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Ok so I have Spanish from Rosetta Stone and soon I will have Russian but I am going to learn Spanish first. Is Russian a hard language to learn, just curious? I had a friend in High School that was an exchange student from Russia and she is Russian and knows Russian and she taught me a few Russian words in high school and it didn't seem to hard to me. Have you ever learned Russian? Do you want to learn Russian? I want to learn Russian so I can talk to my friend from Russia in Russian!
I took Spanish, German, and Russian. On a scale of difficulty, Spanish is a 3, German is an 8, and Russian is somewhere around a 19. I mean when you have case-specific endings on adjectives, that's a tough language to learn.
I took four years of college Russian, five years of college Chinese. Chinese was a lot easier than Russian. The grammar in Russian is extremely challenging. The verb endings change like crazy in Russian. And you have to memorize where the stress goes for EVERY word you learn.
Vs the 17 tenses in Spanish?
Russian way easier.
I also find my fluency increasing in Hindi with watching corny tv shows.
I find a couple I can stand. Unlike here, they run more like our soap operas...they come on every day, Monday through Friday for 30 minutes.
It's amazing what has happened in less than a year.
I took Spanish, German, and Russian. On a scale of difficulty, Spanish is a 3, German is an 8, and Russian is somewhere around a 19. I mean when you have case-specific endings on adjectives, that's a tough language to learn.
This pretty well describes it, in a nutshell. I think that's a good way to approach Russian, too; learn German first, for an introduction to certain aspects of grammar that could be overwhelming jumping in feet-first into Russian after only Spanish. Even just 1 year of German would be a big help.
If it is going your first language to learn or if you have a scarce experience in learning languages (which is rather common in the Anglophone world) then Russia is a tough language.
Assuming you know little about linguistic, phonetic etc, Russia is going to be mindblowing compared to English: different alphabet (which can be learnt rather quickly), cases (completely absent in English, set aside for the Saxon's genitive), a much more complex verb conjugation and an infinite number of exceptions.
Russian is a hard language, not impossible but hard.
Much simpler and easier to attain is Spanish, although you shouldn't underestimate it either.
Russian may not be as complicated or hard to learn as English. The number of exceptions in the English language is mind-blowing if you take the perspective of a non-native speaker.
Even though I am surrounded by it, I just couldn't pick it up. To be fair, I didn't make a huge effort, but enough to see that this was going to be way more difficult than Spanish and even middle eastern languages. The grammar is very different At least with the most popular romance languages, they are all fairly similar.
Learn Russian want? Interesting? Try to speak short sentences of three or four words. Why do you need Russian language?
In order to properly write and speak Russian you need a lot of time, but to learn to understand and speak simple proposal is quite possible, Americans have live in Siberia))
Merry Milkman Justus Walker.
This American is very good to speak Russian
Depends, if you have a good memory for learning the alphabet and only want to converse in basic conversation, for say, travel? I would say it was easy. If you want to be fluent in Russian Language, expect to invest lots of time and in a community of native speakers to accelerate comrehension. Like anything, if you don't use it regularly, you'll lose it.
I took one year at University - that was all they offered - and enjoyed it. The phonetic nature of it made it easier to learn and pronounce written words. I found the Pimsleur and audio conversational ways to learn a language easiest for me. I never learned all the grammar (nor recall much) but that depends on how important the level and depth of conversation would be to you.
Depends, if you have a good memory for learning the alphabet and only want to converse in basic conversation, for say, travel? I would say it was easy. If you want to be fluent in Russian Language, expect to invest lots of time and in a community of native speakers to accelerate comrehension. Like anything, if you don't use it regularly, you'll lose it.
I took one year at University - that was all they offered - and enjoyed it. The phonetic nature of it made it easier to learn and pronounce written words. I found the Pimsleur and audio conversational ways to learn a language easiest for me. I never learned all the grammar (nor recall much) but that depends on how important the level and depth of conversation would be to you.
Spokonye Noche!
Добрый День Товарищ!! ))
Hello Comrade!!
If that is not clear in the Russian language, you ask. ))
You're absolutely right, no need to clog your mind challenging curriculum, read a lot of books on the Russian language, you simply will not sustain the load, it will be difficult to learn the language. Remember when you were three or four years, you do not know either verbs or nouns, but you know mom and dad you're just listening and talking. When you were little, you were just talking.
The first words you said, Mom and Dad, sun, sky))
you did not know anything about Grammar, but you spoke English. Knew my mom and dad.
To understand a little new language is touching any language Russian and Chinese or any other, you need to talk to him. After about six months, and year you will achieve results greater than that of those who for years taught Russian language at universities. Cause at universities direct excess is not necessary, it will seem complicated and you have lost the desire to learn Russian. I suggest a simple method of teaching; Memorize 500 words in Russian for the one used in the Russian language, using these words you will be able to competently speak Russian, short offer. When you are able to speak and understand Russian, then you will be able to learn the Russian language Grammar, but this is Russian language course for those who are fluent in Russian. Start your training with the help of Russian view movies, listen to the Russian language.
Every day speak Russian at least 30 minutes, after six months you will begin to speak a little Russian, but after a few years you'll be good to speak Russian as this one American farmer has already become a Russian Siberian farmer
This American did not attend the special colleges and universities.
he learned Russian, he himself studied Russian, he communicated with simple Russian workers and peasants, and so he learned the Russian language)) American genius? You will be able to do so, the main desire !! ))
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