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Thank you very much for the explanation! I wonder why they didn't use the more common sentence form in the lesson? Maybe because they thought it would sound weird to English speakers?

Congratulation on your diploma .

So the sentence from RussianForFree was correct, but when reporting continuous states or processes, you shouldn't use the sequence of tenses. There is also the sentence, "Они дума ли , что я всё зна ла " and similar ones, near the end in Dialogue 4, which is what I was thinking of; what a...

Your first two sentences sound like 'Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away...' :D You'd better say 'Вчера я думала, что я всё знаю', not 'знала'. The variant with 'знаю' does not have the sequence of tenses, like in colloquial English. In Russian the sequence of tenses is not used almost al...

Here is another try: written a little more quickly. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XZQhgrs-MKI/VQHxkGfz69I/AAAAAAAAAE8/__3GQoOjaa8/s1600/Image-05-75percent.PNG I ditched the blue color pencil, and did this one with a mechanical pencil. These sentences were written during my free moments during the last f...

Thank you very much! I was copying from the Russian Bible translation available for the mobile app Bible Offline, which apparently has quite a few typing errors :-(. I myself corrected for missing spaces, but for commas and stuff I don't have enough know-how to correct. Also this text evidently does...

Sorry if this is not the right place for this; it didn't seem to really fit in any of the categories :| . I've been working on Russian cursive, and would like feedback on whether it looks normal, and suggestions for what I could do better. Here is a sample; produced with a blue color pencil; the sca...

Привет! Меня зовут Криста. Я из америки. Я говорю на Эсперанто.

Hello! My name is Christa. I live in the US and I speak Esperanto.

Saluton! Mi nomiĝas Krista. Mi estas usonano, kaj mi parolas Esperanton.