Thread: Правильно ли ты говоришь? (check your Russian)

Came across this test - http://www.karlson.ru/lj/lang/

8 out of 10

Мой результат: 8 из 10!

Wow. I'm a native russian and I got a 7/10!

Комментарий:
Правильно говорить не дали, а не не дали.
Правильно говорить кожух, а не кожух.
Правильно говорить откупорить, а не откупорить.

I've *always* said these things the way I answered.. I actually never even heard anyone saying them the way this site says is correct

Update: my Ukrainian wife just got a 6!

so dont feel bad. but on a personal note, i think that site is crap

По «Орфоэпическому словарю русского языка» (1987), правильно говорить нЕ дали (и допустимо не дАли), кожУх, откУпорить.

Originally Posted by Jeff

По «Орфоэпическому словарю русского языка» (1987), правильно говорить нЕ дали (и допустимо не дАли), кожУх, откУпорить.

i've always said ne dAli
kOjuh
otkupOrit'

never heard these things pronolunced the other way, except for my wife which said kojUh

but, what i have to say is..

russia's a huge country. each area puts accents on certain letters differently.
i dont really think one is more correct than another, regardless what the dictionary said.

oh, and i (and everyone i know) always ask for 100 gramm vodki, a ne 100 grammov vodki (slovar' govorit chto 100 grammov.. )

3*10/10

The test isn't strictly defined though (hot to say this correctly?)

They suggested to choose between "бежите"-"бегите"

I got a 7/10.

Комментарий:
Правильно говорить заржавела, а не заржавела.
Правильно говорить не дали, а не не дали.
Правильно говорить оптовый, а не оптовый.

Может, по словарям и так, но "не дали" очень просторечным кажется. "Заржавела" - вообще экзотика.
"Оптовый" и так, и сяк: "оптовый рынок, оптовый склад".

9/10

Failed "дождалась".

Methinks we always speak some time correctly and some time incorrectly. I can count dozens of examples in which people accentuate either this or that vowel.

Originally Posted by FL

"Оптовый" и так, и сяк: "оптовый рынок, оптовый склад".

Правильно "оптОвый". И то что что многие говорят "Оптовый" ("звОнят", "жАлюзи", "квАртал" и т.д.) не значит что так тоже правильно.

took a few stabs and got
5,6,7,9,9 (and decided to retire )

me too 7/10

IMHO this test will tell you nothing about your _real_ knowledge. A year ago I passed the enrance examination to Bauman University. So in examination of Russian Language there was a question just like in this test - to put the stress on given words. Sometimes there were really curious examples: not маркЕтинг but мАркетинг, not оксюморОн, but оксЮморон, not каталОг but катАлог... This was quite hard for us, becaus it appeared that in usual speech we put the stress WRONGY and it's easy to hear this mistakes even on TV (mostly in ads ). By the way I can't see use of this knowledge in technical institute.

Me, just as Socrates, know a few things. And one of them: каталОг, а не катАлог, бытиЕ, а не бытиЁ. Here are my two college degrees.

7 из 10! Ура!!

Originally Posted by Gerty

каталОг, а не катАлог

If I remember (maybe I'm wrong and right is каталОг. If so, excuse me.) it was the word that confused me the most. КатАлог is half-slang pronunciation that had been used among computer specialists as an equivalent to english "directory", instead of директория (there were no "folders" at that time ). And all that time I thought that it is wrong but our tutor on starting-up course told us that recently it became right.

I'm 6 for 10, I guessed at every one!