Learning more Russian......

The Deathly Trio (my Russian textbooks)

The first page from the center textbook. There are Chinese
translations but not English.

School was kind of long. I did a lot of my University homework, but didn't understand a lot of it. Tomorrow's after school hours should be spent looking these things up and learning the rules behind the homework. There is this crazy rule about adjectives I have just been introduced to. Well, not just. I knew it was coming. If the form of "my" changes with the object/person you are talking about, so should the adjectives describing those things. They change by both the gender and plural cases. This isn't too difficult, but it seems like each word is changed differently. Russians just intuitively know how they are changed, and the language kind of doesn't follow any rules, so it is difficult to teach how to correctly phrase things. It is like they are having to try to make up rules for the language that already exists. There are so many exceptions and special cases, it almost feels like there is a rule if only three words are changed in the same way. This also goes for verbs, which are changed by case similarly to the Spanish language. And this is only similar in that they change if you are talking about "I, you, he, she, they, or we." And, like I mentioned before, there are more exceptions than there are verbs that fit into the conjugation rules. I kind of die inside a little every time I even think about trying to study these rules or crack open my book to look at my notes. Anyways, school was spent studying these notes and doing bookwork.