -o, -e - neuter, and those ending with a consonant are masculine. But this is not a complete picture, and there are many exceptions. The meaning of the word is usually inconsequential. For example, a microbe (микроб) is masculine and a bacteria (бактерия) is feminine. A pen (ручка) is feminine, and a pencil (карандаш) is masculine.
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Date: 2009-07-01 11:29 am (UTC)But you can always use skype :) There is a top post of this community with contacts of the people who can help.
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Date: 2009-07-01 04:45 pm (UTC)tips: just keep practicing. read everything you can find in Russian, even if you don't understand - reading skills are important! join some russian communities and listen to russian music, etc. all of that with your courses helps significantly!
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Date: 2009-07-01 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-01 07:01 pm (UTC)I think my reading skills are better than my speaking or writing skills at this point but today was the 10th class session we've had so I don't know how much I should read into this-- but my professor doesn't test us on speaking...
Do you have any links to music/communities/reading that you'd recommend? I've wanted to learn russian for a few years now but actually taking these intensive summer courses has left me with little inspiration.
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Date: 2009-07-01 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-02 03:33 am (UTC)where are your summer classes, if you don't mind me asking? sort of odd that you wouldn't be tested on speaking..but maybe that's just because I'm used to my teacher putting so much emphasis on it. :P
hmm...let me think. for communities, if you search any of your interests you could find a russian community on the topic (usually called something like ru_(topic)). That's how I find a lot of the ones I lurk. Here are some random other ones:
if none of those interest you, just click around random russian users' profiles and see what communities they're in!
for music, it depends on what you're into..what kind of music do you like? there's always t.A.T.u. :P or leningrad, which is basically like russian ska. there's a whole lot out there so if you tell me what genres you like I could recommend some better ones..or someone else could, too!
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Date: 2009-07-02 03:36 am (UTC)sign up for the russian word of the day, it gets sent right to your email. :)
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Date: 2009-07-02 03:44 am (UTC)I am taking the classes at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. We speak in class but there are no speaking sections on the exams and I am not sure why. Hopefully this isn't stunting my growth because I already find it difficult to summon sentences in my head while I can usually write just fine. This might be natural at the beginning level, though?
Hmmm...as far as music goes, I like pop-rock. Ben Folds, Guster etc. Is there a Russian Ben Folds?
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Date: 2009-07-02 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-02 11:04 pm (UTC)that is completely natural. From a native english speaker's point, you have to understand the grammar completely before you can really form sentences. it still trips me up a lot. But once you get the cases down and your vocabulary grows, it'll get easier. It's definitely a difficult language to learn!
hm...not sure. =/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvyFxxZbOns
kino, perhaps? it's a really famous 80s band..I will have to look into more russian music though.
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Date: 2009-08-25 01:26 am (UTC)I would recommend you this group(i think they have great poetry) http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT - its Russian rock.
And this is "best song's" album http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0
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Date: 2009-08-25 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 06:48 pm (UTC)Native speaker, explanation in English.
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