At present the personal attitude of many people to solid knowledges in a field is too rare, but the fact is it is still important as it was, say, a dozen years ago. When I went to school, something like 25 years ago, it was necessary to learn and use the Russian grammar, and then it was natural and none was questioning that; few ‘phylologists’, as we called them, were dealing with foreign language grammars; and too few people I knew were able to explain one language grammar notion or rule, using another, different language (non-native, for instance).
Now it’s getting more and more important, because the language barriers are seen in a different light, and this means that the wish to overcome those is aggravating. The era of hi-speed communications requires ability to skip from one language onto another and vice versa, seamlessly! To be the fact, there must be an understanding of many things a language may consists, a sort of pressing for quick-and-now notion definition and instant lookup in another language (dictionary, etc); the grammar comes very handy here as it is the most important constituent of any language, all over the world.
The chances are very few readers may allow themselves go into numerous details of a language grammar; nevertheless, I’d like to offer you, my dear reader, to take a try and explain to an imaginary counterpart (speaking some different language, i.e. not your native) what a particular part of speech in your native language is, while using not your own native language. To give some hits below is the table showing parts of speech in Russian, Chinese and English.
Русский | 中文 | English |
предлог | 前置词 | preposition |
междометие | 感叹词 | interjection |
союз | 连接词 | conjunction |
прилагательное | 形容词 | adjective |
глагол | 动词 | verb |
числительное | 数词 | numeral |
местоимение | 代词 | pronoun |
существительное | 名词 | noun |
наречие | 副词 | adverb |
частица | 助词 | particle |
артикль | 冠词 | article |
транслитерация | 音译 | transliteration |
деепричастие | 福动词 | adverbial participle |
причастие | 形动词 | participle |
счетное слово | 量词 | measure word |
I do hope you can do it!
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