Russian Skill:Countries

Countries
Language	Russian
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Countries is the forty-first (assuming read left to right) skill of the Russian language tree. It has a total of five lessons and teaches the words for various countries, their languages and their people.

Grammar Notes

Patterns in People and Places

People from various countries, as well as the language and the name of the place are inter-related:

Country	Male Person	Female Person	Language/Adjective
Китай	китаец	китаянка	китайский
Америка	американец	американка	американский

Note: as you can see, ethnicities and languages are not capitalized.

Simple Future (featuring perfectives)

If you are completing an action in the future, simply conjugating the perfective form is enough.

An American Writer

You can "double-up" ethnicities and jobs together like so:

• студент-художник = a student who is also an artist

A Russian Dictionary

If an object is written, spoken, etc. in a language, then use на + instrumental; if it is instead done in a certain language (including speaking a language), then use по- + dative.

Lessons

Lesson 1

• американец/американка = American
• карта = map
• Киев = Kiev
• понравиться = will like
• Италия = Italy
• приехать = to arrive (with a vehicle)

Lesson 2

• когда-нибудь = sometime
• Япония = Japan
• Китай = China
• японский = Japanese
• Казахстан = Kazakhstan
• почти = almost
• гора = mountain

Lesson 3

• японец/японка = Japanese
• француз = Frenchman
• французский = French
• спортсмен/спортсменка = male athlete/female athlete
• Канада = Canada
• Беларусь/Белоруссия = Belarus, Byelorussia

Lesson 4

• украинский = Ukrainian
• итальянский = Italian
• Испания = Spain
• Англия = England
• отдохнуть = to rest
• иностранный = foreign

Lesson 5

• Сибирь = Siberia
• добро пожаловать = Welcome
• Польша = Poland
• Лондон = London

References

Duolingo Lesson: www.duolingo.com/skill/ru/Countries-and-Places