Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете... Урок 5, Неделя 1 // Language Lab Elementary Russian Unit 5 Week 1

SAVE THE DATE! CULTURAL CREDIT AND RUSSIAN PORTFOLIO CREDIT PROVIDED FOR BOTH EVENTS!

January 26, MONDAY, 1pm-2pm at SPREES 
Strings and History: Slavic Folk Music Lab
Experience Slavic folk music beyond the textbook in this interactive, hands-on workshop. You will explore traditional Slavic instruments, learn to play balalaika, and discover how Slavic folk music has evolved from ancient village traditions to modern stage performances. No musical experience required!


January 26, MONDAY 4pm-5pm at Lee Chapel (Elizabeth Hall)
A Musical Journey around the World: Domra, Guitar, and Voice concert
This one-hour concert features Peter Omelchenko, one of the world's greatest domra players. He is joined by Anna Kusner, a Gnessin academy-trained guitarist, and a renowned Ukrainian baritone Peter Slutsky. The musicians will perform popular classical favorites, Ukrainian melodies, Jewish music, Russian romances, and international hits. Learn more about the musicians and listen to the music excerpts HERE

Давайте поработаем! Сначала... 

ДАВАЙ!

Here's the worksheet for today. There will be "physical" copies in the lab for you! 

Prepare for the vocab quiz next week:

1) Follow the link, and memorize the days of the week. 

2) Follow the link, and memorize useful phrases from the dialogues

Now, work on days of the week for at least 10 minutes. Remember! 

Monday понедельник (СТАРТ недели)  

Tuesday вторник (ВТОРой день недели)

Wednesday среда (в середине (middle) недели)

Thursday четверг (четвертый день недели)

Friday пятница (пятый день недели)

Saturday суббота (как на иврите, sabbath shabbos) 

Sunday воскресенье (an old word... it has CROSS in the middle)

Next, РАЗГОВОРЫ ДЛЯ СЛУШАНИЯ.

Послушайте разговоры 2 и 3 (Textbook, p. 150). Напишите ответы на  хендауте. (Write your answers on the back of the lab handout). Spend about 15 minutes on this section. 

Разговор 2. Билеты на рок-концерт. (5 мин... )



Разговор 3. Пойдем в буфет! (5 мин)

Now, look through this Point Presentation on Verbs of Motion. Click through the slides; there are 8. You'll get a bird's-eye view of the system of motion verbs in Russian. 

The point: These verbs are systematic! There's a series of rules that underwrite their usage. Learn the system, and learn the correct way to express motion in Russian. We'll spend much of this unit working on this verbal system. 

А теперь... письменные упражнения на  хендауте! =Now, go work on written work with the tutors or your professor. 

Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете Урок 5 LAB 1 Second-Year Russian

SAVE THE DATE! CULTURAL CREDIT AND RUSSIAN PORTFOLIO CREDIT PROVIDED FOR BOTH EVENTS!

January 26, MONDAY, 1pm-2pm at SPREES 
Strings and History: Slavic Folk Music Lab
Experience Slavic folk music beyond the textbook in this interactive, hands-on workshop. You will explore traditional Slavic instruments, learn to play balalaika, and discover how Slavic folk music has evolved from ancient village traditions to modern stage performances. No musical experience required!


January 26, MONDAY 4pm-5pm at Lee Chapel (Elizabeth Hall)
A Musical Journey around the World: Domra, Guitar, and Voice concert
This one-hour concert features Peter Omelchenko, one of the world's greatest domra players. He is joined by Anna Kusner, a Gnessin academy-trained guitarist, and a renowned Ukrainian baritone Peter Slutsky. The musicians will perform popular classical favorites, Ukrainian melodies, Jewish music, Russian romances, and international hits. Learn more about the musicians and listen to the music excerpts HERE

First, spend 10 minutes working on the vocab list (we will have the vocab quiz next week) HERE

А теперь... and now...

Grab the worksheet or download and then print out our worksheet for today HERE. It is important to download the worksheet before printing it so that images display properly.

1) РАЗГОВОРЫ ДЛЯ СЛУШАНИЯ:

Послушайте разговоры = listen to the conversations  2, 3 (see the questions in your handout)

Напишите ответы на хэндауте (=jot down your answers in your handout! 

2) Нравиться - понравиться: review THIS PPT before doing the oral drill in writing:

 ORAL DRILL 4 SAM p. 102 

 И eщё... and more...

3) ПИСЬМЕННЫЕ УПРАЖНЕНИЯ written ex 5.5 SAM p. 109  Write ex. and check them with me or with tutors. Don’t forget to include corrected versions in your portfolio

Elementary Russian: Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете... Language Lab, Elementary Russian (Урок 4, неделя 3)

ПРИВЕТ!

 Вы любите индейку? 

The above stamp is from Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic in the Caucasus. Notice the word for "turkey" in Azeri... "hindtougu"... Like "hindu" or "India"... related to the Russian word индейка, "Indian bird." 

Now... к делу... 

First things first, grab a copy of the grammar quiz 

Now, grab a copy of your lab worksheet from us at the lab or download from HERE.

1) Do the listening exercises. You'll find them on the page that starts off "Repeat the sentences..." 

(ಡ_ಡ)☞ Listen here for the first exercise. 

The second exercise reviews the phonological phenomenon of vowel reduction... How are O, A, E pronounced under stress (under the accent mark) and unstressed. Remember the rule: unstressed 

Unstressed O --> /a/

Unstressed E --> /и/

Otherwise, vowels are pretty much pronounced as written.
(ಡ_ಡ)☞ Listen to the words pronounced here. 

2) Review the difference between тоже и также below and do the written task. Have it checked by the tutors. 

Note: Russian has two words that mean "also" and they cause language learners no end of problems... In fact, one of the tests for language competency is to correctly choose тоже и также. 

They are NOT interchangeable, though you can almost always say также instead of тоже, while saying тоже when you SHOULD say также is a mistake. 

Anyway, тоже is exclusively used when different subjects share the same predicate. Также is used inclusively when introducing new information regarding the same subject

Here's some examples:

• Вы говорите по-русски? Я тоже говорю по-русски! 
• Do you speak Russian? I do, too. different subjects You speak Russian, I do too. Use тоже!
• Я говорю по-русски. Я также говорю по-французски! 
• I speak Russian. I also speak French. You've introduced new information about me -- it's more than confirmation, it's a new item. Use также!

A key phrase in Russian is я тоже так думаю/I think so too! It confirms that you and your interlocutor see the world in the same way. You're confirming old information! You think this way, and so do I! Здорово!

Maybe the easiest way to think about it: тоже means "too" and также means "additionally." Do you speak Russian? Me, too! I speak Russian, and additionally I speak French. 

Второй год русского языка... Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете... Урок 4 (Week 3, Unit 4)

Не волнуйтесь!

  

Now, the lab...

1) DO THE GRAMMAR QUIZ!!!

2) Давайте послушаем! Download the handout HERE. Do the listening exercise on the handout. The recording is 6 minutes long. Don't worry, you don't have to understand every single word. There are only four questions. Read the questions first then listen to the conversation once to get the answers/ Then listen to it again to figure out the order of the pictures. Two of the pictures "did not happen". Questions: 4. План is a borrowing from English! 1. Происходить means "to take place" (it's a verb of motion!). Answer the questions, and then number the pictures according to their order in the narrative (20 min)

3) Study the verb лететь... а perfectly regular 2nd conjugation verb like говорить. Notice the mutation in the я form, т--»ч. No biggie. Не волнуйтесь!

And the verbs of coming and going! Remember the mnemonic... в - из (visa)! на - с (us or NASA)! к - от (кот=cat)!

CПАСИБО ЗА РАБОТУ!

Elementary Russian: Сегодня в лингафонном кабинете... Language Lab (Урок 4, неделя 2)

Студенты! It's so EASY hanging out.

Общаться ... to hang out, to chat... be social. The word comes from общ-, the idea is "things around you." общество, общаться, община, общность... There's a really famous Russian literary figure, Oblomov (Обломов)... his name is suggestive of what he does, which is "break stuff around him." 

Anyway, the kids are saying: "Hanging out is easy просто." Sure.

tl;dr Plan for today: do listening, work the grammar.

0) Check out this week's Muzyka Monday... more on Vysotsky. then...

1) Review this list if you prefer Quizlet or this list if you like Memrise for the vocab quiz (both lists are identical) and then TAKE THE QUIZ 

via GIPHY

2) Grab a handout (this handout). Давайте послушаем! Let's listen... Наденьте наушники! Put on your headphones and get ready! (You'll write the responses on the obverse of your worksheet...)

You're about to listen to an address by the декан (dean) at Казанский государственный университет (Kazan State University). (Kazan is an ancient city, the capital of Tatarstan in SW Russia, on the Volga...) The assistant dean’s remarks can be broken up into a number of topic areas. Before you listen to the talk, look through the topics below (1-7).

What order do you think these seven topics will occur? It's pretty obvious. Economists call it "priming." We can largely anticipate what someone is about to say, because... Communication! 

 1.  composition of the student body

 2.  foreign students

 3.  foreign students from North America

 4.  good-luck wishes

 5.  opening welcome

 6.  structure of the university

 7.  things that make this school different from others

Listen to the talk. It's about 5 minutes. On the back of your handout, jot down the order in which the seven topics were actually discussed. (Just write down the numbers of the topics from above in the order they appeared.)

Listen to the talk again with these questions in mind. You might not know the word for thousand, тысяча or тысяч. Also, Tatar, татарский язык, is an Altaic (Turkic) language.

1.  How many departments does the university have?

2.  How big is the library?

3.  Name five things that students can major in.

4.  Name at least one language department that was mentioned.

5.  How many students are there?

6.  What department hosts most of the students from the United States and Canada?

Listen to the talk. 

Finally... The lecturer mentions the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a loose political entity made up of many of the republics of the former Soviet Union.

How many of these states can you list from the talk? You can check your answers here.

3) Now, we'll talk about the three verbs that all mean "to study" in Russian. You gotta keep 'em straight. 

Take a second and review the forms of заниматься, учиться, изучать...

The verbs заниматься and изучать are both "-ай-" class, 1st conjugations verbs, like знать and понимать. 

Remember the rules about reflexives for заниматься:

• + -ся after consonants (ignore ь soft signs!)
• -сь after vowels

Thus занимаюсь but занимаешься.  

Учиться is a perfectly regular second conjugation very like говорить. Notice the -и- in the ending... that's the mark of all second-conjugation verbs. 

It, too, has a reflexive particle: 

• -ся after consonants (учился) 
• -сь after vowels (училась).

Note which verbs MUST have a direct object and which CANNOT: 

• Изучать must have a direct object (something in the accusative case). You need to study SOMETHING: Я изучаю химию. (Subject-verb-object)
• But заниматься and учиться cannot have a direct object (no accusative object) -- they're reflexive, so the -ся "sucks up" the transitivity. You do them in places ("I study in the library! I'm a student at Stetson! Я занимаюсь в библиотеке! Я учусь в Стетсонском университете!")... but you cannot (for now at least) do them to things.

That's COOL!
Remember the magic words: Так интересно!