Sunday, November 17, 2013

Bolts and Nuts... Is russian grammar difficult?

Well lets start by saying that every language has its own merits and de-merits.
Considering myself, I speak over four languages which makes me aware of the type of the syntax used.
So If you are an english speaker, as I already told you , have an open mind about the concepts that you come across. So all you have to do is follow the following steps.


  1. Revise the lessons as thorough as possible
  2. Don't be in a hurry
  3. Try to describe things that you see in the language that you are learning
  4. Always make a note on the irregularities
So let me come to the point..Is russian grammar really difficult?\
Well. not really!
All we have to do is learn step by step and have a little patience.


Introduction-Greetings

In russian , the greetings can be either formal or informal.

Formal greeting : are those which we use to greet people who we don't know, our boss or a colleague , shop keepers etc...

Hello                         - здравствуйте!            
How are you?           - как вы поживаете?
Bye!                         - пока!

Informal greetings:

Hi                             - привет!
how are you?            -как дела? / как поживаешь?
Goodbye                   - до свидания!

response to "How are you?"

I'm good, thanks        - хорошо , спасибо
Not bad                     -не плохо

доброе утро      - Good morning
добрый день    - Goodday / good afternoon
добрый вечер  - Good evening



Alphabets

here are the russian alphabets..

There are 33 letters in the russian language:

А - "А "                    as in "fAther"
Б - "B"                      as in "Brother"
В - "V"                      as in "Vase"
Г - "G"                      as in "Goat"
Д - "th"                     as in "THe" or "THeir"
Е  - "ye"                    as in "YEll"
Ё - "yo"                    as in "YOlka"
Ж - "zhe or s"           as in "pleSeaure"
З - "z"                       as in "Zoo"
И - "ee"                    as in "EEl"
Й - "y"                     as in "boY"
К - "K"                    as in "Kim"
Л - "L"                     as in "bLack"
М - "M"                   as in "Monday"
Н - "N"                    as in "Norway"
О - "O"                    as in "gOat"
П - "P"                     as in "Pot"
Р - "R"                     as in "Rat"      
С - "S"                     as in "Sleep"
Т - "T"                      as in "Top"
У - "oo"                    as in "gOOgle"
Ф - "f"                      as in "Fanny"
Х - "cha"                  as in "loCH" 
Ц - "ts"                     as in "caTS"
Ч - "ch"                    as in "CHimp"
Ш - "sh"                   as in "SHampoo"
Щ - "Shch"               as in "spaniSH SHerry"
Ъ - hard sign            "This employs a small pass within a word"            
Ы -"i"                       as in "Ill"
 Ь - soft sign             "softens the preceding consonant"
Э - "e"                      as in "Egg"
Ю - "yu"                   as in "YOU"
Я - "ya"                    as in "YAcht"

For pronounciatin, click the following video!


Why learn Russian?

The russian language belongs to the slavic group of languages and is spoken in Russia by 150 million people.
Moscow is the capital of russia and lies in the european russia.

here is a video on Moscow: