Forming a sentence

Brief note on cases in Russian

Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Instrumental and Prepositional:

Like German and some other languages, Russian has something called cases, basically they’re changes that occur to nouns and their endings, to show what role they’re playing in a sentence. There are 6 cases in Russian: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, and prepositional.

Before going into details let’s review them very quickly:

Russian Cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Instrumental and Prepositional)

The nominative case answers the questions "who?/what?". The Russian Nominative is the basic form found in dictionaries for nouns.

The accusative case designates the object of an action. (I speak Russian)

The genitive case refers to things belonging to other people. Just like when you use (of) or (the possessive ‘s)

The dative case refers to things given or addressed to a person (object). (give it to me…)

The instrumental case is used to refer to an instrument that helps to make something.

The prepositional case is used after the prepositions “о” (about), “в” (in), “на” (at) to refer to a place

Understanding the cases---A very important topic of the russian language

SONGS

One of the ways to learn a language is by watching movies and listening to the music of that language yoou're learning.


A song from youtube:

Let us talk about ourself !

Let us learn how to introduce ourselves :

My name is harish  - меня зовут хариш 

Pronounced : "Minya zavoot ..."

Note: 

The "E" infront of the stressed "Я"  is pronounced as "yi"

The "O"infront of the stressed "Y" is pronounced as "A" as in "And"

Nice to meet you!  - очень рад(а)!

Well, there are two ways to say "Nice to meet you " in Russian.

<<очень рад>>> is said by men and

<<очень рада>> is said by women.

Or else you can simply say <<Очень приятно>> or <<Приятно познакомиться>>

In <<Приятно познакомиться>> "A" is stressed; therefore "O" is pronounced as "A" as in "And"

Here is a video:

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