Hallo!

[bugtilaheh.livejournal.com]

The name's Bradley (Брэдли?) or Bug (Баг?) and (и?) я учащийся колледжа (I'm a college student; is Я always capitalized like "I" is in English?). I live in the US in the state of Texas, near Houston. Some of you know me from linguaphiles. Anyway, I'm not a Russian student or anything (but a 3-year and 2-semester Spanish student, yes). I'm sort of learning it on my own (I'd rather learn Czech, but Russian's close enough =P). As of right now, I can *barely* hold a conversation in Czech (and Polish). I doubt it; I just know simple phrases, etc. The same goes for Russian; I already have the Cyrillic alphabet down as well, so all's good.

As some of you may know, my dad is full-blood Czech, and his parents used to speak Czech, but they have since forgotten it all (Grandma can remember some words, but if you spoke to her in Czech, or as she puts it "Bohemian," she wouldn't know how to respond) because they speak English now, and my grandfather is no longer alive. You can thank the good ol' USA for being monolingual. :-/

Anyway, I tend to write too much, so here's some questions about numbers...
I know the numbers in Czech up to 10. Are they the same in Russian? Well, okay, I think some of them are, but not all.
Compare.

Czech (with what it "sounds" like to me with the best romanization I can do):
Jedna (yed-nah), Dva (doo-vah), Tři (trzhee), Čtyři (chtirzhee—that's very difficult to pronounce!) Pět (be-yet), Šest (shest), Sedm (seh-doom), Osm (ah-soom), Devět (dev-e-yet), Deset (de-set)

Russian (with what it "sounds" like, got that from http://www.scifaiku.com/tom/misc/digits/):
один (odin), два (dva), три (tree), четыре (ch'tiri), пять (pyat), шесть (shyist), семь (syem), восемь (vosyim), девять (dyevit), десять (dyesit)

Feel free to correct. I did this quickly.

Comments

[cjoy.livejournal.com]

It's not the way it's taught. It's the way it is. (Do you know Spanish for instance? The simple difference between tu & Usted. It's the same. Is it so difficult?)

[bugtilaheh.livejournal.com]

Usted isn't capitalized (at least, not anymore). Unless it comes at the beginning of a sentence, of course.

I've seen it abbreviated to Ud. or Vd., but usted works fine.

¿Cómo está usted? ¿Cómo está Ud.? ¿Cómo está ud.? No difference.

[bugtilaheh.livejournal.com]

Sorry, the last ud. should read Vd. Usted is abbreviated to Ud. or Vd. and that's just the way it is.

[cjoy.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. In Spanish it's a little bit more complicated. Besides, Spanish has such pronouns for both singular and plural: Vd/Vds. In Russian in plural there's no diffirence. We always say вы (non-capitalized) while addressing to any amount of persons more than one (no style differences). For one person if we are addressing to the fellow lad/gal we would say ты, and to anyone else Вы. This latter Вы is always capitalized. (And you can see it in the picture below in this thread.)