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!

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 Mishka 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!

GRAB THE HANDOUT

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... See the second page of your lab handout,  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. On the second page on your handout, jot down the person's phone number next to their names, 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... do the second written task on your lab handout (work with modifiers)

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!

 

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! 

Сегодня на уроке в лингафонном кабинете... Elementary Russian, Unit 2, week 1

ПРИГЛАШАЕМ! ПРИХОДИТЕ! YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED!

Сегодня на уроке в лингафонном кабинете...  Today in the lab for Elementary Russian! 

Добро пожаловать! Welcome! 

Hey, notice that the Russians mark dates differently: 27/IX/2023. Yeah, they use Roman numerals... funny, no? And they write the date first, then the month (in Roman or Arabic numerals), then the year. 

Xa xa xa!

You should really read this article about learning Russian.

Take a listen to Muzyka Mondays... Evan Dean explores early electronica in our region. 

Порядок очередности! Priorities...  

Берите, пожалуйста, хэндаут! The handout is here. 

1) (20 minutes) Listen to these разговоры: 

Разговоры: 1 2 3  (click 'em!) 

and, on the back of the handout, answer these questions (just jot them in the margins). It's helpful if you read the questions first, think about the kinds of answers you might expect, and THEN listen to the разговоры... 

Oh, by the way, таможня means "customs." Where do you think Katya & Mary are meeting?

2) A major concept in Russian is modifying: Modifiers (adjectives) change their forms to "match" the noun they're modifying. Just remember: Nouns are the bosses. They tell EVERYONE what kind of endings to wear... Мой, моя, моё, мои. 

Every noun in Russian has a permanent, unalterable gender: Москва is always feminine. Костюм is always masculine. Remember to look at the ending. Almost always, the ending indicates the gender of the noun: -a/-я is feminine; -o/-е is neuter; -ы/-и is plural; and -∅ (null) is masculine.

3) I've added Глава 2 vocabulary to Memrise, so you can start practicing. Here's a link to the material. The vocab quiz is next week! Spend at least 10 minutes practicing the vocab today and every day.

4) Here are two more Memrise links that will help you understand and use grammar concepts - both lists for numbers and adjectives will be used for the grammar quiz in two weeks: Here's a link to part I (numbers) of the material on that quiz; here's a link to part 2 (adjectives). 

Note: The material for the vocabulary and grammar quizzes is part of a Memrise course. All the data is there! 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 cut and paste the tables into other programs, like Quizlet, or make your own flashcards with paper and pen. Ask me for paper flashcards! I have, like, a thousand...


Labs are days when you ask for extra help, work with the tutors on whatever you want.

Oh, and if you haven't yet, go LIKE the Russian Studies Facebook page! 

Second Year Russian... Today in the lab (Unit 2 Week 1)... "Aлло, Москва? Вас вызывает Высоцкий"

Second-Year Russian... Unit 2 Week 1

ПРИХОДИТЕ! ПРИГЛАШАЕМ! You are cordially invited! 

First things first... create a basic profile on quizlet.com Study the vocab set for our quiz next Wednesday. 

Now, back to our lab business...

Музыкальный вторник

"Ничего не вижу! Ничего не слышу!"

Вероника Круглова. Слушайте эту песню ещё раз:

Practice singing the first two stanzas and the chorus. 

Vysotksky... Что вам сказать? Уникальный человек. Артист, певец, поэт первого сорта. Actor, singer, poet. He exercised enormous influence over Soviet culture in the 1960s and 1970s. One might fairly say that his singing style is inimitable. He played the "Russian" seven-string guitar (семиструнная гитара), tuned down a whole octave so the strings are all loose, and they buzz a lot. You'll hear that in this song. 

His stuff is really political, but it doesn't seem that way until you understand it in the context of the culture.

Ноль-семь (it's also called by its first line: Эта ночь для меня вне закона... This night is against the law...) is what you used to dial to get the inter-city operator... When you used to have to go through an operator to call out from your city...

Телефон для меня, как икона,
Телефонная книга - триптих,
Стала телефонистка Мадонной,
Расстоянья на миг сократив. 

The telephone for me is like an icon! The telephone book for me is like a triptych! The operator has become Madonna, Having made distance disappear in a wink.

It's late, he's writing poetry, then he gets lonely and romantic and starts to dial his girlfriend through the operator (ноль семь). Everything is SO URGENT! Я НЕ МОГУ ДОЖДАТЬСЯ!! I can't wait! Then the other party picks up, and it's all, "oh, hey, yeah... it's me..." Вот уже ответили... Ну, здравствуй, - это я! He really hopes his girlfriend is at home so a lot depends on the телефонистка, the operator... who's probably pretty, young, and lonely too. 

I love poetry! 

You will recite two stanzas from Veronika Kruglova's song or one stanza from Vladimir Vysotsky's song during your Oral Performance for Unit 2! Here's the material at Memrise on Vysotsky's song. Just the first stanza:

Для меня эта ночь вне закона.
Я пишу - по ночам больше тем.
Я хватаюсь за диск телефона
И набираю вечное 07.

Девушка, здравствуйте!
Как вас звать? Тома.
Семьдесят вторая! Жду, дыханье затая!
Быть не может, повторите, я уверен - дома!
А, вот уже ответили... Ну, здравствуй, - это я!

Now, print the LAB WORKSHEET FOR TODAY HERE. 

First, let's study the uses of (по)звонить... to place a call. Remember it's a simple 2nd conjugation verb: Звоню́, звони́шь, звоня́т. If you're calling someone, that person is in the DATIVE (the people's case!). If you're calling somewhere, you must use the formula 

                          в/на + Accusative

Я звони́л в Москву́. («-- Moscow is in accusative!)

Do ex. 2-15 and 2-16 in writing (typed or handwritten)

Now, listen to разговор I and ответьте на вопросы там на хендауте (=Answer the questions on the handout). You'll hear the following... Что случилось? What happened? I'll call her... Занято. It's busy. Вы не туда попали... You've reached the wrong number! Когда она ушла? When did she leave? 

I bet you don't even remember when there were rotary telephones! 

Elementary Russian: Unit REVIEW TEXT

Привет, ребята! 

Here is the text to review this unit

You should be able to understand at least 95% of this text. Pay attention to the use of the Prepositional, Dative, and Genitive cases. Read it out loud, note stress marks! 

Меня́ зову́т Аня. Я студе́нтка. Мне 19 лет. Я учу́сь на тре́тьем ку́рсе на истори́ческом факульте́те. Я родила́сь и вы́росла в Москве́. Я хочу́ рабо́тать в музе́е. 

У меня́ больша́я семья́. У меня́ есть ма́ма, оте́ц, сестра́ и две ба́бушки. Моя́ ма́ма врач по профе́ссии, она́ рабо́тает в поликли́нике.  Ей 41 год. Мой оте́ц — учи́тель. Он рабо́тает в шко́ле.  Ему́ 46 лет. Ра́ньше мы жи́ли в Санкт-Петербу́рге, а тепе́рь живём в Москве́. Моя́ ста́ршая сестра́ родила́сь в Санкт-Петербу́рге, но вы́росла в Москве́. Ей 24 го́да. Она́ — домохозя́йка, у неё ма́ленькие де́ти. Я — их тётя, а они́ — мои́ племя́нники. Муж мое́й сестры́  — стомато́лог. Он рабо́тает в поликли́нике. Он вы́рос и учился в Воро́неже, но сейча́с живёт и рабо́тает в Москве́. Ему 27 лет. Мои́ ба́бушки живу́т у нас.  Им 72 го́да. Они́ не рабо́тают. Ка́ждый ве́чер они́ смо́трят телеви́зор. Они́ лю́бят спорт и хо́дят в бассе́йн ка́ждую суббо́ту.

Now, answer the questions in Russian HERE.

 ВСЁ!!!

(Kind of) learn to read Russian in 15 minutes!

This cartoon introduces you to the letters in the Russian alphabet, a subset of Cyrillic. It's pretty good... it has a lot of terminological problems, and some outright errors, but as a pragmatic and quick guide to learning the letters, it gets the job done. Enjoy! It continues here...

A world of languages...

Twenty-three languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people of the 7.2 billion inhabitants of earth. (There are at least 7,102 known languages.)

Russian is spoken as a mother tongue by 166 million people (and by many others, for whom it is used as a language of study or business). But not all the speakers of Russian are from Russia... Click on the infographic to embiggen in! 

Elementary Russian: EXTRA PRACTICE FOR EXTRA CREDIT (MARCH 2024)

A few words and exercises on ASPECT.

Aspect is probably the most complex concept you'll encounter when learning Russian: Unlike so many phenomena in language learning (like, say, verbal conjugation), there's often no right/wrong answer. That might SEEM to make it easier -- "Hey, I can't get it wrong! -- but aspectual choice is tough because it requires the speaker to be "context aware." This awareness is precisely what makes 99% of exercises on aspect choice total garbage. 

I speak the language pretty good, and I still get confused about aspect in certain circumstances... It's the one thing that Russians still correct me on, so it must "sound really wrong" when I pick the wrong aspect. 

But, FOR OUR PURPOSES in Elementary Russian (heck, in ADVANCED Russian!)... aspect is pretty simple: 

• In the present tense, use only IMPERFECTIVE. 
• In the FUTURE tense, use only PERFECTIVE. (Really, how often do you talk about how you spend time in the future? Usually you are listing things you will get DONE, thus emphasizing result, this using the perfective.)
• In the past tense, if you want to emphasize the result of an action, use PERFECTIVE. 
• In the past tense, if you want to emphasize how you spend time (especially repetition), use IMPERFECTIVE. 

📣 I say present, you say IMPERFECTIVE. I say perfective, you say RESULT. I say imperfective, you say PROCESS. 

If you follow these rules, you'll get it right 90% of the time. 

So, three things you have to understand about aspect.

1. Virtually all verbs in Russian exist in pairs, one imperfective and one perfective. You've ONLY learned imperfective verbs... Now, you're going to start learning perfective forms, too. 
2. The only way to express the PRESENT tense is imperfective verbs: Я читаю книгу. I am reading a book. 
3. Perfective verbs conjugate just like imperfective verbs, they do not have a separate conjugational pattern. You are learning nothing here! When you conjugate a perfective verb, you AUTOMATICALLY leap into the future. When you put an "el and gender marker" on a perfective verb, no surprise, you're in the past.

And so... 

• Я читал книгу. I was reading a book. (Imperfective, past, you care about the process. Perhaps you finished, perhaps you didn't.)  

• Я прочитал книгу. I read a book. (Perfective, past, note the prefix! You care about the result. Maybe you finished it, maybe you just read some of it and then did something else.) 

• Я читаю книгу. (Present, therefore imperfective. Present is always focussed on "how I spend my time.") 

• Я прочитаю книгу. (Perfective, future, note the prefix. Conjugate the darn verb! It's a claim about what you will do, result oriented.) 

•  Я буду читать книгу. (Imperfective, future, note the auxiliary verb. This is theoretically possible, how you will spend time in the future... but, practically, it's very rare. How often do you say, "I will be reading a book"? You almost never talk about how you'll spend your time in the future; instead, you make claims about how you will finish something! "I'm going to read a book!") 

Look through this Power Putin Presentation. It contains wisdom and information.

Here's a "basic list" of the verbs you know and their PERFECTIVE counterpart, with a few clues to remind you how they conjugate.

• смотрéть (смо́трят)/посмотрéть to watch
• писа́ть (пи́шут)/написáть to write 
• чита́ть (-ают)/прочита́ть to read
• ви́деть (ви́дят)/уви́деть to see
• по́мнить (по́мнят)/запо́мнить to recall, remember
• пить (пьют)/вы́пить (пью, пьёшь, пьёт) to drink
• есть/съесть to eat, eat up (ем, ешь ест, еди́м, еди́те, едя́т)
• гото́вить (гото́вят)/пригото́вить (пригото́влю) to prepare
• расска́зывать/рассказать (расска́жут) to tell
• зака́зывать/заказа́ть (зака́жут) to order
• покупа́ть (покупáю)/купи́ть (куплю́) (to buy)
• говори́ть (говоря́т)/сказа́ть (ска́жут) to speak, say

Do this exercise! 

Second-year Russian: Additional Work for March 12 REMOTE

Привет, ребята!

Красивые куличи и крашеные яйца, правда?

Почему красят яйца на Пасху? 

Here is our extra work for this week (do it optionally for extra credit)

1. Let's start with the review of numbers. Carefully examine this chart:

2. Download our handout for today. Listen to the information comparing average U.S. and Russian salaries HERE and type what you hear in the handout. 

3. Read the dialogue in our handout and translate it. Make sure you know how to ask in Russian to bring you the check and pay the check.

Сделали? Молодцы! ... Now, memorize the conjugations of these two crucial verbs⇩

4. Finally! Go to Flipgrid and do this task. You will need to know how to say "I drink", see the conjugation pattern above.