RL102-18 Prepositions in Locative Case - part one

This is part one of two parts that the 18th lesson comes in. You may be surprised not to get much actual Russian in the first half - but more talk around the way prepositions work in Russian, but I believe it will help you if you take in what is being said here - more than that, you won't get your head around Russian unless and until you get some of the ideas I'm talking about here. In the second half, which will be in a day or so for those following real time, we cover two locative case prepositions, a joke and a song.

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[xxmindyxx1997]

Do you know Ukrainian?

[usenetposts]

@xxmindyxx1997 With Ukrainian, I can I never studied it, but when I went into a shop in Lviv and asked for things in Russian and they answered in Ukrainian, there were no real communication issues.

[theawesomesausage]

Do you know Norwegian??

[usenetposts]

@theawesomesausage I didn't study it, but if I pull up articles in Norwegian I can understand them no problem. I don't think I would follow speech as well as I never heard much of it.

[11rhymesandreasons]

Yes i agree with you that one is lucky to be Russian, although they may not consider themselves such. (Is that a stranded prepostion?)

Thank you again, teacher.

[usenetposts]

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. But think about it objectively, and you'll see that some of the luckiest people alive are Russian, and not many of the most unfortunate people alive are Russian. BTW, since you ask, "such" is not a preposition, it is an adverb of manner, and properly delayed in an English sentence.

[00synthetic]

Thanks for the explanation of stranded prepositions!

This explains why in my state of Minnesota we say "I'm going to the store, do you want to go with?", causing people not from here no end of confusion.

Most likely we say it that way because of so many Scandinavians that settled here.

Большое спасибо профессор.

[theawesomesausage]

@usenetposts Yeah, I just wanted to ask.

[ryanboyd72yahoo]

the numbers are actually really easy, you could probably learn them if you type it in on google

[LaurensVRC]

I want to thank you for helping me discover links in other languages.

E.g. work (wrought - old english). When we talk about work: "werken/wrochte/gewrocht" in West-Flemish. I can clearly see the link there.

Or: Ha (russian). We also use that word, although it doesn't mean anything for us except "here you are".

I really love those extra "bonus" explanations you throw in: it really makes your lessons more valuable than most popular textbook courses.

I can't wait to see the rest of your videos.