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Minggu, 04 Januari 2015

About HelloRussia blog



HelloRussia is a blog made for helping everyone in acquiring Russian language. This blog provides the basic Russian language learning such as alphabet and its pronunciation, common vocabularies, greeting, and also some videos which can make the learning process more exciting. Through this blog, everyone can learn Russian language everytime, so it would be more efficient.

http://data2.whicdn.com/images/74637228/thumb.jpgRussian language is one of the most difficult languages in the world. We have to be more patient when we learn this language. Learning Russian doesn't like learning English, which can be learned from movie and song, it is more complicated than English. We have to open the Russian dictionary when we watch a Russian movie to look for the meaning. Russian language also called as Slavik language which consists of 33 alphabets.

  
Learning Goal
- Share the knowledge
Through this blog, we hope that we can give the contribution to improve the knowledge of society, particularly in language knowledge. We serve the basic of Russian language in order to help people learn Russian language easily without go to the origin country.

Learning Outcome:
- Borden knowledge
By learning Russian language, we also have to learn the Russian culture itself. As the good language learner, we have to know the culture of the country. It is used as the rule when we speak with their language.
- Self development
By learning Russian language, we can get so many advantages from it. As the first, we can increase our confidence when we speak in the public sphere. We can speak another language well and it can improve our knowledge. Then, the last important thing is that we can get the job easily in a work competition, because there are many office which requires their employee to be able to speak two or more languages. So, we can use the Russian language as our third language after the mother tongue language and English (Andersson, L.-G. and P. Trudgill, 1992)
- Expand society
By learning Russian language, we can expand our relationship with another country. As the example, when we are able to speak Russian language so well, we can build the communication with Russian. Unconsciously, we have already added our friends and our communication with another people.
- Prevent Us From Alzheimer
There is a research shows that learning many languages can make us always look like young. In the other hand, learning many languages can prevent us from alzheimer disease. Alzheimer is a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain's nerve cells, or nervous, resulting in loss memory, thinking, language skill, and behavioral change. By learning Russian as our second or third language, we can use our brain to save many kinds of vocabularies and prevent us from alzheimer disease.

Source:
Russian greeting: http://masterrussian.com/blbasic,shtml
Russian conversation: http://www.russianforfree.com/dialogues.php
Video youtube: Learn Russian Lesson 1 - Part 1 - Babel Yak: http://youtu.be/Sw0wCvlu9GM
Russian introduce: http://www.russianlessons.net/lessons/lesson3_main.php




Sabtu, 03 Januari 2015

Russian Greeting


Greeting, Introduction and Basic Phrase

In Russian language, there is a manner in the using of greeting to someone. When you are in a formal situation, you should use greeting “"здравствуйте!" which means “Hallo”. Then, when we call that person by "вы", it means “You” (single second person form). But, the word "вы" can also be said as “you/you guys” (plural second person form). The use of these words shows the comity and politeness, usually used when speaking with the older such as teacher, or to someone who is not close, or whoever in order to show the comity.

Example of conversation:
A: Здравствуйте! 
[Hallo!]
B: Здравствуйте! 
[Hallo]
A: Вы Владимир Рахманович? 
[Are you Vladimir Rahmanovich?]
B: Да. Я Владимир. А как вас зовут? 
[Yes, I’m Vladimir. Dan ]
A: Меня зовут Александр. Александр Иванович. 
[Nama saya Aleksander Ivanovich ,who are you?]
B: Очень приятно. 
[Nice to meet you]
A: Мне тоже. 
[Me too

Biasanya, untuk menunjukan rasa hormat, orang Rusia akan menyebutkan nama lengkap atau setengah lengkap. Misalnya:
- Александр Сергeевич 
[Aleksandr Sergeyevich] (polite)
- Господин Александр Пушкин 
[Sir Aleksandr Pushkin]
- Госпожа Наталья Пушкина 
[Madam Natalia Pushkina]

For conversation language style nowadays, it is rarely use the word Sir or Madam. Although that, there is a term "господин" which means “Sir” and "господин" which means “Madam”, often used in the writing or formal letters or a very forma situation, such as presidential meeting.


 The word collection used in formal situation:
- Здравствуйте!
 [Hallo!]  
- Как вас зовут? 
[Swhat is your name?]
Очень приятно! 
[Nice to meet you]
- Рад с вами познакомиться 
[Nice to know you] (used by male)
- Радa с вами познакомиться 
[Nice to know you (used by female)
- Как ваши дела
[How are you?]
- Как поживаете? 
[How’s life?]
- Хорошо. А у вас? 
[Good. How about you??]
- Нормально
 [It’s fine]
- Плохо 
[Bad]
- До свидания! 
[Good bye!]
- Вы 
You]
- Господин ... 
[Sir ...]
- Госпожа ... 
[Madam ...]
Different from formal situation explained above, in the onformal situation. You can use greeting “привет!" which means “hai!” and use the term "ты" which means “you” to mention person who is in single second person position. The use of this word show the closeness and enjoyful situation, so that usually used to person who has close reltionship, younger, and family.

example of conversation
A: Привет! 
[Hai!]
B: Привет! 
[Hai!]
A: Ты Володя? 
[Are you Volodya]
B: Да. Я Володя. А как тебя зовут? 
[Yes. I am Volodya. And what is your name?]
A: Меня зовут Саша. 
[My name is Sasha]
* Volodya is diminutive (small name) from Vladimir. While Sasha is diminutivefromi Alexander or Alexandra. It is used to show the closeness betwen speakers.

Word collections for informal situation

- Привет! 
[Hai!]
- Как тебя зовут? 
[What is your name?]
Очень приятно! 
[Nice to meet you!]
- Рад (тебя) видеть! 
[nice to see you!]
- Как твои дела
[How are you?]
- Как поживаешь? [How’s life?]
- Хорошо. А у тебя
[Fine.. How about you?]
- Нормально
 [It’s normal
- Плохо 
[Bad]
- Ужасно! [What a pity!] 
- Пока
[Bye!]
- Ты 
[You]

Diminutive names
- Володя 
[Volodya] (diminutive from Vladimir) 
- Света 
[Sveta] (diminutive from Svetlana)
- Петя 
[Petya] (diminutive from Petr)
Ира 
[Ira] (diminutive from Irina)
- Саша 
[Sasha] (diminutive from Alexander or Alexandra)


Other Phrases
- Добро пожаловать! 
[Welcome!]
- Доброе утро! [Good Morning!]
- Добрый день! [Good afternoon/ evening!]
- Добрый вечер! 
[Selamat night!]
- Спокойной ночи! 
[Good night!] (going to sleep)
- Спасибо 
[thsnk you]
- Пожалуйста 
[you’re welcome]
- До встречи! 
[See you!]
- До завтра! 
[See you tomorrow!]
- До скорого! 
[See you again!]