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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:13 am
Proudly_Jewish ParanoiaPhyre My friend and I are taking Russian in high school next year.
We already know Spanish. We're learning Japanese, and my Korean friend's mother wants me to start taking Korean lessons with her daughter over summer.
We're hoping to mix up all these languages. Like, in a conversation, I might say one sentence in Spanish, and she'll answer in Russian. That way, nobody will be able to figure out what we're saying [unless a person knows Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Japanese o____O;;].
We are very excited about learning Russian, though. Thanks for all the websites to help us learn faster.
We heard, though, that in the beginning all we will be learning is the new alphabet. D:
Boring. We're already teaching ourselves that.
If anybody knows how to say the word "notebook" in Russian, it'd be grand if you could tell us the pronunciation. x) tyetrat smile tyeh-trat (the R is rolled quite heavily and the final T in the word is pronounced almost like "ts")
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:52 pm
привет всем.
I speak russian, but not as well as I'd like. So if anybody feels like helping me along...
I guess in russian, I'd be speaking as well as a slightly dumb .. 4th grader? Write like a.. 2nd/3rd grader... and read like a 1st, maybe 2nd.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:58 pm
DART OF SECKS Proudly_Jewish ParanoiaPhyre My friend and I are taking Russian in high school next year.
We already know Spanish. We're learning Japanese, and my Korean friend's mother wants me to start taking Korean lessons with her daughter over summer.
We're hoping to mix up all these languages. Like, in a conversation, I might say one sentence in Spanish, and she'll answer in Russian. That way, nobody will be able to figure out what we're saying [unless a person knows Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Japanese o____O;;].
We are very excited about learning Russian, though. Thanks for all the websites to help us learn faster.
We heard, though, that in the beginning all we will be learning is the new alphabet. D:
Boring. We're already teaching ourselves that.
If anybody knows how to say the word "notebook" in Russian, it'd be grand if you could tell us the pronunciation. x) tyetrat smile tyeh-trat (the R is rolled quite heavily and the final T in the word is pronounced almost like "ts") Umm. no, there's a myahkiy znak somwhere.. . wait I'll check. Ugh, I'm very sorry, but see there are these textbooks I have from when I went to russian classes, and I can't find notebook in any of them. Really sorry.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:21 pm
KrazyassKow DART OF SECKS Proudly_Jewish ParanoiaPhyre My friend and I are taking Russian in high school next year.
We already know Spanish. We're learning Japanese, and my Korean friend's mother wants me to start taking Korean lessons with her daughter over summer.
We're hoping to mix up all these languages. Like, in a conversation, I might say one sentence in Spanish, and she'll answer in Russian. That way, nobody will be able to figure out what we're saying [unless a person knows Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Japanese o____O;;].
We are very excited about learning Russian, though. Thanks for all the websites to help us learn faster.
We heard, though, that in the beginning all we will be learning is the new alphabet. D:
Boring. We're already teaching ourselves that.
If anybody knows how to say the word "notebook" in Russian, it'd be grand if you could tell us the pronunciation. x) tyetrat smile tyeh-trat (the R is rolled quite heavily and the final T in the word is pronounced almost like "ts") Umm. no, there's a myahkiy znak somwhere.. . wait I'll check. Ugh, I'm very sorry, but see there are these textbooks I have from when I went to russian classes, and I can't find notebook in any of them. Really sorry. My russian is like a babies 1st words
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:10 am
Russian is hard.
I give up. Spelling and stuff ain't what I do best really.
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:03 pm
KrazyassKow DART OF SECKS Proudly_Jewish ParanoiaPhyre My friend and I are taking Russian in high school next year.
We already know Spanish. We're learning Japanese, and my Korean friend's mother wants me to start taking Korean lessons with her daughter over summer.
We're hoping to mix up all these languages. Like, in a conversation, I might say one sentence in Spanish, and she'll answer in Russian. That way, nobody will be able to figure out what we're saying [unless a person knows Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Japanese o____O;;].
We are very excited about learning Russian, though. Thanks for all the websites to help us learn faster.
We heard, though, that in the beginning all we will be learning is the new alphabet. D:
Boring. We're already teaching ourselves that.
If anybody knows how to say the word "notebook" in Russian, it'd be grand if you could tell us the pronunciation. x) tyetrat smile tyeh-trat (the R is rolled quite heavily and the final T in the word is pronounced almost like "ts") Umm. no, there's a myahkiy znak somwhere.. . wait I'll check. Ugh, I'm very sorry, but see there are these textbooks I have from when I went to russian classes, and I can't find notebook in any of them. Really sorry.
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:30 pm
xD I love the name of 'mjakij znak'.
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:56 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast xD I love the name of 'mjakij znak'. myaaaa-hhhhkee znak... I gotta say, Russian must be SOOO WEIRD to people who haven't been speaking it their entire lives xd
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:57 pm
By the way surprised
Alright, so... everybody here who's a student of the Russian language obviously had to get past the alphabet-learning stage. Anybody got any advice for somebody learning a foreign language that uses a different alphabet? What did you do to become more familiar with the Russian alphabet?
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:38 am
Proudly_Jewish By the way surprised Alright, so... everybody here who's a student of the Russian language obviously had to get past the alphabet-learning stage. Anybody got any advice for somebody learning a foreign language that uses a different alphabet? What did you do to become more familiar with the Russian alphabet? I wrote them down and studied them(and practice writing them down) ( I did this with Ukrainian and Serbian, which both use different sets of Cyrillic alphabets, as well as Japanese Hiragana,Katakana , and 11 or so kanji)
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:31 pm
Proudly_Jewish By the way surprised Alright, so... everybody here who's a student of the Russian language obviously had to get past the alphabet-learning stage. Anybody got any advice for somebody learning a foreign language that uses a different alphabet? What did you do to become more familiar with the Russian alphabet? Personally? I did a HELL of a lot of transliteration until it stuck. And boy, did it stick well. gonk
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:12 am
Could you please translate "Welcome to my room" for me if you can?
I'd greatly appreciate it. biggrin
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:25 pm
DART OF SECKS Could you please translate "Welcome to my room" for me if you can?
I'd greatly appreciate it. biggrin http://www.tranexp.com:2000/
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:28 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast Zdrast is pronounced just like it looks; a 'z', a 'd' a (rolled) 'r', the 'ah' sound that one hears in many words, and then an 's' and a 't'. mrgreen Of course, if one literally transliterates the word out of Russian, it's 'zdravstvujte'. But that first 'v' isn't pronounced. And then the 'vuj' is pronounced 'voo' 'ee'. And the 'te' is pronounced 'tay'. It's so awkward to see it written for speaking... I found a site that reads the words to you (I don't remember teh site, sorry!), and my approximate transliteration of what the reader said (which I know is usually overdone and ends up weird, but... razz ) sounded to me very much like "zdravitchye". Wow, that sentence is awkward. Oops.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:42 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast Proudly_Jewish By the way surprised Alright, so... everybody here who's a student of the Russian language obviously had to get past the alphabet-learning stage. Anybody got any advice for somebody learning a foreign language that uses a different alphabet? What did you do to become more familiar with the Russian alphabet? Personally? I did a HELL of a lot of transliteration until it stuck. And boy, did it stick well. gonk Ditto. For hiragana and katakana when I was learning Japanese, I used flash cards, but for the language that I made and for Cyrillic, I wrote. A lot. Since my language isn't fully developed (still isn't, though I haven't learned the "modernised" alphabet for it yet), I rewrote EVERYTHING in it. As for Cyrillic... actually, I don' tknow how I learned it. I really have no idea. I learned a little bit in being a spaz over having "Робот" (tatu; my compsci teacher was a fan and it was our theme song for robotics clulb) stuck in my head... Then for some reason I could usually guess well. Then I looked up a chart and started learning it for pretty much no reason. Now I can only handwrite by practicing so much while taking notes on Russian, which aren't doing me much good since I have no access to the book anymore. My handwriting is terrible; I suck at cursive in English and so it doesn't come out well that way either, but once I got used to it a bit it got faster so I could write better that way than all the jaggedly lines of the print. rolleyes I write so much in these... Also, sounding out the letter as you write it helps.
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