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[kittydesade]

Review the dialogues. How would you do the following?
1. Ask someone what kinds of movies he/she likes best. Какие фильмы тебе (вам) нравятся?
2. Say what kinds of movies you like best. Мне нравятся сказки/научные фантастики.
3. Say that there is an interesting (new, funny) movie showing. Сейчас идёт интересный (новый, смешной) фильм.
4. Ask what the name of the movie is. Как он/фильм называется?
5. Ask if someone has seen [movie]. (I'm getting tired of writing that damn movie title because I keep having to switch the stupid kb.) Ты его/Матрица смотрел/а?
6. Ask someone to describe a movie. Что это за фильм?
7. Ask when the next showing of a movie starts. Когда начинается следующий сеанс?
8. Purchase two (four, five) tickets for the 8.00 (10.00) show. Два (четыре, пять) билеты на сеанс в 8 часов (10 часов).
9. Tell the ticket seller that you want seats in the middle (front, back, 12th row, 18th row).
10. Ask what is on TV. Что (сейчас) показывают по телевизору?
11. Say that you'll take a look at the TV guide. Посмотрим/посмотрю программу.
12. Say that there's a game show (movie, news) on channel one (two, four).
13. Say that you don't like game shows.
14. Ask how someone liked a film.
15. Say that you understood more than you expected.

I'll... try to finish the rest of those at work, before UPS gets there.


Irritated Jag is irritated. Why does LJ completely invert the Kinsey scale, outdated and inaccurate as it is? Why, out of all the stories on NovelBigBang, are 80% of them boyslash? What the hell, people, can't you find something else original to write? I swear, I'm not going to write my perfectly useful space opera just because it includes two men (and a woman) getting married as part of a truce. Because I am not collaborating on the massive orgy of male-male homoerotic fiction. I am super-saturated. I am done. Fin. End of Line, man.

On the other hand, this means I need a new idea. Ugh. Other than the author who wants to write something other than homoerotic vampire fiction (because yes, I'm sick of vampires too) and their agent won't let them.

Completely unrelated, now that I think about it, I wonder if there's something to figuring out which languages have liking/favoring as an act of the person and which have liking/favoring as an act of the object favored. Spanish and Russian seem to have it as an act of the object, [such and such] pleases [person]. French has it both ways, I'm not sure which one is more predominant right now. Japanese has liking as an adjective, I'm not sure where that falls. [Noun][subject marker] [adjective indicating liking] [copula verb]. What other languages do I know this in... German has a whole other structure for liking activities, and I'm not sure what that means either. Oh languages.

Ergh. Right, work. Doing the work thing. Probably it'll be a crazy busy morning, too, there's lots of incoming and we're down an Elf Lord, but we'll see what happens.