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Re: I know it would be hard
Hi Leonid,
“already” is an adverb in English. (Actually, in US English, there are two different “already” adverbs; the second one is a semantic loan from Yiddish, to express impatience or exasperation, e.g. “Enough already with the loud music!”)
Not all English adverbs can be used universally. For example, unlike the Russian adverb «очень», the English adverb “very” can’t be used to modify verbs. Similarly, the primary “already” adverb cannot be used with all verbal tenses.
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Chris
October 24, 2020
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Latest: October 24, 2020
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Ищу учителя и ученика
Я, Сергей. Живу в Украине в городе Киев. Хочу освоить знание Английского языка. Могу помочь в обучении Русским. Пишите, отвечу.
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Сергей Т.
March 11, 2018
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Quiero aprender ruso!
Hola
me llamo Alejandra
Alguien me podria enseñar ruso (mujer o hombre) yo le podria enseñar español. como un intercambio!
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Alejandra C.
September 8, 2009
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The wind of changes
The previous topic that deals with the English spelling has indicated a critical mismatch of opinions, but it induced me to raise another problem in the field of the Russian one. The Russian alphabet has a pair of letters [sh] and [sh'] (#26 and #27). The apostrophe here is to indicate a palatisation of a consonant, that means pronouncing with a tongue risen up. In Russian almost each consonant has a palatised mode producing a new phoneme, but only the above mentioned require two different letters to spell, while all the other reveal that feature by means of a succeding vowel. It makes a lot of difficulties in the spelling rules, producing a lot of sorrow for school pupils and foreign students. It seems a high time to abandon using this odd couple of letters.
What will the World-wide community say?
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Leonid P.
February 24, 2007
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Re:I know it would be hard
I have been even more confused with those combined letters. WHY there are 3 signs for the sounds in "eye, day and eat"??? I also would prefer to spell "shat", not "shuht".
Of course, it comes that "may, can and will" have to be fixed as particles producing certain verb forms. But there is one much more thrilling question, for me at least. Is "already" an adverb, or a particle, or what? It cannot be an adverb since we cannot say "more already" or "very already". But if it is a particle, what form does it produce? It looks something like a perfect tence, but english ALREADY has a perfect tence. Maybe native english speakers feel that these forms conflict each other? Does a language without "already" exist? Or we shall have to admit that our linguistical terms are just approximation?...
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Leonid P.
February 18, 2007
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Latest: October 24, 2020
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Re:I know it would be hard.
Stephen, I suppose those changes would be too crusial. The matter is the american prononciation differs badly from britain and other ones. As far as I know, not only certain sounds do not match, but the whole sounds' system. We all learnt the britain mode in school and futher, thus I cannot imagine that "I" should be spelt "Ie", though "Ai" seems perfect. Then, I suppose there is no use spelling "ht" and "hv" where sounds are aspirated since an aspiration itself doesn't vary words. Nevertheless, "dh" and "tu" are quite bright ideas that I should introduce immediately if I could. Telling about the ehglish grammar, it is so simple that seems having nothing to change. It is ispecially evident in comparision with russian one: even russian man must give up all other occupations in order to get learnt all the spelling rules.
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Leonid P.
February 16, 2007
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Latest: February 16, 2007
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