-горох
-грибы
-цветная капуста
-картофель
-кукуруза
-лук
-перец
-помидоры
-шпинат
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-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!
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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...Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyd
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Originally Posted by anthonyd
you sad it good!
you mean my pronunciation is good? thanks =)
I'm understand how much difficultly to learn Russian. It's impossible to achieve an ideal pronunciationQuote:
Originally Posted by anthonyd
Especially since I have only been learning for about 6 months :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dimitri
Russian is definitely one of the harder languages. The only language I have learned a little of, that is harder than Russian, is Arabic.
Impossible?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dimitri
I think soQuote:
Originally Posted by challenger
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dimitri
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.
You are doing really well for the amount of time you've been learning. Keep it up!Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyd
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!!!!! :D
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.
картошкиQuote:
Originally Posted by TATY
I thought картошки was the diminuitive-like "tater tots" :?:
According to Lingvo there's also :Quote:
Originally Posted by TATY
картофелина - one potato
"Tater tots"? "Spuds"?Quote:
Originally Posted by challenger
картошка
жен.; разг.
1) potato(es)
чистить картошку — to peel potatoes
печеная картошка — baked potato
сажать картошку — to plant potatoes
копать картошку — to dig potatoes
2) (картофелина) potato; разг. spud
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нос картошкой — bulbous nose
Ты забыл то, что я больше всего люблю - картофельное пюре!
Все вопросы к lingvo.ru :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by basurero