Привет, понедельник! 📅 Last week was a busy one for the Russian language community - 225 years since the birth of Alexander Pushkin, yep, this is also a holiday. His timeless poetry still comforts in difficult moments and inspires people. Today, reading the eternal classics, I'm writing you about the eternal student problem... Time We can all postpone language learning for various reasons, but when students come to me after 100 hours, 200 hours of diligent self-study or who knows that kind of study because their results are very modest - it really makes me sad. Individual lessons are designed to help you speak in a short time. If after 50 lessons you cannot speak with some degree of mistakes, but freely at the everyday conversational level -- it is time to change something in your study routine. __________ If you plan to speak Russian well right away, check my schedule, I'm always glad to help. 🤟 *Alexander Pushkin, portrait by Orest Kiprensky ⬇️

Is there a gerund in Russian? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Привет, опять понедельник! 📅 My Conversational dacha group classes in May went well at all levels: A – beginner level, B - intermediate, C - advanced, and it will be open until autumn. Speaking of levels … The benefits of understanding your level When I worked at a language school in London (my opinion about the UK was - I don't like the weather, wait, no, I still don't like the weather), anyway, when I worked there, I noticed how many courses there are for students of all levels in one classroom. For grammar courses, such as motion verbs or pronunciation there can be a wide range of students' levels, but a conversational group for A2 up to B2, I saw there for the first time, then everywhere online and offline. Please check your level, this will help you move forward, ask your teacher to help determine your level, and avoid dubious conversational clubs at all levels at once. There is no benefit from training a professional athlete and a beginner in the same team - the same thing here. _______________ If you want to learn Russian effectively at your level, you can check my schedule, as always, I’m glad to help everyone who really wants to learn. 🤟

Searching for the best method in learning a language can be like searching for the Holy Grail. Shall we find out what is better to find? 📖

Привет! В этот понедельник… the letter-post will be really short. 📅 Gerund in Russian First, I just remind you that May 24 was Slavic Writing and Culture Day. Slavic languages, one of them Russian, are considered to be among the most difficult, but if you love logic and are patient enough, you can master them. The biggest obstacle in your way will actually be the internet and an endless amount of incorrect information. Now why is this post short today. There is no gerund in Russian. Your teacher may say it's LIKE a gerund, trying to give you an understandable comparison, but nothing more. What you might find useful to learn if you want to read Russian literature -- participles and adverbial participles. These names are really useful, they will help you figure out how they work. So, the new filter is how to find a teacher. If they tell you about gerunds in Russian - leave, if they find the endings of the adverbial participles, you'd better leave again. This is not for the faint of heart. You can't help people who couldn't study the school curriculum, but you can help yourself and learn how to study difficult topics more easily. If you’ve already studied participles and adverbial participles you can check them here. https://teach.italki.com/creator/quiz/quizset/9582 _____________ If you don't want to spend years learning Russian, and then years more to learn it correctly, but just achieve your goal on time, you can check my schedule - I'm always glad to help anyone who really wants to learn. 🤟

Надеть, одеть -- words that people like to discuss on the Internet and are really a problem for native speakers, but hardly for you. Find out why here💡

🤟 The podcast has turned one year old -- the most listened-to episodes this week. When you're learning a language, especially on your own, it is very easy to make some mistakes that are actually not difficult to get rid of. There were three parts in total.

🤟 The podcast is a year old, so this week there are few of the most listened-to episodes. Do you remember about "ты" and "вы" in Russian? Are "вы" or "Вы" not a problem for you? If you haven't figured it out yet, the answer is here ⬇️

Привет, новый понедельник! 📅 Nominative case and other details At my family reunion, my mother pointed out to me "… когда море грубый." I read this sign in Arabic (on the second attempt), remained extremely proud of myself, and lost interest when I saw English below. “Море” is neuter means “грубое”, and lexically it’s better to say “волнуется” or “неспокойно". But it’s the grammatical gender and plural that you should learn first. And here comes another detail, the nominative case. The nominative case is the main character of your sentence. All that you introduce or name, “This is Ivan”, “this is a table”, is the nominative case. But I teach not only students but also teachers, so I root for both sides. Since some people have the idea that they can take a textbook and teach, don't blame them, if you take a hammer and try to build a house for the first time, the result may be... unexpected. So those self-proclaimed teachers confuse the gender with the nominative case. Students after a certain time will come to another teacher and tell them that they learned the nominative case, some will add spent hours on it. How fast did you read the sentence about the Nominative case? Now you understand the amazement of teachers, especially fresh out of university. If you want to reach B2 or beyond you need to see the difference. The gender is constant -- that’s very important. The case is situational like clothes which you wear according to the event. Dear teachers, students who learned the nominative case usually learned gender and plural. Dear students, if teachers are asking what you have studied in the nominative case, this is not a reason to think about their competence yet. If you want to start speaking Russian well from the beginning, you can check my schedule. Learn Russian the simplest way. 🤟