"Туристы обсуждают экскурсию."
Translation:The tourists are discussing the tour.
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говорить о and обсуждать sometimes are synonyms. For example
Мы обсужда́ли фильм, кото́рый то́лько что посмотре́ли
We talked about the film we had just seen
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I agree, "talking about the tour" is definitely equivalent to "discussing" it.
yep. Typical feminine nouns (like мама, земля, машина, аудитория, Москва etc.) have a separate form for Accusative (in singular, of course). The ending is у (or ю).
It is экскурсия.
Note that -ия-endings nouns (e.g., химия, Мария, фотография) have a different Dative/Prepositional ending than you might expect:
- На фотографии моя мама (Prepositional).
- Скажи это Марии (Dative).
- Я ничего не знаю о химии (Prepositional).
Usual а/я-nouns have a е there, not an и.
I wish the speaker would speak slower and clearer. What is the hurry-we are just learning.
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Yes, it makes no sense. You cannot expect people to accurately reproduce quickly-spoken foreign words. It's just the nature of human perception. We repeat what we think we hear, not what we actually hear, and often what we hear is what we're expecting to hear, or what we're used to hearing. The mind can play tricks, and transform foreign sounds into English approximations, so that the end result is recognizable by neither language.
I don't even wanna know how i would've said this phase when i first started
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Sorry, why is "some tourists " wrong? Wd that idea be better rendered by немного туристов?
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немного туристов means "a few tourists". "Some tourists" is wrong because there is no amount specified in this particular sentence - it is just stating "tourists", without quantity. If you want to say "some tourists" it is better rendered as несколько туристов (if you mean a small number) or некоторые туристы (if you mean a specific set of tourists, ie, some tourists in a group are talking about the tour, others are not.)
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Is the audio ok? I hear "туриста обсуждает" in both fast and slow version of the audio. In another sentence туристы was pronnounced better, I've heared the ы there (even though it was still more of an е). Is it me or is the audio a little of here?
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Well, than I probably have wrong expectation of the sound ы. Thank you.
Here, the unstressed Ы is immediatey blended into the unstressed А att he beginning of «обсуждают», which follows it. This is why the quality of the vowel is not at all clear. The total length of both combined is about 100-100 ms, so it is no wonder this happens.
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Can Russian also use вылет for a tour/an excursion?
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No -- excursions is plural, but the Russian uses a singular word.
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I don't know why, but I keep wanting to pronounce this sentence with an Italian accent.
