hehe... thanks
coolie *sends kiss back*
Ok. I'm back, guys. I really don't have a clue of how to teach anyone. I'm not a teacher I told ya. But I'm trying to do my best... I swear...
Let's organize our work a bit. I need to know the number of ppl who wants to participate actively. I mean anyone is welcomed to read this thread and ask the questions I'll try my best to answer. But those, who wants really to learn something, need to try a bit more, right? I can not only give U the examples of russian words and phrases, but also check the way U are dealing with them... correcting mistakes of the each 'student'
personally. It's U to decide. I'm not going to force anyone. But a bit of interactive can be fun, don't ya think?
So, just give me the list of so-called 'active' participants, who I could always have in mind. If there are any of course
Ok. I know, the first lesson was kinda... hard
So, I won't load ur brain much this time.
I'll just add one more thing about reading russian: the combination of letters 'чт' is usually read as 'шт' (sht). Don't ask me why, I'll tell you a bit later. There are still some difficult things left. So it will be the topic of another lesson.
Now some more phrases. U can use them in the beginnig or end of the talk. Heh... sure U are supposed to be able to read in russian urself already
but, guess, it's still too early for that. So I added transliteration
this time.
Anyway, if U want to have some practice, try to read this urself. I marked sounds under the stress with the bold font. Using Lesson one, U shouldn't have any problems with everything, except 'до завтра' and 'до встречи'. I pronaunced words quite fast on the file, as U have transliteration in front of ur eyes and shouldn't have problems. If u still feel I need to pronaunce any word in particular slowly, tell me and I'll do, k?
Прив
ет! Как дел
а? - Hi! How are U? (informal) [pr'iv'
et! Kak d'il
a?]
Possible answers ('да' means nothing in this case. U can miss it. It just means that a person can't give the exact answer and still has some doubts wich word to choose. In english it's something like '
well, not so good' for example. 'вроде' can also be missed. it's something like 'more likely' or 'at least I think so') :
[Да] норм
ально [вр
оде]. Непл
охо. Хорош
о [вр
оде]. - Normal (I'm ok). Not bad. Good. [da narm
al'na vr
od'i. N'ipl
oha. Harash
o.]
Отл
ично! Всё с
упер! Кл
ёво. - Exellent! Everything is super! Cool! (also informal, as U see) [Atl'
ichna! Vs'o s
up'ir! Kl'
ova.]
Пл
охо. [Да] не
очень. Всё пл
охо. - Bad. Not very (good). Everything is bad. [Pl
oha. Da ni
ochen'. Vs'o pl
oha]
Парш
иво. Отст
ойно. Very bad (comes from 'nasty, rotten, lousy'). Very bad (comes from 'the result of settlement'. the sediment on the bootom of pure water for example. quite a popular word among MTV-kids) (both words are colloquial) [Parsh
iva. Atst
oyna]
Быв
ает и х
уже... но р
еже. - Sometimes it's worse... but rarely (in a bitter-joking way) [Biv
ayet i h
uzhi, no r
ezhi]
Пок
а не родил
а. Когд
а рож
у, тогд
а скаж
у - Haven't born still... I'll tell ya when I will (Don't know... may be it's just a Moscow-thing but it's quite popular. Sure U better wouldn't say this to ur business-partner but to a friend it's ok. Some kind of teasing put in rythm. Oh, yeah, and boys use it as often as girls. It just looks even funnier
) [Pak
a ni rad'il
a. Kagd
a razh
u, tagd
a skazh
u]
Ты как? А у теб
я? - U? And U? [Ti kak? A U t'ib'
a?]
Пок
а! Ув
идимся. До з
автра. До встр
ечи. Цел
ую. - Bye! See U! See U 2morrow. See U ('till next meeting' word by word). Kiss (like 'I'm kissing ya good-bye') [Pak
a! Uv'
id'ims'a. Da z
aftra. Da fstr'
echi. Tsil
uyu.]
http://www.geocities.com/nrg2002ru/lesson2.mp3