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because пицца in Russian might also mean pizzas when we talk about them as a whole, like an uncountable mass, though if you count them, then there is a word пиццы
Try to speak a long "eeeeeeee" like in bee and then pull your tongue back und down to make a throaty sound, a bit stronger than in "we (are)"
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I had to choose pizzas because pizza singular was not a choice. Pizzas was counted correct though. Also one of the choices was first and then arrows and then second, which was not a marking I've ever seen before.
Sure it is. If I order one pizza because more pizzas after a log day for me alone are too much
Most Russian seems to be pretty phonetic, but loanwords and names from other languages are sometimes transliterated in a way to keep a visual similarity to the original. In this case, the second "ц" mimics the double "z" in "pizza".
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In Moscow, I used to laugh when I saw the sign "Пицца Хат", which I figured was as close as Russian gets to the American "Pizza Hut".
My favourite was how in McDonalds one could buy a чизбургер or a гамбургер. First night in St Pete, went to McD's because it was 'easy', and then it took us some moments of complete panic before we realised all the items were just transliterated! Чикен МакНуггетс or however they spelled it left us scratching our heads...
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You have triggered my McDonalds joke: I have said many times that the McDonalds in Moscow were very authentic -- Just like in the US, I always felt slightly sick when I ate there.
:D
Random: I've eaten in McD's in several countries when it's that omg so tired do not speak local language have not yet procured bed for the night thing, and the McD's in Estonia was significantly better than any I've had elsewhere. Strange but true!
I'm of the opinion that everything is just better in Estonia, and it randomly happens to affect even McD's.
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I lived in Moscow from 2000-2003 and many Russians loved McD's. The restaurants and stores I went to were not good at hamburgers -- even the Hard Rock Cafe. I suspected they were part horsemeat. But McD's were better, though not great.
There is russian word "фарт" ("luck") which I see once being transliterated to English. It was on the sign of some totalizator office or mini-casino with slot machines, I don't remember. But that was funny.
When teaching my English-speaking German-learning students to make the ts sound, which also occurs in German, I used the word pizza. Say "pizza" = "peetsa. Say it several times fast, then drop the "pee" and just say "tsa, tsa,tsa". It worked for almost everyone.
Да we say a lot of pizzas or two pizzas or two slices of pizza etc it depends but yes more than one pizza is plural
Одна пицца, две пиццы, много пицц, я готовлю пиццу, я позавтракаю пиццей, он питался только этими пиццами
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HATAllluK was just reviewing endings for pizza. His sentence would start "One pizza, two pizzas, many pizzas, I cook pizza, I will have pizza for breakfast," and I don't know the last phrase.
Actually, you can say Я питался одной пиццей, which would mean I ate only pizzas, and not I ate 1 pizza. In this case пицца works as a collective noun.
WOW that is really good! Exactly how to say it in English. I used google translate and it was perfect. I’m a beginner спасибо
WOW that is really good! Exactly how to say it in English. I used google translate and it was perfect. I’m a beginner спасибо
Ok, I'll be a little finicky here. The double Z in the Italian word PIZZA is pronounced like [TTS] without dividing the two T sounds, as you all know. So it would be [PITTSA], just by extending the T sound a bit (not by repeating it); on the other hand I understand that the letter ц sounds like [TS], so in Russian пицца would sound literally like PITSTSA... wouldn't it be more accurate to write it as питца??
Oh nevermind, I've just figured it out myself. What I wrote is nonsense because it's exactly as in Italian. The ц symbol is pronounced TS just as the Z symbol, so as the ZZ symbol is pronounced TTS, the цц symbol is pronounced TTS too. If it was like I wrote, then in Italian one should write PITZA as well... Sorry!
Finally we are learning something useful! I'm really going to need this if I'm ever going to speak Russian, thanks duolingo!
Can someone please write out the russian alphabet compared to the english aalphabet ?
Аа - Aa Бб - Bb Вв - Vv Гг - Gg Дд - Dd Ее - Ee (ye) Ёё - (yo) Жж - (zh) Зз - Zz Ии - Ii (ee) Йй - (y) Кк - Kk Лл - Ll Мм - Mm Нн - Nn Оо - Oo Пп - Pp Рр - Rr Сс - Ss Тт - Tt Уу - Uu Фф - Ff Хх - (kh) Цц - (ts) Чч - (ch) Шш - (sh) Щщ - (shch) Ъъ - (y) Ыы - Yy Ьь - ('y) Ээ - Ee Юю - (yu) Яя - (ya)
How this ц letter is pronounced alone and how it is pronounced in a word? Because I've seen it somewhere to be pronounced as a C and here I think is pronounced as a tz or ts...
Most words so far seem to be a 'one-for-one letter' trade off. As in pizza, and radio just seem to substitute the english letter for the russian letter which has the same sound. (I think transliterated is the word i'm looking for). Is this the case for most words, or is this just naivety in the introduction??haha
does anyone else have a problem with the recording? It sounds like prizza to me.
One of the exercises won't let me past 'pizza' - how can I type the Russian equivalent without a Cyrillic keyboard?! I am already using the equivalent letters
WTF is the answer??? I typed "pizza" a thousand times and the thing says it's wrong and won't let me move forwards.
Are you sure it wasn't a listening exercise? Because if it was, you were supposed to type what you hear in Russian, not translate it to English.
My cousin is coming adopted from Ukraine, and it's SO hard to teach, and understand her! This app helps so much!
Shouldn't pizza be пизза as opposed to пицца because it's a "z" and not a "tz"?
Duolingo says this is singular, but the only translation option that I could chose said "pizzas".
Is this a mistake, or can пицца also be plural?
пицца is also a collective noun, like fish which might mean 1 fish and many fishes as a whole. At the same time if you want to talk about several pizzas as separate entities then you need to use пиццЫ
no matter what language is spoken pizza.....will always be pizza! (this sentence itself sounds yummy)
The sound of it is the same of the sound in english, now I know why theres russain in english
pizza?pizza!what! the pizza is okay but pizza is not why is it not that! WWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT boo boo! boo boo! boo boo! boo boo! boo boo! boo boo! boo boo! boo boo!
