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How long does it take to get a basic knowledge of the Russian language? Is it very hard to learn (especially the writing)?

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  • Daria Grishkina

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    Yes! Russian is a pretty difficult language!
    The best way to learn Russian is to visit Russia. There are plenty of options, for instance, to take a short term- course in a Russian language school. Our Russian language school "Enjoy Russian" is situated in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, a small beautiful town near the state border with the EU so there won't be any difficulties in reaching the destination. We offer the number of summer language courses for summer 2010. The programs may vary according to your wishes and Russian proficiency level and implies cultural involvement as well. By the way, you have a great chance to win the scholarship for studying in our school in summer that will cover the cost of the tuition fee.

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  • Olga D

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    Hi Daria,
    I am a professional Russian teacher and I have a long time experience of teaching Russian to foreigners. I can say the following that Russian is not as easy as English, but it is not that you need 5 years to learn it. It depends on you and on your teacher. If you find your teacher who is able to analyze how you learn languages in general, provide you certain exercises and make them interesting, then you will learn quite fast. I have students (English speaking) who are able to participate in arguments at work when it is too slow to use interpreter and they are able to understand most of Russian conversations. This is after 1-1.5 years of learning. So everyone can learn Russian if he/she wants and has a good help.

  • Juan Ubide Barreda

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    Hello everybody.

    I think that is very difficould. But Chinese is too difficoult about the accent.

    But i can read more or less cirilic, but not all the letters.

  • Gehen Sie zu yulia zhizhanovas Profil

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    yes, Russian is fourth difficult language in the world, but to the other hand it's not SO difficult as it seems to be.
    I teach Russian as a foreign language and almost all my students are able to express their thoughts and speak in Russian somehow after few monthes of learning Russian. And a lot of them speak Russian with a slight accent or even without it.
    All i want to say is that everything's possible and if you really want to speak Russian, you will do it) sooner or later!)
    Best regards,
    Yulia

  • Robert MacDonald

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    Russian is a very difficult language for me. I have been trying to learn it for nine years, even before we arrived in St Petersburg in June 2000.
    Its foundation isn't Germanic or Romance, so my knowledge of Spanish and French only helps with some cognates.

    So, I am old, now 66, and have never shined in languages, although I enjoy learning what I can. Now I can start and continue a conversation in my neighborhood, which makes me very happy, as for years I have felt quite isolated... and now I find Russians can be sociable and kind... but they tend to be stick nia itsa, not the first to talk.

    My wife deserves a lot of credit for spending many hours in the first few years going over verbs, texts, and padejay (the last an area where I am rather hopeless!). At home we speak a lot of Russian nouns and phrases but often American English.

  • Maxim Buyakov

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    Being a Russian native, I never gave a thought to how we Russians were handling pluralization. That is, until I was recently asked by a customer.

    See below and cheer that you do not have to learn Russian (yet :D) Or - that you are a native Russian :) .

    So, here we go.

    A client asked: "Do you have separate words for singular and plural in Russian, e.g. would you have one word for 'comment' and another word for 'comments'?"

    Our Reply:

    Re your question, yes, there are 'comment' and 'comments' in Russian, eg there may be a comment on a report, or a comments column in a table. (But there isn't plural for 'bikini', or, say, 'kangaroo', as these are foreign words that do not end in a consonant or -a like Russian.

    "Another question regarding pluralisation:

    With regards to the Russian words if we need to pluralize a words such as "item" does the pluralization depend on the quantity of items that are being pluralized?

    Phrased in a more general way: Is there ever more than one way to pluralize a single Russian word?"

    Our Reply:

    * When explicitly used with a counting number, the form for 2,3 and 4 items is identical to singular genitive case.
    For 5 - 20 items it's plural genitive.

    Then,
    21, 31, ..., 101 ... = 1 - always singular (like '21 item').
    22-24, ..., 102-104, 122-124 ... = 2 - 4
    25-30, ... 105-120, ... = 5 - 20

    So, we have 1 item (singular), 2,3 and 4 'item-a', 5-20 'item-ov'

    * When not counted, then it's a singular 'item' and plural 'item-y', either subject to 6 cases including the nominative (original).

    Our Reply 2:

    -- I just realised that it's a noun only that is singular genitive, but an adjective to it would be plural genitive.
    It is a plural adjective coupled with a singular noun, both genitive.

    In addition, if the numbers 2, 3 and 4 are themselves in the genitive or other indirect case ("Of 2 items...") then the trailing adjectives and nouns are all plural.

    I guess we Russians don't get confused because 2, 3 and 4 end in a vovel, while 5-20 - in a consonant, and that reflects in our heads.

    - - -
    Originally posted at englishdic.livejournal.com/1942.html

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    Maxim Buyakov
    Principal, Maxim Global Services
    Russian/English Technical and Legal Translation, Voiceover
    http://www.AskMaxim.com/

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    Yes, that's exactly what I mean...without a translating machine I would have no idea what you were saying! It's not like you can understand something because some words look similar...

  • Gehen Sie zu Чёрный призрак 46Ghosts Profil

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    Очень легко - я же тоже знаю!

  • Aufgegeben von Gelöschter Nutzer in Russland Forum  

    Hi Andrew! Thanks for those tips.
    I'm a bit surprised to hear that Russian is easy...I mean, they have a total different writing!

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