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learn_russianThe 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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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.
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.
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Date: 2003-03-11 02:25 pm (UTC)And these aren't standard of the language, but rather orthographic conventions. Capitalisation of Вы has very little to do with the language per se.
Works of literature fall under fiction, where this rule doesn't apply. Вы is capitalised as a form of polite address in real written communication. This exception is made stronger than it really is by copyediting past works of literature (e.g. even when the author used a capitalised Вы in manuscript or contemporary editions, it is standartised to a lowercase вы in all modern editions).