Lesson 14 | Talking About Languages in Russian: Key Phrases #russianforbeginners

Привет! Это Наташа. Hi! Welcome to my channel. My name is Natasha and I'm here to help you to learn the Russian language and to know more about the Russian culture and mentality. Давайте начнем. Today you will learn how to say in Russian what languages you speak, what languages you don't what languages you speak well or just a little. Let's start with the names of the languages. Again, unfortunately, I can't name all the languages in this video. In my previous video dedicated to countries, I created a list of countries with the help of YouTube analytics. So, today I will name languages spoken in the countries from which I have views. Plus some more popular for learning languages. So, let's look at them. The word язык is masculine. So, most of the names will receive the ending И, a masculine ending of an adjective. Such words we can use both with the word язык and without it. For Иврит and Урду, we don't add the word язык. Let's practice. Match the country and the language or languages which are spoken there. These are the names of the languages. When we want to say that we speak a language, we need to modify it a bit. And here we have two options. The first one. You can say Pay attention. We pronounce And we can do the same with Иврит and Урду. It's time to look at the second option. We will use the preposition на plus prepositional case. Or simply Same pattern for the other words. Иврит will receive the ending Е. And Урду is an indeclinable word. We don't change it through the cases. You can also add some more information. Whether you speak a language excellently, well or just a little. Probably, you already know many of these words. Another word for a little is чуть-чуть. You remember that we don't have a strict word order in the Russian language. But it's better to put чуть-чуть on the second place in the sentence. Я отлично говорю по-русски. Я хорошо говорю по-английски. Я немного говорю по-немецки. Я чуть-чуть говорю по-итальянски. Я не говорю по-китайски. And we also can ask Or formal Here is an exercise for you. Do the translation. The answers will be in the info box. Thank you for watching this video till the end. If you liked it, please support me with your likes. And if you want to see more lessons from me, don't forget to subscribe to my channel. See you next time. Увидимся. Пока-пока.