Russian language learning day one...

[rockymountaindem]

To everyone who posted in my thread last night, I hope you get to see this. Thanks for your insight yesterday, it was much appreciated.

Learning the cyrillic alphabet hasn't been so bad. With about two hours of practice yesterday and today using these two websites:

http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/language/russian-alphabet.html
http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/alphabet.html

I can read about half of the Russian words list on the second website. Not bad. I've noticed that the Greek letters have the same sound in Russian, and that some of the letters resemble Hebrew letters which I already know, particularly the W shaped one which makes an "sh" sound in both languages. The hard "ch" and "k" sounds aren't hard if you can read Hebrew either. All in all I'm doing better than I thought I would.

Now I'm off to exercise. ttyl.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Oodachee!

There's a lot to learn, but it's not all that tough. But there's still a lot to learn.

Good luck! (Oo-dah-CHEE)

--p!

[ikojo]

2. I don't think the words at the alphadictionary.com site

are really Russian. I took Russian in college and these words look like what my friend Nathan and I used to do: Write letters to one another using the Russian characters but the words were English.

[LisaL]

3. Nope. Those are Russian words, no doubt at all.

Being of Russian decent, I should know.
Sorry that those Russian lessons in college didn't pay off.

[rockymountaindem]

5. That's good to know.

Thanks!

[ikojo]

10. It is the Russian alphabet but it's like in the Jewish

prayer book, the Hebrew words are written phonetically in English and that's what I think the alphadictionary page is...English words transliterated into Russian.

[LisaL]

11. No, it's not. Those are Russian words, correctly written.

They are not English words translated into Russian. Really, that course in Russian you took went to waste. My native language is Russian, as I already said. Don't you think I would know if the words are Russian or not?
They have got funny translations to these words in English, but every word on this list is Russian, correctly written in Russian.
For instance
"мама -granny's kid": the word actually means mother, which is the same as granny's kid, right?
"культура -I ain't got none of it"-this word means culture, a perfectly nice russian word.
"студент -an easy job" the word "студент" means student, but it's a pefectly fine Russian word.
"Волга-famous Russian river" well, that's true-Волга is a river.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Horrosho!

:thumbsup:

[achtung_circus]

6. Yob T'voyu Mat.

Memorize this, use it at every opportunity.

[Sufi Marmot]

7. Ooshi Mayi!!

Ochen plokho, oochit nitsetsulniye slova! :spank:

Edited for corporal punishment...

[achtung_circus]

8. Go marmot yourself.

on edit: because I have no idea what you are talking about. My previous post exhausted my Russian (except for kife like da, nyet, vodka, etc)

[Sufi Marmot]

9. In English, roughly...

"My ears! - It's very bad to teach swear words"

-SM, who quite appreciates Russian's rich lexicon of obscenities... :-)

[LisaL]

12. Oh come on! You know perfectly well what that swearing is,

otherwise you wouldn't tell this person to learn it and use it at every opportunity.
LOL.

[achtung_circus]

13. Oh, I absolutelt know what

Yob T'voyu Mat means. When I said I had no idea what he was talking about I meant his response to me.

[LisaL]

14. He didn't want you to teach someone swear words.

:-)

[Sufi Marmot]

15. It would have helped if I'd used the correct word...

Netsenzurniye slova.

My bad. :-)

[achtung_circus]

16. Being able to swear

is part of idiomatic speech.