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Lesson 3. Where are you from?
In this lesson you will learn:

In this lesson, you will find Russian expressions used to tell where you come from and you will learn:

  • Countries and nationalities names
  • Basic info about Russian cases
  • Basic info about Russian grammatical gender

I. Let me introduce myself

Listen and answer the question:

c0203011.I.1)
Record 1


1. This man's name is:
Mark
Alex
2. He is from:
France
Spain




c0203012.I.2)
Record 2


1. This woman's name is:
Olga
Dorothy
2. She is from:
Ukraine
Russia



II. Countries

a) Listen and repeat. Pay attention to the nouns' endings:



Transcription
Россия - из России
[rassiya - iz rassii]
Russia - from Russia
Великобритания – из Великобритании
[vilikabritaniya - iz vilikabritanii]
Great Britain - from Great Britain
Австралия – из Австралии
[afstraliya - iz afstralii]
Australia - from Australia
Франция – из Франции
[frantsiya - is frantsii]
France - from France
Канада – из Канады
[kanada - is kanadi]
Canada - from Canada
США – из США
[se she a - is se she a]
the USA - from the USA

Basic information about cases

In Russian, the form of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numbers may change depending on their role in the sentence or for some other reasons. Such word form changes usually manifest themselves in the word's ending alteration. For example, we can see in the phrase above, that nouns forms given in the dictionary (on the right) and nouns following the preposition из from have different endings. At the same time, there are some nouns, including abbrev