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Anatheme
Congratumulumulumulations!


Thank you!!! :eek3:
thatwhichiam
To make it more legible, Russians often put a line under sh and over t :smile: you have damn neat handwriting, mine's all over the place...


do they really? i'm russian and i have never seen that. the difference is where you start writing the letter - a sh begins at the bottom, at an m at the top. :smile:
anaxor13791
do they really? i'm russian and i have never seen that. the difference is where you start writing the letter - a sh begins at the bottom, at an m at the top. :smile:


Yup - I do it, and a couple of my Russian teachers here in Russia do it :smile:
Anatheme
Aww, I agree that it is hard, but you can do it! :teeth:

i'm still struggling with pronouncing the alphabet correctly :mad:
I haven't done a single bit of Russian in two weeks and am now struggling to form imperatives from verbs of motion :frown: I have to relearn all of the conjugations because I've forgotten all of them, darnit!
Anatheme
Fancy some verb of motions revision? I haven't done imperative yet, but I think it'd be cool to work verbs of motion for a bit :teeth:.


Verbs of motion are my major sticking point, I can just never work out when to use which one! And then there are the prefixes, nightmarrrreee.... And the conjugations. Bleh. Revisioning sounds good :smile:
Anatheme
Fancy some verb of motions revision? I haven't done imperative yet, but I think it'd be cool to work verbs of motion for a bit :teeth:.


Verbs of motion = death.

Having said that, I should do some as well...
thatwhichiam
Verbs of motion = death.

Having said that, I should do some as well...


I still haven't got the hang of the distinction between носить, водить and воздить either :frown:

Gosh, I hate them. It doesn't help that the department decided that it was a really good idea to teach us verbs of motion and aspects in the same week. I mean seriously, who the hell came up with that strategy? As if verbs of motion weren't confusing enough, they then chuck in aspects?! And that was a whole term and a half ago, and I still don't understand them, despite going over them again since!

Dear me :frown:
Anatheme
:console:

I haven't done prefixed verbs of motion either, you're doing so much at Cam :sad:. And basically, I only know идти/ехять, ходить/ездить, лететь/летать, бежат/бегать and плыть/плавать. Mmmh, I guess I wouldn't mind learning some more, though


We do a lot, but very quickly, so it's all jumbled up in my head and doesn't really go in properly... :frown: We basically whizzed through our textbook in the first term, consolidated in the second term and are doing more consolidation and literature this term. There's just so much to learn!
Anatheme
Mmmh, yeah I guess I shouldn't complain, it's going at a good pace in my course and at least I can follow it, I just wish I'd learn more sometimes.


If you stuck at Manc, you'd do prefixed ones next year. Be glad you aren't doing them yet - you need to really have verbs of motion properly settled in your mind before learning the prefixed ones... :s-smilie:
Zoedotdot
I still haven't got the hang of the distinction between носить, водить and воздить either :frown:

Gosh, I hate them. It doesn't help that the department decided that it was a really good idea to teach us verbs of motion and aspects in the same week. I mean seriously, who the hell came up with that strategy? As if verbs of motion weren't confusing enough, they then chuck in aspects?! And that was a whole term and a half ago, and I still don't understand them, despite going over them again since!

Dear me :frown:


Oh dear :s-smilie: aspects and verbs of motion at the same time is a bit rich but I can kiiiind of see why they did it... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502307575&ref=nf#/group.php?gid=9159394225&ref=ts <--- I find that a good list for revision :p:

Assuming you're a first year, are you coming to Russia for the first three weeks of your second year like some people I met earlier on this year?
thatwhichiam
Oh dear :s-smilie: aspects and verbs of motion at the same time is a bit rich but I can kiiiind of see why they did it... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502307575&ref=nf#/group.php?gid=9159394225&ref=ts <--- I find that a good list for revision :p:

Assuming you're a first year, are you coming to Russia for the first three weeks of your second year like some people I met earlier on this year?


It does make a bit of sense, but it's not great to have two of the hardest concepts in Russian in the same week :frown: Thanks for the list!

Yeah, I'm in the process of sorting out St Petersburg now! I'll be there for my 20th birthday with all my Cambridge Russiany friends, which will be awesome. It's a bit scary though, I'm sure my Russian will have deteriorated sharply over July and August so it'll be a bit of a kick up the backside. Are you year abroading then?
Zoedotdot
It does make a bit of sense, but it's not great to have two of the hardest concepts in Russian in the same week :frown: Thanks for the list!

Yeah, I'm in the process of sorting out St Petersburg now! I'll be there for my 20th birthday with all my Cambridge Russiany friends, which will be awesome. It's a bit scary though, I'm sure my Russian will have deteriorated sharply over July and August so it'll be a bit of a kick up the backside. Are you year abroading then?


Yep I most certainly am year abroading - I get to be in Vienna on my 21st birthday though :cool: Are you going to the Benedict School? I'm there now, it's really good and your Russian will improve. Are you planning to come here for your full year abroad in 3rd year, or do you have another language you'll be doing then?
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thatwhichiam
Yep I most certainly am year abroading - I get to be in Vienna on my 21st birthday though :cool: Are you going to the Benedict School? I'm there now, it's really good and your Russian will improve. Are you planning to come here for your full year abroad in 3rd year, or do you have another language you'll be doing then?


Yep, Benedict School it is. I still need to book my flight and get my insurance sorted out for my visa, there's so much to do! I have no idea what I want to do for my year abroad. I study Spanish as well, and at the moment my Spanish is obviously substantially better than my Russian (I've had 8 years of teaching as opposed to 16 weeks!) but we'll see how the exams go and how I feel later. I think Cambridge like it if we specialise in third year rather than trying to split it between two languages, so we'll seeeee. How long will you be in Russia for? A couple of my friends are coming back from Vienna today after two weeks of language schooling :smile:
Zoedotdot
Yep, Benedict School it is. I still need to book my flight and get my insurance sorted out for my visa, there's so much to do! I have no idea what I want to do for my year abroad. I study Spanish as well, and at the moment my Spanish is obviously substantially better than my Russian (I've had 8 years of teaching as opposed to 16 weeks!) but we'll see how the exams go and how I feel later. I think Cambridge like it if we specialise in third year rather than trying to split it between two languages, so we'll seeeee. How long will you be in Russia for? A couple of my friends are coming back from Vienna today after two weeks of language schooling :smile:


I've been told by a friend from school (doing Dutch and French at Cam) that you basically have to spend your third year in one country, they really don't like it if you do two. My German is still substantially better than my Russian :p: and probably always will be, oh well... I'm staying here until the very beginning of June, then back to England for a week then gallivanting off. What language school were they at? I'm going to one in summer but I haven't picked for deffo yet.
thatwhichiam
I've been told by a friend from school (doing Dutch and French at Cam) that you basically have to spend your third year in one country, they really don't like it if you do two. My German is still substantially better than my Russian :p: and probably always will be, oh well... I'm staying here until the very beginning of June, then back to England for a week then gallivanting off. What language school were they at? I'm going to one in summer but I haven't picked for deffo yet.


Yeah, that's what I've been told. It's minimum three months in any one country and minimum 8 months abroad in total, but we're meant to specialise in language papers in 4th year, so it does make quite a lot of sense to spend the vast majority of that in one country. Not the foggiest about the language school I'm afraid :smile:

Eep, still struggling with this verbs of motion. I'm trying to translate sentences like 'We were driving around town' and 'The children are running about in the garden' - what preposition do you need to use to communicate 'around'? Is using the right verb of motion enough? Because I know you use &#1087;&#1086; for 'along', but I can't for the life of me remember how to say 'around' :frown:
Zoedotdot
Yeah, that's what I've been told. It's minimum three months in any one country and minimum 8 months abroad in total, but we're meant to specialise in language papers in 4th year, so it does make quite a lot of sense to spend the vast majority of that in one country. Not the foggiest about the language school I'm afraid :smile:

Eep, still struggling with this verbs of motion. I'm trying to translate sentences like 'We were driving around town' and 'The children are running about in the garden' - what preposition do you need to use to communicate 'around'? Is using the right verb of motion enough? Because I know you use &#1087;&#1086; for 'along', but I can't for the life of me remember how to say 'around' :frown:


po would be the preposition - I think it takes the dative but I might be wrong - however I'd probably say v sadoo. Don't use the po as a prefix though :p:
Ah, v would probably work. Would it then be na for the town one? Thanks :smile: And po does take the dative. I appear to have forgotten all of my case endings, whoops...
Zoedotdot
Ah, v would probably work. Would it then be na for the town one? Thanks :smile: And po does take the dative. I appear to have forgotten all of my case endings, whoops...


Think it would be po for the town one rather than na, not entirely sure why...I think it just sounds right.

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