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igenlodeThis new batch of Russian lessons are definitely different in style and emphasis (and, alas, in sound quality) from the preceding ones. A much higher focus on formal grammar (or at least verbs) rather than the conversational/lifestyle vocabulary of the previous batch, I think, and in consequence much simpler sentence structure. It gives me the feeling of having skipped back to the starting lessons... until I get asked to repeat back the dialogue, at which point I realise that while I have a perfect passive understanding of it, I don't know the different tenses and constructions accurately enough to be able to reproduce them on request, and flounder :-(
https://youtu.be/BWmZP1SJLZU
"This is Petya. He is writing a letter. He was writing yesterday and he is writing today. Now finally he has finished writing his letter" -- that sounds like my sort of letter... or email, for that matter :-D
(Wow -- Russian students had to bed down with *three* people sleeping in one small room, and get up at seven a.m.? I thought Americans and their mandatory 'room-mates' had it bad!
On the other hand they get a sizeable selection of savoury breakfasts. Except for Lida, who apparently just wants cake :-p And yes, she is *gorgeous*...)
Edit: listening back to it with the auto-generated Russian subtitles enabled, I can see how distinctly inaccurate they are; I'm afraid that, as with optical character recognition, a fuzzy input considerably degrades the reliability of the output! "--She is in the other room --Thank you" is captioned as "She is the other clone Oshiba"....
https://youtu.be/BWmZP1SJLZU
"This is Petya. He is writing a letter. He was writing yesterday and he is writing today. Now finally he has finished writing his letter" -- that sounds like my sort of letter... or email, for that matter :-D
(Wow -- Russian students had to bed down with *three* people sleeping in one small room, and get up at seven a.m.? I thought Americans and their mandatory 'room-mates' had it bad!
On the other hand they get a sizeable selection of savoury breakfasts. Except for Lida, who apparently just wants cake :-p And yes, she is *gorgeous*...)
Edit: listening back to it with the auto-generated Russian subtitles enabled, I can see how distinctly inaccurate they are; I'm afraid that, as with optical character recognition, a fuzzy input considerably degrades the reliability of the output! "--She is in the other room --Thank you" is captioned as "She is the other clone Oshiba"....