+Alex Pigeon I'm afraid I didn't start until I was about 16. After 3 1/2 years of college courses & a semester in Russia, I knew a lot but didn't feel confident. After an MA in Russian at Middlebury College that included a year at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, I felt more comfortable. I returned to Russia to work for another year, and at that point was comfortable in work situations, making presentations etc., without much stress. This slide set by Prof. Benjamin Rifkin has interesting information about time required to learn Russian, especially slides 21 - 23. www.middlebury.edu/system/files/media/Rifkin_On_Language_0.pdf
Is this example correct? Вчера она мне позвонила,чтобы сказать мне,что она в россию приехала Yesterday,she called me to tell me she had arrived to russia
STOPandsaid Correct. (But don't forget the space after the commas; also, names of countries are capitalized, though not nationalities: Они русские. Они живут в России.)
STOPandsaid They used to come (repeated actions): imperfective приезжали is correct, though it's best not to think of it as multidirectional, since you have the directional prefix при-; it's just an imperfective. Also, don't forget to capitalize the names of cities, and to use genitive after из (из Москвы). :)
Кирилл Скопинцев Yes, приехали is correct if you're referring to a specific trip. If context makes clear that you mean multiple trips - perhaps with всегда, часто, иногда, etc. - then an imperfective приезжали is used, for example: В Иркутск они со Светланой Ивановной обычно приезжали весной (в апреле-мае), а в Москву уезжали где-то в конце октября.. 'He and Svetlana Ivanovna usually arrived in Irkutsk in the spring (in April or May), and left for Moscow around the end of October.'
Russian grammar there is the semantic accent in Russian) usual this is on the last word of a sentence. if it's not important when the action takes place, you shouldn't put летом, весной, в октябре etc. before a verb. not Они приехали из Москвы летом but Они летом приехали из Москвы.
Im learning on my own in Ukraine now. It's frustrating as people want to TALK, not teach. If the person even speaks a few words of English, they want to switch to English, and 99% of Ukrainians speak almost zero English. So Im talking in my bad Russian and they are talking in their SUPER bad English lol! . Or they treat me as a native speaker and rapid fire slang at me, and we both end up staring at eachother in silence.......
Thank you very much for these videos. They've really clarified Verbs of Motion for me and have made them so much simpler to understand.
The manner of thinking here brings me back to my first years of law school... very challenging, and as much satisfying to master.
Such a good English! Such a good Russian!
At 2.40 the stress must be on e приехать. In general very good information about russian language!!
I guess at 4:40 as well…
Спасибо большое!
Thank you! Very clear explanation.
I love these videos. So helpful.
How long did it take you to become fully fluent in Russian? (or did you learn it alongside english as a child?)
+Alex Pigeon I'm afraid I didn't start until I was about 16. After 3 1/2 years of college courses & a semester in Russia, I knew a lot but didn't feel confident. After an MA in Russian at Middlebury College that included a year at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, I felt more comfortable. I returned to Russia to work for another year, and at that point was comfortable in work situations, making presentations etc., without much stress. This slide set by Prof. Benjamin Rifkin has interesting information about time required to learn Russian, especially slides 21 - 23. www.middlebury.edu/system/files/media/Rifkin_On_Language_0.pdf
Russian grammar Unfortunately that site is asking me for a login to view the pdf... :(
helpful. thanks
Is this example correct?
Вчера она мне позвонила,чтобы сказать мне,что она в россию приехала
Yesterday,she called me to tell me she had arrived to russia
STOPandsaid Correct. (But don't forget the space after the commas; also, names of countries are capitalized, though not nationalities: Они русские. Они живут в России.)
STOPandsaid Вчера она позвонила мне, чтобы сказать, что она приехала в Россию. It's more correct. P. S. I'm Russian =)))))
How about this one:
Они приезжали из москва летом↩
Multidirectional
They came from moscow on summer or they used to come from moscow on summer
STOPandsaid They used to come (repeated actions): imperfective приезжали is correct, though it's best not to think of it as multidirectional, since you have the directional prefix при-; it's just an imperfective. Also, don't forget to capitalize the names of cities, and to use genitive after из (из Москвы). :)
STOPandsaid Они летом приЕХАЛИ из Москвы.
Кирилл Скопинцев Yes, приехали is correct if you're referring to a specific trip. If context makes clear that you mean multiple trips - perhaps with всегда, часто, иногда, etc. - then an imperfective приезжали is used, for example: В Иркутск они со Светланой Ивановной обычно приезжали весной (в апреле-мае), а в Москву уезжали где-то в конце октября.. 'He and Svetlana Ivanovna usually arrived in Irkutsk in the spring (in April or May), and left for Moscow around the end of October.'
Russian grammar there is the semantic accent in Russian) usual this is on the last word of a sentence. if it's not important when the action takes place, you shouldn't put летом, весной, в октябре etc. before a verb. not Они приехали из Москвы летом but Они летом приехали из Москвы.
Im learning on my own in Ukraine now. It's frustrating as people want to TALK, not teach. If the person even speaks a few words of English, they want to switch to English, and 99% of Ukrainians speak almost zero English. So Im talking in my bad Russian and they are talking in their SUPER bad English lol!
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Or they treat me as a native speaker and rapid fire slang at me, and we both end up staring at eachother in silence.......