Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Класс нету на следующие воскресенье

Hello, everyone!

I sent a text out to remind everyone that class is canceled for this Sunday.

In the meantime, I would advise making flash cards of the following:


  • The Cases (Nominative, Genitive, etc.)
    • One one side of the card, write the name of the case, 
    • and on the other side, write what the case represents grammatically and what it roughly translates to (e.g., Dative represents the indirect object, and it translates usually to "to/for [noun]").
    • Underneath that, create four rows or columns (you decide), title each according to Declension type, and write down the suffix ending for the case you know (e.g., one of your four columns/rows is the -# declension; you will then write what ending exists for whatever case you have on the other side.)
  • The Subject Pronouns (e.g., я, ты, и.т.п (etc. in Russian :P)
  • Verb conjugations
    • I would recommend the following approach to these flash cards:
      On one side, write the person and number (e.g., 1st Person Singular [Я]), and on the other side the possible endings (e.g., у/ю)
It sounds like a lot after listing it all out, but look how much we've covered in only 3 class meetings!  Any questions on what we've gone over thus far?

As I mentioned in the text, when we meet up next, you'll have something new to put in your "Cases" flashcards as well: the -a declension.


До встречи! (Until our next meeting!)
~И.И.Н

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