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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4638 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 273 of 646 25 December 2012 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Возможно ли не ссориться? Сегодня (запатное) Рождество. Я забыл, что русские празднуют Рождество 7-ого января, но почему не уже сейчас им желать хороших праздников?
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4850 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 274 of 646 25 December 2012 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
"Возможно ли не ссориться?" - это как-то чересчур. "Можно не ссориться?" Конечно, можно и сейчас пожелать. Вас тоже с Рождеством. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4638 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 275 of 646 27 December 2012 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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THURSDAY, 27 DECEMBER 2012
I have got back to studying. The Holidays were rather relaxed and laid back, but family and friends nevertheless took their toll. That's why I mainly focussed on repetition today. I repeated the Russian verbs of motion and the texts of lesson 14 and 15 in Colloquial Russian. Then I had a first look at lesson 16. It is difficult to retain all the vocabulary, because you seldom use more extravagant words. Even if I'm able to recognize them, I probably wouldn't be able to use them actively. Lesson 16 deals with the comparative of adjectives, so this will mainly be repetition for me as well. I still have to do the translations exercises of lesson 15, but they put me off a bit. Translating sentences like: "Peter the Great founded St Petersburg in 1703, because he needed an outlet to the Baltic Sea" is challenging and a bit discouraging at the same time. I also did some Scottish Gaelic, as I will be part of Clan Lugus in 2013. Gaelic is really fascinating, because it's so exotic and many things work quite differently from the other languages I already know. Gaelic is my "adventure" language for 2013: I don't know how far I'll get and I don't really have plans for using it actively, but I'd nevertheless like to get better in it. So, I repeated lessons 3 and 4 in Lehrbuch der schottisch-gälischen Sprache. I'll have to drill the rules for the definite article again, because I've already forgotten them again, but as in Russian, my main concern for today was to refresh my vocabulary. I had a short look at some texts in my Icelandic textbook, but I didn't really do anything serious. I wish I had more time, so I could study more intensively. Well, I don't know if it's going to get better during the next days, because I'll go by train to Hamburg tomorrow. There, I'll meet up with some friends and drive to Denmark where I'll spend New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, I haven't learned any Danish, but I've bought a Kauderwelsch language guide, so I'll at least know some tourist phrases. I don't know if I'll have Internet access in Denmark, so I'll already wish you a happy new year now! С Новым годом! Edited by Josquin on 27 December 2012 at 7:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4501 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 276 of 646 27 December 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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You might try some Swedish and see how much they get.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4638 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 277 of 646 27 December 2012 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I might try that, but I guess the main problem would be understanding their answers... Well, there's always English as last resort. ;)
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| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4398 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 278 of 646 27 December 2012 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hope this helps you and saves you some time! It'll help me solidify it in my own head!
The Definate Article Nouns are either M or F, and this effects what the article will be. Furthermore, all nouns belong to one of three categories (well, technically four). Beginning with a consonant (n.b. S) Beginning with a labials (sounds made with the lips) Beginning with a vowel Masculine Nouns If the noun begins with B,F,M,P the article is "am": am balach (the boy), am fear (the man), am peann (the pen), am ministear (the minister). This makes sense, as M is a labial sound also. Something this happens in English (and many others I'm sure), the word "input" is often pronounced "imput" as pointed out in Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks. All other masculine nouns beginning with a consonant take the article "an": an tidsear (the teacher), an sagart (the priest), an loch (the lake) If the noun begins with a vowel, the article is "an" but you add "t-" to the beginning of the noun: an t-uisge (the water), an t-im (the butter), an t-eilean (the island). Feminine Beginning with a vowel- the article is simply "an" an obair (the work) If a noun begins with s, sl, sr, sn the article is "an" PLUS "t-", BUT NOT before sg, sp, st, sm: an t-sùil (the eye) BUT an sgoil Feminine consonants beginning with "F", the article is "an" and the noun takes a "h" (lenition) an fhuil (the blood) If the noun begins with d,t or s, the article is "an", an deoch (the drink), an teanga (the tongue) If the noun begins with any other consonant not already mentioned, the article is "a'" and the noun takes a "h" To compare: Am balach (M) VS A' bhò (F) An t-uisge (M) VS An obair (F) An tidsear (M) VS An teanga (F) An sagart (M) VS An t-sùil (F) BUT An sgoil (F) Edited by liammcg on 27 December 2012 at 8:01pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5128 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 279 of 646 27 December 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good to see that someone on our team has a bit of structure :-) I am doing a little Greek and Russian every day, but structured is not quite how I would describe it.
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| riff Newbie United States Joined 5088 days ago 32 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 280 of 646 01 January 2013 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I look forward to your updates about Russian, Josquin. It should be a piece of cake after
Icelandic and Latin, right? I guess we'll see :). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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