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be christ-like this christmas. gather a crowd and inspire them to anarchism. beat a politician with a whip. help out your local sex workers. preach equality.

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Langblr Word of the Day Challenge - July Edition

So… because langblr’s been a bit dead lately (and once again I’ve been awful at creating original content), I thought I’d bring this challenge back! You can read about the challenge here. It officially starts on the 1st of July, but of course you can start later (or earlier!) or do it a different month. The point is just to give you a little inspiration to work with :)

This month’s words are:

jewellery

question

farm

emergency

recipe

children

music

distance

ancient

date

health

proud

habit

human

pond

sense

wonder

street

material

crime

home

language

help

feeling

achievement

ink

electricity

space

nature

opposite

history

There’s also a list from February (in the original post) and April. Feel free to do one of those lists instead, or mix and match!

Remember to tag your posts with #langblrwotdchallenge :) Good luck!

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https://russky.info/en

another website with Russian lessons, worth checking out. It got the levels A0, A1 and A2.

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Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

#langblr

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L2 Vocabulary

To speak Говори́ть ga-va-rít'

Very

О́чень

ó-chen

But

Но

no

Thank you

Спаси́бо

spa-sí-ba

He

Он

on

She

Она́

a-ná

And

И

i

To speak Russian

Говори́ть по-ру́сски

ga-va-rít' pa-rús-ki

Well

Хорошо́

ha-ra-shó

#russian #l2 #lesson 2 #rff #russian vocabulary #langblr #language learning #language lessons #learning russian #beginner russian #vocab

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Lesson 1

The verb ‘to be’

Lesson 1 Vocabulary

#lesson 1

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быть: The verb ‘to be’

быть, pronounced byt is only used in past and future tense. That is to say, if you are saying ‘was’ or ‘will be’. When saying ‘is’ the word is not used and is sometimes replaced by a simple dash ( – ) in text. 

To give an example, when you introduce yourself, with “I am [name]” you use я (ya) which just means ‘I’ or ‘me’ and then your name. My name is Alma, so I would say “Я Алма” I am Alma. 

Sometimes in written text, the exclusion of this verb in the present tense is pointed out by using a dash –. For instance, a textbook may tell you that Peter is an actor, it could be written as “пётр - актёр” (Petr aktor) but “пётр актёр” means the same thing. There are rules to the dash, but they will be talked about another time. 

#lesson 1 #language learning #langblr #russian #learning russian #beginner russian #russian vocabulary #russian grammar #rff

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Beginner's phrases: L1 Vocab

Lesson 1 vocabulary, written like so:

English

Russian

Pronounciation

Hi (informal) Приве́т pri-vyét

Russian (masculine) Ру́сский rús-kij

Russian (feminine) Ру́сская rús-kaya

Yes Да da

No Нет nyet

I Я ya

You Ты ty

#langblr #language learning #language lessons #russian #learning russian #beginner russian #Vocab #russian vocabulary #lesson 1 #rff

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Syllabus (Rff)

 Basic concepts:

 Lesson 1: Your first words in Russian

 Lesson 2: The present tense singular 

 Lesson 3: Formal/informal "you" | Present plural 

 Lesson 4: Verb conjugations 

 Lesson 5: Review of lessons 1 to 4

 Intermediate level:

Lesson 6: The past tense 

 Lesson 7: Reflexive verbs 

 Lesson 8: Possessive pronouns | Adjectives 

 Lesson 9: Introduction to Russian cases 

Lesson 10: Review of lessons 6 to 9 Verbs 

Advanced level:

Lesson 11: Imperfective and perfective verbs 

 Lesson 12: The imperative 

 Lesson 13: The future tense

 Lesson 14: Verbs of motion

#syllabus #lessons #overview #rff

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Sources

I am a cheap-ass but I’m sure that I know enough about the wonderful ways of the internet that I can find some good, free, online courses. As of right now:

https://www.russianforfree.com/   (Goes into detail about grammar and includes audio clips. What I am basing my syllabus around, my main source)

http://www.russianlessons.net/ (More vocabulary heavy with short explanations. Includes seperate sections for grammar. For cross referencing with the first source and filling in any gaps)

https://app.languagedrops.com/ (for vocabulary and for memorization. I chose this one because it is available on mobile and pc, though it has a time limit per day)

https://www.duolingo.com/ (Ahhhh, the classic. Vocabulary repetition, quizes to check up with my abilities and for listening to sentences)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/language-learning-with-ne/bekopgepchoeepdmokgkpkfhegkeohbl  Language learning with Netflix and Youtube (Pretty self explanatory. It’s a chrome extention that lets you have subtitles in your target language and your 1st language. If you run your mouse over a word it will give you a dictionary definition. For the lazier days)

#Links #Sources

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Hi

Alright, so! Reasons for doing this? Keeping me responsible in my language learning by assuming strangers on the internet will peer pressure me. Also Tumblr does have a surprisingly strong Langblr community. But anyway, as it goes, I wanted to learn a language with a different alphabet and a history. I went for Japanese. Then whaddaya know! I find out that Russia! Has free university education! I have 2 years to learn the language to a point of proficiency, I will be using this as a way to take and share notes as well as document and keep all my resources in one place. And of course making it look nice :) 

#personal #introduction