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  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    Friends and family members greet each other with a simple "Привет".for those who want to 'Copy'+'Paste' :- Привет, Эмили.- Привет, мам.Use "Здравствуйте" with people you barely know, with much older folks (unless they are your relatives) or with government officials.- Здравствуйте, мисс Наталия.- Здравствуй, Эмили.Remember, "Practice makes perfect".Your e-mails with questions and comments are welcome. My e-mail is: SPEAK
     
  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    How do you say 'Goodbye' in Russian? Our show#1 teaches you a couple of way to do that. As you listen, the images below will help you visually.- Пока, Эмили.- Пока, мам.- До свидания, Эмили.- До свидания, папа.Sorry for the quality of the show's audio. I am hoping that I'll have all my usual gear unharmed when I go back to New Orleans, La. on Monday.
     
  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    You'll be surprised how many words you would be able to recognise without studying any Russian. The words I am talking about are cognates - words borrowed from a foreign language that share a common pronunciation and meaning.The Russian version of an English word may look intimidating to you at first, but as you become familiar with the Russian characters you'll learn to recognise a cognate when you see it.1. теннис2. доллар3. баскетбол4. доктор5. Нью-Йорк6. К�
     
  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    Sounds like cognates are the single greatest friend to folks learning Russian. However, as with most good things there are pitfalls. And these pitfalls are called 'false cognates'. A 'false cognate' is a word that shares a similar pronunciation between two languages, but means one thing in one language and something else in the other. You'd sound pretty silly if a Russian asked you what you were doing ('Что вы делаете?') and you'd answer 'Я читаю магазин' (which means 'I
     
  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    Добрый день, дорогие друзья! (Hello, dear friends).Сегодня суббота, 8-ое октября. The show is still recorded at my temp 'studio' away from my home in New Orleans.In this podcast you will learn how to say the days of the week in Russian, as well as count from 1-10. You will also find out why you shouldn't get stressed over stress in Russian words. We will take a look at some simple sentence structures and word order within sentences as well....This m
     
  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    Let's say you want to fly out of JFK to Scheremetyevo airport in Moscow, then take the train to Vladivostok, stopping to drive through the countryside both by car and by horseback. Or maybe you enjoy boat cruises and would love to go down the Volga river! In trying to put all of this into words, you realize that you need to use some new expressions. Here are some examples:Exercise 7.11. Туристы летают в Мексико-Сити из Нью-Йорка _________________________ .Touri
     
  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    Привет, дорогие слушатели. (Hi, dear listeners). Сегодня суббота, 22 октября. (Today's Saturday, Oct. 22nd.)Let's check your homework from the previous lesson#7:Exercise 7.11. Туристы летают в Мексико-Сити из Нью-Йорка ___на самолете___ .Tourists travel from New York to Mexico City (by plane).2. Люди ездят на работу ___на автобусе___ в Атланте.People go to work in Atlanta (b
     
  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    Bought a new mic, new headphones, iMac G5 - all set up to produce 'killer shows', yet this show will be the last one before I can get settled in our house.This is show#10 and the last one as far as my introductory lessons go. After almost 7,000 visitors to my site and close to 3,000 subscribers (at one point) I decided to take a sabbatical to re-evaluate the show and make some changes. Renovating of the house damaged by hurricane Katrina is another reason for the break.I would like to thank all
     
  • Published: Jun 30, 08
    How do you feel about food? Я люблю поесть! (I love to eat!) most people will say. Whether you love it or hate it, we deal with food and talk about food every single day. That reminds me, I have to throw together PLOV (rice-based national dish of Uzbekistan) for tonight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plov) ....be right back.(Natalia making noise in her kitchen)First, let me give you a list of some popular food items in Russian:Хлеб - breadСоль - saltСахар - sugarЯйца
     
  • Published: May 22, 07
    Today we'll talk about nouns and genders. Keep in mind that we are going to look only at singular nouns in nominative case (more on the 6 noun cases later).As you know, a noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, event or idea. All Russian nouns are divided into 3 genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. It's important to know the gender of a noun, since it needs to agree with other parts of speech. Let me give you an example: красивая девушка (a pretty girl) is correct,
     
  • Published: May 22, 07
    Today you will learn to write Russian cursive "А". I will include more than one letter in my future lessons.Thanks to one of my listeners I was able to upload a "Russian Cursive Workbook" in the DOWNLOADS section on the right. The Cyrillic alphabet was adopted by the Slavs in about the 9th century. Although it is named after St. Cyril (Constantine), it was not invented by St. Cyril. It is based on the system of Greek capital letters. If you know the Greek alphabet, many of the letters will be
     
  • Published: May 16, 07
    (Please follow the video for this lesson. Just click on the title of the blog entry.)Добрый день, дорогие друзья! You are listening to and viewing 'A Spoonful of Russian' podcast, where we learn Russian 'one bite at a time'! I am your host, Natalia. Давайте начнём (Let us begin)! First, I want to take just a few seconds to thank all those who contributed to this show either by donating through PayPal, purchasing products with 'Spoonful of Russian' logo at my c
     
  • Published: May 16, 07
    Today I'll show you how to write Б,В,Г in cursive.(Please follow the video for this lesson. Just click on the title of the blog entry.)
     
  • Published: May 15, 07
    Добрый день, друзья! Как дела? Хорошо? Отлично. (Hello, friends! How are you? Doing well? Great!)It's December now, and I am a bit late with my coming back to the 'Spoonful of Russian'. I was hoping to get it started again in November, but....like they say in Russia: "Люди предполагают, а Бог располагает!" Which literally means "People make plans, but everything is in God's hands'. To quickly bring you up to date we are in our
     
  • Published: May 15, 07
    If you ask a Russian 'How are you?' (КАК ДЕЛА) you might hear more that just a simple "OK". But for starters we'll learn some simple replies. Here are the transcripts of the dialogs from our lesson.#1(- Как дела, Эмили?- Хорошо, спасибо. )#2(- Как дела, Эмили?- Хорошо, спасибо. А у вас?)("I am fine as well" - "Тоже хорошо" )#3(- Как дела, мам?- Так себе...)#4(- Как дела, мам? - Ничего хор