Profile
"Drasvi" is "hello" in Russonorsk
Russonorsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russenorsk) is the language created by Russians and Norvegians living on the norther coasts for to communicate with each other.
Our villages and towns traded for centuries, until 1950s when the border was closed.
So "drasvi" is how Norwegians made Russian "zdrastvuj" more comfortable. I find it cute.
Learning
Chinese (Mandarin)
Turkish
Language Skills
RussianNative
English
Dutch
Lesson Feedback
Lesson history
| Last month | Last 3 months | All time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Completed lessons | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Attendance rate | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Teacher reviews
No record
Activities
- If you mean большой-большою, it is not unlike "I'm" and "I am". A phonetical contraction. The difference is that the full form is rare. Mostly it is used in poetry. Occasionaly in speech, just by taste. Mostly consciously, not many people can use it spontaneously. Usually in adjectives. In 19 century it was more common. People may use it - for stylization (as it is found in poetry it now sounds like a 'poetic' form) - just because they read classical literature and poetry and see it often. - in "ею" to distinguish it from dative "ей".0 votedApril 18, 20200
- Anna-Liisa, perhaps.I never studied English, but I'm curious about its grammar, and I occasionaly read things about it, out of curiousity.But I only learned it from books.I think if I listened to it, my English would be much better.(If "advanced" only means ability to understand certain kind of texts (including spoken) and communicate ideas irrespectively of accuracy, then how on Earth it may need anything but exposure and practice? I'm answerign form the assumtion that you also need <em>accuracy</em>)0 votedApril 17, 20200
- One of my closest friends was not even homeschooled. She just played with equations in pre-school age and read Russian classics as a teen. Voluntarily.She's one of the best kids in her generation, I mean among those caught in the nets of our olympiad system (which is meant to find talented kids).She would not be better at math if she attended a school, only worse.And my great grandfather. She went by feet to Georgia to get educated. His father was a local chieftane and they fought over wasting candles on reading.But he didn't dream of studying in a seminary (a deacon met him on the road)! Or studying Chinese and Persian - they prepared missionaries to work in China, and he worked in Iran and met the shah.That time without school you could not <em>access </em>knowlege. If there was the Internet he'd stay at home and everyone in the village would call him a lazy ass.0 votedApril 16, 20200
- Matthew, only in a context.There is a song from a children's film, "прекрасное далёко", where an adverb далёко is used as a noun and means "future". You can find in on youtube in a dozen of lnaguages up to Faroese, it is a nice song:)It's the only example I'm able to rememebr where the meaning is not specified directly but: it is a film about a girl from future (a whole generation fo Russian boys were in love with that girl). It influenced Disney's "Tomorrowland". The song is full of similar metaphors of childhood: "from pure source to the beautiful afar I'm beginning [my] way". It refers both to the future and adulthood.It is langauge play, not 'meaning'. The same with даль - it is the space far away. It can be far away in time too, why not. But it is not what people imagine when you say it.0 votedApril 16, 20200
- Som, stupidity predates the industrial age.Leibniz was an enthusiastic Latin writer, but he claims that he'd have never learned Latin with his teacher.Some day he found two books, one classic Latin and one with familiar contents. He began deciphering them on his own. Then his teacher learned about that and... suggested to take the books from him, because he is not ready yet.It is an example of an oppressive but not very demanding teacher. One who'll beat you but won't give enough food for thought.With an oppressive but demanding teacher you, of course will learn anything. It is just such a teacher is like a paver. I don't want to be asphalt, I don't want to be smooth, and I don't want to be a paver too.0 votedApril 16, 20200
- Anastasia, just to be precise I support the idea of being Anastasia, flesh and blood, with extensive knowlege of whatever you know extensively, but yet flesh and blood and and not a "spherical professional in vacuum" as I would put it in Russian (referring to the "spherical horse in vacuum" from a joke about physical problems) .I'm not for adding content mechanically for shock value, artificial infomality or whatever reason:) I'm not fond of artificial anything. And the teacher can enter the classroom drunk as a judge and completely naked, and i'll do what? I'll still learn.0 votedApril 16, 20200
00:00
00:00