How long do you think it will take me to learn Russian?
Friday, November 20th, 2009 at
1:19 am
I am fourteen. Sort of self-teaching myself. dad speaks it but not too much. and uncle is fluent but he went to another country to visit. so if they helped me here and there how long do u think i can learn it?
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Im in the process of learning it too. The time it takes to learn depends on how fluent you want to be.
For me, I just want to be able to communicate on a reasonable level with my Russian friends and family, so I predict it will take about 3 or 4 years for this.
You are still young so your brain probably absorbs information more quickly than mine
You can get a feel for the language at my website:
http://listen2russian.com/
Hope that helps!
Jon.
Russian is a very difficult language, different people learn at different paces so there is really no way of knowing how long it will take you to learn it.
Well, since your family speaks it, you will learn faster than others, but depending on your commitment it could take you anywhere form 1 year to 5 years.
Ochen dolgo i ne tak skoro.
If you didn’t grow up speaking Russian, it’s not easy to pick it up because Russian is a very rich and complex language that far excels English in the amount of words, phrases, and phonetics. Good luck and keep practicing.
If you put a lot of effort in, and talked to your dad and uncle in Russian, you could probably become passably fluent in 2 years.
If you stayed in Russia for 3 months, you could perhaps do it within 1 year (become passably fluent, that is, not very good).
You will never learn it, to be frank.
What will happen is you will try to learn it eagerly for about 2 weeks. Then your interest will gradually wane until you just kind of forget about it, while retaining your interest in Russia in general.
If that doesn’t happen, it would take you 10 years to speak it with any degree of confidence, and it will be 15 years before you can read Dostoyevsky. I know this because…………..I am the golden Leonard.
It does depend on your commitment to it. Self teaching is very hard, but possible. You need so submerse yourself in the language, books (even kids books), movies, music, etc. This will help. The grammar is very difficult,but not impossible. Fluency is very high and hard. There’s no such thing as passable fluency. Conversational Russian is possible, if you’re committed to it in a year or two. If you want to read it and or write well in it, it will take longer. But, then, in our native language, we speak it for a good 3-5 years before we begin to learn to read or write, so don’t feel like you have to do it all at once.
My dad also speaks fluent Russian and one of my life regrets is not letting him teach me to at least speak it. Go for it! The younger you are, the easier it is, too.