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fabriciocarraro
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 Message 217 of 464
03 April 2014 at 4:07pm | IP Logged 
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
And you seem to forget that although we would like to, we do not start writing Russian from a base of being fluent in spoken Russian like you are :-)


Cristina is right. It's quite the opposite, I would say. We, foreigners, usually learn how to read and write in Russian MUCH earlier than even trying to speak it.
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 Message 218 of 464
03 April 2014 at 4:37pm | IP Logged 
APRIL CHALLENGE

Thanks to everyone who completed the March challenge! This month's medals of honour go to:

YnEoS
milesaway
chokofingrz
Josquin
Solfrid Cristina

For the April challenge, I'd like to follow Cristina's suggestions. Please choose between the following two tasks:

1) Which Russian city would you like to go to and why? Give your explanation in Russian!
2) Describe your best friend in Russian!

Beginners should try to write at least five sentences. Advanced learners, however, should go into detail and write as much as they can.

Have fun with this month's challenge!
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 Message 219 of 464
03 April 2014 at 7:57pm | IP Logged 
I like both of those topics, can I write about both of them?
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 Message 220 of 464
03 April 2014 at 9:42pm | IP Logged 
fabriciocarraro wrote:
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
And you seem to forget that although we would like to, we do not start writing Russian from a base of being fluent in spoken Russian like you are :-)


Cristina is right. It's quite the opposite, I would say. We, foreigners, usually learn how to read and write in Russian MUCH earlier than even trying to speak it.

So what? Does it mean that we can call a spelling rule a rule which is not a spelling rule? And learners of Russian need good understanding of what is what in Russian. Understanding of how Russians feel their language, how it works. In Spanish there is a spelling rule: e is spelt before s+another consonant at the beginning of words. Do You agree with it? I don't. The correct explanation is: native Spanish speakers cannot pronounce a word which starts at st or sp, they add an "e" at the beginning, which is reflected in spelling.
Princeton Russian course says that the spelling rules about velars are fake. They simply reflect pronunciation.
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fabriciocarraro
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 Message 221 of 464
03 April 2014 at 11:22pm | IP Logged 
Марк wrote:
fabriciocarraro wrote:
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
And you seem to forget that although we would like to, we do not start writing Russian from a base of being fluent in spoken Russian like you are :-)


Cristina is right. It's quite the opposite, I would say. We, foreigners, usually learn how to read and write in Russian MUCH earlier than even trying to speak it.

So what? Does it mean that we can call a spelling rule a rule which is not a spelling rule? And learners of Russian need good understanding of what is what in Russian. Understanding of how Russians feel their language, how it works. In Spanish there is a spelling rule: e is spelt before s+another consonant at the beginning of words. Do You agree with it? I don't. The correct explanation is: native Spanish speakers cannot pronounce a word which starts at st or sp, they add an "e" at the beginning, which is reflected in spelling.
Princeton Russian course says that the spelling rules about velars are fake. They simply reflect pronunciation.


They can be fake and based on pronunciation, that's fine. But do they work? Will you write correctly if you learn them? If so, I can't see why it's a problem. They're just ways to help us learn faster, like learning a Math equation instead of having to do a derivative every time. I can say for myself that they worked.
Foreigners can't and 99,9% of the time won't learn a target language like natives did...
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 Message 222 of 464
03 April 2014 at 11:44pm | IP Logged 
fabriciocarraro wrote:

They can be fake and based on pronunciation, that's fine. But do they work? Will you write correctly if you learn them? If so, I can't see why it's a problem.

But does a learner understand well that ши and жи are pronounced like шы and жы, while ки, ги and хи are pronounced like ки, ги and хи.
And in general, does a learner understand how to pronounce everything?
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 Message 223 of 464
03 April 2014 at 11:44pm | IP Logged 
@milesaway: Sure, if you feel like doing both, you can do so!

@Марк: Nitpicking about the word "spelling rule" doesn't help anybody. In fact, this may be a grammatical rule or even a phonological one, but it won't help anybody learn Russian better if we change the name of it. In textbooks and grammars, all the rules concerning velars and sibilants are commonly comprised under the name "spelling rules". It's necessary for learners to know these rules in order to inflect and write Russian words properly. While native speakers can simply rely on what they hear, learners need some help. These rules work, so there's no use in fundamentally questioning them.

EDIT: If the learner reads a good introduction to pronunciation and listens carefully, s/he will learn how to pronounce Russian correctly, but you can't demand perfection right from the beginning.

Edited by Josquin on 03 April 2014 at 11:53pm

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 Message 224 of 464
04 April 2014 at 12:11am | IP Logged 
Josquin wrote:
@milesaway: Sure, if you feel like doing both, you can do so!

@Марк: Nitpicking about the word "spelling rule" doesn't help anybody. In fact, this may be a grammatical rule or even a phonological one, but it won't help anybody learn Russian better if we change the name of it. In textbooks and grammars, all the rules concerning velars and sibilants are commonly comprised under the name "spelling rules". It's necessary for learners to know these rules in order to inflect and write Russian words properly. While native speakers can simply rely on what they hear, learners need some help. These rules work, so there's no use in fundamentally questioning them.

EDIT: If the learner reads a good introduction to pronunciation and listens carefully, s/he will learn how to pronounce Russian correctly, but you can't demand perfection right from the beginning.

I don't demand anything. But don't you think that such "spelling rules" confuse learners? Before listening it's important to understand the pronunciation rules. A learner should know that туш and тушь are pronounced in the same way, while стал and сталь differ.


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