RL102-18 Locative Case Prepositions - Part Two

Here's the second part with the joke and the song!

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[RomanianWay]

Чего же Вы говорите? Есть много россиян, у которых есть российское гражданство(это само собой разумеется), хотя они нерусские(например их родители армяне/ грузины и так далее)

[usenetposts]

I'm not discussing the issue of how Russian citizenship was decided by the part of the Soviet Union based on the majority of places of residency in the last 8 years of the Soviet period. That is the reason why you get non-Russian Russian citizens, but for my viewers in the main simply learning Russian will not give them Russian citizenship, but it will turn them into people capable of thinking the way Russians do, because languages determines thought.

[RomanianWay]

All right it was a metaphore. I don't know what the procedures are now, but I have many Moldovan friends who have Russian citizenship. Btw what do you mean by ''languages determine thought'', does it mean that a certain nation has a certain way of thinking? You do not believe in individual way of thinking?

[usenetposts]

I certainly do believe in individual thinking, but any individual can only think with the tools that he has, and the tools of thought are basically lingistic. So, the way an individual thinks when he knows one language is more limited than that same individual can think when he learns more languages. You will probably even be able to decide on the truth of that in your own case by looking at how your own thought horizons grew when you learned additional languages. Therefore, if you take that ...

[usenetposts]

... idea on stage further, you can consider that the way of thinking of an individual with one native language might differ from the thinkning of that same individual if he had a different single native language. However, it is hard to measure how much of it is driven by the deep structures of languages, how much by the vocabulary, sayings, and how much by the different culture, religion, history, climate, in short - environment. As all these things are included in learning, a new language ...

[usenetposts]

...affects thought anyway and makes you "become" more like the people of the language learnt, and helps you think the way you, the individual, would think if you were born to that community. I'm not saying nations think like clones. That would run strongly counter to observation. However, some nations have been more resilient than others to harmful ideas. There is a hypothesis that these ideas, when translated into their languages, simply showed up their nonsense more than in other languages.

[smurk4]

I greatly enjoy your insight on the Russian language, like those things most courses or teachers never think to comment on. The song was absolutely brilliant. On a side note, I believe Pushkin is trying to steal the spotlight with those acrobatic acts before the camera. Thanks for making learning Russian so much fun and entertaining.

[AnaisMTY]

Priviet Huliganov!

I'm Mexican and I like your videos but sometimes your accent makes it difficult to understand...I'm just being honest...

Anyway, I've learned something!

Spaciba!

[mikemike20202020]

thats not a swing, it's a chute!

[Clavin29]

I must say, you're a very good teacher, you're great! Я всё понимаю!

[DarkMeson]

Thanks Professor. Nice song choice, too.

[Quaddrator]

Thank you for your explanation. That seems a dreadful waste of time for anyone to engage in that activity.

As for continuing the discussion, that is a possibility, once my counterpart has considered my two motions aired yesterday.