Conversation

Notices

1. laurel (laurel@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 21:04:44 JST laurel

   in reply to

   • of nothing
   @apropos
   
   What resources are you using to learn Russian?
   
   I'm using a combination of duolingo and https://learnrussian.github.io/lessons/, with some grammar help from http://masterrussian.com/verbs/vpadat_vpast.htm.
   I've also ordered a couple of books and sometimes I'm gonna write down the answers to duolingo exercises in order to help with retention.
   1646309216610.jpg
   • of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 21:04:45 JST of nothing
     Germany: Германия ('Germaniya')
     German: немец ('nemets')
     
     Q: why the huge difference in spelling?
     A: first, consider this other word: https://www.etymonline.com/word/barbarian
     >from PIE root *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (compare Sanskrit barbara- "stammering," also "non-Aryan," Latin balbus "stammering," Czech blblati "to stammer").
     the story that I've head is that "foreigners sound like they're just saying 'bar bar bar' all the time".
     
     A: немец = barbarian:
     https://etymologeek.com/rus/%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%86
     >Dumb, mute (not able to speak). Unclear or incomprehensible speaker, muttering, mammering.
     
     come from England? You're English
     come from France? You're French
     come from Germany? lol, you don't even know how to speak.
     Kerokeronim repeated this.