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When did I start learning Russian?
When did I start learning Russian?
Russian is not the first language I started learning on Duolingo, but it was the first language I started to study beside my native tongue, Hungarian. To be honest, I did not really start to study Russian, I was more like being taught Russian or forced to study Russian way back in the late 1980’s. It lasted only for about 2 years as far as I am not mistaken. The current political situation that time in Hungary
made it necessary to learn Russian or, to Russian being taught to kids in primary school. Russian language, like anything that is forced on people, was not really our cup of tea – or chai – back then. It is a very difficult language with all its inflections, not to speak of the Cyrillic glyphs, the letters in Russian.
made it necessary to learn Russian or, to Russian being taught to kids in primary school. Russian language, like anything that is forced on people, was not really our cup of tea – or chai – back then. It is a very difficult language with all its inflections, not to speak of the Cyrillic glyphs, the letters in Russian.
My English-learning roots
It was also in primary school when I started learning English in the 3rd grade as far as I remember. English was a much more welcome language phenomenon for me. The simple fact that I could choose to learn it made it more like a privilege. It was the kids in my year at school who were the first given the chance to study the most popular and wide-spread language in the world. My motivation to learn English even grew stronger with the influence of foreign TV channels having been introduced in my country. Channels like Super Channel and Sky Channel broadcasted amazing cartoons and music that could only be watched in English, but it did not make me upset, not even for a single minute. My brain sucked in knowledge like sponge dipped in water. I was a maniac lover of the cartoons and Rap Music of the 90’s. Cartoons and seriess like Captain Powerm G.I. Joe, Transformers, Mask, Unhumanoids, Thundersub, Inspector Gadget…wow, they all bring back awesome memories! There were hardly any new movies or programmes way back then. Shows like Supertime Club and the DJ Kat Show made my mouth open wide with all these – at that time high-tech - sci-fi influenced cartoons. Okay, but let’s get back to good old Russian, мои друзья.
What motivated me to restart learning Russian?
Well, the movies again. Specifically a series called the Arrow brought the influence and motivation for me to dig in the long forgotten realms of my mind and bring my Russian vocabulary to the surface with the help of my amazing little owl friend, Duo and his online language learning school, Duolingo. I am gonna tell this also in a video soon in details, you will be able to (or can, depending on the time you are reading this) find it on my YouTube channel here among the videos in my Duolingo playlist.
More videos coming soon my friends
Well, I am going to upload some videos about how I started using this wonderful program or app called Duolingo with this cute little green owl whose name is Duo. He is my online teacher and it is really fun to learn languages comfortably from home or anywhere on my tablet using the app version, which I prefer to the computer version, which is also great by the way. I will tell you my views on both the Android app version and the PC version of Duolingo soon. They are both free, so meanwhile I encourage you to take a look at it. See you soon among my friends, you can add me here:
Duolingo Russian-English language course topic-list:
Here is the list of the topics of
Duolingo’s Russian-English language course, in the exact order in which they
appear in the language tree:
Основы 1
Основы 2
Общие
фразы
Еда
Животные
Множественное число
Притяжательная форма
Склонения местоимений
Одежда
Глаголы: Настоящее
Цвета
Вопросы
Союзы
Предлоги
Даты и Время
Семья
Профессии
Прилагательные 1
Глаголы: Настоящее 2
Наречия
Места
Предметы
Люди
Поездки
Местоимения 2
Числа
Глаголы: Настоящее 3
Учёба
Глаголы: Прошедшее1
Глаголы:Инфинитив
Глаголы: Прошедшее2
Абстракции 1
Прилагательные 2
Глаголы: Настоящее совершённое
Глаголы: Инфинитив 2
Относительные местоимения
Глаголы: Прошедшее совершённое
Абстракции 2
Возвратные местоимения
Природа
Глаголы: Герундий и Настоящее
длительное
Спорт
Искусство
Общение
Медицина
Глаголы: Будущее время
Политика
Глаголы: Фразовое будущее время
Наука
Глаголы: Будущее совершённое
Бизнес
Глаголы: Модальные
События
Глаголы: Условное совершённое
Качества