Russian language Archives - Russian language https://russianlanguage.org.uk/tag/russian-language/ Russian language for everyone Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:32:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://russianlanguage.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Russian-language.png Russian language Archives - Russian language https://russianlanguage.org.uk/tag/russian-language/ 32 32 Burning doors Belarus Free Theatre London https://russianlanguage.org.uk/burning-doors-belarus-free-theatre-london/ https://russianlanguage.org.uk/burning-doors-belarus-free-theatre-london/#respond Thu, 04 Aug 2016 11:44:17 +0000 http://russianlanguage.org.uk/?p=347 Burning doors Belarus Free Theatre London is one of the leading refugee-led theatre company in the UK.  Also it is the only theatre in Europe banned by its government on political grounds.Once again you have very good opportunity to meet Russian community and practice your speaking skills.Burning Doors gives you clear understanding of how people are treated in some countries, it draws on the company’s own experience of political oppression and continues their campaign to stand up for artistic freedom and human...

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Burning doors Belarus Free Theatre London

Burning doors Belarus Free Theatre London is one of the leading refugee-led theatre company in the UK.  Also it is the only theatre in Europe banned by its government on political grounds.

Once again you have very good opportunity to meet Russian community and practice your speaking skills.

Burning Doors gives you clear understanding of how people are treated in some countries, it draws on the company’s own experience of political oppression and continues their campaign to stand up for artistic freedom and human rights across the globe, reminding us, once again, that theatre can be a revolutionary art.

 




Burning Doors

Their new performance explores the individual stories of persecuted artists living under dictatorships in their countries. These include Russian artist Petr Pavlensky, imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and Maria Alyokhina, famous for her radical protests as part of punk group Pussy Riot.

In this amazingly contemporary new work, Belarus Free Theatre combine forces with Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina to share stories of persecuted artists, living under dictatorship, who will not be silenced. Belarus Free Theatre are banned in their native country.

Burning Doors interrogates what happens to people when they are declared enemies of the state simply for making art. How the meaning of home and displacement reframes under systematic coercion and ideological warfare.

This brand new production blends sensuous theatricality and vigorous physicality to shine a light on total suppression of artistic freedoms, drawn from the real-life stories of iconoclastic Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky, incarcerated Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina.

Each performance is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists and special guests (up to one hour).

Created in partnership with ArtReach as part of Journeys Festival International. Contains nudity and scenes of a graphic nature.

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Language

Performed in Russian and Belarusian with English surtitles. If you want to learn Russian language you can start with Russian alphabet.
Running Time: 90 mins

Tickets

Tickets Burning doors Belarus Free Theatre London

August 24-27 Curve Leicester

October 10-12 Manchester

October 14 Portsmouth

Aslo: SOHO THEATRE

August 31

September 1-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24
21 Dean St
London
W1D 3NE

Age Recommendation

Age Recommendation: 18+ (contains nudity)

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Russian language consonants

Russian language  consonants. Learn pronunciation of consonants in Russian language. Russian alphabet consists of 21 consonants - б, в, г, д, ж, з, й, к, л, м, н, п, р, с, т, ф, х, ц, ч, ш, щ.

Russian language consonants

Hardness and softness

We can pronounce them as soft or hard sounds. These sounds form pairs of soft(') and hard sound. The same letter can be as soft as hard. The softness - hardness of paired sounds denote the letter which is following the particular consonant. А, У, О, Э, Ы - make the consonant before them hard; Я, Ю, Ё, Е, И - soft. For example: рад - ряд, пыл - пил, лук - люк. At the end of the letter and between consonants the softness denote letter Ь (soft sign). For example: кон - конь; кров - кровь; клад - кладь; банка - банька; толк - только.

Hard and soft consonants

Paired and unpaired

You can split consonants into two groups - paired and unpaired sounds. The first group (paired sounds) contains of two categories: voiced - voiceless (unvoiced) sounds pairs and soft - hard sounds pairs. The second group contains unpaired sounds: soft, hard, voiced and voiceless. 

Russian language consonants

Soft-hard unpaired sounds

Soft - hard unpaired sounds in Russian language don't require any letter after to denote their softness or hardness. So, it's not necessarily to write Ы after Ж, Ш to show their hardness and also it's not necessarily to write Я, Ю after Ч, Щ to show their softness. That's why we write А, У, И after these letters. For example: жар, шар, час, пощада; жук, шум, чудо, щука; жир, камыши, чин, щит.




Voiced and voiceless sounds in Russian language

How we pronounce sounds partly depends on their place in the word. For example - voiced sounds at the end of the word becomes voiceless (дуб). Also it happens if the following consonant is voiceless (пруд, будка). The same way voiceless sounds could become by voiced if the next sound is voiced (молотьба). 

Voiced and unvoiced consonants

Consonant sound J

There are few ways to convey consonant sound 'J' in Russian language. Тhe first one when we use letter Й. Letter Й comes after vowels (at the end of the word or before consonant). For example: рай, рой, майка, мойка. There is one more way to convey sound J,  pronouncing letters  Ю, Я, Ё, Е we produce this sound 'J'. In these cases sound 'J' comes before vowel - at the beginning of the word and after vowels. For example: юг, яблоко, боязнь, ёлка. In such cases after consonant and before vowels Ю, Я, Ё, Е we write letters Ъ or Ь, which helps to break down these sounds. For example: предъюбилейный, объятие, подъехал, подъём; друзья, вьюга, ружьё. After Ь with the same function (to convey sound J) can be also endowed letter И (соловьи).

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Russian language alphabet https://russianlanguage.org.uk/russian-language-alphabet/ Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:07:21 +0000 http://russianlanguage.org.uk/?page_id=12 Russian language alphabet - letter А  is a vowel, under stress it's pronounced as 'a' in 'father', when it is not stressed it has a reduced sound, for example - собàка (stressed), дéвочка (unstressed). All the rules on this page are going to be related to Russian language alphabet - letter A. 

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Russian language - Letter A

Russian language alphabet - letter А  is a vowel, under stress it's pronounced as 'a' in 'father', when it is not stressed it has a reduced sound, for example - собàка (stressed), дéвочка (unstressed). All the rules on this page are going to be related to Russian language alphabet - letter A.

 

Russian language alphabet

Russian language- word roots

Russian language alphabetIn cases when A is unstressed it is difficult to distinguish either we have to write  A or O.  So, you can check it, using different form of this word. For example, for word вода we can use an adjective of this word, where O is stressed -  вòдный.  If the word, you are struggling with, is a verb in imperfective aspect; don't use perfective aspect (with suffixes -ыва-, -ива- ) to check it. For example зарабòтать - зарабáтывать, as you see the vowels are different, but both of them are correct). On the page Russian language alphabet you will find more about spelling rules for letter A.

 

 

Russian language - exceptions


Russian language alphabet-гар-, -гор-

We write O for unstressed vowel and A if the vowel is stressed. For example - гарь, загар – stressed and гореть, загорелый – unstressed. There are some exceptions – пригарь, гаревой, гаревый.

-зар-, -зор-

We write A for unstressed vowel and A or O if the vowel is stressed. For example, заря, озарить, озарение – unstressed and зарево, лучезарный, зори (plural of заря) - stressed.

 

-клан-, -клон-

We write O, when vowel is unstressed and A orwhen it is stressed, For example, поклониться, наклонить, склониться, преклонение, склонение – unstressed and поклон, наклон, наклониться, кланяться, непреклонный – stressed.

-крап-, -кроп-

We write O and A for unstressed and A for stressed. For example, окропить, окроплённый – unstressed and крапина, крапинка – stressed.

 

-пай-, -пой-

А – unstressed and stressed and O – stressed: паять, запаять, паяльник; запаянный, спайка, припой, напой.

 

Russian language - complicated exceptions

-лаг-, лог-, -лож-

For unstressed vowel before Г we write О and  before Ж we write  А. For stressed vowel we  always write O. For example - излагать, предполагать, безотлагательный, прилагательное – unstressed; заложить, изложить, отножить, положить, положение, изложение, предложение – unstressed; налог, залог, положит, положенный – stressed.

-мак-, -мок-, -моч-

In words with meaning  dip for unstressed vowel before К we write А (обмокнуть, макать). We use O for words with meaning to get wet, wet and to get dry  (намокать, отмокать, промокать, мокрый, мокроватый, промокуть).Before Ч we always write O (мочить, намочи, промочу, смачивать, вымачивать).

-кас-, -кос-

In this case we write A if the following vowel is A (касаться), in the rest of cases we write O. For example, касаться, прикасатьсяА and  коснуться, прикоснуться, соприкосновение, неприкосновенный(these roots are never stressed)

 -плав-, - плов-

We write A and O for unstressed, but just A for stressed: плавучий, плавник, поплавок, плавун, сплавливать; пловец, пловчиха; плавать, лесосплав.

-равн-, -ровн-

We write A for words with meaning - одинаковый, равнять (the same, to level). For example - равнять, равный, равняться, сравнение, уравнение, exceptions - поровну, ровесник. We write O for words with meaning - ровный, ровнять (smooth, level). For example - ровнять, разровнять, выровнять, exception - равнина. For words with unclear meaning (could suit for both groups) – we write A (равнять, равнение, подравняться, выровняться), letter O we write for - не ровён час, уровень.

 

Russian language - some more exceptions

 

-рос(т)-, -рас(т)-, -ращ-

When the vowel is unstressed we write O before С if there is no T, which follows letter С . For example - росла, росли, вырос, выросший, заросль, exceptions – words отрасль, отраслевой, межотраслевой, многоотраслевой. We write letter A before –ст-. For example - расту, расти, растить, подрасти, вырасти, возраст, растение, exceptions – росток, ростовой, вырост, ростовщик, выростной, выросток, заросток, прорость, подростковый.  We always write A before Щ. For example - ращу, выращу, выращенный, приращать, наращение, сращение. When the vowel before С is stressed we write О. For example - рост, нарост, отросток, подросток, переросток, рос, зарос, подросший, рослый.

-скак-, -скок-, скач – скоч

 If the ending of the root is letter K and the vowel is stressed, we write letter О. For example - скок, наскок, отскок, соскок. To determine the vowel for verbs with ending –ивать we use the same way as we do for words without exceptions. For example - наскакивать, the vowel we are looking at is stressed, so we can hear properly, that it is A. If the ending of the root is Ч, we write letter A for all forms of word скакать (скачу, скачи, обскачи, поскачу, also word – скачок). You can check it, using these words - скачет, поскачем,скачка, вскачь. For words with prefixes, which are ending on –скочить  we write letter O. For example - вскочить, вскочу, вскочи, выскочить, выскочу, выскочи, соскочить, подскочить, also in word выскочка. You can check it using the same way – выскочить, вскочит, соскочат.  проскачу, проскачи (проскакать, проскачет), подскачу, подскачи (подскакать, подскачет) and подскачу, подскачи (подскочить, подскочит).

-твор-, -твар-

When the vowel is unstressed we write Oтворить, творение, творец, сотворённый, вытворять. When the vowel  is stressed we write O and A (творческий, творчество, тварь, тварный).

Russian language prefixes

Prefixes раз-, рас- and роз-, рос. Despite the rules, we don't check these words using different forms. When the vowel in these prefixes is unstressed we use A, when it is stressed - O. For example for word разыгрaть we would use noun рòзыгрыш, because in this case the vowel we are looking at is stressed, but we put A instead, according the rule for prefixes раз-, рас- and роз-, рос.

 




Russian language compound words

Compound words. In words, with the first part сорока-, полутора-, полутораста-  we use A. For example: полуторатонный, полуторагодовалуый, сорокалетие, сорокачасовой, though in word сороконожка we use O).

 

Russian language some spelling rules

There are some words you can't check, because in all forms this certain vowel is unstressed (for example - собака, коридор, тарелка, ураган, ананас). In these cases just check the spelling, using dictionary.

In most cases if the following letter after consonant is A , not Я - it shows that a consonant is hard (for example - радость, ряд).

As you see, all these rules will help you to write words with letter A without mistakes, you just have to learn them.

Here is one more rule - after ж, ч, ш, щ, ц you are going to write A, not Я, for example - час, площадка there are some exceptions - foreign words (for example - Шяуляй).

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