fragments of russian, bulgarian, romanian or any other...

No, I don't know Spanish very well
I think the pronunciation is a little bit difficult I had my first lesson yesterday but I don't know so many things yet. I know only Como te chamas - Chamo-me Bea - Chamas-te Serena? Nao, nao me chamo Serena, chamo-me Bea and that was all in the first lesson, and the verb SER.

BEIJOS! AND THANKS FOR THE HELP!

Vania!
Falas portugues perfeitamente!
Chamo-me Serena e tenho vinte e dois anos de idade!
Um dos meus desportos preferidos e patinagem!!!



MUITISSIMOS BEIJOS!!! :<33: :<33: :<33:

Serena wrote:

Vania!
Falas portugues perfeitamente!
Chamo-me Serena e tenho vinte e dois anos de idade!
Um dos meus desportos preferidos e patinagem!!!
MUITISSIMOS BEIJOS!!! :<33: :<33: :<33:

Obrigada, queridinha Serena, but I don't speak perfectly (not yet) I had only 3 lessons But I understand all you said Still I have problems to pronounce some phrases with many "s" at the end of the words but I'll do it! Luckily I bought cassetes and I listen the pronunciation. The textbook is very good, it's a french edition (Larousse if you know it :study: ) adapted in Bulgarian from French, and there are notes for the history, the culture, and so on, of Portugal, Brasil and the other countries where the Portuguese is official language, also the differences between the Portuguese spoken in the different countries. I know now what "Açores" means - "hawks", isn't it?

BEIJOS!

Bea and Serena, I want to ask you something. As I understand, in Portuguese, you don't use the form of the verb of 2nd person plural, for example: vos falais, vos sois... The authors of the book don't explain that very clearly. If I want to ask you for example "Serena and Bea, are you Portuguese?" I have to say: "As senhorinas sao portuguesas ?", isn't it?

Another question: how to know when I have to use O or A before the names of cities, states... Why it's O PORTO, but LISBOA (without an article)

Привет ! Как дела ? Меня зовут Марина и я живу в Париже. Я францженка и мне двадцть лет. Учу росскии язык. Я очень люблю русскии язык.
Моя русская подруга зовут Лерочка (какае красивое имя !). Она хорошо говорит по-русски.

Я целую вас.
Пока.
Мариночка


Val, there are mistakes in what I wrote in Russian ? I have begun to read a book to learn Russian, but it's rather difficult... Soon, I will be able to read well cyrillic letters, because right now, it's still difficult to me. But I hope to speak Russian soon (at least next summer ! ).

Wow...hehe..congrats dear Marina!!!
You made some fantastic progresses...You can write a small text about you. Bravo :<33: You can do it... I know
I'm a bit lazier...I had a summer already and I haven't learned

I was able to understand almost everything you said and I'm pretty much happy about this. And I'm very impressed with you. Bravo

Yes...waiting for Lerochka to give her final word I can't tell you if it's correct or not..but I enjoyed reading this.
Gooooo Marinaaa!! Go!! :<33: :<33:

alexandra wrote:

Wow...hehe..congrats dear Marina!!!
You made some fantastic progresses...You can write a small text about you. Bravo :<33: You can do it... I know

Thank you Alex ! :<33: If you understand, it's because you speak a bit Russian too ! Bravo too !

Still no answer for poor Vania

Marina wrote:

Привет ! Как дела ? Меня зовут Марина и я живу в Париже. Я францженка и мне двадцть лет. Учу росскии язык. Я очень люблю русскии язык.
Моя русская подруга зовут Лерочка (какае красивое имя !). Она хорошо говорит по-русски.

Я целую вас.
Пока.
Мариночка
Val, there are mistakes in what I wrote in Russian ? I have begun to read a book to learn Russian, but it's rather difficult... Soon, I will be able to read well cyrillic letters, because right now, it's still difficult to me. But I hope to speak Russian soon (at least next summer ! ).

Wooow )) Мариночка!! Я в шоке ты уже очень здорово научилась говорить по-русски! Поздравляю тебя, солнышко!!! :<33: :<33: :<33:
I'm imressed! Reaally, Marina! Of course, you made some mistakes, but they are not very big Everyone will understand what you said! First 4 sentences are perfect!
Only.. ->
"францженка" - you must write "француженка"
"двадцть" - you must write "двадцать"
"Моя русская подруга зовут" - here you should write "Мою русскую подругу зовут"
But all these mistakes are verrry small, just tiny mistakes, so.. you are wonderful, my Marinochka! :<33: And next summer.. here.. you will speak perfect russian already! I know!

Thank you for correcting me Val and for your nice words !!! :<33:

*MAGic diable* wrote:

"Моя русская подруга зовут" - here you should write "Мою русскую подругу зовут"

Is it because of Russian declensions ? I find it rather difficult, but there are almost the same in German (and I learned German so I think I will understand soon).

*MAGic diable* wrote:

Wooow )) Мариночка!! Я в шоке ты уже очень здорово научилась говорить по-русски! Поздравляю тебя, солнышко!!! :<33: :<33: :<33:

So... I'm learning Russian, but I don't understand what you write. Only some words but not the sentence...

Thanks again my dear ! :<33:

OLÀ!! HELLO!!

FIRST OF ALL DONºT BE SHY TO ASK!

Vania wrote!

Quote :

Bea and Serena, I want to ask you something. As I understand, in Portuguese, you don't use the form of the verb of 2nd person plural, for example: vos falais, vos sois... The authors of the book don't explain that very clearly. If I want to ask you for example "Serena and Bea, are you Portuguese?" I have to say: "As senhorinas sao portuguesas ?", isn't it

Dear , you say As senhoras ou as meninas são portuguesas?... ou simplesmente Vocês são portuguesas!?
No português falado no Brazil , they say as senhorinhas!

When we say O Porto or no Porto.. or LISBOA or em LISBOA...I donºt know why, itºs just like this perhaps because o Porto was always a very hardworking and respected town whereas Lisbon was considered the town where politicians spent the money the rest of the country made! It´s still thus today!
Porto and its citizens were always the place where Lisbon as capital turned to either for food or to establish order in the rest of the country!

YES, the AÇOR is a bird!
THEE were lots of them when the portuguese sailors discovered the Isles, therefore AÇORES in portuguese...

BEIJOS!!

Bea wrote:

Dear , you say As senhoras ou as meninas são portuguesas?... ou simplesmente Vocês são portuguesas!?
No português falado no Brazil , they say as senhorinhas!
YES, the AÇOR is a bird!
THEE were lots of them when the portuguese sailors discovered the Isles, therefore AÇORES in portuguese...

BEIJOS!!

Queridinha, obrigada for your explanations! Very helpful! This was a bit strange for me, but now I understand it better.


Thanks again!
:<33: :<33: :<33: :<33:

As I promised to Alex, I'll tell you in few words about the creation of the Bulgarian (and the Slavic) alphabet:

[i]The creation of our alphabet is associated with the names of Kiril (Cyril) and his brother Methodi who translated the principal books of the Christian doctrine. They were born in Thessaloniki, sons of a noble Byzantine family of Slav-Bulgarian lineage. The motivation of the two brothers was meant to facilitate the spread and the faster adoption of the Christian faith by the Slav peoples. At that time (9th century), the Christian faith could be practiced only in the three languages blessed by God: Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
Kliment, one of their disciples, simplified the alphabetical script and called it Cyrillic, in honor of his teacher. This is, as a matter of fact, the alphabet used now by the Bulgarians, Russians, Ukrainians, Bielorussians, Serbians, Macedonians, ...

Vania wrote:

As I promised to Alex, I'll tell you in few words about the creation of the Bulgarian (and the Slavic) alphabet:

[i]The creation of our alphabet is associated with the names of Kiril (Cyril) and his brother Methodi who translated the principal books of the Christian doctrine. They were born in Thessaloniki, sons of a noble Byzantine family of Slav-Bulgarian lineage. The motivation of the two brothers was meant to facilitate the spread and the faster adoption of the Christian faith by the Slav peoples. At that time (9th century), the Christian faith could be practiced only in the three languages blessed by God: Hebrew, Latin and Greek.

Ohhhh, thank you milichka Vania I really knew so little about this. .

Vania wrote:

Kliment, one of their disciples, simplified the alphabetical script and called it Cyrillic, in honor of his teacher. This is, as a matter of fact, the alphabet used now by the Bulgarians, Russians, Ukrainians, Bielorussians, Serbians, Macedonians, ...

Hehe....simplified?!!
This is veeeery relative Some say cyrillic alphabet is much more harder than the latin one. I really don't know how to pronounce myself on this, cause I love cyrillic alphabet. I like using your letters, I like them Sometimes, when I'm bored and the teacher is also boring, I take my notes "in russian". Actually I write lessons with cyrillic letters . I know it's crazy but it's fun and helpful and also makes my lessons look better.

I already know more..
Thanks

alexandra wrote:

Hehe....simplified?!!
This is veeeery relative

Yes, he did simplified it because look what represented the original cyrillic letters:





Can you imagine that we write with these letters now!?!

Vania wrote:

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Yes, he did simplified it because look what represented the original cyrillic letters:





Can you imagine that we write with these letters now!?!

Ohh, I see now. He did, he did...

Those letter doesn't seem to be as difficult as hieroglyphs but still...I can't imagine using them today..

hoikes

Russian is a beautiful language, I'm learning it now by myself, but I just know the alphabet.

Omg....imagine we had to write with these original letters, I'm happy it's more simple now.

Sometimes it isn't nice to live in a little country because we have to learn so many languages (Dutch, German, English, French, Latin, Greek and I choose Russian too =)) but now I like it!

Vania, it's really interesting what you tell about Russian etc.

kusjes!!! daaaag!

Channanja (Rachel) wrote:

Sometimes it isn't nice to live in a little country because we have to learn so many languages (Dutch, German, English, French, Latin, Greek and I choose Russian too =)) but now I like it!

From this point of view - it isn't, really. But that's good sometimes, because speaking more foreign languages gives you the chance to know the culture, the customs of many peoples. I've always loved studying foreign languages, of course it's not necessary to speak them perfectly. But, for me, it's very precious to know more languages, not only your native one.

Channanja (Rachel) wrote:

Vania, it's really interesting what you tell about Russian etc.

It's about Bulgarian, but nevermind, both are Slavic languages

KISSES!

Vania wrote:

Quote :

I've always loved studying foreign languages, of course it's not necessary to speak them perfectly. But, for me, it's very precious to know more languages, not only your native one.

yes!! now I love it too, even if I just know a few words and typical culture things, and it's fun because some Russian words are in "our" alphabet the same as in my language, like music, tourist, njet, pasport....

Do you know about the Ukrainian language? Next year I'll be there with a exchange of our school and we are going to "live" in the family of a student from Kiev, go to school with him etc and then he will be in our country. I'm really looking forward to it!!!

veel kusjes!!!

Channanja (Rachel) wrote:

Do you know about the Ukrainian language? Next year I'll be there with a exchange of our school and we are going to "live" in the family of a student from Kiev, go to school with him etc and then he will be in our country. I'm really looking forward to it!!!

No, I don't know anything about it! I know they write in cyrillic letters, but they have an "i" as the latin one. It's very similar to the Russian language. I think we have some Ukranian girls there (Olenka). If she visit the forum she could explain you better

KISSES!

thank you Vania I'll ask Olenka

kusjes!!!

Buna ziua tuturor!
Awwww... romanian language is a bit difficult Yes, Alex, I decided to learn romanian.. a liiiiittle!
But.. but..
I and they have the same verb when they are conjugated
I speak -> vorbesc
They speak -> vorbesc
Alex, scumpa mea, cafea?
Mie imi plac mult Albena si Maxim. Si cunosc o fată în România Nu-mi place berea apă minerală FOREVER!!! Si nu pot să vorbesc româna
ok, trebuie să merg acusi
bezea

Channanja (Rachel) wrote:

Do you know about the Ukrainian language? Next year I'll be there with a exchange of our school and we are going to "live" in the family of a student from Kiev, go to school with him etc and then he will be in our country. I'm really looking forward to it!!!

Wow!!! Really?? hehe that is so cute! Ukrainian language is similar with russian.. slavs.. and also a lot of people in Ukraine speak russian
Kisses :<33:

*MAGic diable* wrote:

Buna ziua tuturor!

Mie imi plac mult Albena si Maxim. Si cunosc o fată în România Nu-mi place berea apă minerală FOREVER!!! Si nu pot să vorbesc româna
ok, trebuie să merg acusi
bezea

WOOOOW! HMM, I THINK I UNDERSTAND SOME WORDS.

Buna ziua = good morning, right?

I like very much Albena and Maxim I know one girl from Romania and then something for mineral water.... and then I don't understand

Bravo, Lerochka you're very good, I suppose!

Wow ! Val ! You're so good in learning foreign languages ! Bravo !

Buna ziua is the only word I understand !