Thread: страдательные причастия прошедшего времени (Very Difficult Question)

Honestly, I've never found much use to studying all these rules regarding the different причастия. I learned how to use them just by reading a lot of Russian, learning different songs, and listening to people speaking. I once got a job tutoring Russian and that was probably the first time I ever actually sat down and studied the rules, but I used all these different forms every day in my speaking. Okay, I sometimes get confused about the difference between предъявляемый and предъявленный, but that's just me.

I think it makes a lot of sense to learn fixed expressions using these forms - the first one that comes to mind is считанные секунды, but there are many others. Once you know enough of these expressions you should be able to form new sentences based on the models you already know. For example, from считанные секунды, it's easy to come up with прочитанные книги or even протраченные деньги without even thinking about the rule behind it.

At least that's my opinion.

Originally Posted by John_Douglas

Honestly, I've never found much use to studying all these rules regarding the different причастия. I learned how to use them just by reading a lot of Russian, learning different songs, and listening to people speaking.

Thanks for sharing this. Always wanted to find someone using a listen-fisrt approach in learning russian.
I know it works just fine for English. But i was wondering if it provides the same result with russian having all theese multiforms of words. And it sounds great.

I don't want to make myself look silly saying I've never learned grammar rules cos I'm not sure if there are many of them in the english language but i do want to say that I'm not going to. We analyze grammar for 10 years in school and yet we end up with no language skills at all.