In Russian

So, back to gender aspect of Russian nouns. You can recognize gender in most of cases easily just looking at the end letter of the word (it's important to take nominative forms for that work). And keep in mind that _all_ Russian nouns have gender, animate and inanimate .

Hello, guys. Today let's talk about nouns, the important part of speech which has some peculiarities in Russian. We need nouns when speak about things, people, facts, animals, art, whatever you like. So what is important about nouns when you learn Russian?

What do you do with your handwritten dictionary? Or do you use cards? Maybe even write lines of words? I tried it, hands get tired but mind is free and pretty blank like after a good meditation. Is it effective? Here is one tip for you .   Let's turn to true hacker in the world of foreign words. And the dictionary you write lesson by lesson will turn to your land. You will be the owner of constantly developing land, the owner whose influence area grows wide.  Look attentively, I will tell this only once and you decide what to do with that knowledge.

There are 10 parts of speech in Russian language. Little by little you will know them all.  1. Noun (существи́тельное): дом, сад, мечта 2. Pronoun (местоиме́ние): я, ты, они, вы, мой, чей, наш... 3. Ajective (прилага́тельное): хороший (дом), плохая (погода), прекрасная (картина)... 4. Verb (глаго́л): читать, делать, говорить, петь 5. Adverb (наре́чие): хорошо, плохо, отлично, превосходно 6. Numeral (числи́тельное): один, десять, сто, миллион 7. Preposition (предло́г): в, на 8. Conjunction (сою́з): и, а 9. Particle (части́ца): не 10. Interjection (междоме́тие): ой, ай, ура Of course, it's nice to draw parallels with your native language.  Read this list and write translations for examples in the comments below. Ура! Вот вы и познакомились с частями речи в русском языке. Horray! You knew about parts of speech in Russian language.

1. Voiced consonants turn to voiceless in the end of words : клу б [клуп]              Слушайте | Listen дру г [друк] расска́ з [раскас] 2. Voiced consonants turn to voiceless in the middle of words in position before voiceless consonants : а вт о́бус [афтобус]      Слушайте | Listen за́ вт ра [за́фтра] за́ вт рак [за́фтрак] Читайте: ло́ дк а, вх о д , выхо д , здр а́ вс твуйте, пло́ща дь , ло́ша дь , много кни г .

If you stumble upon multisyllables, you should keep in mind that Russian vowels   А   and  О   in unstressed position sound reduced . That doesn't mean that stressed vowel sounds longer. Stressed vowels, as we noted before, sound bright and clear. And unstressed vowels  А  and  О  sound as short [а]. If you are into philology, then let us note  two kinds of reduction . The first one is quantitative reduction , which means that unstressed vowels А and О sound shorter than stressed vowels. Ко́мната [ко́мната] 3:1:1    Слушайте | Listen The second kind of reduction is qualitative . It's when unstressed  О sounds as short [а]. Молоко́ [малако́] 1:1:3     Слушайте | Listen Хорошо́ [харашо́] 1:1:3 Она́ [ана́] 1:3

Сегодня шестое июня, большой праздник в России. 220 (двести двадцать) лет назад родился великий русский поэт, Александр Сергеевич Пушкин. Today is the sixth of June, a great holiday in Russia. 220 (two hundred twenty) years ago the great Russian poet, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born.