Re: Another Russian Question

on 9/13/01 9:30 PM, Colin Halverson at CHalvrson@AOL.COM wrote:

> Well, now that I just started German-hey I'm only 14- I am really interested
> in learning other languages, and for one reason or another my number one
> priority is Russian.
>
> So if anyone knows Russian and doesn't mind me bothering them I would be
> interested in learning some basic phrases (like "my name is...," one thru
> ten, "where are you...," etc.).
From what I remember from high school:

"my name is..."
Menya zovut ... [mEnjA zOvut]

"where are you?"
"Gde tï?" [g.djE ti-]

For that [g.d] crasis, there are two clear beats, but no vowel in between.
The [i-] is the barred lowercase i, and open central vowel.

numbers:
1   odin [@din]
2   dva [dvA]
3   tri [t4i]
4   chtiri [tS@ti4i-]
5   pyat' [pjAt.] (t. is a palatalized consonant)
6   shest' [Sest.]
7   syem' [sjEm.]
8   vosyem' [vosjEm.]
9   dyevat' [djEv@t.]
10  dyesat' [djEs@t.]

Keep in mind, however, that I learned my Russian from a hispanic woman from
Detroit who also taught Spanish. I'm usually pretty good with getting the
pronunciation right, but my Russian may not be representative of a native
speaker. ;)


Daniel Seriff
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http://members.tripod.com/microtonal

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