12 Unexpected Reasons Why I Found Russian Easy to Learn

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Whenever I tell someone I know Russian, they often say "Wow, isn't that super difficult to learn?"
So the common opinion is that Russian is a difficult language. But actually if you look into it, there are quite some things that make Russian not that hard to learn.
Hope the video inspires you to learn Russian :)

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

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[@Anya_Aprelskaya]

As a native Russian speaker, I absolutely agree that you shouldn't be afraid of practicing it and making mistakes. Most of us native speakers won't cherry pick any mistakes you might make. We'll most likely be surprised and super happy that you've taken time and effort to learn it ☺️

[@seraphimaanderson2069]

haha. the politeness of Russians towards a foreigner speaking Russian really depends on the persons skin color and facial features. If this person is black, or Asian or from Caucasus, this person will be mocked and laughed at.

[@Alexey_Mikhaylov]

True. I was told the same by my american friends. In a funny fact, sometimes it appears u know some parts of foreigner language grammar better than the native speakers -- just cuz u are affraid to screw up)

[@arturkhodzhaev]

@@seraphimaanderson2069 nope. Generally it is not true. Black people - we don’t have much of’em here. Caucas - sometimes yes, but only if we are talking about those ppl who were born and raised in Russia, so they are natives and are supposed to speak normally. Asians - never.

[@mjbgcdz729]

​@@seraphimaanderson2069As a Russian living in Russia, I will say that this is not so, but we have a prejudiced attitude towards Asians or blacks, the situation with renting apartments is very deplorable. but no one will laugh at you if you are not European, at most the drunks from the entrance will do this.

[@bucknasty2056]

I know it’s a old comment but this is a nice relief to see this cause I barely encounter any Russians if not any up here in Canada.

[@GoLongAmerica]

One other important thing that makes Russian easier to learn is the speed at which the language is spoken. Russian is typically spoken at the same speed as English, and it's a lot slower than, for example, Spanish and French, two of the world's fastest spoken languages.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks for the comment! I've never paid attention to that, but now you say it, it makes sense. Even more reason to learn Russian :)

[@juanpa10343]

Wow! What a fun fact about my mother language (Spanish). Yeah, we speak pretty fast, but, at the same time, we use to struggle when a native English speaker says something in a fast way. Greetings from Colombia to you all... And I loved this video.

[@lutor136g]

Source?

[@normalhether5806]

@@juanpa10343 I feel proud when they make mention of Spanish 🌮🌮🌮

[@edwinhidalgo1242]

European Spanish is ultra fast, like European Portuguese. In Latin America we speak slower, thanks God

[@olgarudn9753]

Foreigners: make videos how to learn Russian. Russians: “this is what we actually needed”

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Хаха да, недавно русскоговорящие находили мои видео. Но интересно же узнать о своем родном языке)

[@ezozakurbanova9762]

😂😂😂

[@user-xv9bt9ql5s]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage помимо русского у тебя классный английский, лично я подписалась для его практики )

[@ВольныйСлушатель-ф5ю]

We feel special because foreigners choose to learn our language. I think that's the reason)

[@redeemer6828]

As I found out recently, Russian language is second (!) most spread language of any sort of content in internet. So if you decided to learn it, you have literally an ocean of content that you can use both as the reason and the way of practice russian.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Yeah that's what I love about learning Russian: there's just so much content out there. It's also easy to find it with English subtitles. My girlfriend had issues when learning Dutch, because there's relatively so little content, and what content there was didn't have subs.

[@aiellamori]

I cannot stress enough how easy and fun it was to learn the Russian alphabet. Seriously, in about an hour, I was able to sound out words I've never seen before without referring back to the alphabet. I was really surprised with myself

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

It's so much easier than it looks like. Especially when comparing it to Chinese or Japanese.

[@Kprof]

Yes very funny

[@Kprof]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage yes,true

[@radialorbits]

Ditto. I learnt it in a couple short sessions, then I started learning some vocab out of curiosity... years later, I'm still studying and enjoying it!

[@Visionery1]

Yes, the alphabet is actually the least difficult, although it did take me more than an hour. :) Only when you start learning the language do your realize the 'o' is not always pronounced as such, likewise for the 'e'.

[@okiedokie9430]

You speak so convincing that even I wanted to learn russian, despite the fact that I am russian native 😁

[@lauradivittorio1014]

I'm Italian, I studied Latin and Ancient Greek in high school. When, later on, I started studying the Russian language for fun, I didn't have any difficulties with the alphabet, the grammar seems simple at the beginning then gets complicated but it's not inaccessible. Having never been to Russia nor having many opportunities to practice the language, what I find really difficult about Russian is choosing the right vocabulary, especially for verbs. The degree of precision offered by the commonly spoken Russian language far exceeds even the most literary Italian so even if I can construct a grammatically acceptable sentence, I can't be sure I'm really saying what I mean. It takes a lot of practice and a lot of courage but it's a really beautiful language.

[@flowname]

Movies generally help in that regard for all languages, because they bring context of a situation into words that you already understand. Books on the other hand are less helpful for it because there could be specific styles that authors like to stick to no matter what.

[@MishaSkripach]

Italian person can say every Russian sounds perfectly, so really you can speak without accent,

[@ryanmilton2643]

I’m learning and I agree. I’ve been at it a year. I went from zero to 50 Russian friends. We share English-Russian tongue -twisters. We laugh so hard. We LOVE practicing with each other!!!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Glad to hear it's going well!

[@CatherineAaBb]

Ah, that's sweet :3

[@Whimsicalpaintings]

How do you meet these friends?

[@GirlBarcateam]

How do you make Russian friends?

[@barbadolid5170]

The first reason is very true. I came to Germany when I was 19, only to see that I didn't get many opportunities to learn the language - I ended up moving to a rural area where nobody spoke English, best way to learn 🤣

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Interesting to hear that you had that experience in Germany too!

[@Lana007]

I'm Ukrainian (native Russian) who learning Dutch and I find it quite difficult. Because of articles, gramma and double vowel sounds. But after english it goes much easier. And it's also great to find similar Russian and English words in Dutch it helps to increase vocabulary. Bedankt voor jouw video's en fijne dag!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Dankjewel voor je reactie! Als je inderdaad al Engels kan, is Nederlands een stuk gemakkelijker om te leren. Succes!

[@YouTubovnaYa]

Как сейчас дела с Нидерландским?

[@Lana007]

@@YouTubovnaYa отлично, практикую каждый день

[@petrosstefanidis6396]

As a Greek speaking English as well, I can tell you the alphabet was a piece of cake. Now, comparing my subjective experience of learning Russian to learning English I cannot tell you for sure English was easier. What I can tell for sure though is that for Greek/Spanish speakers the Russian accent is super easy compared to English. The difficulty really depends on what languages you already speak

[@nezhinkayash]

I was shocked when I could read inscriptions on ancient Greek sculptures 😄 the Л, the П, the Ф... 😁

[@hstochla]

@@nezhinkayashCyrillic handwriting also resembles the Greek writing system.

[@benedictcowell6547]

The Russians I met and know are remarkable linguists and some times speak three or four languages, usually French, German and Italian. I found the people, especially women to have a great sense of humour and to be very generous. I have to start from the beginning. I knew enough to negotiate my life there.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

I think there's also a relation that in general only Russians that are well educated and well off can travel outside of Russia (especially now).

[@loca-cola9218]

I have been slowly trying to learn Russian for about a year and a half. I think it is complex but I had wanted to learn Russian for quite a while. I think this has kept me encouraged and not scared me away. I am noticing that I enjoy listening Russian being spoken. I think I understand more than what I can speak loll.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

It's really motivating when you start understanding things. Keep it up!

[@gigisjourney1372]

i am 13 years old. i know english and greek pretty fluently. i really want to teach myself russian but idk where to start. this video was very motivating. thank you for sharing. or um… Большое спасибо 😁

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks for watching! Cool to hear that you're already interested in learning Russian at such a young age. Good luck!

[@sleepypsy2650]

Real Russian Club on youtube has a free course with 22 lessons rn (shes still working on it just not as actively, it will get you up to upper beginner for sure) but also sells companion courses which has a workbook for the video lessons. Its a bit pricy at 97$ for the starter bundle but I think its worth it if you do want to persue Russain seriously. She also has a ton of vocabulary videos on her channel as well (which are free). I really reccomend her as a current russain learner :D

[@kazimierzgaska5304]

Как дела ? Ты ещё изучаешь русский язык ? Или уже устал от него ?

[@End0fst0ry]

Cyrillic is the Greek alphabet + slavic expansion pack

[@ShockNameBlast]

Yooo same I am 13 years old though I know English and Filipino and I'm also tryna learn Russian, I think I am 1 month in and I have fully memorized the alphabet, though the ы, ш and щ sound is pretty confusing, I think my goal is to learn it for atleast a year. Спасибо большое!

[@TingBie]

Starting to learn Russian tonight with a tutor from Preply. Exciting.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

How was it?

[@elizabethr9940]

I appreciated this, this makes me feel a lot more confident about learning it. I've never known quite why, but I've always been very fascinated by the way it sounds. No matter what is being said, it just really sounds beautiful to my ears. Thank you for this!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Russian does have its difficult parts (lack of cognates, cases, and random stresses in words), but the lack of articles and flexible word order are great for sounding more fluent. It's a beautiful and poetic language. Good luck learning it!

[@Ae-xx3kb]

This is the first video that came up when I looked up learning russian, so now I'm super motivated to learn- thank you so much!!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Glad that the video was useful!

[@The3Dsmash]

Thanks for taking the time to make this one. Very well explained. Who wouldn't want to learn Russian after all this points! :) P.S. I LOVE that Russian doesn't have articles!!!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks for watching! Yeah, it's great that Russian doesn't have articles. And the flexible word order also makes it a lot easier to speak "fluently"

[@svetlananovak759]

I am from Serbia. I speak both Russian and English very well. The Russian language is very easy, if you choose to follow the topics that interest you in Russian. For example, Russian-Vedic literature and ancient knowledge. That was my way. And I spoke Russian perfectly in 6 months. Be persistent and you will achieve anything. ---------------------------- Я из Сербии. Я очень хорошо говорю и по-русски, и по-английски. Русский язык очень легкий, если вы решите следить за интересующими вас темами на русском языке. Например, русско-ведическая литература и древние знания. Это был мой путь. А по-русски я говорил в совершенстве в 6 месяцев. Будьте настойчивы, и вы добьетесь всего.

[@jasonjames6870]

Hardest part of learning German is the Germans are too accommodating and switch to English straight away

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Yes, foreigners have the same problem here in the Netherlands. They want to learn, but don't get the opportunity.

[@Craftqueen-k7m]

Nah not everyone i would ask if they want it but if they wanna talk ill take my time

[@lucifer-zr6sc]

I’m so glad you brought up the consistency in the Russian alphabet the fact that they have characters for every sound you need unlike the silent and conjoining letter of the English alphabet by far Russia has my favourite alphabet

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

It's very refreshing that words pretty much sound like they are written. The only downside is the randomness of the stresses though. But that's a problem in most languages unfortunately.

[@themegajediOBVM]

Hello, Mr.! It was a really interesting video! I'm a russian who lears english! And I'm here due to practice my listening and It's interesting to know your opinion and also it's interesting to know your attitude to russian language. Your english is enough understandable for me.

[@TimothyMusson]

Your motivational reminders are awesome. Thanks from New Zealand :)

[@aijakibere5245]

Wow, great video, it’s always a pleasure to know that people like Russian language and trying to learn it, and I never thought of these tips motivating to learn Russian😊wish you a good luck on this hard way! And your pronounce is soooo good, you did a great job honestly❤

[@Louvenoire05]

I love Russian! I’m learning to speak with my Russian family on my husbands side and so my kids can know their culture as they are part Russian. I enjoy the language very much. I look forward to a time I will be fluent and can carry a lengthy conversation. Спасибо 🙏

[@dwainerdjon5559]

я понял твой муж русский, а ты?

[@ИрисМожевальня]

​@@dwainerdjon5559татарка Я

[@tacitus7]

This has really encouraged me as I strive to learn Russian.

[@veretuk114]

Очень хороший ролик. Я посмотрел и теперь могу говорить по русски. Всем рекомендую. Спасибо ;)

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Хаха, что-то мне подсказывает, что Вы уже не плохо говорили на нем))

[@elllder4030]

​@@LearntheRussianLanguage ваша пунктуация - потрясающая

[@omsofi1111]

Хахаха

[@TheDenall]

Thank you for your feedback about our language. That's right, the endings are swallowed, and the words are pronounced the same everywhere, there is a difference in the pronunciation of the letters "a", "o", "g" in different regions. Maybe there is something else that I just don't pay attention to. The order of words in sentences affects only the priority in the transmission of meaning, but does not change the general understanding. For example: "I want to go to the cinema" 1. "- Я хочу пойти в кино" - a simple desire to go to the cinema; 2. "- Хочу пойти в кино я" - emphasis on the desire to do something; 3. "- Пойти я хочу в кино" - the desire to go somewhere, for example to the cinema; 4. "- В кино я хочу пойти" - the desire to go specifically to the cinema.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Glad to hear you learned something! I love how you can influence the subtle meaning by switching the word order))

[@TheDenall]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage "- Do yo see Russians? - No. - But they are!" )))))

[@yellowpapricorn8770]

funny thing that usually people don't stress out with word order. they usually use intonation for this. your examples are rather be treated as Yoda style speech) but in some cases, when the sentence is long you can put the main word ahead of the sentence. I think it usually happens in text. In real life the sentences could just repeat the main word. anyways fluid word order rules!

[@flowname]

these emphasis are a bit artificial. Namely the simplest desire to go to the cinema wouldn't even include the subject, i.e. "Хочу в кино" implies both that you are talking about yourself and that you'd like to get there, either by going or by other means of movement, because movement isn't important here, but your desire is. And the reverse order of it "В кино хочу" doesn't have difference in emphasis at all, they are interchangeable and a matter of preference at one particular moment.

[@MakedonskiBulgarin]

im a bulgarian and i can speak, serbian-croatian, bulgarian, macededonian and english and now im even learning russiajn

[@lennomol1718]

Honestly, i really needed to see this. I love language learning, i'm working on my fourth one right now (italian). I promised myself to learn spanish after this one, but i was already slightly planning to learn russian after. People always tried to scare me off learning russian when i told them i wanted to, saying it was way to difficult, but now i found this. I'm pretty sure i will pick it up when i've reached a conversational level in spanish. Ontzettend bedankt voor deze video! Zal toch nog even mijn moedertaal er tegenaan gooien😁🇳🇱

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks for your comment. Purely from a grammatical/language point of view Spanish may be a bit easier than Russian (for Dutch people at least). But that's likely because we all had French in high school. But Russian does have some extra things such as the flexible word order and lack of articles that make speaking Russian (and sounding like a native speaker) easier to achieve than in other languages. Dankjewel voor het kijken, en succes met het verder leren van nieuwe talen!

[@macdonaldchaboka6117]

I've been learning Russian for 3 month... it's not easy, very complicated to the max,too many rules.. but it's still possible just takes more time than learning other languages for example a single word can be said in more than 20 ways depending on the case

[@matrixnorm6672]

@@macdonaldchaboka6117 just ditch all the rules. forget about them

[@macdonaldchaboka6117]

@@matrixnorm6672 already did

[@kazimierzgaska5304]

@@macdonaldchaboka6117 Try Polish... and discover Russian is not so complicated. 😁

[@honeybee3317]

Thankyou for sharing about ( Koine) Greek letters and some Russian letters, I noticed that, now I know why.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

The Russian alphabet looks difficult, but it's easier than it seems.

[@karinapaiva4816]

Portuguese is the same as Russian in terms of knowing how to pronounce the word just by reading it, that's why I want to learn Russian

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

A friend one time sat in the plane from Portugal to the Netherlands and he thought "why are there so many Russians in this plane?", then he quickly figured out they were Portugese, and he misunderstood the accents :)

[@AndreiBerezin]

There's a couple more features that relate Russian to Portuguese. The hard L, the abundance of SH and CH, and the biggest feature - vowel reduction in unstressed positions!

[@End0fst0ry]

Впервые слышу об этом. Очень интересно! Похоже, мне следует поискать в истории причину этого явления.

[@bookworm5433]

Ya it's strange how you can learn the alphabet in about twenty five minutes. Then, be able to read Russian, but, have no idea what you are saying. Such a trip.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

It's similar to how you can read Hungarian or Finnish, but have no clue what the words mean.

[@Scarlett_Syringe]

Same with Korean

[@sammyshreds]

I couldn't recite the Russian alphabet to you, but I can read Russian fairly easily

[@wiseknowledgeworldA]

Vocab is probably the biggest thing

[@russianrightnow]

Man, it's a really cool video. Good job! 🎉

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Glad the video was helpful!

[@deepaktripathi4417]

I really needed that motivation. Thanks brother!

[@lemonjuice840]

As a Russian native speaker,I can say that Russian is extremely hard to learn even for those who was born in post soviet countries.To understand you don't need a lot,but if you want to make you speech a bit more fluent,then you have to make an enormous effort

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Yeah getting to a basic level isn't too hard. But perfecting it takes more time. I'm still learning a lot every day.

[@okiedokie9430]

​@@LearntheRussianLanguageand what do you think of russian punctuation in writing? That thing is something that even the russians do not fully master, most of us.

[@sanjaatanasovska7834]

Я думаю, что термин «русский язык» следует заменить термином «язык террористов», и все поймут, что имеется в виду. Жизнь слишком коротка, чтобы учить язык убийц, насильников, воров территорий и ресурсов.

[@lemonjuice840]

@@sanjaatanasovska7834 Да,вы правы.Жизнь коротка.Жизнь коротка настолько,что не имеет смысл её тратить на негативные эмоции,вызванных разжиганием политических конфликтов.Вы решили написать этот комментарий на "языке террористов",так?Тогда вы поддерживаете тех,кого так называете.Вы же как-то поняли предыдущие комментарии,или же воспользовались переводчиком,а таком случае вы ходячее противоречие,если решились написать комментарий подобного содержания именно на русском.

[@sanjaatanasovska7834]

@@lemonjuice840 Я воспользовался гугл-переводчиком, чтобы русские террористы могли меня понять. Все русские - террористы, с кровью на руках, из чеченской, молдавской, грузинской, украинской крови. Мерзость. Я не имею никакого отношения к Украине, но меня тошнит от России и русских. Это мусор.

[@vitek924]

My ex-wife never want me to learn Russian maybe because she spoke a lot with her son and they laugh a lot and make jokes and I ask them "what are you guys talking about?"and she never wanted to tell me, but discovered she was stabbing in my back a lot, so I learned that was one of the reasons why she didn't want me to learn Russian... I am learning Russian now ( I speak Spanish and Russian has a lot of words are the same in Spanish, I also pronounced a double rr and is very often in Russian so it's easy for me to learn and pronounce it), not because what happened to me but I always love to learn it and I am pursuing it at this point.

[@MaxMustermann-go8xf]

I'd say one of the biggest difficulties is stress. It's usually no big deal if you get it wrong, but you simply can't predict it if you are not a native. Oh and of course it can change within one word's paradigm, so depending on the case or number, for example.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Yeah, stresses are incredibly frustrating. Russiangram.com is a site that can help.

[@an0nycat]

Even Russians make mistakes in stress in words.) It seems that now at school in Russia there are questions on stress at exams in the Russian language. Well, I think that this is very stupid and should be canceled.)

[@End0fst0ry]

Yeah, too much stress kills people... :D

[@ArmenSkandaryan]

As a native russian speaker I'd recommend you not to bother about stress. Forget about stress. Just speak. Every russian will easily understand you because even russians make mistakes in stress and moreover, in spoken language stress may differ depending on region. Generally speaking, stress is the least important thing in russian for beginners.

[@fellowcitizen]

Excellent and motivating video; thanks!

[@monosbeats7398]

я тоже каждый день слушаю русскую речь в городе. А я норвежец. Люди из Латвии, Украины, России. Ещё ещё... Всё ещё я помню первый раз когда я в магазине помогал кого-то, который не умел говорить по-норвежски или по-английски. Так круто. Я довольно плохо разговариваю, но достаточно хорош для общения

[@nikiphoross]

Привет! Очень хорошо, что ты изучаешь русский. Всё-таки Россия и Норвегия -- 2 соседние страны с многовековым опытом отношений. As a native speaker of Russian, можно я немного отредактирую твой текст, чтобы он звучал 100% по-русски?) Итак: я тоже каждый день слышу русскую речь в городе. Сам я норвежец. (К нам приезжают русскоязычные) люди из Латвии, Украины, России. Ещё и ещё... До сих пор я помню первый раз, когда я в магазине помог кому-то, кто не умел говорить по-норвежски или по-английски. Так круто! Я довольно плохо разговариваю, но достаточно хорошо общаюсь

[@monosbeats7398]

@@nikiphoross Ну спасибо за поправил. Я вижу что ты всё понял. Я делаю много ошибок, но по крайней мере мой текст понятен. 😀

[@nikiphoross]

@@monosbeats7398 понятен, это точно)

[@AlexSmile-y2x]

все четко пишете, парни! красавцы! ошибок минимум, супер

[@monosbeats7398]

@@AlexSmile-y2x ну спасибо. я мастер ошибок с низкими важностями.

[@warriorbard]

I learned the Russian alphabet for fun during lockdown. The Cyrillic script is fascinating and it's not as tricky as it looks.

[@SueEshelman]

Thank you for this! I've studied Spanish, German, and Russian and I found Russian to be easiest in most aspects. Reason number 13. There are only about a dozen irregular verbs in Russian. They are fairly common so you will get learning them out of the way quickly. Of course, nouns can be irregular and frequently are but one develops an intuition about them.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Ah yes, thanks for mentioning the small amount of irregular verbs! I forgot about them (probably because there are so few of them)

[@SueEshelman]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage it has been a few days since I watched the video but I think you also didn't mention there is only one conjugated tense. Spanish has 7 simple tenses, 7 compound, and 2 progressive. Add the fact that 72 percent of Spanish verbs are irregular and I'm getting my professor to sign my drop slip!

[@watermelon3679]

But at least in german and spanish u don't have to learn a different alphabet

[@SueEshelman]

​@@watermelon3679the alphabet is trivial to learn. About half a dozen letters look and sound like their English counterparts, half a dozen were borrowed directly from Greek so if you do a lot of math as I have you know those already, a few more look like latin letters but stand for different sounds, leaving only around a dozen to actually learn.

[@rodrigo_dmatoss]

Great insight. Thank you!

[@josequinton6940]

.....thank you! your breakdown reasoning is very motivating & inspiring for one to have a cornerstone of learning happy bear singing.........🎼🎵🎶

[@opschpiglung]

Various word order in Russian may have a slightly different meanings. Like you want to stress different parts of the sentence. "Я иду в кино" vs "Я в кино иду" are not 100% equivalent. Depending on the context these two may express different emotions. Or answer to different questions. Don't know how to explain it better. But difference is so tiny that I think learners don't even need to think about it at all unless they reach really advanced level.

[@nezhinkayash]

Hey, that was actually helpful. Thank you!

[@spacemayhem3]

I wanna say as a Russian person, it's true what you said about how Russian people react to foreighners speaking Russian language. Even the most distanced and socially awkward people would just melt away and you would see a genuine smile of captivation on their face if you started talking to them. I personally teach English and German in Russia but I'm also aware that most people don't know English either at all or they know it but can barely speak it and even if they do it is accompanied by many grammar and pronounciation mistakes. That's what I think is the main reason why most people here prefer speaking Russian with foreighners. And they are also open to learning something new as well. Good luck with your channel!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thank you for your comment. It's really interesting to compare the reactions from Russians when I speak Russian, vs the reaction of Dutch people when foreigners here try to speak Dutch.

[@LeendertCordemans]

Hoi, ik ben beginnend met het alfabet. Dit is allemaal begonnen met sovjet cameras verzamelen en nu met de taal. Ik heb me altijd aangetrokken tot dit land. Ook qua cultuur. Nu herken ik al de letters. Ook nwn ik bezig met de wetenschappelijke kant van de taal wn waarom, omdat dit heel vewl dingen verklaren. Mooie video. Prachtige motivatie.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

ja, het is echt een land dat mensen of aantrekt of bijna zelf een beetje bang maakt. Het alfabet is een begin, maar voor de meeste mensen lijkt het lastiger dan dat het is in werkelijkheid.

[@archienovels]

Hi, I am Russian and I’d like to adjust your second “thing” a bit. Despite we are flexible with a word order which can make you feel more confident, you don’t have to forget that we put the most important words in the beginning of the sentence. Though the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change, you can pick the gist and focus from the person you’re talking to, and understand what actually he wants to say. I hope my explanation was helpful, and anyway you did a great job, bro!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks for explaining! I'm indeed aware that word order does affect the meaning, and if I talk about the topic in a future video I'll likely add a short remark that while its generally very free, people can play around with word order)

[@archienovels]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage cheers, mate:))

[@You-youer]

Разве? Чёт никогда подобного не замечал. Особенно за собой. Я вообще привык как в письменной, так и в устной речи общаться «толстовскими» предложениями из миллиона предикативных частей, так что не понимаю в принципе, что за «наиболее важные» слова.

[@ЛиДжан-щ6ю]

​@@You-youerэто типа"Я пошёл в магаз" Самое важное слово Я?))

[@You-youer]

@@ЛиДжан-щ6ю Так это не ко мне вопрос, я как раз обратное написал. Это у автора ориг коммента есть какие-то «важные части в начала предложения»

[@briar7371]

the second one you mentioned makes learning the cases worth it

[@bedivierre]

3:00 "Я иду в кино", "Иду я в кино", "В кино я иду", "Я в кино иду" - literally every possible combination for "в кино" (in/to/into cinema), "я" (i/me), "иду" (going) is valid, BUT every case have it's own little accentuation or tone. For example: "Я иду в кино" - absolutely neutral and logically finished phrase, it means what it talks of. "Иду я (,значит,) в кино" - usually used as start of sentence or story. "Иду я в кино, вижу - дядя с пивом навстречу идет" - "I'm going to the cinema and see uncle with beer coming to me". It have a little sense for "Cool Story Bro" meme. "В кино я иду" have a bit of annoyed feeling. Usually this is something like answer for bothersome question - " - Куда ты собрался? - В кино я иду!" - "Where are you going? To the cinema!" "Я в кино иду" is more often used as casual answer to the question between acquaintances or when you in non-formal situation. And etcetera. This example is very, very easy, btw-)

[@getbrutal4388]

Dude I'm bilingual (English/French) in Montreal, Quebec. Mainly grew up English in English neighbourhoods. Whenever I want to speak French, even with co-workers, even if they are ALL FRENCH they will all switch within a few phrases into English. It really hinders my French practice, and I'm literally half French (father's side). Because of this I have missed out on a lot of cultural references, comedic beats, etc. It's really annoying. I'm learning Russian now online and I know some Russians who have promised to speak it with me luckily :)

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

That sounds horrible! Foreigners who want to speak Dutch have the same problem here in the Netherlands. But it surprises me to hear that it happens even in Canada to someone who is literally half French. But I'm sure you'll have a better experience with Russian ;)

[@Gosh100]

I heard your russian speach (i'm native) and i have to say- you just lingvo genius. Nobody can learn russian as fast as you. Thats all

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thank you!

[@SithLord2066]

Excellent advice at 11:08 --> in Russian if you just speak fast enough, you can make mistakes and no one will know.

[@nightfmare]

Твоё "Ы" - просто идеально! =) Артикли и порядок слов в английском язые доставляют очень много дискомфорта русским, изучающим английский язык. Articles and word order in English cause a lot of discomfort for Russian learners of English. Good luck!

[@julb4517]

Я уже просто смирилась, что артикли мне просто не понять )) но меня же без них поймут? ))) Еще кошмар русских - это не столько порядок слов, сколько 16 (!) времен английского, когда у нас их 3 (!) ))) Но тут я не понимаю иностранцев, как вообще можно знать, какой использовать глагол, если он в совершенном / несовершенном виде может быть вообще разными словами ?))))

[@ДолговаНаталья-г1ц]

It was interesting to hear all the reasons, thank you so much for listing them. As a Russian I can say that we do really appreciate people who learn our language. We are eager to show them around, help in everyday situations, talk about our history and culture, we are very welcoming to those who are interested in our country. And Russia is a traditional country so everyone sharing traditional values and caring about safe and healthy future of their children is very welcome! Lots of opportunities, clean and safe cities, no homeless or drug addicts on streets.

[@beautyanimal5769]

As a spa therapist in tourism industry, in Turkey I found myself in urge to learn many language❤❤

[@Hail2th3k1n6]

После изучает русского для два года. Я думаю это легче потом испанский и немецкий. Это очень круто!

[@Sweet-heart356]

Ты учишь русский?

[@bebilingualanguageclub]

Спасибо большое за видео! У Вас хорошее произношение, только в конце слово немного затрудняетесь, поэтому подтормаживаете (как бы спотыкаетесь) 🥰. Я преподаю русский англоговорящим иностранцам и русским детям. Я рада, что Вы отметили эти пункты, некоторые из них я всегда использую в качестве аргумента. У меня есть несколько пунктов, которые я бы хотела добавить к Вашему исследованию. Буду рада сделать совместный эфир.

[@Taichientaoyin]

I want to learn Russian and I am against all that hate towards the Russians.

[@ЛиДжан-щ6ю]

You are clever man.

[@nonnabagdasaryan199]

Ja Ari idd. Dat is zeer moeilijk...maar ik hou van Russische taal...ik zal elke dag oefennen. Dank je wel Ari. Bilo interesno.😊

[@holodilnick]

Всё по фактам разложил. 💪

[@tothandras8160]

yea, stressed/unstressed is the most difficult part of pronunciation. For grammar: Case system is also something you have to recitate and boring, but there are languages with more difficult case-systems, other parts are not that difficult.

[@Danknight403]

I think that latin system case is more difficult than russian system.

[@watermelon3679]

The different alphabet is also a big problem in russian

[@zpetar]

3:35 for that same reason it is hard for Slavic native speakers to learn how and when to use those articles. We simply don't have them. It is even harder because there is definitive rules how and when to use them. Like if I understood it correctly in some parts of US THE is used more often than in other.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

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[@MECHANISMUS]

In fact the pronunciation isn't fully as written, and one would sound strange pronouncing each letter precisely as is. But! There is no rule prohibiting doing so. :)

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

You're right that it's not a 100%. In the future I'll make a new version of this video and add a clarifier. But compared to a language like English, where every vowel has several unpredictable pronunciations, Russian is refreshing :)

[@alexandramccarthy4648]

I speak English well over 30 years fluently and professionally and I still mess those articles 😊 My son who grew up speaking English says I put articles where they aren't any and omit where there are. 😆

[@juliesharp5077]

I have studied many languages.Russian is difficult! Yes, there are the cases but also you need to know where the stress falls on a word.

[@ЛиДжан-щ6ю]

Это не так важно. Мы всё равно тебя поймем

[@NooneStaar]

I can just imagine your GF trying to speak dutch, they switch to English and she just immediately start speaking fast in Russian to utterly dumfound them lol.

[@519djw6]

*Я американец, а живу в Японии. Моя проблема в том, что среди русских, которых я знаю, они хотят практиковать свой английский со мной!*

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Да это проблема для носителей английского языка. Скажи им что ты рад им помочь, если они тебе помогают))

[@519djw6]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage Как по-русски "language exchange"?

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

@@519djw6 There is no direct translation that captures exactly what we mean in English, but the words "языковой обмен" comes close.

[@519djw6]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage Большое спасибо!

[@Paszvandouka]

Привет, 519DJW) Красивое американское имя! Напиши мне, если тебе нужно практиковать свой русский)

[@AnthonyLarnaudieAuteur]

Well at the end of the month of January i plan to move to Russia to live there... Alone. So it will be no choice 😁 I've little bases, and closeness to french language help. See you next week in your course 😉

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Hi Anthony! You'll have plenty of opportunities to speak Russian then. Wish you good luck learning the language :)

[@mikhailtrokhinin1168]

On the other hand. Russian word order becomes more important when you need express emotions. Something like: Наша Маша горько плачет (just statement) Плачет наша Маша горько!!! (emphasized phrase to express tragedy of the situation) Word endings become even more critical in the cases when something/someone is acting on other participant of the situation we're trying to describe. Пётр любит Лену (Peter loves Lena - not all the way around) Лену любит Пётр (same meaning with emotional flavor. It doesn't mean that Lena loves Peter) Лена любит Петра (Lena loves Peter) Question: what does this phrase mean: Петра любит Лена (?????????????) :o)

[@rafffization]

Плачет наша Маша, горько!!

[@LizafromWhere]

Sorry Russian is easy compared to Mandarin. After years of living in Mainland my Chinese is still bad. Yet Russian after 3 months you can read and write and understand a lot. Chinese makes you cry. So for me it is easy by comparison.

[@notpsiholog]

In 1 week I could already spell out and pronounce Russian words just by looking at them.

[@wesleyoverton1145]

It motivates me that many Russians do not speak English well. When I was learning Greek, they would always switch to English on me (I am now fluent and it still happens). I want to learn a European language that has people who don't know English well.

[@ЛиДжан-щ6ю]

Да, это мы :)

[@VladislavJavadov]

Making a Russian to speak English is like making an American to speak Russian.

[@LouisaMBchannel]

Talking more russian - people in russia will think you are russian. Russian society is comfortable to russian speaking foreigners because we do have dialets that simply sound like foreign accents, have difference more in sound then vocabulary. Thus, russians may ask you: if are you foreigner to make sure where you are from. Generally, each region of Russia has some light accent or when russian-speaking ukrainians or georgians, or polish etc speaks russian, they feel "not moscow accent", something like that.

[@molibimokhati258]

I started learning Russian 8 months ago but I'm still struggling even today...I don't know what is my problem because people I started with are doing very well...sometimes i spent the whole day in class and come out very confused. The teachers think I dont want to learn... I go to the street, parks and listen to people talk...but 😢 i tried quitting but i know I'm not a quiter...everybody thinks I'm dump...

[@noirgames7561]

11:42 и тут Питерские : паребрик . А Москвичи : бордюр . Подъезд - парадная . Бодлон - водолазка . Хабарик - окурок . Но в целом согласен , у нас с этим гораздо проще .

[@ЛиДжан-щ6ю]

В Новосибирске тоже поребрик

[@sergetumanyan1242]

As a native Russian speaker I have a question to you. How do you feel when found out that in Russian you are free to drop nearly everything in a sentence even out of context? For example you can drop a verb in some circumstaces and in some even a subject because the verb form points the subject meant. For example you can ask a first question in a talk: "сидишь?" and everybody understands that in fact you said: "are you sitting?" Just a matter of interest. And one correction in that you have said that written language is exactly the same as it is spoken. Some sounds differ a bit depending on there position in a word. For example most vocals go to only two when not stressed. And nearly all consanents go deaf at the end of a word without a vocal or before another deaf consonant though written voiced. For example you will pronounce снег as снек in Russian. And стафка instead of ставка.

[@ЛиДжан-щ6ю]

Что за странный вопрос "что вы почувствовали"...?

[@bkhkh7285]

All languages are hard to learn in general. As for the natives, they can spot you within a second that you are not native. Fun fact, friend of mine moved from Moscow to Ural and after few years i can say he has local accent) This sing-song intonations in the the end of a sentence)) Very notisable!

[@Visionery1]

12:41, what about when the 'e' is pronounced 'i', and the 'o' is pronounced 'a'? Unstressed vowels etc. Re English, do a search for The Chaos, to see just how difficult English must be for a foreigner.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

The Chaos is a great poem. You're right that there is some vowel reduction in Russian. The о/а thing is very annoying, but it's not 'wrong' per se (just a different 'dialect'). The best way to learn them is learn the stresses right away when you learn new vocabulary. About the reduction of the е to и: I've found that when you know where the stresses are, it happens pretty much automatically. Try saying п *а* мятник, and most people will see that they are inclined to say something closer to п *а* митник anyway.

[@Fgh-ij1sn]

One more thing that makes Russian easy -- there is no diphthong in it . Once you get alphabet you can correctly read just follow letters.

[@ИрисМожевальня]

"Тся" не сможешь. Меняется на "ца".

[@RavenNational]

Молодец парень, меня удивляют иностранцы, которые учат русский)

[@Re3Ns]

You can use any word order in English if you are master Yoda. If disagrees anyone, disrespect you I will.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

That's one way to look at it.

[@robofat]

Actually word order important in Russian. You can speak with random words order but it would sounds weird or even with slightly different expressions

[@andrewwalton9700]

Hello there , iv nearly always been pro Russia . I was for a long time marxist at heart , now i dont believe in any political system . To cut to the chase , im going to visit Russia in two years time ( Summer of 25 ) & i rearly want to learn some Russian . Studying alone im finding it so difficult , so im thinking of engaging the services of a Russian tutor . Do you think that this would make it a little easier ?

[@notpsiholog]

Good luck, wonder what Russia will be like in 2 years

[@lukebruce5234]

@@notpsiholog Euphoric after their victory in Ukraine.

[@ЛиДжан-щ6ю]

​@@lukebruce5234вряд-ли

[@StitcheryXPress]

"In the Socratic dialogue 'Republic', Plato famously wrote: “'Our need will be the real creator”' (Wikipedia.org, 2020) which was moulded over time into the English proverb 'Necessity is the mother of invention'".

[@verminspencer3053]

Very interesting, I find these to be convincing reasons to learn it. And I liked that you shared your personal experiences.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks for watching! If you're interested in Russian, why not try learning it for a couple of months, and see for yourself how it goes :)

[@plerpplerp5599]

Going shopping, or ordering a meal in a cafe is not the ideal situation to learn any language. People you meet are not there to make conversations and will switch to English in the hope that they can communicate quicker. By not switching to English yourself, but using your native language will give them no choice but to stay in their language. This only works if your native language is not English or you can switch to another language which they are guaranteed not to know. Or simply saying you don't speak English (which they may not believe).

[@CatmanBreeze]

I actually don't find about half of the case system horrendous to use the caste system is very straightforward. You used very specific forms and endings to talk about very specific things. I think verbs of motion and the prospective and imperfective are a lot harder than the case system in general I'm one of the things that's really helpful about Russian compared to most romance languages is they have one word that has multiple different meanings depending on the context of the sentence. In English and Spanish you have to learn endless vocabulary because almost every single word has less than three meanings. And the other thing I find really hopeful about Russian is you don't have to be paranoid about word order all the time

[@evgusk]

Being a native russian, I absolutelly agree! :)

[@양병학-e1e]

I am all into it every single day 4~5 hours long, but still hard bargain. No giving up at it though.

[@alexeig127]

what's your native language?

[@nezhinkayash]

Practice makes perfect👍

[@ItssMitch]

​@@alexeig127his channel name is korean so i would assume it's that

[@ellinpino]

Hey Ari, is there a way to get in touch with you?

[@nedvedmapa8512]

Great vid, but besides the changing of a and o like a dialect in Moscow on your Nr 10. I have to say take сегодня........pronounced with a w instead of g, surely less terrible than knowing when to write au or ou in Dutch but still there is a definite change in pronouncing there

[@Issachar-northern-kingdom]

I have to go on a trip to the caspian sea from san diego. I need to learn russian fast

[@gghice1]

July, 2021: russians are everywhere September, 2022: hold my beer..

[@JJSloan]

No, G is sometimes pronounced as V

[@givemeasugakooky400]

Your first point is a very huge deal. Actually, I'm familiar with hearing about the difficulty of being spoken to in the language of practice. Lots of people just keep on switching to speak only English.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

In Russia you need Russian. In the Netherlands you don't need Dutch. Guess where people have more motivation to learn the language? :)

[@user-July26]

Обожаю твой акцент Ари и на русском и на английском ❤

[@EnglishEZ]

Ари, ты крут! Взломал наш великий могучий, респект тебе, мои поздравления!