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How I Learned Russian

Hi there, Steve Kaufmann, and today I'm going to talk to you about how I learned Russian. Remember if you enjoy these videos, please subscribe, click on the bell to get notifications. So I was about 60 and my approach to language learning had always been that you shouldn't focus on grammar. Uh, you need to get used to the language through lots of listening and reading.

I had done that with Chinese, with Japanese. You need to get used to the patterns of language and not focus on the itsy bitsy details of the language. And people said to me, that will not work with Russian because Russian has very complex grammar. So that became a bit of a challenge. Uh, and also I had always enjoyed,

you know, reading novels of Russian literature in English when I was young. So I thought it would be cool to be able to read uh Tolstoy or Dostoevsky in Russian. So with that, I started learning Russian. I began at that time, LingQ was very much in a sort of rudimentary stage. It would take us three, four, five seconds to save an individual LingQ.

But I started obviously, you know, not having a full fledged program at LingQ. I bought books, uh, Colloquial, uh, Teach Yourself, Living Language, listened to those, read them. As soon as we had certain things that I could do on LingQ, I started doing them. Yevgeny, who is a great supporter of LingQ in

petersburg, created a lot of great content. Uh, as soon as I could I started into, uh, you know, audio books. And I'm going to give you a brief view. In fact, if you look behind me, you'll see, I stacked them up to have a look here. You'll see some of the, uh, DVDs, some of the videos that I watched, some of the CDs that I listened to. The DVDs initially was more to, to stimulate me and encourage me.

The CDs was more for listening. I did a lot of listening. Uh, in those days, uh, we weren't yet able to import, you know, from YouTube and so forth, but we were able to import some of the classics, just the text, into LingQ. And then I would listen to the audio. And in fact, I'll give you a brief sort of view of my profile with Russian.

And you'll see that I began in 2007 more or less, and that I've had a period of significant activity, which then tapered off. So first have a look at that. I'm looking at my profile, and I get to my profile by the way, by clicking on my, uh, image here and then going to profile. And you'll see that I started learning Russian in 2007.

That's a long time ago. This is my hours of listening, not accurate because most of my listening through this period has been to CDs, watching movies, listening to Ekho Moskvy, and I'll get into more detail on what I did. If I just look at my activities on LingQ. If I look at my LingQs created, you'll see that I've been active over a long period of time.

Even recently, I go in occasionally and read an article on LingQ and create some LingQs. So my known words total has grown in this fashion. I don't know... when we were starting with LingQ, there were some issues and I ended up with some negative numbers, but that gives you a brief sense of how long I've been at Russian.

It has been a major love of mine. And so I want to get into some detail about that. All right now, the first, um, audio book that I listened to was The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy because it's short. And in fact I have it here. Okay. And I listened to it. I didn't really understand it, but I was able to import

the, uh, text because it's all, you know, free of copyright. I worked on it at LingQ. I did Chekhov, I did a lot of the classics of Russian. I can remember being in a place called Silver Star where in fact, I was training to ski in the Vasaloppet in Sweden, and I was out there cross country skiing three, four, five hours a day while listening to Chekhov, listening to Tolstoy, listening to, um, other classics of, of Russian literature.

Go back to my room and look up words. LingQ was very slow. Three, four, five seconds to save each word, but I was determined. Okay. So that's kind of where it began. Uh, some of my favorite, um, you know, DVDs it, for example... uh, although my all-time favorite was ..., which to me was the ultimate exotic Russian experience.

Um... 19th century, uh, some guy from Georgia and so forth, but there's a whole bunch of them. This is another great one. You know, this was... which is a classic in Russian, in Russia. They watch it uh, apparently every new years. Uh, I got into some of the, uh, some of the more modern ones, but I find that the modern Russian... there's also... somewhere.

Uh, here we have. But, um, the modern Russian movies are a little more violent. The old Russian Soviet movies, you know, uh, here we have another one, these were great. They had a, uh, gotta get my glasses on... whatever. And so that was that. However, another major, and I'll give you a bit of a tour now, then maybe of my library.

Yeah, I did want to give you a little bit of an overview of some of the material that I have used for my Russian here. For example... was one of my favorites. I listened to it over and over again. Uh, the same is true of Yama by Kuprin, but these of course were later on. The very first... let me see, the very first audio book that I did was

um, The Kreutzer Sonata... by Tolstoy. I did the whole Assimil series, but of course, as I'll show you, when I get to the books, that was only one of the, um, learning materials that I used. Uh, of course I watched a lot of Russian videos. I went and got some of these DVDs just to display them here for you.

Uh, one of my favorites was... You know... uh, I mean, I could go on and on. My favorite was ... which I wasn't able to find in a hurry here. These are some of the CDs that I listened to. Um, you know, and I have only displayed some of them because I've got a whole bookshelf full of these CDs.

So that's just the sort of DVD, CD, uh, section. When I say listening and reading, I include reading. So I have a lot of books here in Russian, including books for learning Russian and books for me to read in Russian. And, uh, I'm sure I have others elsewhere in my library. Of course it's a bit messy here, we're

doing work in the house. This is my Korean section, my German section, and so forth. At least of my, uh, CDs because the DVDs, the movies are more to, to encourage and stimulate and motivate me. And it was fun, but the learning was from listening to the audio books and then reading them on LingQ and saving words and phrases and accumulating this total of 90,000 some odd

known words. Granted in, you know, the way there are so many different forms of the same word. You can't just start beating your chest and saying, I know 90,000 words, but it indicates that I've done a lot of reading and where I've read I've largely listened. But a major impact on my Russian learning

But then for another couple of years, I'd be on talking to Alana to, uh, to Yevgeny other tutors, a number of tutors that I had, LingQ tutors, and, and speaking and learning about Russia and learning Russian. And it was just a wonderful, wonderful experience. And, um, but w w a major influence Ekho Moskvy. Now, Ekho Muskvy is a radio station in Moscow.

Not very popular in Russia because it's somewhat anti-regime. Although in fact, there's quite a wide range of opinion there, they have, like, you know, ... the communist is there. You've got, uh, Um... I can't remember. It's been awhile, I haven't been listening to it for a while, but you had there's this imperialist guy and they have a sort of a wide range of opinion.

I wouldn't call them moderate in any way. They're all very emphatic and let they have to say, but if you listen to a, a group of these people, you get a sense of what people are talking about in Russia. The big advantage of Ekho Moskvy is that every day there are, I don't know, a dozen interviews, audio with text.

So every day I would import the text into LingQ. I wouldn't bother imoarting the audio because I would have that on my, uh, you know, iPhone or whatever, but I'D go through and mine it for words and phrases. I mean, I did that for years. Every day I would load up with five interviews. I'd be listening in the car, listening everywhere, reading.

Ekho Moskvy was a major influence on me developing my Russian. Now, Russians get on and say, ah, that's a, you know, they're all, uh, American Stooges and blah, blah, blah, and whatever. But the... in fact, it's, that's not quite fair. There is a variety, but as with any, uh, information source, you have to pick and choose, and you can't just accept things at face value.

And I don't accept everything at face value that I hear on Ekho Moskvy. However, it helped me a great deal. So basically my experience with Russian was one of discovering. First of all, the classics, because there I was able to... I went to Riga, Latvia to buy all of these, all of these, uh, CDs. I got lots of them, which you don't need to do now because you can find them online.

Uh, and I bought all these DVDs movies, which you don't need to do now because you can find them in Netflix, you can find them in YouTube. Um, and, and so I was exploring that aspect of Russia, but at the same time through Ekho Moskvy, I was exploring daily events, Russian perspectives on things happening around the world,

um, Russia?US Relations, Russia/ukraine relations, Russia/china relations. And so I was getting a rather broad base. The other thing that Russian did for me is it got me into the Slavic languages. It was my first Slavic language. And of course, yeah, it is difficult. It is difficult because there are many things in Russian that we don't have in English.

We don't have, uh, you know, verbs of motion. We don't have cases. We don't have, uh, uh, you know, aspects of verbs, uh, these things. And you can read the explanations over and over again, but, and they're kind of helpful, but the explanations are not that difficult to understand, except that there are so many exceptions that you can get confused. But it's getting, developing these habits, these patterns of speech that they have in Russian, which are different from

english, and that just takes a lot of exposure. And even at that, as I've been away from Russian, and of course my Russian, uh, deteriorates, I make more grammatical mistakes, I search for words. But again, if I get back into it, if I'm with Russian people, I hear how they speak. I pick up on how they speak. I start to refresh, you know, the habits that I have,

you know, lost and acquire new and better habits. So I'm comfortable with where I am in Russian. But Russian is, uh, because I don't have to write exams in Russian I just have to enjoy the language, but it was also the door into other Slavic languages. So, uh, after Russian I learned Czech because my father, my parents were born in, uh, actually the Austro-Hungarian empire, but what became Czechoslovakia.

And, uh, my father had, you know, scrapbooks at home of where he climbed mountains and did a whole bunch of stuff that was in the newspapers. And now I'm able to read it. So I learned Czech. Czech was a long road, by the way. And then from Czech, I did Polish and then I did Ukrainian and a little bit of a Slovak, which is very similar to Czech.

So it opened up the whole Slavic world. Uh, so it's been to me, it's been a love affair with Russian. Uh, a voyage of discovery of Russian, uh, of the ... of the Russian world, but also the Slavic world. So, uh, just a quick summary. I hope that's helpful to you of how I learned Russian. Bye for now.

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you know, reading novels of Russian literature in English when I was young. |||романы||||||||| |||romans||||||||| So I thought it would be cool to be able to read uh Tolstoy or Dostoevsky in Russian. |||||быть в состоянии||||||||||Достоевского|| |||||||||||||||Dostoevsky|| |||||||||||||Russian author||Dostoevsky|| ||pensei||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||Dostojewski|| |||||||||||||托尔斯泰||陀思妥耶夫斯基|| |||||||||||||||Dostoyevski|| So with that, I started learning Russian. ||||начал изучать|| I began at that time, LingQ was very much in a sort of rudimentary stage. |начал||||||||||||начальный| |||||||||||||rudimentaire| |||||||||||||basic stage| |||||||||||||rudimentar| |||||||||||||ilkel| |||||||||||||rudimentale| |||||||||||||kezdetleges| |||||||||||||初级阶段| |||||||||||||初歩的な| Počeo sam u to vrijeme, LingQ je bio u nekoj vrsti rudimentarne faze. Я начал в то время, LingQ был в какой-то зачаточной стадии. It would take us three, four, five seconds to save an individual LingQ. |||||||секунды||||| |||||||seconds||||| Bu|||||||||||| Trebalo bi nam tri, četiri, pet sekundi da spremimo pojedinačni LingQ. 個々のLingQを保存するには、3、4、5秒かかります。 Uratowanie pojedynczego LingQ zajęłoby nam trzy, cztery, pięć sekund. Нам потребовалось бы три, четыре, пять секунд, чтобы сохранить отдельный LingQ.

But I started obviously, you know, not having a full fledged program at LingQ. ||||||||||полноценный||| ||||||||||complètement développé||| |||clearly||||||complete|fully developed||| ||||||||||completo||| ||||||||||voll entwickelt||| |||||||||tam kapsamlı|tam gelişmiş||| ||||||||||completo||| ||||||||||kifejlett||| ||||||||||成熟||| ||||||||||完全な||| ||empecé|||||||completo|completo||| Ali počeo sam očito, znate, nemajući potpuni program u LingQ-u. しかし、私は明らかに、LingQで本格的なプログラムを持っていないことから始めました。 Но я начал, очевидно, с того, что у меня не было полноценной программы в LingQ. I bought books, uh, Colloquial, uh, Teach Yourself, Living Language, listened to those, read them. |купил|||разговорный язык||||||слушал их|||| ||||familier|||||||||| ||||Conversational|||||||||| |compré||||||||||||| As soon as we had certain things that I could do on LingQ, I started doing them. |||||||||podia||||||| Как только у нас появились определенные вещи, которые я мог делать на LingQ, я начал их делать. Yevgeny, who is a great supporter of LingQ in Евгений|||||сторонник||| Yevgeny|||||partisan de||| Yevgeny|||||advocate||| Yevgeny|||||||| Yevgeny|||||||| Yevgeny|||||||| |||||sostenitore||| 叶夫根尼|||||||| Yevgeny||||||||

petersburg, created a lot of great content. Петербург|создал||||| |||beaucoup||| Petersburg|||||| Petersburgo|||||| 彼得斯堡|||||| Uh, as soon as I could I started into, uh, you know, audio books. And I'm going to give you a brief view. |||||||краткий обзор| ||je vais|||||| |||||||breve visión| In fact, if you look behind me, you'll see, I stacked them up to have a look here. |||||позади меня|||||сложил их||||||| ||||||||||empilés||||||| ||||||||||stacked||||||| ||||||||||empilhei||||||| ||||||||||üst üste koydum||||||| ||||||||||felhalmoztam őket||||||| ||||||||||堆||||||| ||||||||||積み上げた||||||| |||||detrás de||verás|||apilé||apilados|||||aquí De hecho, si miras detrás de mí, lo verás, los apilé para echar un vistazo aquí. Zapravo, ako pogledate iza mene, vidjet ćete, naslagao sam ih da pogledam ovdje. You'll see some of the, uh, DVDs, some of the videos that I watched, some of the CDs that I listened to. ||||||DVD-диски|||||||смотрел||||CD-диски|||| |verás|||||DVDs||||videos||||||||||| The DVDs initially was more to, to stimulate me and encourage me. ||поначалу|||||стимулировать|||поддержать| |||||||stimuler|||| |DVDs||||||motivieren|||ermutigen| |||||||motivate|||| |||||||uyarmak||||

The CDs was more for listening. |||||écoute I did a lot of listening. Uh, in those days, uh, we weren't yet able to import, you know, from YouTube and so forth, but we were able to import some of the classics, just the text, into LingQ. ||||||не могли||||импортировать||||YouTube|||и так далее||||||||||классические произведения||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||classiques||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||timeless literary works||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||Klassiker||||| ||||||||||||||||ve benzeri|||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||古典||||| W tamtych czasach nie byliśmy jeszcze w stanie importować, no wiesz, z YouTube i tak dalej, ale byliśmy w stanie zaimportować niektóre klasyki, tylko tekst, do LingQ. And then I would listen to the audio. |||verbo auxiliar|||| そして、私はオーディオを聴きます。 A potem słuchałem audio. And in fact, I'll give you a brief sort of view of my profile with Russian. |||я|||||||||||| ||||daré||||||||||| そして実際、私はあなたにロシア語での私のプロフィールの簡単な種類の見方を与えるでしょう。 I faktycznie, dam ci krótki przegląd mojego profilu z rosyjskim. 事实上，我会向大家简要介绍一下我的俄罗斯个人资料。

And you'll see that I began in 2007 more or less, and that I've had a period of significant activity, which then tapered off. |||||||||||||||период активности||значительная активность||||сошёл на нет| |||||||||||||||||||||ralenti| |||||||||||||||||notable||||decreased| |||||||||||||||||||||diminuíu|diminuí |||||||||||||||||||||abnahm| |||||||||||||||||önemli||||azaldı| |||||||||||||||||||||si è ridotto| |||||||||||||||||||||csökkent fokozatosan| |||||||||||||||||||||逐渐减少| |||||||||||||||||||||減少した| ||||||||||||he tenido|||||significativa||||disminuyó gradualmente| I vidjet ćete da sam počeo manje-više 2007. i da sam imao razdoblje značajne aktivnosti, koje se zatim smanjilo. そして、私が多かれ少なかれ2007年に始めたこと、そして私が重要な活動の期間を過ごし、その後次第に減少したことがわかるでしょう. 您会发现我大约从 2007 年开始从事这项工作，之后经历了一段较为活跃的时期，但后来逐渐减少。 So first have a look at that. |önce||||| I'm looking at my profile, and I get to my profile by the way, by clicking on my, uh, image here and then going to profile. |||||||||||||||нажав на||||изображение|||||| |||||||||||||||en cliquant sur|||||||||| |||||||||||||||click|||||||||| |||||||||||||||klicken|||||||||| |||||ve||||||||||tıklayarak|||||||||| ||||perfil||||||||||||||||||||| And you'll see that I started learning Russian in 2007.

That's a long time ago. This is my hours of listening, not accurate because most of my listening through this period has been to CDs, watching movies, listening to Ekho Moskvy, and I'll get into more detail on what I did. |||||||точный||||||в течение|||||||||||Эхо Москвы|Эхо Москвы||||||подробнее расскажу||что я делал||сделал/сделала |||||||not precise|||||||||||||||||Echo Moscow|Echo of Moscow|||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||Ekho|Moskau|||||||||| Bu||||||değil||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||preciso|||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||no|no exacta|||||||||||||||||Ekho Moskvy|Ekho Moskvy|||||||||| Ovo su moji sati slušanja, nisu točni jer je većina mog slušanja kroz ovo razdoblje bila CD-ovi, gledanje filmova, slušanje Ekho Moskvy, i ući ću u više detalja o tome što sam radio. If I just look at my activities on LingQ. If I look at my LingQs created, you'll see that I've been active over a long period of time. ||||||||||||активен|||||| |||||language learning terms||||||||||||| |||||LingQs creadas||||||||||||| Als ik naar mijn gemaakte LingQs kijk, zie je dat ik al een hele tijd actief ben.

Even recently, I go in occasionally and read an article on LingQ and create some LingQs. даже|недавно||||время от времени|||||||||| Even||||||||||||||| ||||||y||||||||| So my known words total has grown in this fashion. ||||итого|||||таким образом ||||||augmenté||| |||||||||manner or way |||||||||maneira |||||||||Hinsicht |||||||bu şekilde||şekilde |||||||||in questo modo |||||||en esta||de esta manera I don't know... when we were starting with LingQ, there were some issues and I ended up with some negative numbers, but that gives you a brief sense of how long I've been at Russian. |||||||||||||||оказался с|||||числа/цифры/номера|||||||||||||| ||||||||||||problèmes|||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||y||terminé teniendo||||||||||||||||||| Я не знаю... когда мы начинали с LingQ, были некоторые проблемы, и я получил несколько отрицательных чисел, но это дает вам краткое представление о том, как долго я работаю на русском языке. 我不知道...当我们开始使用 LingQ 时，出现了一些问题，最后得到了一些负数，但这可以让您大致了解我在俄语工作了多长时间。

It has been a major love of mine. ||||grande||| |||||||minha È stata una grande passione per me. Het is een grote liefde van mij geweest. Это была моя большая любовь. And so I want to get into some detail about that. E quindi voglio entrare in alcuni dettagli su questo. И поэтому я хочу подробно остановиться на этом. All right now, the first, um, audio book that I listened to was The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy because it's short. |||||э-э|||||||||Крейцерова соната|Соната Крейцера||||| ||||||||||||était||Kreutzer|Sonate||||| |||||well|||||||||Kreutzer|Sonata||||| ||||||||||||||Kreutzer|Sonata||||| ||||||||||||||Kreutzer|Sonate||||| ||||||||||||||Kreutzer Sonatı|||||| ||||||||||||||Kreutzer|Sonata||||| ||||||||||||||克雷采尔|奏鸣曲||||| ||||||||||||||Kreutzer Sonata|sonata||Tolstói||| Va bene, ora, il primo, ehm, audiolibro che ho ascoltato è stato Il Sonato Kreutzer di Tolstoj perché è breve. Итак, первая, гм, аудиокнига, которую я прослушал, была «Крейцерова соната» Толстого, потому что она короткая. And in fact I have it here. А на самом деле он у меня здесь. Okay. Хорошо. And I listened to it. I didn't really understand it, but I was able to import

the, uh, text because it's all, you know, free of copyright. ||||||||||авторское право ||||||||||droit d'auteur ||||||||||intellectual property ||||||||||direitos autorais ||||||||||Urheberrecht ||||||||||copyright ||||||||||derechos de autor I worked on it at LingQ. I did Chekhov, I did a lot of the classics of Russian. ||Чехова||||||||| ||Tchekhov||||||||| ||Chekhov's works||||||||| ||Chekhov||||||||| ||Cechov||||||||| ||契诃夫||||||||| ||Chejov||||||||| I can remember being in a place called Silver Star where in fact, I was training to ski in the Vasaloppet in Sweden, and I was out there cross country skiing three, four, five hours a day while listening to Chekhov, listening to Tolstoy, listening to, um, other classics of, of Russian literature. ||||||||Сильвер Стар|Сильвер Стар|||||||||||Васалоппет||Швеция|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||Vasaloppet|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||Vasaloppet||||||||||cross country skiing|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||Vasaloppet||||||||||esquiando|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||Vasaloppet|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||bulunduğumu||||||||||||||||||||ve|||||||kayak yapma|üç||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||Vasaloppet|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||瓦萨滑雪赛|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||esquiar|||Vasaloppet||||||||esquí de fondo||esquiando||||||||||||||||||||||literatura rusa Sjećam se da sam bio na mjestu koje se zove Srebrna zvijezda gdje sam zapravo trenirao skijanje u Vasaloppetu u Švedskoj, i bio sam vani na skijanju tri, četiri, pet sati dnevno dok sam slušao Čehova, slušao Tolstoja, slušajući, hm, druge klasike ruske književnosti.

Go back to my room and look up words. ||||комната|||| LingQ was very slow. |||LingQ был очень медленным. Three, four, five seconds to save each word, but I was determined. |||||||||||полон решимости |||||||||||déterminé |||||||||||decidido Okay. So that's kind of where it began. Uh, some of my favorite, um, you know, DVDs it, for example... uh, although my all-time favorite was ..., which to me was the ultimate exotic Russian experience. ||||любимый||||||||||||||||||||высший предел|экзотический|| |||||||||||||||||||||||||exotique|| |||||||||||||||||||ki|||||en üst düzey|egzotik|| |||||||||||||||todas||||||||la|máxima||| |||||||||||||embora|||||||||||||| ええと、私のお気に入りのいくつか、ええと、あなたが知っている、それをDVD、例えば...ええと、私のずっと好きだったのは...、それは私にとって究極のエキゾチックなロシアの経験でした。 Э-э, некоторые из моих любимых, э-э, вы знаете, DVD это, например... э-э, хотя мой самый любимый был..., который для меня был самым экзотическим русским опытом. 呃，比如说我最喜欢的一些 DVD...呃，尽管我一直以来最喜欢的是...对我来说，那是终极的异国俄罗斯体验。

Um... 19th century, uh, some guy from Georgia and so forth, but there's a whole bunch of them. ||век|||парень|||||и так далее|||||куча|| ||1800s||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||un montón|| ええと... 19世紀、ええと、ジョージア出身の人などですが、たくさんいます。 Эм... 19 век, какой-то парень из Джорджии и так далее, но их целая куча. This is another great one. |||ótima| これはもう一つの素晴らしいものです。 You know, this was... which is a classic in Russian, in Russia. |||||||Klassiker|||| |||||olan|||||| あなたが知っている、これは...ロシアの、ロシアの古典です。 They watch it uh, apparently every new years. ||||似乎||| ||||anscheinend||| ||||It seems||| 彼らはそれをええと、どうやら新しい年ごとに見ています。 Uh, I got into some of the, uh, some of the more modern ones, but I find that the modern Russian... there's also... somewhere. |||||||||||||||||||||||где-то |||||||||||||||||||||||quelque part |||||||||||||diesen|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||em algum lugar ええと、私はいくつかの、ええと、より現代的なもののいくつかに入りました、しかし私は現代のロシア人が...そこにも...どこかにあるのを見つけます。 Э-э, я попал в некоторые, э-э, некоторые из более современных, но я обнаружил, что современный русский... там также... где-то.

Uh, here we have. But, um, the modern Russian movies are a little more violent. ||||||||||более жестокие ||||||||||violentes ||||||||||暴力的 |||moderna|||||||violentos The old Russian Soviet movies, you know, uh, here we have another one, these were great. ||||||||вот здесь||||||| |||||||||||une autre|un|celles-ci|| |||||tú|||||||||| They had a, uh, gotta get my glasses on... whatever. ||||надо|||очки||что-то такое |||||||lunettes|| |||||tengo que poner||||lo que sea ||||tenho que||||| Morali su mi, uh, staviti naočale... što god. And so that was that. However, another major, and I'll give you a bit of a tour now, then maybe of my library. ||специальность|||дам вам|||||||||||| |otro||||||||||recorrido||||||

Yeah, I did want to give you a little bit of an overview of some of the material that I have used for my Russian here. ||||||||||||обзор материала||||||||||||| ||||||||||||aperçu||||||||||||| ||||||||||||brief summary||||||||||||| ||||||||||||visão geral||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||使用|||| ||verbo auxiliar||||||||||visión general||||||||||||| For example... was one of my favorites. ||||||любимые вещи ||||||préférés ||||||favorites I listened to it over and over again. Uh, the same is true of Yama by Kuprin, but these of course were later on. ||||||«Яма» Куприна||Куприн||||||| ||||||Yama (1)||Kuprin||||||| ||||||Yama||Kuprin||||||| ||||||Yama||Kuprin||||||| ||||||Yama||||||||| ||||||雅马||库普林||||||| ||||||Yama de Kuprin||Kuprin||||||| Uh, to samo dotyczy Yamy Kuprina, ale te oczywiście były późniejsze. The very first... let me see, the very first audio book that I did was |||позвольте||||||||||| Prva... da vidim, prva audio knjiga koju sam napravio bila je

um, The Kreutzer Sonata... by Tolstoy. |||Sonata|| |la|||| I did the whole Assimil series, but of course, as I'll show you, when I get to the books, that was only one of the, um, learning materials that I used. |||всю|Ассимиль|серия курсов Assimil|||конечно же|||||||||||||||||||учебные материалы||| ||||Assimil|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||quando||||||||||||||||| yo|||||||||||||cuando|yo|||||||||||||materiales de aprendizaje||| Я прошел всю серию Assimil, но, конечно, как я покажу вам, когда доберусь до книг, это был лишь один из, гм, учебных материалов, которые я использовал. Uh, of course I watched a lot of Russian videos. I went and got some of these DVDs just to display them here for you. ||||||||||показать|||| ||||||||||display|||| ||||||||||kirakni||||

Uh, one of my favorites was... You know... uh, I mean, I could go on and on. My favorite was ... which I wasn't able to find in a hurry here. |||||||||||поспешности| |||||n'ai pas||||||| |||||||||||fretta| |||||||||||de prisa| These are some of the CDs that I listened to. Um, you know, and I have only displayed some of them because I've got a whole bookshelf full of these CDs. |||||||показал|||||||||книжный шкаф|||| |||||||exposé||||||||entière|étagère à livres|||| |||||||shown|||||||||bookshelf|||| |||||||exibido|||||||||estante|||| |||||||angezeigt||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||scaffale|||| |||||||mostrado|||||||||estantería de libros||||

So that's just the sort of DVD, CD, uh, section. ||||||DVD-диск||| ||||||DVD||| |eso es|||||||| 这只是 DVD、CD 等部分。 When I say listening and reading, I include reading. So I have a lot of books here in Russian, including books for learning Russian and books for me to read in Russian. ||||||||||||||ruso|||||||| And, uh, I'm sure I have others elsewhere in my library. ||||||другие книги|в другом месте||| |||||||ailleurs||| |||||||em outro lugar||| |||||||en otro lugar||| Of course it's a bit messy here, we're |||||mess|| |||||bagunçado|| |||||desordenado|| |||||disordinato|| Certo, è un po' disordinato qui, stiamo

doing work in the house. lavorando in casa. This is my Korean section, my German section, and so forth. ||||||Немецкий раздел|||и так далее| Questa è la mia sezione coreana, la mia sezione tedesca, e così via. At least of my, uh, CDs because the DVDs, the movies are more to, to encourage and stimulate and motivate me. |||||||||||||||вдохновлять||||| |au moins||||||||||||||||||motiver| And it was fun, but the learning was from listening to the audio books and then reading them on LingQ and saving words and phrases and accumulating this total of 90,000 some odd |||||||||||||||||||||сохранение|||||накапливая|||||с лишним ||||||||||||||||||||||||||accumulant||||environ 90 000|environ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||gathering||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||alguns ||||||||||||||||||||||||||akkumulieren||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||felhalmozva||||| |||divertido|||||||||||||||||||||||acumulando|||||alrededor de I bilo je zabavno, ali učenje je proizlazilo iz slušanja audio knjiga i zatim njihovog čitanja na LingQ-u i spremanja riječi i fraza i skupljanja ovih ukupno 90 000, nešto čudno

known words. |Sure, I can help with that. Please provide the specific words you need translated and the context or known words. Granted in, you know, the way there are so many different forms of the same word. Учитывая|||||||||||формы|||| Concesso||||||||||||||| concedido||||||||||||||| concedido||||||||||||de||| Doduše, znate, na način na koji postoji toliko različitih oblika iste riječi. 当然，你知道，同一个词有很多种不同的形式。 You can't just start beating your chest and saying, I know 90,000 words, but it indicates that I've done a lot of reading and where I've read I've largely listened. ||||бить себя в грудь||грудь||||||||указывает на то|||||||||||||в основном| ||||battre|||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||pounding||chest|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||peito|||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||größtenteils| ||||拍打||||||||||表明|||||||||||||| ||||golpeando||pecho|||||||||||||||||||||en gran medida| But a major impact on my Russian learning |||сильное влияние|||| Ali veliki utjecaj na moje učenje ruskog

uh, aside from the tremendous help I got from Yevgeny and other tutors, there was a while I should have shown that in my statistics, there was a while where I was doing a lot of talking as well, because I mean, we're talking about a long period of engagement with Russian. |помимо|||огромная помощь|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||взаимодействие с русским|| ||||énorme||||||||tuteurs|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||engagement|| |||||||||Yevgeny the tutor|||teachers|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||involvement|| |à parte||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||compromisso|| |a parte||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||coinvolgimento prolungato|| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||körülbelül||||||| |aparte||||||||Yevgeny||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||compromiso|| uh, osim ogromne pomoći koju sam dobio od Jevgenija i drugih učitelja, neko vrijeme sam to trebao pokazati u svojoj statistici, bilo je i vrijeme kada sam puno pričao, jer mislim, mi smo govoreći o dugom razdoblju angažmana s ruskim. uh, a parte dal enorme aiuto che ho ricevuto da Yevgeny e da altri tutor, c'è stato un periodo in cui avrei dovuto mostrare che nelle mie statistiche, c'è stato un periodo in cui parlavo molto anche io, perché stiamo parlando di un lungo periodo di coinvolgimento con il russo. So perhaps two years I didn't speak. ||||||говорил Quindi forse per due anni non ho parlato.

But then for another couple of years, I'd be on talking to Alana to, uh, to Yevgeny other tutors, a number of tutors that I had, LingQ tutors, and, and speaking and learning about Russia and learning Russian. ||||||||||||Алане||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||Alana||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||a name||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||Alana||||||||||||||||||||||||| Ma poi per altri due anni, parlavo con Alana, con Yevgeny e altri tutor, diversi tutor che avevo, tutor di LingQ, e parlando e imparando sulla Russia e imparando il russo. And it was just a wonderful, wonderful experience. And, um, but w w a major influence Ekho Moskvy. |||||||влияние|| |||w|w||||| Now, Ekho Muskvy is a radio station in Moscow. ||Москвы||||||Москве ||Moscou|||||| ||Moscow radio|||||| ||Muskvy|||||| ||Moskva|||||| ||穆斯克维|||||| ||Muskvy||||||Moscú

Not very popular in Russia because it's somewhat anti-regime. |||||||в некоторой степени||режим |||||||||government |||||||um pouco|| |||||||||rezsimellenes ||||||||反| |||||||algo||régimen político 由于它带有某种反政权的倾向，因此在俄罗斯不太受欢迎。 Although in fact, there's quite a wide range of opinion there, they have, like, you know, ... the communist is there. ||||довольно|||диапазон мнений||мнений|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||communist ideology|| Embora||||||ampla||||||||||||| Anche se in realtà ci sono opinioni abbastanza varie, ci sono, tipo, sai, ... il comunista è lì. Hoewel er in feite nogal een breed scala van meningen is, hebben ze, zoals, weet je, ... de communist is er. You've got, uh, Um... I can't remember. Hai, uh, Um... non riesco a ricordare. It's been awhile, I haven't been listening to it for a while, but you had there's this imperialist guy and they have a sort of a wide range of opinion. ||некоторое время|||||||||||||||империалистический парень|||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||impérialiste|||||||||||| ||a while|||||||||||||||imperialist|||||||||||| ||um tempo||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||imperialista|||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||imperialista|||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||帝国主义者|||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||帝国主義者|||||||||||| ha||un rato||||||||||||||||||ellos|||una especie de|||||| È passato un po' di tempo, non l'ho ascoltato per un po', ma c'era questo tizio imperialista e hanno una sorta di ampia gamma di opinioni. 已经有一段时间了，我有一段时间没有听它了，但是你听到过这个帝国主义者，他们有各种各样的意见。

I wouldn't call them moderate in any way. ||||умеренные||| ||||modérés||| ||||moderate||| ||||中程度||| ||||温和||| 私はそれらを穏健とは決して呼びません。 They're all very emphatic and let they have to say, but if you listen to a, a group of these people, you get a sense of what people are talking about in Russia. |||убедительный||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||catégoriques||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||forceful||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||enfáticos||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||eindringlich||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||decisi||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||强调||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||強い||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||escuchas||||||||||||||||||| Wszyscy są bardzo stanowczy i dają do zrozumienia, co mają do powiedzenia, ale jeśli posłucha się grupy tych ludzi, można zrozumieć, o czym ludzie mówią w Rosji. The big advantage of Ekho Moskvy is that every day there are, I don't know, a dozen interviews, audio with text. ||преимущество|||||||||||||||интервью||| ||||||||||||||||une douzaine|||| ||||||||||||||||uma dúzia|||| ||||||||||||||||docena||||

So every day I would import the text into LingQ. I wouldn't bother imoarting the audio because I would have that on my, uh, you know, iPhone or whatever, but I'D go through and mine it for words and phrases. ||беспокоиться о импорте|импортировать|||||||||||||айфон||||||||||||| |||importer l'audio|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||importing|||||||||||||||||||||extract information from||||| ||me daria|importando|||||||||||||||||||passaria||||||| |||importieren|||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||disturbare|importare l'audio|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||nem tölteném le|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||导入音频|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||インポート|||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||me molestaría|importar|||||||||||||||||||||||||| Ne bih se mučio s umotavanjem zvuka jer bih to imao na svom, uh, znate, iPhoneu ili bilo čemu drugom, ali bih ga pregledao i tražio riječi i fraze. Non mi preoccuperei di importare l'audio perché ce l'avrei sul mio, ehm, sai, iPhone o qualcosa del genere, ma andrei a cercare parole e frasi. iPhoneなどにオーディオがあるので、わざわざオーディオを作成することはしませんが、単語やフレーズを調べてマイニングします。 I mean, I did that for years. Voglio dire, l'ho fatto per anni. Every day I would load up with five interviews. ||||||||интервью ||||laden|||| ||||carregava|||| ||||cargarme|||| Svaki dan bih se napunio s pet intervjua. Ogni giorno caricavo cinque interviste. Каждый день я загружал пять интервью. I'd be listening in the car, listening everywhere, reading. |||||||em todo o lado| |||||||en todas partes| Ascoltavo in auto, ascoltavo ovunque, leggevo.

Ekho Moskvy was a major influence on me developing my Russian. |||||влияние||||| ||||||||entwicken|| Echo|Moscow||||||||| Ekho Moskvy ha avuto una grande influenza sul mio sviluppo del russo. Now, Russians get on and say, ah, that's a, you know, they're all, uh, American Stooges and blah, blah, blah, and whatever. ||||и|||||||||||Марионетки США||и так далее|и так далее||| |||||||||||||||larbins américains|||||| ||react|||||||||||||American puppets||and so on|||| |||||||||||||||Stooges|||||| |||||||||||||||Stooges||||blablabla|| |||||||||||||||Burattini americani|||||| |||||||||||||||傻瓜|||||| |||||||||||||||アメリカの道化師|||||| ||||||||||||||estadounidenses|tontos americanos||y bla bla|||| Ora, i russi vanno avanti e dicono, ah, quello è, sai, sono tutti, ehm, Stooges americani e bla, bla, bla, e qualunque cosa. Теперь русские вступают и говорят: ах, это, знаете ли, они все, э-э, американские марионетки и бла-бла-бла, и все такое. But the... in fact, it's, that's not quite fair. ||||||||справедливо ||||||||giusto pero|||||||no es del todo|justo Ma il... infatti, non è proprio giusto. Maar de... in feite is dat niet helemaal eerlijk. There is a variety, but as with any, uh, information source, you have to pick and choose, and you can't just accept things at face value. ||||||||||||||||||||||||valore nominale|valore nominale |||разнообразие|||||||||||||||||||||первом приближ| ||||||||||||||escolher||escolher||||||||| hay||||||||||||||||||||||las cosas|a simple|valor nominal| |||||||||||||||||||||||そのまま|| Postoji raznolikost, ali kao i sa svakim, uh, izvorom informacija, morate izabrati i ne možete prihvatiti stvari zdravo za gotovo. C'è una varietà, ma come con qualsiasi, ehm, fonte di informazione, devi selezionare e scegliere, e non puoi semplicemente accettare le cose per quello che sembrano. さまざまなものがありますが、他の情報源と同様に、選択する必要があり、額面通りに物事を受け入れることはできません。 Существует разнообразие, но, как и в случае с любым другим источником информации, вы должны выбирать и выбирать, и вы не можете просто принимать вещи за чистую монету.

And I don't accept everything at face value that I hear on Ekho Moskvy. E non accetto tutto per quello che sembra che sento su Ekho Moskvy. I nie akceptuję wszystkiego, co słyszę na Ekho Moskvy. И я не принимаю за чистую монету все, что слышу на «Эхо Москвы». However, it helped me a great deal. ||||||сильно no entanto|||||| Het heeft me echter enorm geholpen. So basically my experience with Russian was one of discovering. |||||||||открытия для себя 所以基本上我学习俄语的经历是一种发现。 First of all, the classics, because there I was able to... I went to Riga, Latvia to buy all of these, all of these, uh, CDs. Во-первых||||||||||||||Ригу|Латвия|||||||||| ||||||||||||||Riga||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Riga|Latvia|||||||||| ||||||||||||||Riga||||||||||| |||||||||||||||Lettonia|||||||||| ||||||||||||||里加|拉脱维亚|||||||||| ||||||||||||||Riga|Letonia|||||||||| I got lots of them, which you don't need to do now because you can find them online. |||||||do not||||||||||

Uh, and I bought all these DVDs movies, which you don't need to do now because you can find them in Netflix, you can find them in YouTube. |||ai acheté|||||||||||||||||||||||| |||compré|||||||||||||||||||||||| Um, and, and so I was exploring that aspect of Russia, but at the same time through Ekho Moskvy, I was exploring daily events, Russian perspectives on things happening around the world, ||||||||||||||||через||||||||||||||| ||||||||||la Russie||||||à travers|||||||||points de vue|||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||daily events||||||||| ||||||||||||||||através||||||diariamente||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||erkundete||||Perspektiven|||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||prospettive russe||||||

um, Russia?US Relations, Russia/ukraine relations, Russia/china relations. |||Beziehungen|||Beziehungen||| |||||||||relations |||||||Rusia|| And so I was getting a rather broad base. ||||||довольно|| ||||||assez|| |||||||ampla| |||||||ampia| |||||||amplia| И так у меня получалась довольно широкая база. The other thing that Russian did for me is it got me into the Slavic languages. ||||||||||||||славянские языки| ||||||||||||||Slavic languages| It was my first Slavic language. And of course, yeah, it is difficult. It is difficult because there are many things in Russian that we don't have in English.

We don't have, uh, you know, verbs of motion. Мы||||||глаголы движения||движения ||||||||de mouvement ||||||||verbs indicating movement ||||||||Bewegung ||||||||verbo de movimiento Nemamo, uh, znate, glagole kretanja. We hebben geen, uh, je weet wel, werkwoorden van beweging. We don't have cases. Мы|||случаи |||de cas |||casos |||Nincsenek esetek. We don't have, uh, uh, you know, aspects of verbs, uh, these things. And you can read the explanations over and over again, but, and they're kind of helpful, but the explanations are not that difficult to understand, except that there are so many exceptions that you can get confused. |||||||||||||||||||||||||кроме того|||||||||||запутаться |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||irregularities anomalies deviations||||| |||||||||||||||útiles|||||||||||||||||||||confundido But it's getting, developing these habits, these patterns of speech that they have in Russian, which are different from |||||привычки||||речь||||||||| ||adquiriendo|desarrollando||||||habla|||||||||

english, and that just takes a lot of exposure. ||||||||практика ||||||||familiarity ||||||||exposición angolul|||||||| And even at that, as I've been away from Russian, and of course my Russian, uh, deteriorates, I make more grammatical mistakes, I search for words. ||||||||||||||||ухудшается||||грамматические|||ищу слова|| ||||||||||||||||se détériore||||||||| ||||||||||||||||gets worse||||||||| ||||||||||||||||verschlechtert sich||mache||||||| ||||||||||||||||deteriora||||||||| ||||||||||||||||romlik||||||||| ||||||||||||||||退步||||||||| ||||||||||||||||悪化する||||||||| |||||||ausente|||||||||||||||||| I čak i pored toga, kako sam bio daleko od ruskog, i naravno moj ruski, ovaj, se pogoršava, radim više gramatičkih grešaka, tražim riječi. But again, if I get back into it, if I'm with Russian people, I hear how they speak. I pick up on how they speak. I start to refresh, you know, the habits that I have, |||rafraîchir||||||| |||renovar|||||||

you know, lost and acquire new and better habits. ||||приобретать|||| ||||develop|||| ||perdido||adquieren|||| So I'm comfortable with where I am in Russian. But Russian is, uh, because I don't have to write exams in Russian I just have to enjoy the language, but it was also the door into other Slavic languages. |||||||||писать экзамены|||||||||||||||||||| ||||parce que||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||Prüfungen||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||puerta|||| So, uh, after Russian I learned Czech because my father, my parents were born in, uh, actually the Austro-Hungarian empire, but what became Czechoslovakia. ||||||||||||||||||||||||Tschechoslowakei ||||||||||||||||||Austro-Hungarian||||||Czechoslovakia

And, uh, my father had, you know, scrapbooks at home of where he climbed mountains and did a whole bunch of stuff that was in the newspapers. |||||||альбомы для вырезок||||||восходил||||||много всего||||||| |||||||albums photos||||||||||||||||||| |||||||scrapbooks||||||||||||||||||| |||||||Fotoalben||||||||||||||||||| |||||||album di ritagli||||||||||||||||||| |||||||emlékkönyvek||||||||||||||||||| |||||||剪贴簿||||||||||||||||||| |||||||スクラップブック||||||||||||||||||| |||||||álbumes de recortes||||||escaló||||||un montón||||||| そして、ええと、私の父は、あなたが知っているように、彼が山に登った場所の家にスクラップブックを持っていて、新聞にあったたくさんのことをしました。 И у моего отца дома были альбомы с вырезками, где он лазил по горам и делал кучу всего, что было в газетах. And now I'm able to read it. So I learned Czech. |||tchèque Czech was a long road, by the way. Между прочим, Чехия была длинной дорогой. And then from Czech, I did Polish and then I did Ukrainian and a little bit of a Slovak, which is very similar to Czech. ||||||||||||||||||Slowakisch|||||| ||||||||||||||||||Slovak|||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||a| А потом из чешского я сделал польский, потом украинский и немного словацкий, что очень похоже на чешское.

So it opened up the whole Slavic world. ||unveiled||||| Uh, so it's been to me, it's been a love affair with Russian. ||||||||||роман|| ||||||||||relationship|| |||||||||un romance|romance|| ||||||||||事|| ええと、それは私にとって、それはロシア人との恋愛関係でした。 Э-э, так это было со мной, это был роман с русским. Uh, a voyage of discovery of Russian, uh, of the ... of the Russian world, but also the Slavic world. ||путешествие|||||||||||||||| ||voyage|||||||||||||||| ||journey|||||||||||||||| ||||Entdeckung|||||||||||||| ||viaggio di scoperta|||||||||||||||| ||旅程|||||||||||||||| ||探検|||||||||||||||| ||viaje de descubrimiento|||||||||||||||| ええと、ロシアの発見の航海、ええと、ロシアの世界の...だけでなく、スラブの世界の。 So, uh, just a quick summary. |||||résumé rapide |||||summary |||||rövid összefoglaló I hope that's helpful to you of how I learned Russian. Bye for now.