How to say "Swap art with me" correctly and politely! I want to invite my Instagram followers to swap one of their paintings for one of mine. In English I'd simply say "Swap art with me!". I found the verb менять and came up with: заменяй картину с мной. Is that close? I want to be both correct but also polite! Thanks, Lindsay

Я здесь! После трудных месяцев, я здесь! Hopefully life will get easier now and I can get back to chatting and learning Russian :)

I will be back ... I've been away from italki for a whille and I'll be away a little while longer (I don't know exactly how long), but I *will* be back. To everyone who has sent messages and friend requests, I promise I will reply as soon as I'm able.

How do alphabet charts look in your language?

When I say "alphabet charts", I mean, for each letter of the alphabet, there's a picture of something, and the word for it.  eg, A, Apple, (picture of apple), B, Boy, (picture of boy), etc.

 

Here's my question - in French, words have gender, so would the French chart say, "une pomme, un garçon", or "la pomme, le garçon", or just "pomme, garçon"?

 

I'd be interested to know this for other languages too!

 

Я бы vs. Я могу If I want to say "I can speak a little Russian", would it be; Я могу немного говорить по-русский или Я бы немного говорить по-русский ? I think it's the first one, but I read the second one somewhere recently. Perhaps someone can explain what they both say? Also should it be говорить or поговорить?

Я бы vs. Я могу If I want to say "I can speak a little Russian", would it be; Я могу немного говорить по-русский или Я бы немного говорить по-русский ? I think it's the first one, but I read the second one somewhere recently. Perhaps someone can explain what they both say? Also should it be говорить or поговорить? Thanks, Lindsay

Please ignore my last post - I'm still here, and not leaving :) When I wrote my last post about giving up Russian, I was very disheartened and also dealing with a major stress in my life that was making everything seem impossible. I'm very grateful to the many people who wrote to encourage me to keep going :) Things are (hopefully) settling down now and I feel like I can find the time and energy to start learning again, although I'm sure it will be very slowly for now.

I've decided not to continue with Russian Having spoken to a few people here in the last week, I've realised how bad my Russian is and how much work I would need to put it to get to the level I would like to be. Sadly I have neither the time nor the energy to do so, so I've decided to stop learning. Thanks to everyone who contacted me, good luck with your learning. I'll be deleting this account in the coming days. Regards, Lindsay

Больше о мне Меня зовут Линдзй. Мне 46 лет. Я женатый - моя жена зовут Савана (Savannah). У нас одна собака и одна кошка. Мы живем в Сиднй Австралия. Я художник. Я люблю читать и рисовать. Corrections are welcome!