To prepare for Monday class, 11.09.     For week’s syllabus M-F see here:     РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫK_11.09

  1. Listen to текст 1.8.   You are going to learn a ton of clothing vocabulary. Remember to learn the word for “clothing” as well — одежда.   Где моя одежда?   = Where are my clothes?
  2. Under 1.8 вы всё поняли?, follow the tips for learning a lot of new words at once: separate out the ones that sound familiar (lots of clothing words in Russian come from English, French, or German). YOU NEED TO SAY THEM OUT LOUD TO HEAR THIS SIMILARITY.пиджак looks pretty weird until you say it out loud, at which point you should hear yourself saying something close to “pea-jacket” https://www.google.com/search?q=pea+jacket&oq=pea+jacket&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2207j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
  1. Save 20 minutes of total concentration to study 1.8 немного о языке, which will teach you how to make plurals. Your Russian world has just multiplied!!   Imagine yourself re-creating the chart of «how to make plurals» on your own:

— how do you make a masculine noun that ends in a hard consonant plural?

— how do you make a masculine noun that ends in a consonant+soft sign plural?

— how do you make a plural when the word ends in a ‘velar’ (к, г, х) or a ‘husher’ (ш, щ, ч, ж) ?