Russian Study Group

An area with study groups for various languages. Group members help each other, share resources and experience. Study groups are permanent but the members rotate and change.
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby Bluepaint » Tue Sep 26, 2017 5:20 pm

Just stopping by. Definitely not committing to learning Russian. Probably. Maybe.

Who here has actually been to Russia or lives there? I'm primarily interested in Moscow at the moment but I'm open to all stories and advice. Feel free to PM me :)

To actual group participants, so sorry for interrupting!
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby IronMike » Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:19 am

Rhian wrote:...not committing to learning Russian. Probably. Maybe.

That is such a Russian response. I can't tell you how many times I've heard Russians say "Да, нет." ;)
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby Vedun » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:24 pm

IronMike wrote:
Rhian wrote:...not committing to learning Russian. Probably. Maybe.

That is such a Russian response. I can't tell you how many times I've heard Russians say "Да, нет." ;)

Reminds me of Bulgarian „Да, ама не!“.
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby aaleks » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:41 pm

Btw there is also such a thing as "Да нет, наверное" :mrgreen:
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby Tommyknocker » Thu Sep 28, 2017 1:55 am

MamaPata Hello. It seems I'm not good enough for answering to any personal message here. I'm a man 36 y.o. I live in wild Siberia city of Krasnoyarsk. Working, married. I think it could be easier to use Skype for start conversation. My nickname on Skype is swequester. If you have another option/options for talking, you can offer them. I'm using many messengers.
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby Ogrim » Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:55 am

Tommyknocker wrote:MamaPata Hello. It seems I'm not good enough for answering to any personal message here. I'm a man 36 y.o. I live in wild Siberia city of Krasnoyarsk. Working, married. I think it could be easier to use Skype for start conversation. My nickname on Skype is swequester. If you have another option/options for talking, you can offer them. I'm using many messengers.


Hi Tommyknocker, I think you need to have posted at least three messages on the forum to be able to send private messages. It is a spam protection issue as far as I remember.
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby neofight78 » Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:06 am

Rhian wrote:Just stopping by. Definitely not committing to learning Russian. Probably. Maybe.


I’ll take that as a firm commitment :P

Rhian wrote:Who here has actually been to Russia or lives there? I'm primarily interested in Moscow at the moment but I'm open to all stories and advice. Feel free to PM me :)


I’m living in Novosibirsk. Plenty of people come here and love it. I’m sure Mosocow is great, but I think other cities give a more authentic experience. (Just as London is totally unlike the rest of the UK).
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby Bluepaint » Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:57 pm

neofight78 wrote:
Rhian wrote:Just stopping by. Definitely not committing to learning Russian. Probably. Maybe.


I’ll take that as a firm commitment :P

Rhian wrote:Who here has actually been to Russia or lives there? I'm primarily interested in Moscow at the moment but I'm open to all stories and advice. Feel free to PM me :)


I’m living in Novosibirsk. Plenty of people come here and love it. I’m sure Mosocow is great, but I think other cities give a more authentic experience. (Just as London is totally unlike the rest of the UK).


How long have you been living in Novosibirsk?
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby neofight78 » Fri Sep 29, 2017 1:36 am

Just over a year now.
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby Eafonte » Fri Sep 29, 2017 12:58 pm

This is my very first post in this wonderful forum, after having lurked it for so long.

I've been studying russian on and off for many years. In the beginning the russian vocabulary seemed very opaque to me, so I (perhaps wrongly) channeled my efforts in studying the words in frequency order and wordbuilding, roots, sufixes, prefixes (I´ve written down an alphabetical root list with more than 2,500 roots).

This paid off in a way that now I find reading News and wikipedia articles in russian, for instance, fairly easy, but my listening comprehension remains weak. For me the most challenging feature of russian is the mobile stress. Now, when I look up a russian word in a dictionary, I'm usually searching for its ударение, not for its meaning.

That being said, I need also some help in grammar points.

Yesterday I was doing some grammar exercises in numerals and I stumbled upon this question about prepositional case usage:

а) в пяти с половиной метра
б) в пяти с половиной метрах

I´m wondering which is the correct one...and why.
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