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In Reply to: Man, you sound just like Pushkin! posted by Victor Khomenko on September 25, 2003 at 15:26:54:
Victor,Yes, I just can not keep everything in order. Early on, I thought that Russian had a wonderful casualness and the rules were actually lax, and with a different approach to indefinite articles (compared to German), Russian was more free-form, but as I learned a little more, it was obvious that I was just unaware of all the modifying rules that were being invisibly applied all the time.
As for pronunciation, that fooled me at first too. I am reasonably good at imitating sounds, but there is a subtlety in Russian when there are combinations of sounds that I just can not do. Individually, there is less mystery, but like French in which there are constant contractions of articles into verbs, spoken Russian has a sensation of long, convoluted strings of sounds. I also thought that this would be like the long combination words in German- but it is not. I have to repeat things several times to train myself for each sentence!
I would love to be able to read Pushkin and Gogol in the original. O.K., Checkhov and Nabakov too.
When do I get my second lifetime?
Cheers,
Bambi B
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- Re: Man, you sound just like Pushkin! - Bambi B 17:49:22 09/26/03 (3)
- Re: Man, you sound just like Pushkin! - Victor Khomenko 18:40:52 09/26/03 (2)
- Re: Man, you sound just like Pushkin! - Bambi B 20:16:31 09/26/03 (1)
- Re: Man, you sound just like Pushkin! - Victor Khomenko 20:40:53 09/26/03 (0)
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