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Hello,

I am a native Russian teacher living in Russia.
I placed two Russian Lessons in the Internet:
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/exp...sian_les1.html

http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/exp...sian_les2.html

Lesson #1 has sound files and explains basic Russian letters pronunsiation.
Lesson #2 is dedicated to the verb "to go".
Russian verbs have 48 unique forms, and how much forms Finnish verbs have?

Feel free to ask me anything about Russian language.

Note: contact me directly from the web pages above,
do not respond to this my article's header email address.

Dr Andrew Polyanski



the black rose wrote in message . ..
Johanna Gibson wrote:
it {Finnish} is noted for its morphological complexity: a Finnish
noun can have thirteen different case-forms.

Good lord. And I thought Russian was interesting with 6 cases, each
having a singular and plural form.

Jo, I've followed with interest the reports of your Russian language
tests, but I guess I missed the reason for the exams and your upcoming
move to Russia. Could you fill me in?

Okay, this seriously wierds me out. Where did THIS guy come from?

Adviser N1 wrote:
Hello,

I am a native Russian teacher living in Russia.
I placed two Russian Lessons in the Internet:
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/exp...sian_les1.html

http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/exp...sian_les2.html

Lesson #1 has sound files and explains basic Russian letters pronunsiation.
Lesson #2 is dedicated to the verb "to go".
Russian verbs have 48 unique forms, and how much forms Finnish verbs have?

Feel free to ask me anything about Russian language.

Note: contact me directly from the web pages above,
do not respond to this my article's header email address.

Dr Andrew Polyanski



the black rose wrote in message . ..

Johanna Gibson wrote:

it {Finnish} is noted for its morphological complexity: a Finnish
noun can have thirteen different case-forms.

Good lord. And I thought Russian was interesting with 6 cases, each
having a singular and plural form.

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie
http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts

Nothing really to get wierded out about, Rose. We tend to forget that this
is a public forum because we "know" so many of the posters. There are lots
of folks that lurk and rarely if ever post. Maybe Dr. Polyanski quilts
also. Maybe he came across the post he responded to when he was doing a
Google search on Russian or Finnish language. It isn't like some stranger
showing up at your front door and asking to be let in.

Dee in LeRoy, NY

"the black rose" wrote in message
...
Okay, this seriously wierds me out. Where did THIS guy come from?

Adviser N1 wrote:
Hello,

I am a native Russian teacher living in Russia.
I placed two Russian Lessons in the Internet:
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/exp...sian_les1.html

http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/exp...sian_les2.html

Lesson #1 has sound files and explains basic Russian letters
pronunsiation.
Lesson #2 is dedicated to the verb "to go".
Russian verbs have 48 unique forms, and how much forms Finnish verbs
have?

Feel free to ask me anything about Russian language.

Note: contact me directly from the web pages above,
do not respond to this my article's header email address.

Dr Andrew Polyanski



the black rose wrote in message
. ..

Johanna Gibson wrote:

it {Finnish} is noted for its morphological complexity: a Finnish
noun can have thirteen different case-forms.

Good lord. And I thought Russian was interesting with 6 cases, each
having a singular and plural form.

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie
http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts

I am a native Russian teacher living in Russia.
I placed two Russian Lessons in the Internet: [...]
Lesson #2 is dedicated to the verb "to go".
Russian verbs have 48 unique forms, and how much forms Finnish verbs have?
Okay, this seriously wierds me out. Where did THIS guy come from?

Who cares? 48 is a nice handy quilting number, 6x8 blocks. Now
can somebody come up with a way of representing each of those verb
forms as a different block?... alphabet quilts are easy, try finding
a way of saying "future passive subjunctive" in fabric.


it {Finnish} is noted for its morphological complexity: a Finnish
noun can have thirteen different case-forms.

Easy-peasy. I once saw a complete conjugation of "to be" in Basque -
somewhere around 200 entries. I think we're talking king-size here.

Ubykh (a language from the Caucasus which died out in the 1970s,
most of its speakers having been massacred or driven into exile
by Czarist Russia) had 80 cases. And nearly 70 consonants. The
linguistic equivalent of one of those quilt patterns with a zillion
pointy stars.

And the free-form art-quilter's language has to be Ket (unrelated
to any other language in the world and only spoken by a few hundred
people in Siberia). It has been described as having *no* regular
verbs.

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No regular verbs? Someone might want to send them some serious fibre.
Diana...

"bogus address" wrote
And the free-form art-quilter's language has to be Ket (unrelated
to any other language in the world and only spoken by a few hundred
people in Siberia). It has been described as having *no* regular
verbs.



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Diana! You could have at least given us a spew warning here. Now my screen
is a mess and my office mates think I have really really lost my marboils.

Shona who really should learn that a posting by Diana comes with an
automatic spew warning in NZ

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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No regular verbs? Someone might want to send them some serious fibre.
Diana...

"bogus address" wrote
And the free-form art-quilter's language has to be Ket (unrelated
to any other language in the world and only spoken by a few hundred
people in Siberia). It has been described as having *no* regular
verbs.



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I know some language instructors are now doing searches to find things
that are written incorporating common dialectical differences. Then
what they find gets turned into class assignments.
I have also run into people whose english instructor assigned them the
task of carrying on a conversation in an english speaking forum.
Doesn't do much for the pronunciation I imagine, but I bet it sure
does make the students aware of some of the odd colloquialisms people
in different countries use. As well as making them wonder if some of
us got past grammer school! I swear I have never made so much use of
dictionary.com, or been so aware of typos in my life!

NightMist

On Mon, 24 May 2004 20:28:04 -0400, "DDM"
wrote:

Nothing really to get wierded out about, Rose. We tend to forget that this
is a public forum because we "know" so many of the posters. There are lots
of folks that lurk and rarely if ever post. Maybe Dr. Polyanski quilts
also. Maybe he came across the post he responded to when he was doing a
Google search on Russian or Finnish language. It isn't like some stranger
showing up at your front door and asking to be let in.

Dee in LeRoy, NY

"the black rose" wrote in message
. ..
Okay, this seriously wierds me out. Where did THIS guy come from?

Adviser N1 wrote:
Hello,

I am a native Russian teacher living in Russia.
I placed two Russian Lessons in the Internet:
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/exp...sian_les1.html

http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/exp...sian_les2.html

Lesson #1 has sound files and explains basic Russian letters
pronunsiation.
Lesson #2 is dedicated to the verb "to go".
Russian verbs have 48 unique forms, and how much forms Finnish verbs
have?

Feel free to ask me anything about Russian language.

Note: contact me directly from the web pages above,
do not respond to this my article's header email address.

Dr Andrew Polyanski



the black rose wrote in message
...

Johanna Gibson wrote:

it {Finnish} is noted for its morphological complexity: a Finnish
noun can have thirteen different case-forms.

Good lord. And I thought Russian was interesting with 6 cases, each
having a singular and plural form.

--
the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie
http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts




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But Shona! If I posted a spew warning then my little sillinesses wouldnt
take you by surprise and brighten your day and force you to clean your
monitor occasionally.
Diana

"Shona in NZ" wrote in message
...
Diana! You could have at least given us a spew warning here. Now my
screen
is a mess and my office mates think I have really really lost my marboils.

Shona who really should learn that a posting by Diana comes with an
automatic spew warning in NZ

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
No regular verbs? Someone might want to send them some serious fibre.
Diana...

"bogus address" wrote
And the free-form art-quilter's language has to be Ket (unrelated
to any other language in the world and only spoken by a few hundred
people in Siberia). It has been described as having *no* regular
verbs.



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Dear Bogus,

If you meant a future passive subjunctive for the Russian verb "to
go",
this form exists, but... the meaning of it in Russian is such, that
I cannot cite it in a forum where so much women.
Literally it is: "menya bi poshli" which is not used in Russian.
There is a little alterated form: "menya bi poslali" (I would be
sent).
Where to? (!!!) It's a problem [ ;-) ].
Sorry, I cannot explain it (sure, if the women would close
their eyes, and would not read, "where to" somebody would be gone
(sent)).
I suppose that men has already guessed "where to" somebody is intended
to be sent [ ;-) ].
Though, "menya bi poslali kupit' piva" ( I would be sent to buy
some beer )
sounds absolutely virginal. But, again, the expression "menya bi
poslali"
without following adverbial modifier of place is always comprehended
in a Russian conversation as an oath.

Andrew

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(bogus address) wrote in message ...
...try finding
a way of saying "future passive subjunctive" in fabric.

I am a native Russian teacher living in Russia.
I placed two Russian Lessons in the Internet: [...]
Lesson #2 is dedicated to the verb "to go".
Russian verbs have 48 unique forms, and how much forms Finnish verbs have?
Okay, this seriously wierds me out. Where did THIS guy come from?

Who cares? 48 is a nice handy quilting number, 6x8 blocks. Now
can somebody come up with a way of representing each of those verb
forms as a different block?... alphabet quilts are easy, try finding
a way of saying "future passive subjunctive" in fabric.

======== Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce ========
Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html food intolerance data & recipes,
Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music.