Russian Made Easy Podcast 2.pdf

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Episode #2

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Welcome to this second podcast of Russian ade Eas!" #et$s start %! revie&ing

&hat &e learned in the first podcast" 'lthough &e learned eleven ne& &ords &hich is a lot eight of them &ere cognates, so it &as still a managea%leamount of ne& &ords"

'n!&a!, imagine !ou$re in osco& &ith some friends of !ours &ho don$t no&an! Russian" 'fter each Russian phrase !ou hear, please sa! the Englishtranslation out loud" Read!*
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M1/ QD/?"

Then !ou point to 7and! and sa!:M1/ ?.="

Or imagine that a Russian acSuaintance is looing at a photo of !our parents"ou point to !our Bad and sa!:M1/ ;;"

Then !ou point to !our mom and sa!""""""hmm, can !ou guess*That$s right:M1/ --"

7o, ho& &ould !ou translate MUC*

4n this context, eto translates as VThis isV

5retend !our Russian friend is looing at a %a%! photo of !ou" Of course, shecan$t tell &ho it is, so !ou point to the photo and sa!:M1/ "

4n English &e$d sa!: This is me" Xut in Russian the! phrase it literall!:

This is"""4"

#isten again:M1/ "

'nd that %rings up an extremel! important point:

V.O. And now, here's your Tip of the Day from Russian Made Easy...

ou need to no& %oth the normal English version and the superliteral versionfor each phrase !ou learn" This is &hat 4 &as referring to at the end of the firstpodcast: The %iggest mistae that virtuall! all language students mae is the!don$t learn the superliteral translation of things"""&hat &e call the 7#T" 's !ou$llsee throughout these podcasts, 4$ll al&a!s point out the 7#T" This is a greatshortcut to actuall! thining in Russian"


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OY, next"""

4magine !ou$re having dinner at !our Russian friend$s house" Zncle [adimpluns do&n a shotglass in front of !ou and fills it &ith a clear liSuid, telling !ou:M1/ \/.0"

What do !ou thin he said* #isten again:M1/ \/.0"

e said: This is voda"

7o the &ord voda is a cognate" We sa! voda, %ut in Russian it has a full VohVsound:\/.0

#isten again and repeat after our native speaer:\/.0

ou$re still at this Russian dinner, &hen grandma serves !ou a %o&l of red soup,sa!ing:M1/


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's grandma: This is %orscht*M1/ H0?1"


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This is 7teve" e is a student"M1/ 1=\" C? A1G.@?1"

This is Tan!a" 7he is a student"M1/ U?" C? A1G.@?10"

#et$s add t&o ne& Russian &ords no&" Repeat after the speaer:

-/L""""-/

One more time: -/L""""-/

's al&a!s, let$s tr! to figure out the meaning from context"4magine that the Russian dinner !ou$re attending has turned into a part!" #ots ofpeople are coming and going, putting their drins do&n here, and their food

do&n over there, and so on" ou &al up to the ta%le and pic up &hat !outhought&as !our %o&l of %orscht, %ut some &oman sa!s"""

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e is m! doctor"C? -/L ./01/2"

'nd ho& a%out: 7he is m! student"C? -/ A1G.@?10"

Whether !ou got those right or &rong, &e$ll come %ac and loo at them in aminute" Xut 4 &ant to continue for 8ust a moment %! giving !ou t&o ne&, eas!cognates" The Russian &ord for pia is:;=bb

'nd the Russian &ord for soup is"""AG;

7a! them out loud:

;=bbAG;

No&, 8ust %! guessing, ho& do !ou thin !ou$d sa!:

This is m! soup"M1/ -/L AG;"

o& a%out:

This is m! pia"M1/ -/ ;=bb"

4 %et !ou$re catching on to a pattern here" #et$s tr! some more, to mae sure!ou$re getting it" 7a! 8ust"""

! voda"+/ \/.0"

! pia"

+/ ;=bb"

! %orscht"+/L


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! male student"+/L A1G.@?1"

! female student"+/ A1G.@?10"

4n !our o&n &ords, ho& &ould !ou descri%e the pattern here* it pause andthin a%out it for a moment"

OY, so"""4f a &ord ends in an VahV sound lie ;=bb^ A1G.@?1^ and \/.^ it needs V-/"V Other&ise &e use V-/LV"

This is &here so man! Russian courses go &rong" The! %urden students rightoff the %at &ith the intimidating grammar terms for this" The! mae studentsmemorie stuff lie Vnominative caseV and Vad8ective noun agreementV and

Vdeclension paradigmsV as if that$s ho& &e actuall! learn grammar" Well it's not.

The superiormethod for teaching grammar is to simpl! let the student discoverthe patterns" 'nd in Russian, it$s particularl! eas! %ecause as !ou$ll seethroughout these podcasts Russian grammar is %ased on rh!ming" #istenagain"""4$ll exaggerate the endings of the &ords:

-/ ;=bb-/ \/.0

'nd ho& a%out"""/?-/A1G.@?1

4$ll sa! it again, %ecause this is a fundamental point: Russian grammar is %asedon rh!ming" These &ords that end in an VahV sound: ;=bb"""\/.0"""A1G.@?10and so on, are called feminine"

'll the others are considered masculine" No&, admittedl!, the masculine pairs&eren$t reall! rh!ming" 4 mean, AG; doesn$t rh!me &ith -/L" Neither doesA1G.@?1 or ./01/2 and so on" Xut masculine &ords W4## rh!me in man! other

situations" 4t depends on the phrase" Pust no& that there is a ton of rh!ming inRussian, and 4$ll %e pointing it out as &e go"

There is one exception to this pattern, though" #isten to our native speaer sa!:This is m! Bad"

M1/ -/L ;;"


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M1/ ;;" mm""""^^ ends in an VahV sound, so &h! didn$t &e sa!V-/V* Well, simpl! put, papa is masculine" 4sn$t it* 4 mean, !our 5apa is a man"4t doesn$t get more masculine than that" 7o, despite the VahV sound at the end ofpapa, it$s still treated as a masculine &ord" That$s &h! it gets -/L"

One last pair of ne& &ords, to &rap this all up toda!" Repeat after the speaer:

1\/L1\/

One more time"""1\/L1\/

#et$s tr! to get them from context" To do so, let$s go %ac one more time to that

Russian dinner part! &e &ere at" ou remem%er ho& !ou &ere picing up otherpeople$s soup and voda, thining the! &ere !ours* Well, the host has noticedthat and approaches &ith a %o&l of %orscht" 7he hands it to !ou, sa!ing:

M1/ 1\/L


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M1/ 1\/L AG;"

Bid !ou get those* We used 1\/ %ecause it needs to rh!me &ith ;=bbXut &e used the masculine form, 1\/L &ith the &ord AG;"1\/ ;=bb

1\/L AG;

4magine !ou$re at the part!, taling &ith one of !our friends &ho is a teacher"5ointing to a id across the room, as her:4s he !our student*We$ll phrase it literall! 8ust: e !our student*C? 1\/L A1G.@?1*

5oint to a girl and as:4s she !our student*

C? 1\/ A1G.@?10*

Then !ou notice &hat seems to %e a famil! photo on !our friend$s des" 5oint tothe &oman in the photo and as:

4s this !our mom*M1/ 1\/ --*

No& point to the man in the picture:

's: 4s this !our dad*M1/ 1\/L ;;*

o& &ill she ans&er:es, this is m! mom"Q, 1/ -/ --"

es, this is m! dad"Q, 1/ -/L ;;"

Bid !ou remem%er to use the masculine forms 1\/L and -/L for the &ord;;* ood`

'lright, here$s !our final exam for this podcast" Tr! sa!ing the follo&ing phrasesin Russian" 'nd please sa! them out loud"""

4s this m! soup*M1/ -/L AG;*


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es, this is !our %orscht"Q, 1/ 1\/L

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