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Your explanations of the 'why' of certain grammatical structures are very helpful. So often, grammar books and teachers simply say 'This is the way it is'.
Thank you, Trevor! I think when you know the true reason for a grammatical rule/concept, it's easier to accept it, memorize it and start using it. Our brain is always looking for logic.
You have helped me in so many ways. I hopefully will be able to help others with my knowledge. I thank you for everything you've helped me learn. Edit яблоко, яблоки still gets me sometimes
Thanks for the video. Awesome explanation. You really deserve more views. You have done a great and a really complete video. I appreciate it so much. Greetings from Spain!
So it took me more than half a dozen sessions meaning pauses to get through this video; it is a lot to assimilate; without having a teacher present nor a book it will be near impossible to memorize all this with bad memory and all the cases feminine masculine neutral plural for all of those plus all of the exceptions it is mind-blowing. However you teach it very well and you are delightful to watch and listen to and you're very natural on camera talking to us like if we were present however I realized that you're just talking to an electronic device which is not easy to come across as natural but you do. Thank you for all your hard work. I just clicked your link and I see the video is paying it is unfortunately too much for me at this time since I had a lot of setbacks after being evicted post covid and going homeless twice I'm just really trying to settle down. Plus he would not be the video that I need the video that I need would be as I posted in the previous lesson all of these cases in Russian simple sentences to repeat 10 times each and move on to the next gender next pronoun next plural and there's at least seven or10 different lessons that could be made from this video alone separate lessons to assimilate all of the uses of this prepositional case. I am even unable to buy a book because of my situation, I need to get rid of as many things as I can instead of buying things, unfortunately, and I do not even have a library close to me where I could borrow books on Russian grammar. The next case is genitive and dative seem so daunting especially that I have no idea what the word genitive means and Native seems to pertain to the date however we've just seen the date here use with either prepositional case or accusative. It would take a lot of hours maybe 100 hours for me to even memorize this prepositional case I think I have the nominative downpat as well as the accusative which I learned them in school. At any rate you are very gifted teacher and I hope that a lot of Russian students will find your Channel and purchase your course maybe someday you can even write those books in Russian or make the audio course for the repetitions and if I am doing better I would gladly buy it from you so I could repeat along with you as I go through my day. It is a very beautiful language of which I only have a rudimentary knowledge. I think if I move on to learning Italian I should have that learned in just 3 months I could be pretty much fluent. The thing that is also daunting for me in Russian is when I try to translate an English word into Russian on Google translate it gives me one word, and when I switch from English to Russian to Russian to English it gives me a different synonym, and it seems every single noun (or is it adjective?) in Russian has like eight different words that mean the exact same thing. Another problem I find trying to learn Russian from Google Translate is that I put the conjugation in English and then it invariably switches at least one of the pronouns to a completely different verb for example the verb 'to try' 'pwee-ta-youtsa", for 'ani'., it gave me a completely different conjugated verb LOL and it also fights me when I try to get the conjugation for the colloquial you and the formal you the machine keeps fighting me LOL sorry my good computer was stolen when I moved and this one has the keyboard broken so I cannot access Russian typing here, but hopefully you'll know that I meant the third plural pronoun. however I am doing my best with my limitations but I only have a very rudimentary knowledge of Russian however I find myself the more and more I watch videos in the language I'm able to understand some sentences which is a progress for me. A Russian teacher that I found 2 years ago had suggestions to watch sitcoms in Russian but I forgot who that person was already and I don't know where to find my subscriptions on TH-cam everything keeps changing and disappears. Anyway will go back and make sure that I have th'd up every video of yours that I have watched and I wish you much success with this channel. I hope it brings you financial remuneration because you certainly deserve it. I was curious to know whether you are a teacher in Russia... maybe do you teach Russian to children or perhaps English? Your English is excellent by the way. if you wanted to make a video talking about yourself I know many of us will watch it; it is very interesting also I wonder what part of Russia you live whether on the eastern part where your president was giving free land to foreigners, or near Moscow? Thank you very much for all your good teachings and keep up the great work.
Hi Anastasia, thank you so much for your very useful and complete video about case. I just want to know if you are going to prepare a video about DATIVE CASE soon. Thank you again
Hi! Thank you for your comment! To answer your question, not too soon. First, I am planning to make a comprehensive video about the Genitive case. Then Dative. Within a few months. If you are really curious about Dative, you can book a lesson with me. Then you won't have to wait until I make a video :)
Nominative case is used with чем for comparisons, if that counts as a preposition. Пальто doesn't seem to decline either. Is that also a foreign word? When you started comparing accusative and prepositional case examples, I was thinking about играть. You showed how it uses prepositional for playing instruments, but it also seems to use accusative for playing games or sports. Not sure why. I get the sense that о is more like "of" whereas про is "about," which might help explain the different connotations in "thinking of you" vs. "thinking about you." Why does о become обо for "обо мне?" It's not like "о мне" would be hard to pronounce.
When used for comparisons, "чем" is a conjunction, not a preposition. As far as I know, "пальто" was borrowed from French ("paletot"), so yes, it is a foreign word. Well, I think you can apply the same ideas of location and direction to playing musical instruments vs. playing games. When you play a musical instrument, your hands are literally located on the surface of this instrument, and when you play a game, you kind of put your energy into the game, so this is the direction where your energy goes when you play it. You might say that we might think of a game as of a location as well (an abstract or process type of location, as, for example, "на работе"), but I think the verb "играть" is a very "active" verb. It's not a verb of motion, of course, but I can easily see how playing a game requires putting a lot of energy and thinking into it. Of course, there are simple games, but normally people choose the game that is interesting to play for them, and it can't be interesting if you don't have to think. One might also say that many games also might have objects that you touch with your hands, just like you do with a musical instrument, but it's not the key idea here. This is not what is most important. Probably with the exception of computer games. There are two options here: "играть на компьютере" and "играть в компьютерные игры". So, "играть на компьютере" is literally mentioning the place where you put your hands, but "играть в компьютерные игры" is about the process/direction where your attention/energy goes. Hmmm, I wouldn't use "of" as an explanation here because "of" is more of a Genitive Case situation in Russian. "of + noun" is translated with a noun in Genitive most of the time. I agree that it does work with the verb "to think", but with other verbs not so much. I am not sure about the last one, probably for some historical reasons. Maybe poets made it "обо мне" so that they could rhyme it with "о тебе" :) I don't know, I need to look it up :)
Oh one more thing that maybe will be a good suggestion for you: I believe TH-cam no longer requires 14 minutes minimum length to monetize a video, so people have gone back to making videos of 5 minutes or less. I am not talking about the annoying vertical videos ' shorts' that are annoying to watch, since we cannot alter the volume on a regular computer nor can we pause them or rewind. Maybe if you could make some of those horizontal videos but shorter, it would be less daunting to new students, because when somebody is searching for a new teacher for Russian and we see 42 minutes and then we see another person that has 5 minutes, most people will tend to click 5 minutes or less to get it over with. For me I know that I easily get video fatigue. I am not a passive person I am active, so for me to be completely inactive and listening to somebody, it takes a lot of energy out of me. only those of us who are dedicated will take the time to listen to long videos, as I have done with your past three, so maybe you could branch out and have not only these long and very instructive videos but also have some short ones that will bring more viewers to your Channel ? just a suggestion hopefully it helps you a little bit just as you have helped me with my Russian 🍎 and hopefully making 5 minutes or 6 minutes videos will make the algorithm display your videos so that more of us students will be able to find them and click on them . Thank you again and best wishes of prosperity to you
I'm a native Portuguese speaker, and I live in Brazil, and you use English as a basis to make your examples in Russian, which I disagree with in a way, because English is a very limited language, it's not like Russian and Portuguese that you can speak or form a sentence however you want, (changing the words in the sentence) but I really hope to learn from you on this Russian journey, your classes will help me a lot to learn Russian grammar (even though I hate studying grammar) because I saw that it is impossible to learn Russian without studying grammar I hope you see this constructive criticism, thanks!
Hi, thank you for your feedback! I agree. I do my lessons in English because most of my students are native English speakers. I do like Roman languages though (French, Spanish, Portuguese) and I agree that those languages are richer in many aspects than English. Thanks again for your comment and for watching my lessons. I'm glad they have been helpful for you.
I disagree with park. Parks like, playgrounds, national parks and the like has very clear borders or even fences. You aren't on a zoopark you are in it. You enter and exit. Basically every park in my town is enclosed in some way, either by hedges, fences, roads or a mixture of those. В зоопарке, на холме. (Oh you finally said it)
На даче. We say the same in Norwegian. On not in. Because to "Dra på hytta" includes much more then staying inside the building. If somebody said я иду в даче it just sounds like the weather is bad and they have to stay inside instead of например fishing.
And isn't еду на because of horses and wagons? Even boats. You are on them, not in them. (Or you can be in big boats and large wagons and horses 😂 but still)
When the preposition "в" comes before a noun that has two consonants at the beginning, we add the vowel "o" to it for the pronunciation purposes (to break the cluster of consonants). "Во Франции" is much easier to pronounce than "в Франции". Kind of like "an apple" in English.
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Excellent, so helpful to understand the situations for each case. Еще раз спасибо большое
Your explanations of the 'why' of certain grammatical structures are very helpful. So often, grammar books and teachers simply say 'This is the way it is'.
Thank you, Trevor! I think when you know the true reason for a grammatical rule/concept, it's easier to accept it, memorize it and start using it. Our brain is always looking for logic.
Такое полезное видео, спасибо вам от всей души ❤️
Спасибо! Я рада, что оно вам помогло ;)
Best performance, perfect explanation, smooth and informativeative
Thank you!
Thank you for this lesson 😊😊😊
Glad to help!
this is so excellent, in so many ways
Thank you! The video on the next case is coming soon!
Thank you for the lesson, hope you are well.
Thank you, Jeff, hope you are too!
Deeply appreciate this video. Thank you very much!!
Thank you, you are the best teacher ever. 😁
Oh, I'm so happy! 😊 Thank you!
Awesome. New video. You are the best!
Спасибо!
Invaluable information I have not seen explained well in course books or elsewhere. Thank you, hope you are well.
You have helped me in so many ways. I hopefully will be able to help others with my knowledge. I thank you for everything you've helped me learn. Edit яблоко, яблоки still gets me sometimes
Thank you, William! I'm glad to help! Haha, yeah, those Plurals with all those exceptions... :) I spent a week making a 2-hour-long video on them :))
Thanks for the video. Awesome explanation. You really deserve more views. You have done a great and a really complete video. I appreciate it so much. Greetings from Spain!
Thank you! I'm glad it helped!
она вернулась!
Ха-ха, да :))
Спасибо Анастасия за этот очень сложный подкаст ! Ты ответила на мой вопрос.☺️👍 Надо посмотреть каждую лекцию несколько раз, они очень сложные 🤯
становится намного проще, чем больше вы его используете
@Bo Я рада, что мне удалось ответить на ваш вопрос! Да, я согласна, что с первого раза усвоить столько информации очень трудно!
William, вы абсолютно правы!
So it took me more than half a dozen sessions meaning pauses to get through this video; it is a lot to assimilate; without having a teacher present nor a book it will be near impossible to memorize all this with bad memory and all the cases feminine masculine neutral plural for all of those plus all of the exceptions it is mind-blowing. However you teach it very well and you are delightful to watch and listen to and you're very natural on camera talking to us like if we were present however I realized that you're just talking to an electronic device which is not easy to come across as natural but you do.
Thank you for all your hard work. I just clicked your link and I see the video is paying it is unfortunately too much for me at this time since I had a lot of setbacks after being evicted post covid and going homeless twice I'm just really trying to settle down. Plus he would not be the video that I need the video that I need would be as I posted in the previous lesson all of these cases in Russian simple sentences to repeat 10 times each and move on to the next gender next pronoun next plural and there's at least seven or10 different lessons that could be made from this video alone separate lessons to assimilate all of the uses of this prepositional case.
I am even unable to buy a book because of my situation, I need to get rid of as many things as I can instead of buying things, unfortunately, and I do not even have a library close to me where I could borrow books on Russian grammar. The next case is genitive and dative seem so daunting especially that I have no idea what the word genitive means and Native seems to pertain to the date however we've just seen the date here use with either prepositional case or accusative. It would take a lot of hours maybe 100 hours for me to even memorize this prepositional case I think I have the nominative downpat as well as the accusative which I learned them in school.
At any rate you are very gifted teacher and I hope that a lot of Russian students will find your Channel and purchase your course maybe someday you can even write those books in Russian or make the audio course for the repetitions and if I am doing better I would gladly buy it from you so I could repeat along with you as I go through my day. It is a very beautiful language of which I only have a rudimentary knowledge. I think if I move on to learning Italian I should have that learned in just 3 months I could be pretty much fluent.
The thing that is also daunting for me in Russian is when I try to translate an English word into Russian on Google translate it gives me one word, and when I switch from English to Russian to Russian to English it gives me a different synonym, and it seems every single noun (or is it adjective?) in Russian has like eight different words that mean the exact same thing.
Another problem I find trying to learn Russian from Google Translate is that I put the conjugation in English and then it invariably switches at least one of the pronouns to a completely different verb for example the verb 'to try' 'pwee-ta-youtsa", for 'ani'., it gave me a completely different conjugated verb LOL and it also fights me when I try to get the conjugation for the colloquial you and the formal you the machine keeps fighting me LOL sorry my good computer was stolen when I moved and this one has the keyboard broken so I cannot access Russian typing here, but hopefully you'll know that I meant the third plural pronoun.
however I am doing my best with my limitations but I only have a very rudimentary knowledge of Russian however I find myself the more and more I watch videos in the language I'm able to understand some sentences which is a progress for me. A Russian teacher that I found 2 years ago had suggestions to watch sitcoms in Russian but I forgot who that person was already and I don't know where to find my subscriptions on TH-cam everything keeps changing and disappears.
Anyway will go back and make sure that I have th'd up every video of yours that I have watched and I wish you much success with this channel. I hope it brings you financial remuneration because you certainly deserve it. I was curious to know whether you are a teacher in Russia... maybe do you teach Russian to children or perhaps English? Your English is excellent by the way. if you wanted to make a video talking about yourself I know many of us will watch it; it is very interesting also I wonder what part of Russia you live whether on the eastern part where your president was giving free land to foreigners, or near Moscow?
Thank you very much for all your good teachings and keep up the great work.
Отпуск and командировка also have boundaries. At least they do when I block them off in my calendar 😁✌
Oh, that's a good explanation! Like time boundaries :)
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Hi Anastasia, thank you so much for your very useful and complete video about case. I just want to know if you are going to prepare a video about DATIVE CASE soon. Thank you again
Hi! Thank you for your comment! To answer your question, not too soon. First, I am planning to make a comprehensive video about the Genitive case. Then Dative. Within a few months. If you are really curious about Dative, you can book a lesson with me. Then you won't have to wait until I make a video :)
Thank you so much. I look forward to seeing the new video@@ARusPro
Nominative case is used with чем for comparisons, if that counts as a preposition.
Пальто doesn't seem to decline either. Is that also a foreign word?
When you started comparing accusative and prepositional case examples, I was thinking about играть. You showed how it uses prepositional for playing instruments, but it also seems to use accusative for playing games or sports. Not sure why.
I get the sense that о is more like "of" whereas про is "about," which might help explain the different connotations in "thinking of you" vs. "thinking about you."
Why does о become обо for "обо мне?" It's not like "о мне" would be hard to pronounce.
When used for comparisons, "чем" is a conjunction, not a preposition.
As far as I know, "пальто" was borrowed from French ("paletot"), so yes, it is a foreign word.
Well, I think you can apply the same ideas of location and direction to playing musical instruments vs. playing games. When you play a musical instrument, your hands are literally located on the surface of this instrument, and when you play a game, you kind of put your energy into the game, so this is the direction where your energy goes when you play it. You might say that we might think of a game as of a location as well (an abstract or process type of location, as, for example, "на работе"), but I think the verb "играть" is a very "active" verb. It's not a verb of motion, of course, but I can easily see how playing a game requires putting a lot of energy and thinking into it. Of course, there are simple games, but normally people choose the game that is interesting to play for them, and it can't be interesting if you don't have to think. One might also say that many games also might have objects that you touch with your hands, just like you do with a musical instrument, but it's not the key idea here. This is not what is most important. Probably with the exception of computer games. There are two options here: "играть на компьютере" and "играть в компьютерные игры". So, "играть на компьютере" is literally mentioning the place where you put your hands, but "играть в компьютерные игры" is about the process/direction where your attention/energy goes.
Hmmm, I wouldn't use "of" as an explanation here because "of" is more of a Genitive Case situation in Russian. "of + noun" is translated with a noun in Genitive most of the time. I agree that it does work with the verb "to think", but with other verbs not so much.
I am not sure about the last one, probably for some historical reasons. Maybe poets made it "обо мне" so that they could rhyme it with "о тебе" :) I don't know, I need to look it up :)
cnacu6o BAM!
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Oh one more thing that maybe will be a good suggestion for you: I believe TH-cam no longer requires 14 minutes minimum length to monetize a video, so people have gone back to making videos of 5 minutes or less. I am not talking about the annoying vertical videos ' shorts' that are annoying to watch, since we cannot alter the volume on a regular computer nor can we pause them or rewind.
Maybe if you could make some of those horizontal videos but shorter, it would be less daunting to new students, because when somebody is searching for a new teacher for Russian and we see 42 minutes and then we see another person that has 5 minutes, most people will tend to click 5 minutes or less to get it over with. For me I know that I easily get video fatigue. I am not a passive person I am active, so for me to be completely inactive and listening to somebody, it takes a lot of energy out of me. only those of us who are dedicated will take the time to listen to long videos, as I have done with your past three, so maybe you could branch out and have not only these long and very instructive videos but also have some short ones that will bring more viewers to your Channel ?
just a suggestion hopefully it helps you a little bit just as you have helped me with my Russian 🍎 and hopefully making 5 minutes or 6 minutes videos will make the algorithm display your videos so that more of us students will be able to find them and click on them . Thank you again and best wishes of prosperity to you
I'm a native Portuguese speaker, and I live in Brazil, and you use English as a basis to make your examples in Russian, which I disagree with in a way, because English is a very limited language, it's not like Russian and Portuguese that you can speak or form a sentence however you want, (changing the words in the sentence) but I really hope to learn from you on this Russian journey, your classes will help me a lot to learn Russian grammar (even though I hate studying grammar)
because I saw that it is impossible to learn Russian without studying grammar
I hope you see this constructive criticism, thanks!
Hi, thank you for your feedback! I agree. I do my lessons in English because most of my students are native English speakers. I do like Roman languages though (French, Spanish, Portuguese) and I agree that those languages are richer in many aspects than English. Thanks again for your comment and for watching my lessons. I'm glad they have been helpful for you.
I disagree with park. Parks like, playgrounds, national parks and the like has very clear borders or even fences.
You aren't on a zoopark you are in it. You enter and exit.
Basically every park in my town is enclosed in some way, either by hedges, fences, roads or a mixture of those.
В зоопарке, на холме.
(Oh you finally said it)
На даче. We say the same in Norwegian. On not in. Because to "Dra på hytta" includes much more then staying inside the building.
If somebody said я иду в даче it just sounds like the weather is bad and they have to stay inside instead of например fishing.
На заводе и в заводе.
To me it is two different things.
Я на заводе.
Я тоже, где ты?
В заводе.
Ахх, пойду. Открой дверь пожалуйста.
And isn't еду на because of horses and wagons? Even boats. You are on them, not in them. (Or you can be in big boats and large wagons and horses 😂 but still)
Мне нравится такие видео. длинные с большим количеством информации. 🙃
cute
How come it is "в" России but "во" франции?
When the preposition "в" comes before a noun that has two consonants at the beginning, we add the vowel "o" to it for the pronunciation purposes (to break the cluster of consonants). "Во Франции" is much easier to pronounce than "в Франции". Kind of like "an apple" in English.
@@ARusPro Ah yes, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you
@@ARusPro But it's not like "в футболке" is any easier to pronounce, just because футболке doesn't start with two consonants...
@@aaa303 When pronouncing "играть в футбол" or "в футболке", just prolong the "ф" sound, don't pronounce the "в". Like this: "фффффутболке"
@@ARusPro But you could say the same for all words. It would be just as easy to pronounce ФФФФФранции.