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Lesson 3. Where are you from?
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:
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II. Countries
a) Listen and repeat. Pay attention to the nouns' endings:
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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