Talking about Months in Russian

Here's a basic video on the names of months in Russian, and how to say in which month something happens. If your native language borrows month names from Latin and Greek (like English, Spanish, and German), these will look familiar. But to make sure you get them right, we'll give special attention to five months with subtle differences, and six months with a stress shift when saying "in...."
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[@judd442009]

Really appreciate these "Russian grammar" videos. Long enough to derive benefit from the information--short enough not to get bored from the information (information overload of similar channels is just too much).

[@russiangrammar]

I've seen research by Cynthia Brame suggesting that up to 6 minutes is the optimal length for educational videos, so that's what I aim for - when you need more than that, it may be better to just split the topic. (That's why specific dates are coming in another video!) :)

[@jameskegley4006]

Fantastic, concise explanation with no unnecessary rambling. Keep it up!

[@casper14301]

Great videos and I love the length of them! :)

[@zub-areff]

Thanks for another great video! Not related, but what is the difference between using perfective vs. imperfective verbs in the infinitive? For example, what would be the difference between "Я пошла в сад собирать цветы" vs. "Я пошла в сад собрать цветы"?

[@MARTOUFFF06]

I believe it's a matter of intent. In the 1st sentence you imply that she picked some flowers and it probably took some time for her to do so, she was in no rush. The 2nd implies that picking flowers was an objective, something she really intended to achieve/finish. Picking the flowers might have been rather quick, more "straightforward" as a result. But take this with a grain of salt, that is how I see it but I've only been learning Russian for 2 years now.

[@russiangrammar]

Often either aspect is possible in the infinitive, with the nuances that DerTotschlager (yikes) suggests. But sometimes particular contexts favor one aspect over the other (I'll have to do a video on some). Mahota's relentlessly - er, wonderfully - detailed book on motion verbs points out that imperfectives are more common after unidirectional verbs and по- forms: иду встречать друга, пошла покупать что-то, etc. A quick Google search comparing 'пошла собирать' (57,800) vs. 'пошла собрать' (1,110) suggests he's right, and gives an idea of the proportion. :)

[@CrazyDreamer1001]

To write this answer I clicked on the text "ответить"; I've set the KZbin interface language to Russian and have noticed that it's using perfective infinitives for most commands. Right now on this page I see поделиться, скачать, создать, сохранить, свернуть, ответить, скрыть, изменить, удалить, all perfective (but there are some exceptions: "читать дальше" [imperfective], "введите запрос" [perfective imperative], "отмена" [noun]).

[@CrazyDreamer1001]

Thumbs up for the video, but thumbs down for the Russian language picking these boring names of the months (including the off by 2 math error in the last four). I already decided long ago to use the Ukrainian months instead (with some adjusted spelling: сичень, лютый (declined like an adjective), квитень). Just because they sound so much more beautiful and poetic. (This is probably the only thing I like more about the Ukrainian language than Russian.)

[@vladoshka9014]

You can use them, but I doubt that many people in Russia will understand 😂

[@heathensein6582]

Квитень is an obvious polonism in Ukrainian, it would be цветень if it were Russian

[@polyanagula]

you have to be careful, because even when slavic languages use slavic names for months, they sometimes use the same words to refer to different months. also the system in old Russian was slightly different from modern Ukranian, so if you find a Russian who knows the old Russian month names, you might also end up talking about different months using the same word.