| Students are always comparing languages they | | | | dogS. But if you are an English-speaker studying |
| speak with the one they're learning, even if | | | | Russian, you'll have to memorize a bit more.Here |
| teachers tell them not to. Well, why not? Finding a | | | | are some tips to help you build the "noun section" |
| consistent pattern can be really useful. These | | | | of your vocabulary faster and more |
| patterns are not always given as rules in | | | | effectively.Tip 1 Did you notice that in Russian it's |
| textbooks, but they help all the same.For a | | | | NOT ENOUGH just to remember how to |
| Russian-speaker memorizing "numeral-plus-noun" | | | | pronounce "two dogs" (cats, birds, etc.) to be |
| stuff is a piece of cake: one dog - two (or more) | | | | through with plural? |