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Russian Alphabet Made Easy #11


Strangers: Che and Ya

CONTENTS
2 Vocabulary
2 Sample Sentences
3 Grammar

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VOCABULARY

R ussian R omanization English C lass Ge nde r

что chto what pronoun

demonstrative
это eto this (neutral) pronoun feminine

possessive
моя moya my, mine pronoun feminine

фабрика fabrika factory noun

я ya I pronoun n/a

across; in
(about time, preposition,
через cherez distance), adverb
through

to go (by
еду transport) verb

Москву Moskvu Moscow noun

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Что это? Что случилось?


Chto eto? Chto sluchilos?

"What's this?" "What's wrong?"

Что они говорят? Что это?


Chto oni govoryat? Čto èto?

"What are they saying?" "What is it?"

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Моя мама - русская, а папа - украинец. Моя первая поездка в Россию
Moya mama - russkaya, a papa - ukrainets. запомнится мне на всю жизнь.
Maya pervaya paezdka v Rasiyu zapomnitsa mne
"My mom is Russian, and my dad is Ukrainian."
na vsyu zhiznj.

"I will remember my first trip to Russia for the rest


of my life."

Моя мама живёт в Москве. Фабрика "Красный Октябрь"


Moya mama zhivyot v Moskve. производит самый вкусный горький
"My mom lives in Moscow." шоколад
Fabrika "Krasnyi Oktyabr '" proizvodit samyi
vkusnyi gor 'kiy shokolad

"The Krasniy Octyabr factory produces the most


delicious bitter chocolate."

Я из Японии. Давай встретимся через час.


Ya iz Yaponii. Davay vstryetimsya cherez chas.

"I'm from Japan." "Let's meet in an hour."

Как нам пройти через эту толпу? Через год мне будет двадцать лет.
Kak nam proyti cherez etu tolpu? Cherez god mne budyet dvadtsat' lyet.

"How can we get through this crowd?" "I'll be twenty in a year."

Здорово, что ты в Москве!


Zdorovo, chto ty v Moskvye!

"It's great that you are in Moscow!"

GRAMMAR

The Focus of this Lesson are the Russian Characters Я (Ya) and Ч (Che)

First letter: Я (Ya)

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Our first Stranger is Я. It looks like a backwards "R" but unfortunately, it doesn't sound similar
at all. It's almost always pronounced Ya, like "Why"-"A" in English. In addition to being a letter,
on its own it is one of the most important words in Russian: the first person pronoun, "I." In
printed form, size is the only difference between the upper and lowercase versions.

Second letter: Ч (Che)

The second letter we'll learn in this lesson looks like the number 4. While it may look strange,
Ч has a pretty familiar sound. Ч usually makes a "ch" sound, but sometimes it can sound like
"sh" when used before a hard sound or at the beginning of the word. We'll go over this in
more detail later.

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