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[thedevilishone.livejournal.com]

How would I say, "Other Stuff"...Would it be, "Другой Вещи"?
How do I say, "Live Journal"...Is it, "Живой Журнал"?
And is "Dead Journal", "Мертвый Журнал"?

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[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

Okay, so my class is finally at the point where we are beginning our steady spiral down into the world of verbs of motion, and it looks to be a rather interesting journey. However, I've already run across a small stumbling block that I hope the community here might be able to shed some light on.

Today my instructor outlined some different instances in which the unidirectional, multidirectional, and perfective forms are used. Most are pretty straightforward and understandable to me, but one use is a little confusing: the future tense of unidirectional verbs in non-idiomatic expressions (e.g. "Завтра я иду к зубному врачу."). Aside from trying to remember not to use быть before the infinitive, I'm having trouble understanding the difference between that usage and the perfective future tense. In our text, my teacher noted that using a unidirectional verb in the future tense without быть places emphasis on the destination, but failed to note how this differs from the perfective future tense (e.g. "Завтра я пойду к зубному врачу."). Does it place emphasis on the act of going to the destination? If someone could clear up when to use one and when to use the other it would be greatly appreciated.

Спасибо!

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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

When does one use как instead of one of the derivatives of какой? I.e.

Какая сегодня погода? could it also be said as
Как сегодня погода?

As well as так, такой.

Он так красивый as opposed to Он такой красивый.

Oh, and when does one use хоть as opposed to хотя?

And I must confess that I think I overuse "Ну и что" a little too much. It got stuck to me when I read "Ну и как идёт фильм?" For "Well, how was the movie?" and I've been using "Ну и что" ever since to express "Well,"

Is that correct? Am I a butcher of Russian? And I need help as to when to use даже. Thanks.