112 – Difference Between УЧИТЬСЯ, УЧИТЬ, ИЗУЧАТЬ

Hello everyone, Daria here and welcome to episode number 112 of the Slow Russian Language podcast. This episode has been requested by one of my listeners, Bart. Hello, Bart. He sent an email to me today asking about the difference between Uchitsa, Uchit and Izu-Chiat. Basically it's to study and to learn. In Russian it's a little bit more confusing than it is in English. So here I am, I created a tiny, tiny little text about myself and I tried to use all three verbs. So listen to the text. I've always wanted to study in the USA, because American universities give good education. When I studied in the university of Colorado, I studied the Slavic culture and the Slavic languages. Now I'm a professor, I work in the university and I really like to study other ones. This is a beautiful profession. I often say students that you need to learn from the sky, it's useful for the memory. In general, always learn something new, it's very important. For example, now I want to learn to play piano and dance. Okay, now let's translate it and try to figure out the difference. Sentence number one. I have always wanted to study in the USA, because American universities provide a good education. I've always wanted to study in the USA and here we get the first option. We use places where we go to school. For example, I go to school, or my brother goes to school, my brother teaches in the middle school. I go to university, I'm a college student. I am a college student. I'm a college student, I'm a college student, I'm a college student, I'm a college student. I'm a college student, I'm a college student, I'm a college student, I'm a college student. However, the verb "davat" is just to give. "Davat" - telephone. "Davat" - dingy. Here it's good education. The next sentence. When I was studying at the University of Colorado, I studied Slavic culture and Slavic languages. Now listen in Russian, so in English it's studied, studied, listen. "Kakda ja učilaś w universitete Kalorada, ja izučala Slavic kulturu i Slavic language." So again, "kakda ja učilaś", when I was a student of University of Colorado. Now when I went to University of Colorado, učilaś past tense. So it's a place. The next part is about the specific subjects I was taking. "Ja izučala Slavic kulturu" - a causative case. So with special subjects, with special topics, we would use "izučać" - "izučać" + a causative case. "Ja izučaju matematiku". "Ja izučaju isbanskih jezyk". In University, "on" - "izučajet" - "ekonomiku" - "i finansi". "Horosho, da izučać" - "and then you add specific subject". Okay, moving on. Now I work at the University. I am a professor. "Ja profesar, ja работaju w universitete". Okay, and I really enjoy teaching others. This is important. "Me nie učin ravica učit drugich". So you hear this "sja učitsa" - it disappeared. And now we only have "učit". "Učit" in Russian is the verb for "teaching" - to teach. But it is important that after "učit" - "we have again accusative". "Učit" - "sina" - "ja to teach my son" - "učit" - "padrugu" - "to teach my friend" - "to do something" - "ja učit" - "učit" - "studientov" - "to teach students". Okay, so "učit" - "to teach". This is a wonderful profession. "Eto prikrasnaya profissia". And a true story - it's my beloved, beloved profession. I love working with people. I love teaching people. I love helping people. And basically my entire life was about just working with people. And I don't know, just helping people. That's what I love to do. Okay, the next sentence has another option for this verb. I often tell my students that they should memorize poems by heart. It's good for memory. "Ja často" - "gavaru" - "studientam" - "dativ case". Yeah, I tell my students - "gavaru" - "studientam" - "что надо" - "učit" - "stehi" - "naizust" - "that they should learn something by heart". Not something, poems, specifically poetry - "stehi" - "they should memorize poems by heart". "Učit" - "stehi" - "and also you can add "naizust" - "by heart" - "naizust" - "so" - "učit" - "in the minion of memorizing something". "Učit" - "how do you call this table of math?" - "you know" - "two, two equals four" - "yeah, three, three is nine" - "yeah, six, six, thirty-six" - "so" - "the table" - "in Russian we say "učit" - "tabliцу umnaženija" - "učit" - "to learn" - "stehi" - "or if you need to learn the notes for a musical piece" - "to učit noty" - "so" - "that you need to learn the notes for a musical piece" - "to učit" - "noty" - "so" - "to play "na pianina" - "to učit" - "to memorize" - "okay, so that's another meaning" - "bapapam I missed one part, it's good for your memory" - "eta pa ljezna" - "dla pameti" - "pa ljezna" - "it's not just good, it's not just "harašo" - "pa ljezna" - "means specifically kind of healthy beneficial for your memory" - "so your memory will get benefits out of it, it will be better" - "in Russian we would say "pa ljezna" - "pa ljezna" - "okay" - "and another one" - "in general constantly learning something new is very important" - "va pšie" - "vsigda učitsa" - "cimuta" - "nova mu" - "eta učin vajna" - "so va pšie" - "in general" - "constantly learning" - "vsigda učitsa" - "cimuta" - "nova mu" - "learning something new" - "so učitsa" - "here" - "is just learning in general" - "learning some new skill" - "da učitsa" - "but here we should use instrumental case" - "da učitsa" - "cimuta" - "nova" - "mo" - "to learn choreography" - "učitsa" - "chariagrafi" - "i" - "harašo" - "okay" - "oh no it's not instrumental I'm sorry I'm confusing you oh what have I done" - "it's date of case" - "da učitsa" - "chariagrafi" - "okay" - "so in the final sentence with another meaning for example now I want to learn to play the piano and the two dance I want to learn to play the piano and for example now I want to learn to play the piano and dance - "to learn to play" - "again here we use the same verb plus another verb" - "to learn to play" - "to learn to dance" - "to learn to drink" - "to learn to cook pizza" - "something like that" - "so to learn some skill to learn some specific skill" - "here we would use the verb učitsa" - "again" - "okay so general difference we have učitsa as a place" - "ja učuću universeitete" - "on učitsa" - "vkoliće" - "a na nie učitsa" - "a na работajet" - "another" - "verb izučat" - "izučat" - "again it can be specific subject specific skill" - - "ja izučaju politiku" - "on izučajet literaturu" - "notasha" - "izučajet kитайski jizik" - "and učit" - "without" - "sea" - "it is to teach others" - "but here you would need" - "kizaryf case" - "mama professor" - "a na učit" - "student" - "vuniversitete" - Or, "My friend is teaching her dog the seating command. Sit, sit, sit. Sit. Good. And we have "Uchitsa" to learn some new skills. "Uchitsa" is a great guitar. "Uchitsa" - "Vakalu" - to go to some vocal, like some TikTok trend. I don't know if you saw this, but "Raise your eye, yeah, yeah, I don't know. Stuck in my head, yeah, singing courses. Okay, so that's pretty much it. That's pretty much it. Now I will read this text again real quick, it's super short, and it's going to be really fast. So check out how much you can understand this time. "I've always wanted to learn in the USA, because American universities give good education. When I was studying in the University of Colorado, I studied the Slavic culture and Slavic languages. Now I work in the University, and I really like to learn other. This is a beautiful profession. I often say students that you need to learn from the bad luck. It's useful for memory. "Vakalu" - to learn something new is very important. For example, now I want to learn to play on piano and dance. Okay, I hope this time you did much better than the first time, and that's pretty much it. That's pretty much it. If you want to learn Russian with me and get the full step-by-step course with a lot of video, with a lot of mini stories with the TPR's method, with a lot of homeworks, everything, everything, and learn on your own pace. So yeah, you're welcome on my website russian.from02fluency.com. Also, I will be super happy to see you on my Instagram. I have two pages now. One is specifically for learning Russian, and I have also created my new personal page where I just share how I live, my family, how I teach my children, bilinguals. Yeah, all that stuff. So links will be in the description of this episode. That's it for today. Thank you so much for learning with me, and I hope you have a wonderful time. Bye-bye.