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  • Answered
    A general rule of thumb to keep in mind in regards to adverbs is when in doubt, place the adverb before the verb. So, in this case it would be "When he came into the room, his mum and two other women were happily chatting and didn't notice him." However, it is often fine to place it after the verb as it is in this sentence.
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    May 3, 2014
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    Here is a link to some charts: http://www.russianlessons.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=898
    You can find others by googling russian case ending chart. Note that the linked chart doesn't include excpetions, but those generally come later.

    Anyways, the chart should be a great reference, but of course the most challenging part will be placing the endings yourself. In the end, it's really just a lot of review and practice. 

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    May 3, 2014
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    Eskişehir - Turkey

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    April 28, 2014
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    Great poems everyone!

     

    @Bianca, I found a translated version here: http://www.babcockbooks.com/pictures/2073.jpg

     

    @Dmitry That was the first Russian poem I learned! 

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    April 22, 2014
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    Коммунизм был одним из самых почетных начинаниях человечества. Мечта начала свою смерть, когда большевики убили анархистам и взял его последний вздох со смертью Ленина. Между Сталин захвата власти и немецкой облитерацию, он никогда не составил шанс. Капиталистический мир никогда бы не позволил он существует в любом случае, следовательно холодная война. Извините за ужасный русский, я все еще новичок.

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    April 21, 2014
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    OnitshA - Nigeria

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    April 21, 2014
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    Out of all of the locations on the list, I've been to Puerto Rico and Mexico (I lived on the border and was daily on the Mexican side).

    In Mexico, my only problems were with the police. They like to rob tourists. Other than that I've had a couple weapons pulled on me from people, but nothing I couldn't handle.

    In Puerto Rico however, I've never had a problem. Once I was lost in a very poor neighborhood in the middle of the night. I asked some sketchy looking people for directions, afterwards I noticed my friend and I were being followed. The guys started running towards us... to tell us that we were going the wrong direction! Many of the kindest people I've ever met were in Puerto Rico. 

    Honestly, when I'm in poor neighborhoods in the U.S. and U.K., I get more stares and people trying to start a fight.

    So, I'm shocked that Puerto Rico is above Mexico, but anyways imo this list is useless to a tourist. The stats are going to be indicitive of mostly gang on gang (or ethnic group on ethnic group) warfare.

    And to Dina, I'm so sorry for what my government did to your country. 

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    April 21, 2014
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    What is your favorite poem in your native language from your home country.

    My favorite poem by an American poet is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.

     

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.

     

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    That is correct.
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    April 19, 2014
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    Both words are correct. It just depends on what you are referring to. If you are referring to a specific procedure, then use steps, otherwise pattern is best.
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    April 19, 2014
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