Elementary Russian: Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете... Умей тусить! | Unit 3 Week 3

Уметь means "be able to." It's weird to see it in the imperative, but the pigeon knows!

The verb тусить (you could use the verb тусоваться, they mean the same thing) means... like, "have a party, get down."

So, the pigeon is admonishing you: Learn to party like us! The verb тусить is pretty interesting. Like a lot of "old slang" it comes from French, the verb tasser (which sounds like тусэ to a Russian speaker), what you do to tobacco in your pipe, tamp it down... In a sense, then, the verb тусить means "tap your pipe! fill your bowl!"

I can see a situation where a bunch of people are hanging out, smoking, and someone says in French "Chill out, tamp you pipe, cool your heels, chill!" and that French word gets "Russified" and you get the verb тусить.... party on!

Check out yesterday's Muzyka Monday... and tap your pipe! 

На сегодня...

First, take the grammar quiz...

Now, print out your handout or just grab it at the lab. Make sure to download the handout before printing it out or typing in it. Otherwise, not all assignments are visible.

Окей, теперь.... do two brief listening exercises on your хендаут:

* The link for 3-32 Реклама is here.
* И вот линк на 3-33

When you're finished, do the short exercise (it targets the prepositional case) on the handout... В чём они? Make sure you pay attention carefully to the change in endings! Катя в жёлтОЙ рубашкЕ. If you're having trouble with these endings, check out the PPP on the prepositional case here.
Practice practice practice... In Russian: Повторение мать учения, "Practice is the moth of learning." The "learning outcome" of this chapter is pretty straightforward and necessary. There are verbs in Russian. You use a lot of verbs, almost every sentence! You better know how to use verbs. How do you use verbs? Fill in the third page of your handout with any old verbs (total of 6 verbs):

Я изучаю, ты изучаешь, он изучает, мы изучаем, вы изучаете, они изучают! она изучала (past tense) изучать (infinitive).

Dr. Denner wrote a guide to conjugating verbs in Russian... It has lots of shortcuts and rules of thumb! 

Второй год русского языка Second Year Russian, Лингафонный кабинет... Ням ням! | Unit 3 Week 3

Мало работы на сегодня, ребята, УРА! Во-первых...

 Вот наш хэндаут. Make sure you download it before printing. Or just grab a printed copy at the lab.

Напишите тест по грамматике! Grammar quiz time...

Теперь «Разговоры для слушания» Let's have a little listen... The two short conversations are just 1 min long. Listen to each one a couple of times and answer all the questions in your handouts. It should take you no more than 20 min...

Разговор 1
Разговор 2

Now, negative commands! Make the sentences into direct informal (ты) commands. See the grammar hint in your handouts. Check your work with tutors... 

На сегодня всё! Ничего себе! УРА!

Elementary Russian | Сегодня в лингaфонном кабинете... | Unit 3 Week 2... Какие языки вы знаете? (Урок второй, неделя 2)

In this unit, we're using a few important PowerPoints that explain the formation and use of the prepositional case, and another couple that describe Jakobson's "single stem system" of verb conjugations. Here they are. (We'll work through some of these this week... This is just a "for your convenience" link....... )

Что сегодня наготове...

What's in store today...

First ten minutes:

Spend 10 minutes practicing the words and phrases. Here's the Memrise link to the vocab quiz material to review. 

Next ten minutes:

TAKE THE QUIZ!

Please print it out or get today's handout.   

1) Listen and read along as the диктор reads numbers 1-50. Here is the recording.

Next ten minutes:

Now do this exercise, jotting down the prices in the handout. I only want you to do the first 10. Don't listen more than three times. Here are the questions (they're also on the handout).

Next twenty minutes:

When you're done with the числительные (numbers), consider the verb говори́ть, to speak. It is very similar to verbs like читать, знать, жить that we've already studied, the sole difference being the vowel  in the ending. 

Important rule! There are only two conjugational patterns in Russian, 1st (mostly verbs ending in -ать) and 2nd conjugation (mostly verbs ending in -ить). 

Сравните! 

	читáть (1st conjugation)	говорить (2nd)
я	читáю	говорю́
ты	читáешь	говори́шь
он	читáет	говори́т
мы	читáем	говори́м
вы	читáете	говори́те
они	читáют	говоря́т

In говорить and other verbs ending in -ить, the ending vowel is -и- where there's a -е- in verbs like читать that end in -ать. (Complicating things (or not!), the и and the е are pronounced the same /и/ in these verbs because they are NOT under accent.) The most important distinction: The они form is -ят instead of -ют.

Listen to the two verbs. What's important to take away: There are only two conjugational patterns in Russian, 1st and 2nd conjugation. And these two patterns have very similar endings, they differentiate ONLY IN THE VOWELS. THE VOWELS!

RULE: Comparing first and second conjugational patterns, we can note: Vowels change, consonants stay the same. In almost every respect, all verbs in Russian conjugate similarly. 

Last ten minutes:

Finally: Look through this PowerPoint on the prepositional case. We've already encountered it: Я живу во Флориде. Иван живёт в Москве. Now, we'll learn how to change modifiers so they reflect the function and gender of the nouns. "He lives in a BIG CITY." "She studies in a SMALL UNIVERSITY." 

Read through the presentation a couple of times, and work with the tutors on the relevant grammar exercises (on the handout) at the tables or at home.  If you need help, reach out to one of the tutors or to an instructor: Send an image of your work (screenshot or your phone) and we can help you! 

Второй год... Глава 3... Неделя 2. (SECOND YEAR, Unit 3 Week 2)

ОК, ребята... за работу! To work, to work! The poster says: "To work so well, that comrade Stalin says thank you" hm.... 

1) Review our new vocab for 10 min! Here is the link

2) Take the quiz! = Напишите квиз!

3) Возьмите хендаут ВОТ ХЭНДАУТ.... и... Take it from the tutor or make sure you download this handout on your device before printing. Do not print it online, it will not display all the assignments properly. Давайте послушаем... A conversation with a taxi driver! Listen! And, if it proves difficult, work with tutors... fun! You'll find the questions on your lab handout (p.2) Вот линк на запись... Link to the recording. 

3) Садитесь за стол! Поработаем вместе! Let's work a bit on verbs of motion... Take a look at the flowchart on your handout (p.1) that you all know well... All we're adding today is the FUTURE and PAST perfective forms for these verbs, пойти-поехать (that's по- added more or less directly to the words unidirectional verbs ехать и идти--the conjugations are the same... пое́ду, пойду | пое́дешь, пойдёшь...). 

4) The grammar quiz NEXT WEDNESDAY: Practice Imperative HERE.

5) Sign up for the oral exam (the link is on Canvas)

И вот песня, которую вам надо выучить наизусть (=Here is the song you need to memorize!)...  Practice verses during the lab with your partner.

А вот еще запись песни с артистами, которые её озвучивали (=and here is a recording of the actors who sang it):

6) Check out this chart on VOM. It will help your understanding. Let's talk about it! Draw something similar to this in your portfolio grammar part. As long as it makes sense to you (boom, a part of your portfolio is done today after the lab, nice, isn't it?)

Elementary Russian: Урок 3 Неделя 1 Unit 3 Week 1 Какие языки вы знаете?

Привет! Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете...

Material for Unit 3 vocabulary quiz for next week is here (Memrise). It's all there! Please spend at least 10 minutes working with this list.  

А теперь... расписание лабораторной работы на сегодня! Что будем делать? And now...

1. Grab этот хэндаут from the lab table or print it out. 
2. За компьютером... Listen to two разговоры (=conversations) and answer questions that you find on the first page of the handout... Listen to each разговор three times! No more, no fewer! Jot down the answers on the хэндаут that you printed in #1. Разговор 2. Разговор 3 (15 minutes)
3. Прослушайте Диалог 4. (Listen to Dialog 4.) The dialogue is on the handout, too! Now, draw lines from the English phrases below the dialogue (#4, 5, 7, 8, 9) to the corresponding Russian in the dialogue. Where in the dialogue, for instance, do you learn how to praise someone's language ability? \(°Ω°)/ These phrases will be part of your vocabulary quiz. 
4.  READ DIALOG 4 ALOUD with a tutor or a partner or by yourself! 
5. OK, now: Read through the explanations of grammar part of the page 3 of хэндаут. We learned some я-forms of the verb already (я живу, я учусь) now it't time to learn the all the present tense forms (я, ты, он, мы, вы, они). Try to conjugate the verb изучать, then write out the answers to Oral Drills 1, 2, and 3. 

Второй год Language lab: Unit 3, Week 1 Second Year

Здравствуйте, дорогие студенты!

 

Окей! За работу! Сначала... распечатайте или загрузите этот хэндаут.

Давайте послушаем! Read along, translate, and fill in answers to the following two dialogues. Do it with tutors or on your own:
1. Можно пройти пешком?
2. Как туда попасть?

Ответьте (=answer!) на вопросы (на хендауте)... И найдите (=find!) фразы-переводы в 3-7 (диалоги). Answer the questions to the dialogues on the handout. Then find the phrases in the dialogues that match the ones in 3-7 Подготовка к разговору (see your handout). These phrases will be on your vocab quiz next Wednesday.

Wheh. Finally. Да уж! =You're telling me! In the final exercise на хендауте, take items from each column and make complete sentences... I go to work on the bus! Ура ура! Before you start jotting down the sentences, here is the rule:
*** ездить (=to go by a vehicle) and ходить (=to go by foot) are multidirectional verbs of motion, meaning they indicate round trips. Он ходит в университет каждый день=he goes to the university(and back home) by foot everyday.

*** conjugation of ездить (II): я езжу, ты ездишь, он ездит, мы ездим, вы ездите, они ездят

***conjugation of ходить (II): я хожу, ты ходишь, он ходит, мы ходим, вы ходите, они ходят

***Destination places +prepositions: use В if the place has a roof (a library, a university building, a theater). Use НА with events and open spaces (a stadium, a lecture, a film)
***Destinations are ACCUSATIVE. 

***Modes of transportation always use на + PREPOSITIONAL, if you go by foot say "пешком"
Example: Я хожу в университет пешком, а он ездит в университет на велосипеде

Your vocabulary quiz next Wednesday (Oct 25). Spend 10 min working on this list now...
Your grammar quiz is on Wed (Nov 1). Check it out (5 min)

Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете! Unit 2 Week 3 Elementary Russian

Elementary Russian... LAB, Unit 2: Listening and the quiz 

Добрый день! Мы рады вас видеть! = Good day! Nice to see you. 

Check out this week's Muzyka Monday!

It's a busy week. Your portfolios are due Friday, October 13... 

OK, к делу! 

Grab the grammar quiz handout and write the quiz. It should be pretty straightforward.

Now, get a handout at the lab or download and print out your хендаут here (download your handout )

You will find two listening exercises, Давайте послушаем! Let's Listen! Do those first:

For the first, 2-38 магазин-салон, just listen a couple times to find out the items being advertised. You could circle the things... 

The second, 2-39 Магазин <<Мода>> ... just answer briefly the 3 questions, in the margin or below the exercise or the other side of the lab worksheet. Listen carefully for the words you understand and make your judgments accordingly.

 

This is it for today= ЭТО всё на сегодня (ta-dah!)

Second Year Russian Unit 2 LAB 3

УВАЖАЕМЫЕ СТУДЕНТЫ!

Во-первых (=first,) review the conjugation of the verbs HERE. Work with this Quizlet list of verbs for 10 min in the "study" mode, then take the grammar quiz.

Now, grab the lab handout from the table or print out this lab handout and do tasks 1 and 2.

Теперь, наденьте наушники и прослушайте передачу Радионяни! =Put on your headphones and listen! Радионяня now means "baby monitor" in Russian. But it used to be a radio program for kids...  Everyone "of a certain age" (my age!) knows these episodes. If you're over, say, thirty-five, you grew up with Радионяня at home. The song that starts every episode goes...

Мы рады вас приветствовать, товарищи ребята!Конечно, если дома вы, а не ушли куда-то.

We're happy to see greet you, comrade children!  

If you're at home, of course, and haven't gone somewhere...

The rhyme of куда-то and ребята is an excellent rhyme!

Give the song a listen here and write all the words you recognize.

Now listen to a segment: Давайте послушаем program. 

On the second page of your lab handouts, jot down the answers (in Russian... or English if you have to) to the four questions. Клёво! It's great. Смешно... Very funny! Смешно, а серьёзно! Funny, but serious... as it always was and ever shall be in Russia.

This will take you about half an hour... Трудно! Я знаю! 

When you're done... Come to the tables and ask us questions! Get some additional help on aspect and verb conjugations. 

Весёлые уроки! Cheerful lessons! Lessons in Happiness!

You can listen to more episodes of Радионяня here. 

СПАСИБО! ЭТО ВСЁ!!!

Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете... Unit 2 Week 2 Elementary Russian

Привет ! Добро пожаловать! Welcome!

TODAY! DO NOT MISS! EXTRA CREDIT FOR ATTENDANCE!

ММММММММедведь! Bear! All bears in Russia are Mishka, Мишка. 

(This image came from Tolstoy's Primer... his schoolbook for peasant children in the 1870s.)

Every Russian and Soviet remembers eating Misha the Crooked Paw (Мишка косолапый), the classic Soviet-era chocolate bar. 

In a couple of the dialogues this unit, you learned the phrase 

с приездом=Welcome! /spriYEZdum/ 

But that’s not really how you welcome people to your house... In Russian, the phrase добро пожаловать /dobrOH pahZHAlavat/ is used when welcoming someone, say, to your home or at an event. On the other hand, с приездом means literally something like "greetings on your arrival" -- it implies that someone has just arrived safely at his or her destination, so it's reserved for welcoming someone at the airport or when they get to your house......

Rule of thumb: You can always say  добро пожаловать! Reserve с приездом! for when you’re meeting someone at the airport or they’re getting out of the car... 

За работу!  To work! To work!

• TAKE THE QUIZ! HAVE IT CHECKED! You can retake it next Wednesday if you would like a better grade. Upload both versions of the quiz to your Portfolio 2 submission. 

GRAB THE HANDOUT

 Write the answers to these brief listening exercises on the back of your handout for today:

1. listen carefully to the numbers 20-50. They should be familiar, as they're just compound numbers like in English (twenty-two). The new word here is сорок forty. 

2. Got 'em? Поняли? Итак... listen to the телефонные номера, the telephone numbers. These six digit telephone numbers are read as three sets of numbers--in other words, "twenty-six/thirty-one/fifteen." Notice also that the speaker gives both the person's "full name" and their nickname, Надежа и Надя. Somewhere on your handout, jot down the person's nickname and phone number, and let the tutors check it! 

Only do the first SIX!!! Ask us for help if you need it...

Now, take a second and carefully look through this Power Point. It explains how modifiers are formed in Russian. Yeah, it's a lot of information. It will make more sense when you actually work through examples... soooo... 

Don't forget!  You'll have a grammar quiz next week. Here's a link to part I (numbers) ; here's a link to part 2 (modifiers). Both parts are fair game for the quiz.

Note: The material is part of a Memrise course. You don't have to use Memrise, though I think it's an excellent program (and it's cross-platform, so there's OS, Android, etc. versions). But you may adapt the data as you see fit... You can make your own flashcards with paper and pen.

IMPORTANT: Some students are having trouble in forming the adjectives. Remember! 

1) Only chumps add endings to endings. You need the STEM. What's the stem? Whatever isn't the ending. What's the ending? Anything that changes. So, consider some of the adjectives from our unit:

новый. новая. новое. новые. The stem is нов-

старый. старая. старое. старые. The stem is стар-
какой*. какая. какое. какие*. The stem is как-. 
(* You see some spelling rules going on here, too! 7-letter rule, write -и after к-..... Don't get distracted by them.)

Don't forget how the possessives like мой, твой, наш, and ваш work. Because their masculine ending is "nothing," their stems and their masculine forms are identical: 

мой. моя. моё. мои. 
(мой- + -а --» моя)

That's all for today! Good job! Молодцы!

Unit 2 Week 2 SECOND YEAR RUSSIAN

Приве́т! Добро́ пожа́ловать! Welcome!

TODAY! СЕГОДНЯ! DO NOT MISS! EXTRA CREDIT FOR ATTENDANCE!

 

Сначала ... Review quizlet for your vocab quiz (10 min), play Gravity or Match then grab the handout to take the quiz in writing.

Потом ... Here is our handout for today.

Теперь прослушайте эти разговоры и ответьте на вопросы на хендауте! =Listen to these conversations and answer the questions on the handout... 
разговор 3 разговор 4. (20 min)

Listen to Vysotsky, again! Practice the verse! Memorize at least a couple of lines... ТАК ХОРОШО!! Я ЕГО ОБОЖАЮ!! (5 min)

Practice a little more Memrise and Quizlet! Do some Числительные and VERBS! (Review your numerals and verb conjugation! We'll have a quiz on numerals and verbs в следующую среду= next Wednesday) (15 min)

Then do Oral Drills 10 and 11! In writing! Type or write on the handout= Work with our ЗАМЕЧАТЕЛЬНЫЕ tutors! (20 min)

ОТЛИЧНО ПОРАБОТАЛИ!=Well done!