Thread: Vegetable!

-горох
-грибы
-цветная капуста
-картофель
-кукуруза
-лук
-перец
-помидоры
-шпинат

Check your accents.

Кукуруза, лук, помидоры, шпинат are okay.

Your major problem is accentuation in other words.

could you record these for me please? a comparison would help me greatly =) thanks!

Originally Posted by anthonyd

could you record these for me please? a comparison would help me greatly =) thanks!

Ok, I made a second attempt to record this...please tell me if it sounds any better....

Originally Posted by anthonyd

Ok, I made a second attempt to record this...please tell me if it sounds any better....

You are saying грЫбы instead of грибЫ and перЕц instead of пЕрец. Otherwise it is close enough...

Originally Posted by anthonyd

-горох
-грибы
-цветная капуста
-картофель
-кукуруза
-лук
-перец
-помидоры
-шпинат

you sad it good!

you mean my pronunciation is good? thanks =)

Originally Posted by anthonyd

you mean my pronunciation is good? thanks =)

I'm understand how much difficultly to learn Russian. It's impossible to achieve an ideal pronunciation

Originally Posted by Dimitri

Originally Posted by anthonyd

you mean my pronunciation is good? thanks =)

I'm understand how much difficultly to learn Russian. It's impossible to achieve an ideal pronunciation

Especially since I have only been learning for about 6 months

Russian is definitely one of the harder languages. The only language I have learned a little of, that is harder than Russian, is Arabic.

Originally Posted by Dimitri

Originally Posted by anthonyd

you mean my pronunciation is good? thanks =)

I'm understand how much difficultly to learn Russian. It's impossible to achieve an ideal pronunciation

Impossible?

Originally Posted by challenger

Originally Posted by Dimitri

Originally Posted by anthonyd

you mean my pronunciation is good? thanks =)

I'm understand how much difficultly to learn Russian. It's impossible to achieve an ideal pronunciation

Impossible?

I think so
let's say almost impossible
Because if some language not your mouther tongue it's very very very hard to achieve an ideal pronunciation

Originally Posted by Dimitri

Originally Posted by challenger

Originally Posted by Dimitri

Originally Posted by anthonyd

you mean my pronunciation is good? thanks =)

I'm understand how much difficultly to learn Russian. It's impossible to achieve an ideal pronunciation

Impossible?

I think so
let's say almost impossible
Because if some language not your mouther tongue it's very very very hard to achieve an ideal pronunciation

I agree with Dimitri. Although today I found out a girl I know and just assumed was English, turned out to be Italian. I was amazed by her perfect English accent. She's not even got an English parents or anything. But now I know I can notice some slight imperfections.

On TV recently I saw something about language acquisition. It said all babies have the ability to adapt to pronounce any sound. That is, a Japanese baby, placed with an American family and brought up in America will grow up with a perfect American accent. And an American baby placed in Japan with a Japanese family will grow up with a perfect Japanese accent. Beyond a certain age the baby loses this ability. After this it is hard for the person who pronounce new foreign sounds.

E.g. Ы is a pain for English speakers.

They say....old habits are hard to beat

At this point, I don't expect 6 months of learning to bring me anywhere near perfection. Its no big deal to me yet...

Within another 6-12 months of practice and living with my fiancee (will be here in one week =) I will have much better pronunciation.

Originally Posted by anthonyd

They say....old habits are hard to beat

At this point, I don't expect 6 months of learning to bring me anywhere near perfection. Its no big deal to me yet...

Within another 6-12 months of practice and living with my fiancee (will be here in one week =) I will have much better pronunciation.

You are doing really well for the amount of time you've been learning. Keep it up!

Thank you for the kind words. Even after she arrives and helps me learn, I still plan on coming here for all you guys to help =)

What a great forum!!!!!

I get the impression that Russians usually call potatoes "картошки", not "картофель". Just saying, 'cos nobody else seems t've mentioned it.

Картофель is a general collective noun for potatoes.

Картошка - one potatoe

Две картовшки - two potatoes.

Картошка can switch its meaning to картофель as well.