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kittydesadeGerman and Russian both, since there wasn't enough German to really warrant posting last night. Still hate the genitive plural, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. Although of course now that I'm learning a new case I feel like I'm forgetting all the old ones. Maybe when I get this down I'll try to balance it.
Separable prefix verbs.
Michaels Tagesplan. Michael erzählt Uwe von seinen Plänen für heute.
1. mitbringen - Ich bringe Großmutter Blumen mit.
2. durcharbeiten - Ich arbeite meine Notizen durch.
3. vorbereiten - Ich bereite mein Referat vor
4. ausleihen - Melanie leiht meinen CD-Player aus.
5. fernsehen - Ich sehe heute Abend fern.
Nouns whose nominative singular forms end in either -ие or -ия have a genitive plural ending of -ий.
Общежитие – общежитий
Лаборатория – лабораторий
Сколько...?
1. Сколько здесь фотографий?
2. Сколько здесь занятий?
3. Сколько здесь зданий?
4. Сколько здесь упражнений?
5. Сколько здесь лекций?
The genitive plural ending for masculine nouns ending in consonants -ж, -ш, -щ, -ч, and all nouns ending in -ь is –ей
Преподаватель – преподавателей
Словарь – словарей
Мать – матерей
Тетрадь – тетрадей
Карандаш – карандашей
Муж – мужей
Этаж – этажей
Врач – врачей
Здесь нет
1. Здесь нет преподавателей
2. Здесь нет секретарей
3. Здесь нет этажей
4. Здесь нет словарей
5. Здесь нет писателей
6. Здесь нет гаражей
7. Здесь нет врачей
8. Здесь нет карандашей
9. Здесь нет учителей
It's weird. I keep having moments of swinging confidence when I'm studying languages. It's like the caterpillar, I can remember and learn and speak and write and read them only if I'm not thinking about it. If I stop to think longer than to look something up I'm not sure of, if I stop to try to coordinate noun case endings (which to me are starting to be harder than verbs in both new languages) or verb tenses or persons or numbers or whatever, I go "... wait. I actually know all this? In my head? NO I DON'T! AUGH!" and then I fall over. And then it takes me an hour or two to get back up again.
And yet, I can understand three, nearly four languages that I've not studied formally in years. Many years, at this point. With a little bit of practice (which I'm actually thinking about scheduling into my routine) I could rapidly get fluent again in at least two of them. And I'm working on German and Russian. So that's ... enough languages that I have to stop and think about it and count them. Five. Six, if I can pull off re-learning Japanese, which, kanji. Annoying. So this isn't about a lack of ability. I can keep it all straight in my head. I just need to remember to do so. Refresh my memory. Figure out how to do that, how to jam that into my schedule with everything else.
Writing, at least, is coming along. Almost back on schedule. I keep having this urge to write something either White Collar or Carnivale, which I blame entirely on Tim DeKay. Trying to finish current projects though before I start any new ones; I have more than enough on my plate right now with Yuletide to finish, Big Bangs, and another thing that's due on Sunday.
Also, this. Just, this.
Separable prefix verbs.
Michaels Tagesplan. Michael erzählt Uwe von seinen Plänen für heute.
1. mitbringen - Ich bringe Großmutter Blumen mit.
2. durcharbeiten - Ich arbeite meine Notizen durch.
3. vorbereiten - Ich bereite mein Referat vor
4. ausleihen - Melanie leiht meinen CD-Player aus.
5. fernsehen - Ich sehe heute Abend fern.
Nouns whose nominative singular forms end in either -ие or -ия have a genitive plural ending of -ий.
Общежитие – общежитий
Лаборатория – лабораторий
Сколько...?
1. Сколько здесь фотографий?
2. Сколько здесь занятий?
3. Сколько здесь зданий?
4. Сколько здесь упражнений?
5. Сколько здесь лекций?
The genitive plural ending for masculine nouns ending in consonants -ж, -ш, -щ, -ч, and all nouns ending in -ь is –ей
Преподаватель – преподавателей
Словарь – словарей
Мать – матерей
Тетрадь – тетрадей
Карандаш – карандашей
Муж – мужей
Этаж – этажей
Врач – врачей
Здесь нет
1. Здесь нет преподавателей
2. Здесь нет секретарей
3. Здесь нет этажей
4. Здесь нет словарей
5. Здесь нет писателей
6. Здесь нет гаражей
7. Здесь нет врачей
8. Здесь нет карандашей
9. Здесь нет учителей
It's weird. I keep having moments of swinging confidence when I'm studying languages. It's like the caterpillar, I can remember and learn and speak and write and read them only if I'm not thinking about it. If I stop to think longer than to look something up I'm not sure of, if I stop to try to coordinate noun case endings (which to me are starting to be harder than verbs in both new languages) or verb tenses or persons or numbers or whatever, I go "... wait. I actually know all this? In my head? NO I DON'T! AUGH!" and then I fall over. And then it takes me an hour or two to get back up again.
And yet, I can understand three, nearly four languages that I've not studied formally in years. Many years, at this point. With a little bit of practice (which I'm actually thinking about scheduling into my routine) I could rapidly get fluent again in at least two of them. And I'm working on German and Russian. So that's ... enough languages that I have to stop and think about it and count them. Five. Six, if I can pull off re-learning Japanese, which, kanji. Annoying. So this isn't about a lack of ability. I can keep it all straight in my head. I just need to remember to do so. Refresh my memory. Figure out how to do that, how to jam that into my schedule with everything else.
Writing, at least, is coming along. Almost back on schedule. I keep having this urge to write something either White Collar or Carnivale, which I blame entirely on Tim DeKay. Trying to finish current projects though before I start any new ones; I have more than enough on my plate right now with Yuletide to finish, Big Bangs, and another thing that's due on Sunday.
Also, this. Just, this.