The best Russian learning video ever for beginners like me, user-friendly layout and clear articulation. Thank you so much for your effort and ingenuity. BTW, Russian is highly inflectional and I'm struggling to come to grips with Russian grammar. I wonder if you could make videos in the future with all the declension and conjugation paradigms of 100 or 200 key Russian words read out loud. It would be a hell of a lot better to listen to the paradigms read by a native speaker than just repeating them myself.
Thank you! As for your suggestion, I get your idea in broad strokes. Such video (as I see it) do not match my view on how to learn Russian. I don't think that a word should be memorized with all the possible endings. But if you tell more about those paradigms that you are repeating by yourself and how you do it - I might reconsider.
These things are nice but not useful at all. For example learning that tooth is зуб does not teach me how to say я чищу зубы. It's useless information to beginners like me. I think it would be helpful if for every word an example sentence can be given, so we can learn how to USE each word. Words are easier to remember if it can be used.
Well, first you learn isolated words, then you learn to compose sentences. This video is intended to help to learn first words and to passively learn basic pronunciation patterns. If it is not useful for you, it means your level is higher than recommended for this video. The things you are talking about are learned in the Beginner's Russian Grammar textbooks. There you teach yourself to speak. P.S. I understand your idea about the example how to use a word. In English, it would be possible. In teaching Russian, we do not do that until you go through the beginner's Russian grammar. Because each word always changes it's ending depending on the form and the case. That is the critical difference between Russian and English, that's why many things that work in learning English can't be applied to learning Russian.
Denis Fedorov Hi Denis. Thank you for your response. As an example, I know that a house is дом and a roof is крыша, but how do I say "This house has a red roof." Is it Этот дом красную крышу? Yandex says: Мой домик имеет красную крышу. Google says: Мой дом имеет красную крышу. I think I know between 1000 and 2000 Russian words, but I'm too afraid to use them. I know some grammar too, but it does not help me very much.
"This house has a red roof." - У этого дома красная крыша. In Russian we do not use is, has, was, will.... So, your sentence in Russian will be "This house red roof". Instead of "has" we use cases. 'Roof' is in the nominative case here, it is the main part of the sentence, so this noun will be exactly as in the dictionary. 'Red' describes the roof, so it also has nominative case and feminine gender (adjectives take the characteristics of the nouns they describe). 'House' here is telling us where the roof is located. According to beginner's rules, it belongs to prepositional case, because prep. case is responsible for location. But as a native speaker, I prefer to use genitive case here - it sounds better (but prepositional is also ok). So, we take ДОМ (house) and to get a genitive case we add А to ДОМ and get ДОМА. That's the general mechanism. Of course, nobody does that in mind because you just need to understand the theory and then to have a practice. And you will do it automatically. This theory is explained in the beginner's Russian grammar textbooks.
But there is nothing wrong with reinforcing words you already learned for muscle memory, that is why I printed them out again for reinforcment, that is what Uncle Pasha always said, Reinforce, Reinforce !
The best Russian learning video ever for beginners like me, user-friendly layout and clear articulation. Thank you so much for your effort and ingenuity. BTW, Russian is highly inflectional and I'm struggling to come to grips with Russian grammar. I wonder if you could make videos in the future with all the declension and conjugation paradigms of 100 or 200 key Russian words read out loud. It would be a hell of a lot better to listen to the paradigms read by a native speaker than just repeating them myself.
Thank you!
As for your suggestion, I get your idea in broad strokes. Such video (as I see it) do not match my view on how to learn Russian. I don't think that a word should be memorized with all the possible endings. But if you tell more about those paradigms that you are repeating by yourself and how you do it - I might reconsider.
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These things are nice but not useful at all. For example learning that tooth is зуб does not teach me how to say я чищу зубы. It's useless information to beginners like me. I think it would be helpful if for every word an example sentence can be given, so we can learn how to USE each word. Words are easier to remember if it can be used.
Well, first you learn isolated words, then you learn to compose sentences. This video is intended to help to learn first words and to passively learn basic pronunciation patterns. If it is not useful for you, it means your level is higher than recommended for this video.
The things you are talking about are learned in the Beginner's Russian Grammar textbooks. There you teach yourself to speak.
P.S. I understand your idea about the example how to use a word. In English, it would be possible. In teaching Russian, we do not do that until you go through the beginner's Russian grammar. Because each word always changes it's ending depending on the form and the case. That is the critical difference between Russian and English, that's why many things that work in learning English can't be applied to learning Russian.
Denis Fedorov Hi Denis. Thank you for your response. As an example, I know that a house is дом and a roof is крыша, but how do I say "This house has a red roof." Is it Этот дом красную крышу? Yandex says: Мой домик имеет красную крышу. Google says: Мой дом имеет красную крышу. I think I know between 1000 and 2000 Russian words, but I'm too afraid to use them. I know some grammar too, but it does not help me very much.
"This house has a red roof." - У этого дома красная крыша.
In Russian we do not use is, has, was, will.... So, your sentence in Russian will be "This house red roof". Instead of "has" we use cases.
'Roof' is in the nominative case here, it is the main part of the sentence, so this noun will be exactly as in the dictionary.
'Red' describes the roof, so it also has nominative case and feminine gender (adjectives take the characteristics of the nouns they describe).
'House' here is telling us where the roof is located. According to beginner's rules, it belongs to prepositional case, because prep. case is responsible for location. But as a native speaker, I prefer to use genitive case here - it sounds better (but prepositional is also ok). So, we take ДОМ (house) and to get a genitive
case we add А to ДОМ and get ДОМА.
That's the general mechanism. Of course, nobody does that in mind because you just need to understand the theory and then to have a practice. And you will do it automatically. This theory is explained in the beginner's Russian grammar textbooks.
I was going to say the same thing, that it means her level is higher and she should be proud of her self
But there is nothing wrong with reinforcing words you already learned for muscle memory, that is why I printed them out again for reinforcment, that is what Uncle Pasha always said, Reinforce, Reinforce !