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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680)

Apollo and Daphne

Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers)

Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

The Rape of Proserpina

Hey everyone! These are the skills I used to learn German in about two weeks! It takes a lot of work obviously but it’s so worth it. 💕⚡️

1. Use a language program like Memrise or Duolingo. I think that programs like these are super helpful for getting acquainted with the language you want to learn and for understanding basic grammar. I mostly use them as a break from the other work that I do but they are definitely good practice.

2. Make a list of the top 1,000 most common words and work on memorizing them in chunks. I worked on memorizing about 50-100 words a day. It sounds like a lot but many of the words are different verb tenses of the same word so it ends up being less work that you expect. Also, from using Memrise and Duolingo, a lot of the words were already familiar to me. I wrote a list of the words for the day each morning and during my breaks from school work I would quiz myself on them.

3. Watch lots of Youtube videos to study grammar and tenses. The internet is your friend when it comes to learning a new language so take advantage of the resources! I would google everything that confused me and watch videos on it until I felt like I really had a grasp. Doing this ensures that you have a strong foundation to learn new vocabulary.

4. Translate music from your main language into your target language and vice versa. This is a fun way that I would practice verb conjugations and my vocabulary recollection. Any word that I hadn’t learned already, I would look up and be able to add it to my vocab list. Also, this is really fun practice and the rhythm made it easier to remember what I was learning.

5. Keep a post-it note to write down any questions you have or things that you don’t understand. This way, you can remember to look up what was confusing you instead of forgetting what you don’t know. By keeping track of what I understood well and what I needed to continue practicing, I was more organized in my practice and spent my time better.

Me initially:

In Russian, expressing a need for something is formed by using a pronoun in the dative case (Мне, Тебе, Ему (n,m), Ей (f), Нам, Вам, Им) + нужно which changes in gender and number depending on the gender and number of the thing being needed.

нужно = for neuter singular nouns and infinitives нужна = for feminine singular nouns нужен = for masculine singular nouns нужны = for plural nouns

This is then followed by a noun (in the nominative case) or infinitive. 

Мне нужно работать. - I need to work. Мне нужно молоко. - I need milk. Мне нужна кошка. - I need a cat. Мне нужен дом. - I need a house. Мне нужны деньги. - I need money. 

In addition, “мне надо” also means “I need”, but can only be used with verbs and is more colloquial than нужно.

Russian onomatopoeic words are unchangeable words, which reflect different sounds of the world. For example:

1) Sounds of various objects (БУЛЬ- БУЛЬ, ТИК-ТАК, БАХ, ДЗИНЬ-ДЗИНЬ..)

2) Animal sounds (МЯУ, ГАВ-ГАВ, КУКАРЕКУ, КВА-КВА..)

3) Non-speech sounds that a person makes (АПЧХИ, ХА-ХА, ТОП-ТОП..)

Onomatopoeic words are full words of the language. They are included in explanatory dictionaries. On the basis of onomatopoeic words, a number of Russian verbs are formed (булькать, тикать, бахнуть, мяукать, топать). Onomatopoeic words are used in colloquial and artistic speech.

  Today we will see what onomatopoeic words Russians use to express the sounds of objects. 

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Звукоподражательные слова - это неизменяемые слова, в которых звуками речи передаются звуки окружающего мира.

1) Звуки различных предметов (БУЛЬ- БУЛЬ, ТИК-ТАК, БАХ, ДЗИНЬ-ДЗИНЬ..)

2) Звуки животных (МЯУ, ГАВ-ГАВ, КУКАРЕКУ, КВА-КВА..)

3) Неречевые звуки, которые издает человек (АПЧХИ, ХА-ХА, ТОП-ТОП..)

Звукоподражательные слова — полноправные слова языка. Они включаются в толковые словари.

На основе звукоподражательных слов образован целый ряд глаголов (булькать, тикать, бахнуть, мяукать, топать).

Звукоподражательные слова используются в разговорной и художественной речи.

  Сегодня мы посмотрим, какие звукоподражательные слова используют русские, чтобы передать звуки предметов.

Ду́дочка дуди́т    ДУ-ДУ-ДУ

Но́жницы ре́жут   ЧИК-ЧИК

Колокольчи́к звени́т  ДИНЬ-ДИНЬ

Колесо́ скрипи́т     СКРИП-СКРИП

Вода́ кипи́т   БУЛЬ – БУЛЬ

Снег скрипи́т СКРИП-СКРИП

Телефо́н звони́т ДЗИНЬ_ДЗИНЬ

Утюг шипи́т  Ш-Ш-Ш-Ш

Ключ повора́чивается ЧИК-ЧИК

Вода́ ка́пает КАП-КАП

Молото́к стучи́т ТУК-ТУК

Пила́ пи́лит    ВЖИК-ВЖИК

Часы́ ти́кают  ТИК-ТАК

Дверь скрипи́т СКРИП-СКРИП

Парохо́д гуди́т ТУ-ТУ-У

Ружьё стреля́ет  ПУХ

Маши́на сигна́лит БИ-БИ

Гром греми́т  БАБА́Х