Since my university require me to pick three languages to study, I've picked German, Russian and Japanese.
Currently starting to learn Russian, but all I've got so far is the alphabets and the numbers. Where do I go from here? I have no idea which words I should learn first or what I should do next.
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Anonymous2012-08-23 7:57
O shit boy. Those three languages are all really hard, especially if you have no prior experience learning a language.
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Anonymous2012-08-23 8:00
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I already know enough German to use as basic in university, and I'm sure that I can study Russian and get the basic down since I love the country.
The only one that's going to be hell for me is Japanese. Though, I've heard that it's easier than Chinese so I might just be paranoid.
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Anonymous2012-08-24 6:13
Oh no you didn't nigga. Russian is an extremely hard and horrible language, besides no one speaks Russian outside Russia itself and former USSR countries and just for your information, no one is that stupid to learn it b/c Russia is a shitty country and its people are desperate in attempts to immigrate into first-world countries like US, Japan, or European countries. So I suggest you drop this shit and pick something useful like Spanish or French
I am fluent in English. I wanted to learn German and Russian, I got Rosetta stone and started with the German levels. I have about a month of time into it, and I am already able to roughly understand German spoken Movies/T.V. Shows. It is really worth it. Additionally, if you don't have the money to " buy " it, there is The Pirate Bay.
Hope I helped.
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Anonymous2012-08-25 21:31
>>4 besides no one speaks Russian outside Russia itself and former USSR countries
Oh wow.
Other than being an official UN language, remind me again why this potato language is relevant ?
Even here, in Lithuania, it's slowly but surely dying away (like it should be). While there are still young people here who learn it, it has nothing on English as a primary foreign language, and as such, a huge majority of young people in Lithuania can't speak, read or write in Russian (and even those who can would prefer not to use it). So when the older generation die away and take their shitty sovietic mentality with them, so should this slavshit language disappear.
In summary, OP, you're much better off investing your time in learning French or Arabic.
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Anonymous2012-08-27 22:19
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>French
Sure, if you're living in South Africa.
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Anonymous2012-08-28 2:33
I think you should start learning something like simple declarations: "Я кот"(I am a cat) or "Я иностранец" (I am a foreigner).
The russian soft vowels are formed by something called "iotization". Basically you take a hard vowel and slap й in front and you get the soft vowels. а -> я, у -> ю, э -> е, о -> ё. и is not formed in this way but is also a soft vowel.
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Unless you are russian it's not a simple language at all. It is said to be one of the hardest grammars of the world.
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Anonymous2012-09-23 1:54
first, Russian isn't that hard, it's just archaic (like e.g. Lithuanian), you have to get used to it, it's like... learning how to drive a bike
second, knowing Russian you can speak to almost all Slavs and understand them (yeah, it won't be easy but it's better than nothing)
third, you shouldn't study Russian if you aren't going to work in Russia (or states of the former the USSR, which implies you have something to do with management, chemistry, new technologies or logistics) or in some CIA (actually same can be said about German which is used only in Germany and in countries like Singapore, Vietnam or Taiwan since they are full of German expats)