RL101 - 2 : The Six Letters That Are The Same

Here Viktor Dmitrievich Huliganov continues with Russian lesson number 2. The theme of today's lesson, which is followed by a joke and a song, is the letters KOMETA which have basically the same values in the Russian alphabet and the English, but look out! There are "leetle trickies" which mean that even these are not quite as simple as they look!
RL101 - 2

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Comedy

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• Russian
• lesson
• RL101-2
• moroz
• cyrillic
• KOMETA
• alphabet
• language
• Moroz
• pesnya
• joke

[stiv2slava]

Hello, I have enjoyed your Russian lessons for several years now. Could you please help me find the names of the musical scale in Russian. Is it A, Б, C, Д, E, Ф, Г? then how do you say G-sharp or A-flat? Would it be Гис and Ас?

thank you for your help,

[usenetposts]

@stiv2slava I think they have the French ABCDEFG and 'moll' and 'dur". They use French letters for it, which means that they practice safe music. When they want to write in cyrillics, then I think they prefer to use do re mi, whose transcriptions into Cyrillics are self-explanatory except for sol which ends in a soft sign.

[poprockssuck87]

So if you have a message using the Cyrillic alphabet, and everything is written without variation in either all lower case or all caps, how do you tell whether someone is yelling at you or a Russian e.e. cummings? I guess it's lost in translation, no?

[usenetposts]

@poprockssuck87 There are some letters with a different capitalisation, which is usually enough to tell, plus the small letters are smaller and the sentence will start with a capital. In Latin, Aa Bb Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Pp Qq Rr Tt Yy and Zz which I think is 19 of 26 letters show a difference. In Cyrillic Аа Бб Ее Фф Рр Уу and Ее with dots on, which is 7 of 33, show a difference. Three or four more letters have different forms in cursive. Also when a Russian shouts, you'll know.

[steelmanmason]

best teacher ever

[usenetposts]

@steelmanmason That's very kind of you.

[duggan6592]

HAHA that was a good joke !

[LainCodeGreen]

The hardest part of learning a new language (or anything) for me, is to stay interested in the material. You make it easy! Thank you :)

[CronaBlackBlud]

good joke



[sakanwar]

sir you are gret.....i learned a lot bye ur videos

[LowestKnifingPoint]

I'm really enjoying your lessons, they're helping me out in my online Russian class. Thank you so much!

[19RuSSianFreak92]

я люблю ваш уроки :D

[stiv2slava]

@stiv2slava Thank you so much for your quick reply. I have done some further investigating and discovered the following about the names of the notes in Russian. A ля A-flat ля-бемоль B-natural си B-flat бемоль C до C-sharp до-диеэ D ре E ми E-flat ми-бемоль F фа F-sharp фа-диеэ G соль G-sharp соль-диеэ You go me moving in the right direction. Thank You Steve Sherrill

[ZekeComa]

So since stress changes meanings of the words in Russian. When you yell at your wife for example, for not cooking you dinner. You say the opposite of what you yell at her about? (Sounded better in my head)