{"id":9038,"date":"2013-08-15T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2013-08-15T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T09:16:15","slug":"%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d1%8f%d0%b7%d1%8b%d0%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9038","title":{"rendered":"\u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a couple of Russian couchsurfers coming to stay with me today, so this morning I am focusing on Russian. They both speak English, but I&#8217;d like to speak at least some Russian with them. I&#8217;m trying to think of things I might say &#8211; particularly about myself, my family and my work, and asking them about those kinds of things &#8211; and working out how to say them in Russian. I&#8217;m also listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/rus.ruvr.ru\/radio_broadcast\/schedule\/\">\u0413\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0441 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0438<\/a> (The Voice of Russia) to get tuned in to the language.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use this technique of focusing on learning the words and phrases you might need for particular situations? Does it work for you?<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t studied much Russian recently as I&#8217;ve been focusing on other languages, and when I got to the test section at the end of lesson eight in my Russian textbook I realised that though I can understand most of the language used, I&#8217;m not so good at producing it as my grammatical knowledge is somewhat shaky. I need to go back and learn the noun declensions and verb conjugations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a couple of Russian couchsurfers coming to stay with me today, so this morning I am focusing on Russian. They both speak English, but I&#8217;d like to speak at least some Russian with them. I&#8217;m trying to think of things I might say &#8211; particularly about myself, my family and my work, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,13,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning","category-russian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}