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 Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:59 pm
Kukushka Allahura It's easier than you think, it's when you get into verbs of motion that everything starts going down hill. Or is that just me? Haha, I have no problems with the verbs. Kuku is down wit da verbage. My problem is with the cases. "Now is this supposed to be a genitive or a dative?" sweatdrop Verbs in general are fine, I mean like Walk and Drive. There's walk, if it's just to one place once. There's walk if it's around a park or store, just wondering around. And there's still the verb To walk. ARG! But I do agree that the cases mess with my head. And when Accusative is the same as Genitive if it's something alive, OR it's the same as Nominative if it isn't....Arg. So difficult to get the hang of...
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:15 pm
Allahura But I do agree that the cases mess with my head. And when Accusative is the same as Genitive if it's something alive, OR it's the same as Nominative if it isn't....Arg. So difficult to get the hang of... I was really lucky that I took Latin before I started Russian, so I was already fairly familiar with the cases and what they do. But it's just so hard when I am speaking to have to keep stopping and thinking of what part of speech I am in the middle of speaking and then trying to remember what ending it's supposed to take stressed
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:15 am
Kukushka Allahura But I do agree that the cases mess with my head. And when Accusative is the same as Genitive if it's something alive, OR it's the same as Nominative if it isn't....Arg. So difficult to get the hang of... I was really lucky that I took Latin before I started Russian, so I was already fairly familiar with the cases and what they do. But it's just so hard when I am speaking to have to keep stopping and thinking of what part of speech I am in the middle of speaking and then trying to remember what ending it's supposed to take stressed AHA! Okay so I'm not the only one who does that! I feel a little better now. OF course I'm certain it takes me a lot longer than you to figure the case--and I can't necessarily get it right--but still, someone else has to stop at lease some times. That alone makes me feel a little better, because I dunno if you've ever noticed this but it seems like if you have difficulty in a language, everyone in the class seems to become experts in it overnight.
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:16 am
Russian is the only language I've yet encountered in which the nouns are harder than the verbs. gonk
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:38 pm
здравствуйте!!
i was born in the former USSR....the country now is known as Uzbekistan...and i have been speaking russian my whole life and in fact still am and continue to....
even though i left the country when i was six, i still love the language and will never let it go like some other people do sometimes...
but even though i have been speaking it all my life, i still find it quite hard and i also find myself learning new things everyday...
it also helps that there are so many other russian students at my school...
...i've also tried teaching my friends the language...but i find myself giving up because it is just to hard to explian it to them...
i'm really glad that there are other people out there who learn the language and speak, even if it is not their native language!~
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:57 pm
~BladeChild_Riku~ здравствуйте!! i was born in the former USSR....the country now is known as Uzbekistan...and i have been speaking russian my whole life and in fact still am and continue to....
even though i left the country when i was six, i still love the language and will never let it go like some other people do sometimes...
but even though i have been speaking it all my life, i still find it quite hard and i also find myself learning new things everyday...
it also helps that there are so many other russian students at my school...
...i've also tried teaching my friends the language...but i find myself giving up because it is just to hard to explian it to them...
i'm really glad that there are other people out there who learn the language and speak, even if it is not their native language!~ya toji v Sovetskam Soyuzye rodilas 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:58 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast Russian is the only language I've yet encountered in which the nouns are harder than the verbs. gonk
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:12 pm
Ahh... Russian. It is a very nice language. Nice, Gutsy sounds.
I especially love the Alphabet. Since I am not yet ready to learn the language, the Alphabet suites me. biggrin
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:26 am
Proudly_Jewish Eccentric Iconoclast Russian is the only language I've yet encountered in which the nouns are harder than the verbs. gonk C'est vrai! gonk Er, wrong language. >.<
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:46 pm
Just out of curiosity, what makes Russian nouns so hard? The declensions? ninja
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:21 pm
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:01 pm
Ok, one thing about Russian has been bugging me for quite a while.
You can write Russian with Russian letters AND "normal" letters, right? Or where is the difference? Or... Well, I don't even know how to ask the question as I don't know anything about it really neutral But what's up with it?
Oh and btw, anyone who knows where you can buy keyboard keys with Russian letters rather cheap?
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:39 am
Felucca Ok, one thing about Russian has been bugging me for quite a while.
You can write Russian with Russian letters AND "normal" letters, right? Or where is the difference? Or... Well, I don't even know how to ask the question as I don't know anything about it really neutral But what's up with it?
Oh and btw, anyone who knows where you can buy keyboard keys with Russian letters rather cheap? Generally, we English speakers would like to regard the Russian letters в, к, м, н, р, с, т, х, е, о, у, and а as intermixable with the English letters b, k, m, h, p, c, t, x, e, o, y and a, but for some reason if you try to type these in a translator (like freetranslation.com), it won't take it. That's why it would be nice to know how to configure an English keyboard to type Russian letters...
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:45 am
And by any chance, does anyone have a good Russian transliteration for the name 'Rydia'? The closest things I was able to come up with were Рыдя, Рыдиа, and Рыдия. Anyone got anything better? It would help me out with a project I'm working on if I got a proper transliteration.
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:59 am
The best I've got is saying Hello and if you wanna make it wierd I can also say Moskow.
so I coul walk in the moscan streets and shout hello moskow
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