Russian World Lesson 69 - Russian language Class

Hello! Good morning! Good afternoon! My name is Vera Alekseevna Polyakova-Norwood. Сейчас идёт урок русского языка. На уроке мы говорим, читаем и пишем по-русски. Интересно, который час? Сколько времени? Do you still remember how we express time in the Russian language? You should know that very well. So let's take a look at a few exercises and I want you to identify the time. So let's begin with this. Скажите, пожалуйста, который час? Сейчас два часа. А сейчас который час? Сейчас семь часов. А сейчас который час? Сейчас час. А сейчас который час? Сейчас четыре часа. А сейчас который час? Сейчас пять часов. Хорошо. So you remember that at one o'clock we say сейчас час. When it's two o'clock we say сейчас два часа. An hour later we say сейчас три часа. Сейчас четыре часа. And when it's five o'clock what do we say? Пять часов. We change the ending on the word час. Пять часов. And we stay with that ending through двенадцать часов. Хорошо. So we know how to express hours. But now we need to start looking at expressing minutes. Since we know all the numbers up to a hundred. So we will be able to express minutes too. When we talk about minutes we use this word. Минута. Минута ends in А. So this noun is which gender? Feminine. This is a feminine noun. Минута. And say this after me one more time. Минута. Хорошо. Today we will talk about 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 35, etc. And we will be using the word минут. If we take минута and get rid of the А ending, what is left is минут. And this is exactly the word that we need with numbers 5, 10, 15, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55 and 60. Минут. With all of these numbers we will be saying минут. Let's look at this. Пять минут. Did you say that? Now let's do it together. Пять минут. Хорошо. Let's look at this. Двадцать пять минут. To be able to do this you need to know your numbers. So let's try this all together. Двадцать пять минут. This is easy. It's this part that's difficult. Двадцать пять минут. Хорошо. And let's look at this. Тридцать минут. Did you say that? Тридцать минут. So now you know how to express minutes. Let's take hours and minutes and pull them together. Let's look at this. Два часа пятнадцать минут. Two fifteen. Fifteen minutes after two o'clock. Два часа пятнадцать минут. Notice that we first express the hours. Два часа. And then we go straight into the minutes. Пятнадцать минут. And we don't say anything in between hours and minutes. Right after you have expressed the hours you go straight into the minutes. Два часа пятнадцать минут. Now everybody after me please. Два часа пятнадцать минут. And let's say this one more time. This time we'll go from hours into the minutes without making any pauses. So everybody's ready? Два часа пятнадцать минут. And this is how they announce time in Russia. Express your hours and then the minutes. Два часа пятнадцать минут. Хорошо. Let's practice. Let's take a look at a few more clocks. And you will tell me the time. And we are working on expressing hours and minutes. So let's begin with this. Который час? Start with your hours first. Три часа тридцать минут. Сейчас три часа тридцать минут. And you know that when we write this down the Russian way, we use a period in between the hours and the minutes. Сейчас три часа тридцать минут. Хорошо. Let's look at this. Который час? Сейчас четыре часа десять минут. Хорошо. Let's look at something more difficult. Который час? Again, we begin with the hours. Сейчас шесть часов двадцать пять минут. And to be able to express your minutes, you have to know the numbers. Двадцать пять. Шесть часов двадцать пять минут. Хорошо. Который сейчас час? Десять часов пять минут. Сейчас десять часов пять минут. Хорошо. And let's do one more clock. Который час? Сейчас восемь часов сорок пять минут. Ну, хорошо. So now you know how to express time. Both hours and minutes. And how to do this in a very nice grammatically correct manner. Восемь часов сорок пять минут. So when you travel in Russia, you will not be lost. But there's one more thing that I need to mention before we leave time. When you are traveling in Russia, you will notice immediately that Russia and other European countries are on the twenty-four hour time. So when you are looking at the digital clock in a public place, it might be showing something like this. Seventeen twenty. What time is it? What does it mean? Seventeen twenty. Seventeen hours, twenty minutes. But what is seventeen? What time of the day does it represent? It's twenty minutes after five o'clock in the afternoon. You know, twelve hours is noon. And then when you are looking at the number that is higher than twelve, you need to start subtracting twelve from here. And when you subtract twelve from seventeen, you are left with five. So twenty after five. And you know that we are in the p.m. times. So please be very careful with this. By the way, all schedules in Russia are made with this kind of time. You will not see a.m. p.m. This just doesn't exist in Russia. Because everything is on a twenty-four hour time schedule. And you will need to learn to read times represented like this. Хорошо. Хорошо. Let's continue using numbers. And we will take a look at numbers bigger than sixty. Let's begin with seventy. Today we will one more time look at numbers from seventy to one hundred. Let's look at this. Семьдесят. And you know this means seventy. Семьдесят. The next one is восемьдесят. Notice that it starts with восемь. So you know we are talking about eighty. The next one is a little bit more difficult. Девяносто. And you can take a guess. It's ninety. Девяносто. It begins like девять. Девяносто. And the last word, a very short word, сто. It means a hundred. Семьдесят, восемьдесят, девяносто, сто. So I want everybody to repeat after me please. Семьдесят, восемьдесят, девяносто, сто. Ну, хорошо. Хорошо. And let's practice a little bit with this. So identify this number please. How do we say it? Семьдесят. Хорошо. Let's move on to this. Восемьдесят. Хорошо. What do we say about this one? Девяносто. Хорошо. And I know this is the easiest of them all. Сто. Сто. Ну, что ж, хорошо. Хорошо. Today again we will take a look at some Russian money. And what I want you to do is to identify the numbers that you will see on this. So let's begin with this one. Один. How about this one? Три. And we are looking at три рубля. Three rubles. Три рубля. Tell me the number on this one. Пять. Пять рублей. Five rubles. Пять рублей. Хорошо. What do we see on this one? Десять. Десять рублей. And now our numbers are getting bigger. What can we say about this next one? Двадцать пять. Двадцать пять рублей. Now let's look at the next one. Пятьдесят. I know this is difficult for pronunciation, but we need to try one more time. Пятьдесят. Пятьдесят рублей. And the last one for us for today is this one. Сто. Сто рублей. A hundred rubles. Сто рублей. Хорошо. And one thing that I want you to notice here is that Russian money comes in different colors and different sizes. So they are actually very easy to work with. They are color-coded and they also come in different sizes. Well, but enough about money. Let's talk about things that we like to do. Things that we enjoy doing very much. And again we will be using Иван Иванович и его семья as an example. We already know something about their likes and dislikes. We know what they like to do in their spare time. For example, Нина слушает музыку. That would be her choice of recreation. Нина слушает музыку. А Максим? Я думаю, что Максим играет в футбол. Максим играет в футбол. Иван Иванович? Иван Иванович смотрит телевизор. Иван Иванович смотрит телевизор или читает газету. А Анна Петровна? Анна Петровна тоже смотрит телевизор или читает журнал. So for us to be able to talk about what they really like to do, we need to learn the verb which means to like or to love. And let's look at this. Here's our verb. Любить. По-английски to love. And which conjugation does this verb belong to? The second. It's another second conjugation verb for us. Любить. To love or to like something very, very much. Любить. There is a little irregularity in the conjugation pattern of this verb, so we need to take a good look at it. Любить. Я люблю. And there it is. Notice that right before the verbal ending, all of a sudden we see the letter L. Я люблю. We insert this letter between the root of the verb and the verbal ending just because it's easier for us to say this. It would sound very clumsy without that L sound in. Я люблю. A lot of things are done in the Russian language just because it sounds better. Я люблю. I love. I like. Ты любишь. We are back to normal here. We don't need that L anymore because even without it, this verb form sounds very nicely. Ты любишь. Он любит. Мы. Can you come up with the verb form for Мы? Мы любим. Вы любите. And finally, Они любят. They love. They like. And since it's a second conjugation verb, then again we see the Я ending on the verb. Они любят. They love. They like. So let's write this down. This is a very good verb for us to know. Любить. And you remember this is a second conjugation verb. So we say Я люблю. And we remember about this L that appears right before the verbal ending. It makes it easier for us to get it out of our mouth. It makes it sound nicer. Я люблю. I love. I like. Я люблю. And the next verb is Ты любишь. Ты любишь. And since this is a second conjugation verb, we have the И vowel in the verbal endings. Ты любишь. The next one is Он любит. Мы любим. We love. Мы любим. The next one is Вы любите. And finally, Они любят. They love. Они любят. Now let's go over this together. Everybody after me, please. Я люблю. Ты любишь. Он любит. Мы любим. Вы любите. Они любят. Хорошо. Нина любит слушать музыку. Максим любит играть в футбол. Я люблю читать книги. Иван Иванович и Антон Николаевич любят играть в шахматы. Well, let's read some of these sentences. Нина любит слушать музыку. Нина likes to listen to music. Анна Петровна любит читать книги. А Иван Иванович и Максим любят играть в шахматы. Иван Иванович and Максим like to play chess. So I will leave this on the screen for a minute. I want you to read this paragraph out loud in your classrooms. Нина любит слушать музыку. Анна Петровна любит читать книги. А Иван Иванович и Максим любят играть в шахматы. Notice that the verbs СЛУШАТЬ, ЧИТАТЬ and ИГРАТЬ end in Т and a soft sign. These verbs are infinitives. The Russian language uses infinitives the same way as the English language does. We say Нина likes to listen to music. And СЛУШАТЬ means to listen. It's an infinitive. Russian infinitives end in Т and a soft sign. Т and a soft sign at the end of a Russian verb do the same thing as the particle TO does for the English verb. Нина любит слушать музыку. Анна Петровна любит читать книги. А Иван Иванович и Максим любят играть в шахматы. Хорошо. Now let's take a look at a few pictures and you will tell me what these people like to do. Что они любят делать? So let's take a look at this. So what can we say about them? What do they like to do? They like to play chess. Они любят играть в шахматы. Хорошо. Now these people like to watch TV. So what do we say? Они любят смотреть телевизор. Хорошо. Let's look at this picture. Что они любят делать? Они любят играть в футбол. And what does this girl like to do? Что она любит делать? Она любит читать книги. She likes to read books. Она любит читать книги. Ну, хорошо. А интересно, что вы любите делать? Я люблю читать книги, слушать музыку и смотреть интересные фильмы по телевизору. А что вы любите делать? And now each of you should be able to say I like to do this and this and that. And please think about that. Because if you have a Russian pen pal or if you are planning to have a Russian pen pal then this subject of what do you like to do during your free time will come up sooner or later in your correspondence. So at some point you might like to ask your pen pal what do you like to do? And how will you put this question together? This is what it looks like. Что ты любишь делать? What do you like to do? Что ты любишь делать? And you are addressing this question to a friend of yours so you are using ты. You are being very informal. Что ты любишь делать? Now read this for me. Что ты любишь делать? And if this question is addressed to you how will you begin your answer? Simply with I like. Я люблю. Я люблю читать книги. Or if you like to watch television you can say Я люблю смотреть телевизор. I like to listen to music. Я люблю слушать музыку. Let's say I like to play football. Я люблю играть в американский футбол. I like to play tennis. Я люблю играть в теннис. So please practice with this. Identifying what it is that you like to do and also asking your pen pal what he or she likes to do. Хорошо. So please practice with additional exercises. I do need you to learn the verb любить. This is a very good, this is a very important verb for us. And no written homework. Enjoy it. Большое спасибо. До свидания.