When you talked about the hard and soft vowels near the beginning, you left the two dots off the top of the letter "yo". I see that a lot in written Russian. Is it just a mistake?
@Imnothecrazyone Many Russian keyboard don't have it and you can often read Russian texts where you don't see the two dots and are expected to know which ones have two dots.
I doubt I will go on to actually learn the Russian language, as it was the alphabet that intrigued me, but I was wondering about the pronunciation of the word for "hard sign" right at the beginning. In "твердый", is the e here actually ё, or is this an odd sort of rule with the normal e?
@cril1001001 It is often printed without the dots, as people tend to know where it appears. Because I am pronouncing everything that appears, I'm not writing it up in the way it usually appears in learners' books, with yo marks and stress marks.
merci, Monsieur le Professeur, pour cette belle leçon, merci parceque vous donnez de votre temps, et merci de nous permettre de faire connaissance avec votre petite famille! Agnès!
Your daughter singing the чебуарашка theme song is so cute! Thanks for the help on my ц dilemma, I learned Russian by living in Russia (which entailed studying a worn text book on the metro and speaking with friends) but because of any lack of proper educationб I am weak in when it comes to fundamentals, for example the ability to watch КВН and understand everything but the inability to write complete sentences or to pronounce ц. I'm trying to start from the beginning again. Спасибо большое!
@testyal1 There's no point crying over spilt milt. If you learned it according to the alphabetical order, what's done is done. You can't learn it again if you already did learn it. Nikkai naremasen, gomennasai.
@usenetposts ~I've got a question. How would you go about raising children trilingually? I've always invisaged marrying someone of a different nationality, let's say Russian, I'm English, and we lived in France. (I speak French and Russian). What language do we talk at home, how often does one of the parents speak their native tongue to the child, and how do you get the child to speak the non native language of French before he/she gets to school ? I really wanna get it right for the time.
@Olekander Regardless of which language you speak to your partner in, each partner speaks to the child in their own language, and you also make available DVDs in the parental languages. The child may go to pre-school not knowing any of the target language, and they quickly will obtain that language at the preschool.
The acquisition of multiple languages in childhood is not all good news, it can result in slight delay which is more than compensated for later. If the child is young in the year...
@usenetposts@Olekander ... then you might discuss with the school allowing the child to go through the education system a year down. If the child is old in the year this may not be a good idea, or really necessary.
@usenetposts Thannks for that ! Last and not least, which language to speak amongst the parents? Would you recommend a bit of both, or mainly english seeing its probably more useful than the other potential language!
Where you thinking of making some more advanced Russian videos any time in the future? I've kind of out grown your earlier stuff (I'm now living in Russia studying).
@Olekander I recommend the parents speak whatever is easiest between them (whichever they speak best) and don't get hung up about it. If the language being spoken between the parents is the language of the mother - and often that will happen other things being equal - then the language of the father needs to be made up in the balance by buying the children DVDs in the father's language. Children spend a lot of time watching Walt Disney, and you can engineer their language knowledge with these.
this is what the book says "soft sing- [y] (the sound it makes) as in Yet, but pronounced simultaneously with the letter before it - so нь sounds like the [ny] in canyon. Try not to separate the [y] from the preceding letter, particularly at the ends of words; to remind you of this, we shall show the ь as a small raised y in out transcriptions e.g. соль "salt" [soly]"
@bobbymay2509 Well, it's not INcorrect, but any attempt to explain it without simply giving you an audio example is going to be misleading. That's why what I've done here is to give living examples of most of them. In some cases, like n and l, you can very clearly hear the difference. If you get a soft m at the end of a word, you might hear it less. What you need to remember is that the front of the tongue is doing the usual consonant but the back of the tongue is raising as when you make a "y".
Interesting lesson, im teaching myself russian and im useing both the rosseta stone program for russian and The new penguin Russian Course for beginners and im finding the soft sign a little confusing. the author of the book says that the soft is like adding a Y (as in Yet) behind letter but saying it at the same time. his example was Hb like the NY in (caNYon) i just wanted to know if this would have the same effect with the soft sign and the russian letters?
This is the first video I found when I started to learn russian more seriously in Estonia. It seduces me right away. I had just seen again "The Night of the Hunter" with the story of Love and Hate if you know what I mean, Robert Mitchum best role, to me. Now I've seen all the RL101 videos and I'm hungry for more... dziękuję professor
Thank you so much for posting these videos! They are quite useful and I love seeing your daughter sing that song at the end. Its absolutely adorable and is a little bit of an inspiration to keep going in my studies!
I'm just going quickly through all of your videos before really going through them over again, but I just wanted to thank you again... They're amazing.
And you're daughter is way too cute in this video!! And thanks for the chords and lyrics too!!
I love these videos. I've been wanting to learn Russian for a long time but often, I like the historical reason for the lingustics and you do this, like with the Latin words ending in -us. and why there no longer is a hard sign. Spaciba!
I wrote my other comment too early!! ))) ...before the funny part with the bells in the background and before your amazing finale with the joke and song (with your beautiful daughter). I just discovered Cheburaska yesterday and spent hours with him and Gena on their adventures. Today I will learn Russian with you. Well, maybe not in one day (more like one decade). I look forward to watching more of your videos. :)
spaciba bolshoye!! je suis francais, j habite a Narva, Estonie. I've got a lot of prgress to do, I'm only starting to be able to read the russian alphabet but big thank you, merci beaucoup for your videos. They are effective, entertaining, inspired, most useful and your english (and russian accent) are great.
Very nice video and Merry Christmas:) I also noticed that someone was setting up or possibly taking down a tree during this video so I sense that christmas was not far off during this video, but again for the current season and many more...Merry Christmas and Happy New Year:) I might not check in the day after new years for I fear I may drink to much:) lol
you are amazing i love the end the song is amazing and so is your son you should be praised its amazing thanks for helping me with russian whenever i get confused i go back through it all
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this. I'm trying to use "Teach yourself Russian" to learn the language basics, but it never explains the hard and soft signs, so I was a bit lost. Very useful.
you really are great and so funny and i love your family wonderful thank you so much, great help and much better than my real teacher which i have to pay money for to teach me...again thank you and would love to find someone to converse with and if possible i would like to ask you a favour, i am looking for a Russian Dictionary and i can't find it anywhere in Cambridge, England can you believe it, would you help me buy one cheap, i appreciate all your input, thanks
Sure, I can help with that. If you go to the Sedgewick languages site on Sedgewick avenue and put a nite on the notice boards as you go into the main lecture block that you want to buy a second hand Russian dictionary, then one of the Russian students will probably sell a dictionary they have grown out of. Hth.
Sorry, a note, not a nite. While you are about it please leave a plug for my Russian videos on that noticeboard, too. I could do with more viewers. Thanks!
I really have a hard time making the difference between Ш and Щ ... I also had a hard time finding them on my keyboard which is an English keyboard :P
I must correct you, Viktor Dmitrievitch , "Ь" in "СЕМЬЯ" is actually pronounced like there's a hard sign in it. Like this [Sem'-Yah] or [7-Я] .. not like 'Semyah' ok?..:)
btw, can I write in Russian here or you prefer English?
OK. Let's try something else. The Russian for "despite" is "niesmotrya" or несмотря with the accent on the final syllable. Most beginners will make two syllables out of the -rya. This is incorrect. Something like nyeh-smo-TREEAH is incorrect. When you have 3 syllables not four in that word, so that it sounds like nyeh-smot-YAH but with an R in it, but sounding different to the R in poRA, then you have it. Ask a native Russian to repeat those two words in a place you can hear very well.
wow man - this is so great. the soft sign is the one part of the russian alphabet i never understood but with this video I know what im doign! 10/10 :D
I just subscribed! Really inspired stuff! Everything from the language lessons to the songs and jokes! I am a concert pianist and have this song which I heard but nobody knows what the title is and so I can't find out what the words are. Perhaps I can show you some time? Will be in touch. Thank you sooo much for all of this. I just started today but have been interested in becoming good at communicating in Russian for years.
Welcome aboard and thanks for the subscription. Go ahead and skype me on david.j.james and you can play me your mystery song, or better still, post it as a video response to this and everyone can have a go at guessing it!
Thank you many times over. I'm glad it is a Saturday night, as I have just stumbled upon your videos. I will be up all night looking at all of your material. I learned Russian from Taxi drivers in Baltimore, Maryland, which keeps me in constant trouble. It's wonderful to learn the correct way. I had nearly given up, but there is new life now. Thanks again.
For me it's a very personalised, very funny yet effective way to familiarise oneself with Russian... and I am grateful for that. Thumbs up, Huliganov!
Телефони ))) не, ну ты ответь, какого Ху№ ты так говоришь. Уж если говорить по английски - то красивым языком, а не таким как у тебя! Хулиганов епт! )))))))))))))))))
Твои уроки вообще как серъезные воспринимать или как камеди?
Alexgoler, first learn to spell your own language, then punctuate it, and then thirdly you can tell me all about what's wrong with the way I teach it. Deal?
Да лан, расслабься чувак.. У Хулиганова просто такой стиль, он может и без акцента, я уверен. Так даже забавней звучит:)
К тому же, для тех кто только по английски говорит, эти уроки, я уверен, будут весьма полезны. Меня больше бесят америкашки которые пытаются посмеяться над этими уроками и русским языком вообще. Вот. Будь здоров!:)
So what is your True accent? i saw on other lessons the video's comments say alot like they spot inconsistancies in your accent and stuff, could you fill me in?
Aha! Well, they are pretty rare, especially ts plus soft sign, although it appears in Belarussian. P and B are labials, and that doesn't get too directly effected by softness, which is the raising of the tongue against the palate, but listen to the tone of a p, and how it changes when you go 'pay, pea, pii' where "pii" means raising your tongue as much again as you raised it to get from 'pay' to 'pea'.
I have questions (sorry, I must be a most annoying student...) When you say "Rossiya hochet tolko mir...ves mir!" 2 things are different; one is that you said hochet and tolko in different place than is shown on screen (I'm wondering which one is correct) and another is that the on screen one spells ves' -which you said means the weight of. I was just wondering why that is and which one is correct?
It should be "tvoya" rather than "tvoy", otherwise fine. Best to write "ochen'" with an apostrophe after to represent the soft sign. Other ways to show the soft n are "ocseny" (Hungarian style), oczeń (polish style) otchegne (French style). No wonder there is often confusion when Russian is transposed to Latin letters!
I already know the alphabet, but I'm watching these last ones anyway, just so I don't miss any jokes. That should give you an indication of how awesome you are.
hahaha.... And with "Ж" vice versa... It may have soft sign after it, BUT it never-never sounds softly, except in some French words such as "Ж(ь)ЮРИ" or in some cases with double "ЖЖ" for instance "ВОЖЖ(ь)И", "ДРОЖЖ(ь)И"
And you are wrong at 8.00. Letters "К", "Г", "Х" - never have soft sign after them but they CAN sound soft in some cases. When those letters are followed by "И" "Е" "Ё" "Я" "Ю" they soud soft... and it`s impossible to pronounce in the other way. Compare sound "К" in words "Кошка" and "Кит". They are different.
These lessons are very good for russian learners.please add one or more series.very useful and entertaining lectures by huliganov.Khorosho,keep it up.
You are best in this job.I want to say that ,i am going to watch your lessons with pleasure as you go on your series.You are relly good teacher Mr. Huliganov and we hope you give us to watch your next series.
I would love to see more of these lessons. They are relavant and entertaining. They are coinciding perfectly with the lessons I am taking to speak to my wife's family. Great job!
Excellent again. Pretty and talented musical co-star!
I hope you get enough encouragement to do series 2. Series 1 helped inspire me to enrol for further night school russian course. I will idly mention "proto- slavonic and indo-european lengvidges" and pose as class swot
We had a fellow in our russian class who pronounce the ь "murky snots". I'm proud to say that none of us laughed.But it wasn't easy!
gammondog 3 days ago
Very helpful спасибо :)
blackblues1984 3 weeks ago
When you talked about the hard and soft vowels near the beginning, you left the two dots off the top of the letter "yo". I see that a lot in written Russian. Is it just a mistake?
Imnothecrazyone 1 month ago in playlist Russian Language 101 and 102 with Huliganov
@Imnothecrazyone Many Russian keyboard don't have it and you can often read Russian texts where you don't see the two dots and are expected to know which ones have two dots.
usenetposts 1 month ago
also the part with the little girl singing ahhh!! so sweet (and no I'm not a mother or something)
monstertruckess 5 months ago
lol funny guy :D Good stuff to listen to. I like it.
monstertruckess 5 months ago
Thank you for your russian lessons. I'm studying russian ( all by myself ) and your videos really helped me a lot.
katsphws 6 months ago
@sasasa5ify I thought so.
usenetposts 8 months ago
@sasasa5ify Was that an example of Bulgarian culture?
usenetposts 8 months ago
Я был когда-то странной
игрушкой безымянной,
К которой в магазине
никто не подойдет.
Теперь я - Чебурашка,
мне каждая дворняжка
При встрече сразу
лапу подает.
isn't the last line supposed to be подаёт (with two dots above)?
hanzimaster 8 months ago
I cant really tell u how much i appreciate your work and those awesome lessons , Thank you very much and keep it up (y)
mezo00o00o 8 months ago
Oh my goodness! She's a chip off the old block! A lot prettier, though. You guys can go on the road (The Von Trapp family singers...). Krasniva!
Batyaboo 9 months ago
@Batyaboo I prefer to go before I leave the house.
usenetposts 9 months ago 2
damn, lol im jealous because im 17 and i still can't whistle
Bonnman100 10 months ago
What language is being spoken in the background around 17:20 or so. Russian? Polish? They all sound very similar to me.
TheUkrainianDubya 11 months ago
@TheUkrainianDubya That's Russian, but Irina is lapsing into West Palesian.
usenetposts 11 months ago
Wait, why is this video so crazy with visual effects... To keep our attention?
dhicks3 11 months ago
@dhicks3 No. To keep mine.
usenetposts 11 months ago
@usenetposts ))) Good one!! All the best wishes for you, I like your lessons!
relb1975 8 months ago in playlist cursos estudiar ruso
I doubt I will go on to actually learn the Russian language, as it was the alphabet that intrigued me, but I was wondering about the pronunciation of the word for "hard sign" right at the beginning. In "твердый", is the e here actually ё, or is this an odd sort of rule with the normal e?
cril1001001 11 months ago
@cril1001001 It is often printed without the dots, as people tend to know where it appears. Because I am pronouncing everything that appears, I'm not writing it up in the way it usually appears in learners' books, with yo marks and stress marks.
usenetposts 11 months ago
I LOVE THE SONG COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE TITLE AND MAYBE I CAN FIND IT SOMEWHERE. YOUR DAJGHTER IS BEAUTIFUL.THANK YOU
AL45757 1 year ago
merci, Monsieur le Professeur, pour cette belle leçon, merci parceque vous donnez de votre temps, et merci de nous permettre de faire connaissance avec votre petite famille! Agnès!
scordatur 1 year ago
Your daughter singing the чебуарашка theme song is so cute! Thanks for the help on my ц dilemma, I learned Russian by living in Russia (which entailed studying a worn text book on the metro and speaking with friends) but because of any lack of proper educationб I am weak in when it comes to fundamentals, for example the ability to watch КВН and understand everything but the inability to write complete sentences or to pronounce ц. I'm trying to start from the beginning again. Спасибо большое!
atownlefttrain 1 year ago
@testyal1 Agha. Now I'm undyerstant.
usenetposts 1 year ago
@testyal1 There's no point crying over spilt milt. If you learned it according to the alphabetical order, what's done is done. You can't learn it again if you already did learn it. Nikkai naremasen, gomennasai.
usenetposts 1 year ago
your Sophie is wonderful and very cute...thanks for the lessons once again
bhatsarvesh 1 year ago
Thanks for these videos on pronunciations. They are most helpful! Спасибо!
ddiss443 1 year ago
Thank you so much for this.
waysheemoovz 1 year ago
So your kids speak Polish russian and english?
Olekander 1 year ago
@Olekander Sophie does. The younger ones are autistic, so they don't speak, but even they react the same to any of those languages.
usenetposts 1 year ago
@usenetposts ~I've got a question. How would you go about raising children trilingually? I've always invisaged marrying someone of a different nationality, let's say Russian, I'm English, and we lived in France. (I speak French and Russian). What language do we talk at home, how often does one of the parents speak their native tongue to the child, and how do you get the child to speak the non native language of French before he/she gets to school ? I really wanna get it right for the time.
Olekander 1 year ago
@Olekander Regardless of which language you speak to your partner in, each partner speaks to the child in their own language, and you also make available DVDs in the parental languages. The child may go to pre-school not knowing any of the target language, and they quickly will obtain that language at the preschool.
The acquisition of multiple languages in childhood is not all good news, it can result in slight delay which is more than compensated for later. If the child is young in the year...
usenetposts 1 year ago
@usenetposts @Olekander ... then you might discuss with the school allowing the child to go through the education system a year down. If the child is old in the year this may not be a good idea, or really necessary.
usenetposts 1 year ago
@usenetposts Thannks for that ! Last and not least, which language to speak amongst the parents? Would you recommend a bit of both, or mainly english seeing its probably more useful than the other potential language!
Where you thinking of making some more advanced Russian videos any time in the future? I've kind of out grown your earlier stuff (I'm now living in Russia studying).
Olekander 1 year ago
@Olekander I recommend the parents speak whatever is easiest between them (whichever they speak best) and don't get hung up about it. If the language being spoken between the parents is the language of the mother - and often that will happen other things being equal - then the language of the father needs to be made up in the balance by buying the children DVDs in the father's language. Children spend a lot of time watching Walt Disney, and you can engineer their language knowledge with these.
usenetposts 1 year ago
@usenetposts Thanks for your time!
Olekander 1 year ago
Very interesting course. Specially the liguistic background information makes your course very distinctive...
best wishes from Austria
rtuder74 1 year ago
Your daughter is exactly that.....Krasiva!
matchoo12 1 year ago
this is what the book says "soft sing- [y] (the sound it makes) as in Yet, but pronounced simultaneously with the letter before it - so нь sounds like the [ny] in canyon. Try not to separate the [y] from the preceding letter, particularly at the ends of words; to remind you of this, we shall show the ь as a small raised y in out transcriptions e.g. соль "salt" [soly]"
I just wanted to know if this was correct?
Thank you.
bobbymay2509 1 year ago
@bobbymay2509 Well, it's not INcorrect, but any attempt to explain it without simply giving you an audio example is going to be misleading. That's why what I've done here is to give living examples of most of them. In some cases, like n and l, you can very clearly hear the difference. If you get a soft m at the end of a word, you might hear it less. What you need to remember is that the front of the tongue is doing the usual consonant but the back of the tongue is raising as when you make a "y".
usenetposts 1 year ago
@usenetposts thank you
bobbymay2509 1 year ago
Interesting lesson, im teaching myself russian and im useing both the rosseta stone program for russian and The new penguin Russian Course for beginners and im finding the soft sign a little confusing. the author of the book says that the soft is like adding a Y (as in Yet) behind letter but saying it at the same time. his example was Hb like the NY in (caNYon) i just wanted to know if this would have the same effect with the soft sign and the russian letters?
bobbymay2509 1 year ago
@bobbymay2509 I'm not sure I understand the question.
usenetposts 1 year ago
Youth in good hands is the hope and future of humanity!!! Ochen Horosho!
So beautifully sung!!! Я транспортируюсь!
Commiton 1 year ago
I like the way You see the language like the phenomenon! ...greetings from Croatia...
nellyjeful 1 year ago
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nellyjeful 1 year ago
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. She's so cute at the end. :)
StevieG1066 1 year ago
This is the first video I found when I started to learn russian more seriously in Estonia. It seduces me right away. I had just seen again "The Night of the Hunter" with the story of Love and Hate if you know what I mean, Robert Mitchum best role, to me. Now I've seen all the RL101 videos and I'm hungry for more... dziękuję professor
OLudOvideos 1 year ago
great you've incorporated your kids into it :) so cool now to see your house alive when you record that ;)
TypeYourLoginHere 1 year ago
Arghh you're upside down
kamlv 1 year ago
Thank you, these lessons are very helpful.
vicmaldo 2 years ago
And he hasn't even touched upon the 10000 spelling rules lol. There is a reason why Russian is taught in schools for 11 years.
TheSellexProject 2 years ago
It's only lesson nine.
usenetposts 2 years ago
Thank you so much for posting these videos! They are quite useful and I love seeing your daughter sing that song at the end. Its absolutely adorable and is a little bit of an inspiration to keep going in my studies!
uptilldawn1111 2 years ago
in arabic we have hard and soft sign so it is very easy leason to me
thanks alot for your great job
SHQ8 2 years ago
I did not know that! Which letters are the hard and soft sign in Arabic?
usenetposts 2 years ago
it is not letters in arabic we have some signs that's we put them over and ander the letters to make it easy to read
دَرَّسَ << like this رَّ << this is the hard sing the soft sing you can't right it you know it from the word and the other sings
arabic is difficult language i don't know how to explain
sorry :X
SHQ8 2 years ago
This lesson was hard...the sounds are just driving me crazy...but I enjoyed the little girl's energy sweet voice.
coachampions 2 years ago
So good, MORE VIDEOS!
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MEpianist 2 years ago
your series is great and really helpful thank you for your efforts
dvpuleio 2 years ago 5
"You bad person, I am going to kill you". Russians are awesome
Fittykent 2 years ago 41
I'm just going quickly through all of your videos before really going through them over again, but I just wanted to thank you again... They're amazing.
And you're daughter is way too cute in this video!! And thanks for the chords and lyrics too!!
-A huge fan in Peru
cbbjork 2 years ago 5
thank you very much for your lessons ...you are the best !!!
hey, can i ask you a question?
what is the name of the song your little girl sings?
do you know by any chance if i can download it from internet?
i would like to know what the song it's about ;p
muchas gracias profesor.
Lesterernesto 2 years ago
That little girl is a Russian angel. She warmed my heart!
Slyfer7 2 years ago 5
I love these videos. I've been wanting to learn Russian for a long time but often, I like the historical reason for the lingustics and you do this, like with the Latin words ending in -us. and why there no longer is a hard sign. Spaciba!
Thestralsxxx 2 years ago
Unfortunately, I rushed through it all, and got the grammar down, but now I can't pronounce worth a damn.
Your videos help me!
acaciaxtract 2 years ago
I learned the most in this video.
Pakawee 2 years ago
I wrote my other comment too early!! ))) ...before the funny part with the bells in the background and before your amazing finale with the joke and song (with your beautiful daughter). I just discovered Cheburaska yesterday and spent hours with him and Gena on their adventures. Today I will learn Russian with you. Well, maybe not in one day (more like one decade). I look forward to watching more of your videos. :)
angelaNegypt 2 years ago
Then I look forward to reading more of your comments!
usenetposts 2 years ago
A very "fashionable" lesson!!! ;) Thank you!
angelaNegypt 2 years ago
thanks for all the lessons, man! you're AWESOME! :))))))
rtarbinar 2 years ago 3
Your lessons are quite fantastic! I never thought that I'd be learning russian!
Thank you!
TheThievingBeggars 2 years ago
You're very welcome. Keep going!
usenetposts 2 years ago
Thanks, i always wondered what those both signs were. very useful :)
TehRealShark 2 years ago
spaciba bolshoye!! je suis francais, j habite a Narva, Estonie. I've got a lot of prgress to do, I'm only starting to be able to read the russian alphabet but big thank you, merci beaucoup for your videos. They are effective, entertaining, inspired, most useful and your english (and russian accent) are great.
OLudOvideos 3 years ago
Чебурашка rules!!!
rossisch 3 years ago
Truly one of the most inspired videos!
GypsyPianist 3 years ago 3
Hey, cute girl you have there! What's her name?
baseballboy822000 3 years ago 3
Very nice video and Merry Christmas:) I also noticed that someone was setting up or possibly taking down a tree during this video so I sense that christmas was not far off during this video, but again for the current season and many more...Merry Christmas and Happy New Year:) I might not check in the day after new years for I fear I may drink to much:) lol
warriorlink01 3 years ago
Ah. This lessons is a bit harder than the others. I love these videos, I even make notes :)
Greetings from Mexico :D
wazzita 3 years ago
you are amazing i love the end the song is amazing and so is your son you should be praised its amazing thanks for helping me with russian whenever i get confused i go back through it all
elvis633 3 years ago
Many thanks, but he wasn't on there.
usenetposts 3 years ago
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this. I'm trying to use "Teach yourself Russian" to learn the language basics, but it never explains the hard and soft signs, so I was a bit lost. Very useful.
michirucarrera 3 years ago
you really are great and so funny and i love your family wonderful thank you so much, great help and much better than my real teacher which i have to pay money for to teach me...again thank you and would love to find someone to converse with and if possible i would like to ask you a favour, i am looking for a Russian Dictionary and i can't find it anywhere in Cambridge, England can you believe it, would you help me buy one cheap, i appreciate all your input, thanks
wildy1963 3 years ago
Sure, I can help with that. If you go to the Sedgewick languages site on Sedgewick avenue and put a nite on the notice boards as you go into the main lecture block that you want to buy a second hand Russian dictionary, then one of the Russian students will probably sell a dictionary they have grown out of. Hth.
usenetposts 3 years ago
Sorry, a note, not a nite. While you are about it please leave a plug for my Russian videos on that noticeboard, too. I could do with more viewers. Thanks!
usenetposts 3 years ago
I really have a hard time making the difference between Ш and Щ ... I also had a hard time finding them on my keyboard which is an English keyboard :P
Philly666lol 3 years ago
I must correct you, Viktor Dmitrievitch , "Ь" in "СЕМЬЯ" is actually pronounced like there's a hard sign in it. Like this [Sem'-Yah] or [7-Я] .. not like 'Semyah' ok?..:)
btw, can I write in Russian here or you prefer English?
pmf026 3 years ago
I give up! I absolutely cannot hear the difference, especially with the hard and soft versions of R. Bolshoi spasibo for the lessons, though...
LumiereBrothers 3 years ago
OK. Let's try something else. The Russian for "despite" is "niesmotrya" or несмотря with the accent on the final syllable. Most beginners will make two syllables out of the -rya. This is incorrect. Something like nyeh-smo-TREEAH is incorrect. When you have 3 syllables not four in that word, so that it sounds like nyeh-smot-YAH but with an R in it, but sounding different to the R in poRA, then you have it. Ask a native Russian to repeat those two words in a place you can hear very well.
usenetposts 3 years ago
I would love to speak russian :x
Cha0z19 3 years ago
See you around, then!
usenetposts 3 years ago
merci beaucoup !!
PierreE14 3 years ago
je vous en prie.
usenetposts 3 years ago
Предыдущий комент для Alexgoler.
pmf026 3 years ago
wow man - this is so great. the soft sign is the one part of the russian alphabet i never understood but with this video I know what im doign! 10/10 :D
Satsumeh 3 years ago 3
I just subscribed! Really inspired stuff! Everything from the language lessons to the songs and jokes! I am a concert pianist and have this song which I heard but nobody knows what the title is and so I can't find out what the words are. Perhaps I can show you some time? Will be in touch. Thank you sooo much for all of this. I just started today but have been interested in becoming good at communicating in Russian for years.
GypsyPianist 3 years ago
Welcome aboard and thanks for the subscription. Go ahead and skype me on david.j.james and you can play me your mystery song, or better still, post it as a video response to this and everyone can have a go at guessing it!
usenetposts 3 years ago
Will there more lessons? I'll be waiting! Thanks
timfly1985 4 years ago
There's a bunch more. Keep following the video responses for the next one, or follow the playlist.
usenetposts 3 years ago
I can't wait. :-)
Skoben2000 3 years ago
Thank you many times over. I'm glad it is a Saturday night, as I have just stumbled upon your videos. I will be up all night looking at all of your material. I learned Russian from Taxi drivers in Baltimore, Maryland, which keeps me in constant trouble. It's wonderful to learn the correct way. I had nearly given up, but there is new life now. Thanks again.
Beelzerat 4 years ago
Glad you like it.
usenetposts 3 years ago
dude^^ you are awesome, it really made me get the thing!
Minyavilwen 4 years ago
Thanks very much. Please keep watching.
usenetposts 4 years ago
your daughter is just adorable!
fatfortyyearold 4 years ago
The hard sign, prevalent before the Revolution, is used only in a handful of words. It is no longer used at the end of words like Potyomkin''
DNLARS145 4 years ago
For me it's a very personalised, very funny yet effective way to familiarise oneself with Russian... and I am grateful for that. Thumbs up, Huliganov!
tenaleven 4 years ago
Many thanks
usenetposts 4 years ago
Телефони ))) не, ну ты ответь, какого Ху№ ты так говоришь. Уж если говорить по английски - то красивым языком, а не таким как у тебя! Хулиганов епт! )))))))))))))))))
Твои уроки вообще как серъезные воспринимать или как камеди?
alexgoler 4 years ago
Alexgoler, first learn to spell your own language, then punctuate it, and then thirdly you can tell me all about what's wrong with the way I teach it. Deal?
usenetposts 4 years ago
Да лан, расслабься чувак.. У Хулиганова просто такой стиль, он может и без акцента, я уверен. Так даже забавней звучит:)
К тому же, для тех кто только по английски говорит, эти уроки, я уверен, будут весьма полезны. Меня больше бесят америкашки которые пытаются посмеяться над этими уроками и русским языком вообще. Вот. Будь здоров!:)
pmf026 3 years ago
Thanks for that. I think you've understood precisely what I'm doing. Alex has in the meantime also, I think.
usenetposts 3 years ago
Мля я не могу, тебя послушать - так это советский союз какой то, как в тупых разговорниках... бесячий ты какой ужас (Азер лесонс) - Пиздец
alexgoler 4 years ago
So what is your True accent? i saw on other lessons the video's comments say alot like they spot inconsistancies in your accent and stuff, could you fill me in?
immortalvamp 4 years ago
You're welcome to watch other things by me, and all will become clear...
usenetposts 4 years ago
Otlychno!
mau30br 4 years ago
Spasybo!
usenetposts 4 years ago
One more (seriously, I'm sorry!!) What about the other letters with the soft sign, such as tzeh and beh and peh?
Yardana28 4 years ago
What about them?
usenetposts 4 years ago
I mean, you said to let you know if you forgot any consonents and I'm wondering how those ones are pronounced.
Yardana28 4 years ago
Aha! Well, they are pretty rare, especially ts plus soft sign, although it appears in Belarussian. P and B are labials, and that doesn't get too directly effected by softness, which is the raising of the tongue against the palate, but listen to the tone of a p, and how it changes when you go 'pay, pea, pii' where "pii" means raising your tongue as much again as you raised it to get from 'pay' to 'pea'.
usenetposts 4 years ago
Okay, so it's just a matter of raising the tongue a little bit?
Yardana28 4 years ago
Very basically put, that's it!
usenetposts 4 years ago
Also, I don't understand what samovar means? I would greatly appreciate any explaination. By the way, I think this is the best joke yet, great job!!!
Yardana28 4 years ago
A samovar is a Russian kettle, and you will find examples in wikipedia.
usenetposts 4 years ago
I have questions (sorry, I must be a most annoying student...) When you say "Rossiya hochet tolko mir...ves mir!" 2 things are different; one is that you said hochet and tolko in different place than is shown on screen (I'm wondering which one is correct) and another is that the on screen one spells ves' -which you said means the weight of. I was just wondering why that is and which one is correct?
Yardana28 4 years ago
ves with soft sign is "all", and without is "weight".
usenetposts 4 years ago
This was a tough lesson! I'll just have to watch it a bit more to make sure it sticks, that's the way to do it right?
Tvoy dotchka-ochen krasivaya!
Is that how you say that? I was trying to tell you that your daughter is very beautiful, how sweet. I didn't know you had kids until this lesson ^_^
Yardana28 4 years ago
It should be "tvoya" rather than "tvoy", otherwise fine. Best to write "ochen'" with an apostrophe after to represent the soft sign. Other ways to show the soft n are "ocseny" (Hungarian style), oczeń (polish style) otchegne (French style). No wonder there is often confusion when Russian is transposed to Latin letters!
usenetposts 4 years ago
No kidding! I had someone write me a letter in transliterated Russian and I got very confused at some of the words.
Yardana28 4 years ago
Lovely song like your daughter's voice. :)
What's the name of the song and do you have the lyrics?
ItsAhBrushNotAhWand 4 years ago
I've added the lyrics, chords and translation to the sidebar for you, now. You'll need to click on "more" to see it.
usenetposts 4 years ago
Thank you very much for the lyrics. :) I will try to learn at least this song.
What's the name of the song?
ItsAhBrushNotAhWand 4 years ago
I don't rightly know the official title.
usenetposts 4 years ago
Ещё один раз вы производили классный фильм. Спасибо, господин Хулиганов.
PEAKTOP7CEMb 4 years ago
Спасибо!
usenetposts 4 years ago
I already know the alphabet, but I'm watching these last ones anyway, just so I don't miss any jokes. That should give you an indication of how awesome you are.
evillttlimp 4 years ago
Oh my Lord! Your daughter is so cute!
XxdieformetalxX 4 years ago
irina is so cheek hugo....that lesson is a hard one but still learning i will get it in the end :)
lordmoggy 4 years ago
lol yes very fashonable and trendy im going to write them on my hand
konfus3d4life 4 years ago
Poland is cool country!
Croatian2012 4 years ago
mr Hooliganov! too many mistakes... I won`t correct you any more... By the way what is your native language?
Mariakhin 4 years ago
hahaha.... And with "Ж" vice versa... It may have soft sign after it, BUT it never-never sounds softly, except in some French words such as "Ж(ь)ЮРИ" or in some cases with double "ЖЖ" for instance "ВОЖЖ(ь)И", "ДРОЖЖ(ь)И"
Mariakhin 4 years ago
And you are wrong at 8.00. Letters "К", "Г", "Х" - never have soft sign after them but they CAN sound soft in some cases. When those letters are followed by "И" "Е" "Ё" "Я" "Ю" they soud soft... and it`s impossible to pronounce in the other way. Compare sound "К" in words "Кошка" and "Кит". They are different.
Mariakhin 4 years ago
You`ve got some mistakes:
НЕнависть(NEnavist`)(Hatred) the stress on the first syllable.
ЛоШадь(horse) not ЛоЩадь!
Mariakhin 4 years ago
I thought horse was "xop"
evillttlimp 4 years ago
That would be "choir".
usenetposts 4 years ago
oh ok. I will make sure not to say that I am riding a choir.
evillttlimp 4 years ago
Never admit to riding more than one member of it at once, anyway. It could get you badly-liked.
usenetposts 4 years ago
hahahah
evillttlimp 4 years ago
you are an awsome teacher and we are all so lucky you take time out of your day to do this for us!! thank you for teaching this to us!!
konfus3d4life 4 years ago
i wanna learn russian,it is so sexy language
Croatian2012 4 years ago
Go ahead! YOu have my full permission to learn it ;-)
usenetposts 4 years ago
THanks. I have way to go to master this. This is my second viewing. I will see it and see it until I become a meister
homousios 4 years ago
I have already subscibed. If you are planning more, I will be delighted
homousios 4 years ago
more more more
ssips720 4 years ago
I, I, I want you to do another serie! Please! thank you!
BananasAndCream 4 years ago
These lessons are very good for russian learners.please add one or more series.very useful and entertaining lectures by huliganov.Khorosho,keep it up.
shardsnn 5 years ago
Many thanks
usenetposts 5 years ago
You are best in this job.I want to say that ,i am going to watch your lessons with pleasure as you go on your series.You are relly good teacher Mr. Huliganov and we hope you give us to watch your next series.
Thank you alot for every thing
mbarayev 5 years ago
Please, please, PLEASE do another series!!!
I am learning Russian, but the book and tape I have aren't as good fun as you!
LornaEGL 5 years ago
an excellent conclusion to the first (but hopefully not the last) series. thank you, sir.
ulcerprone 5 years ago
thanks so much for all of your videos i hope you continue making them!!
melmal727 5 years ago
I would love to see more of these lessons. They are relavant and entertaining. They are coinciding perfectly with the lessons I am taking to speak to my wife's family. Great job!
Jatmos 5 years ago
i saw the sign *lol*
fracreweb 5 years ago
Excellent again. Pretty and talented musical co-star!
I hope you get enough encouragement to do series 2. Series 1 helped inspire me to enrol for further night school russian course. I will idly mention "proto- slavonic and indo-european lengvidges" and pose as class swot
uptodat 5 years ago
Good on you! BTW, if you can get me a few more viewers in there, I'd be delighted!
usenetposts 5 years ago
what a pretty girl.
akoanani 5 years ago
Thanks, but I won't tell her you said so, as she's already vain enough!
usenetposts 5 years ago
thanks for uploading
akoanani 5 years ago
pleasure!
usenetposts 5 years ago