How difficult is it to learn Russian?
Monday, May 17th, 2010 at
1:13 am
I took a few years of German in high school and it came easily to me. I think Russian is really awesome and would like to learn it, but because it has such a different alphabet, etc, I'm afraid it will be way too hard. How hard is it to learn, pronunciation-wise, grammar-wise, etc, and what would be an efficient way of learning it?
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Well, if it is easy for you to learn foreign languages it’ ll be not a problem for you.
I’ ll try to tell you about the aspects of Russian language just to give you an image of it.
Russian is a slavonic language and shares a lot of words with other European languages (mama= mother, sestra=sister, voda=water). There are also a lot of borrowings from German (kurort), English (manager, engineer…), French (deja vu) and Greek (krovat= bed). but there are also borrowings from Turk languages and sometimes from arabic.
Now about Russian Grammar: the patterns of making negative and questions are easy. But there are 7 cases in Russian language. And it is not easy to learn the plural of some words, although there are some general patterns and it is easier than in German.
And the alphabet. it differs, but some of the letters are the same with English ones.
the pronunciation is not very difficult and is somewhat close to Spanish.
and about learning it: as usual you need a good teacher, a good textbook and you need to communicate with Russian speakers.=) after you’ll learn something you also will be able to listen to the Russian songs , to read books in Russian.
Good Luck! Hope it’ll help.
P.S. There are a lot of information on Russian websites about learning Russian as a foreign language. F.e. this one: http://speakrussian.report.ru/_5FolderID_220_.html
you can use it to know more about Russian and maybe you can even find free textbooks there.
it easy as a tact if you are really interest on living there. NO WORRY ABOUT RUSSIAN, just english an chinese which would make on over 90% the basic language used in business for the coming years. You don’t need it, russia wll never be any important now or later. FORGET ABOUT IT.
Im going to learn russian to ,there is alot of russian site that teach it for free.
I want to learn russian ASAP before i graduate HS, so when work at the casino and communicate with the russian ladies!
Своя легкая действительно трудное если вы don’ t говорит его engish. ПОЧЕМУ? Some thing like this
Its easy the really hard if you don’t speak it is engish. WHY?