What are some things that are difficult in the russian language?
Friday, October 16th, 2009 at
11:05 am
I want to learn it, but I have no idea where to start. I tried learning the alphabet, and WOW. Seems really hard.
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I speak english and korean. german was a piece of cake for me, and I'm still learning french in school. So.....is russian similar to ANY of these languages?
If you learned russian, how did you do it? Share your secret!
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Unfortunately for you, Russian is not close to any of the languages you have mentioned. Although you’ll find a lot of English, French and German borrowings in Russian, they are just that – borrowings. All the basic vocabulary will seem completely alien to you, since the borrowings are usually for words used by specialists and such.
As a native speaker I don’t really know what people learning Russian have to go through. I would imagine noun declension is quite difficult, but I’ve heard there’s a similar thing in German (with less cases, but still). As for the alphabet, that should be the least of your worries – you’ll learn it in a week or two and after that reading Russian will be relatively easy (except for the unpredictable syllable stress), seeing as Russian is mostly read as it is written, unlike English with its absurd letter combinations like -ough-.
the correct pronounciation is very hard and so is the grammar which is as hard as french grammar. there are more letters in the alphabet in the russian language. some of the letters look the same as english letters but sound and are pronounced differently. russian isnt really similar to french and diffenetly not korean. good luck in learning it tho
its a very nice language
Boy- are you in trouble!!!
No, really if you speak more than one language already it is easier. My classmates who spoke only one language had it really hard remembering the rules of grammar.
You have to start with the alphabet of course. Then you go on to learning basic words and then grammar.
The best way to do it (in my opinion) is to be taught by a native speaker, expose yourself as much as possible to the language (books, music, TV) and speak, speak, speak!!!
Russian is no harder than German, some of the grammer is similar.
The alphabet is easy, much easier to deal with than English because it is consistant.
I say Don’t learn it.
I try to learn a lot of languages, I am fluent in 7 languages and I tried to learn Russian for a year, I couldn’t, It was impossible!
But Good Luck!
Russian is the hardest slavic language