I Learned Russian for 9 Years, Was it Worth it?

I have been learning Russian for almost 9 years, now let's talk about how it impacted my life and answer the most important question: was it worth it?
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[@LanguageSimp]

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[@PolyglotCorner]

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[@WritingCountingOriginal]

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[@todesque]

Celebrity sighting!

[@harshitkumar-sh5ti]

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[@SimplySage854]

I’m studying Russian now, I’m blessed that my local college offers it

[@todesque]

Excellent video! American here who's been self-studying Russian for 4.5 years. Agree with all of your points. In the past 6 months I've reached the stage where I can read some Tolstoy, Chekhov as well as Svetlana Alexievich's books. Would love to hear your music choices. Luna and Aigel are the two artists I've really fallen in love with. Here are some additional reasons why I feel learning Russian is very rewarding: 1.) Tons of user comments online (KZbin and Instagram) are written in Russian. I get a kick out of being able to read them. 2.) Russian women are frequently very feminine. I'm happily married to a beautiful Western woman but it doesn't stop me from admiring these exotic creatures from afar. 3.) Russian photographers are amongst the best in the world. I follow many of their accounts. 4.) Russian humor is very funny and bawdy. Some excellent Russian accounts out there make me laugh daily. 5.) Someone described learning Russian as ''Crossfit for the mind.'' That's 100% correct. The mental stimulation I get from reading Russian is off the charts. As well as the sense of satisfaction. 6.) You get a lot of respect from friends and acquaintances when they hear you know Russian. You will be regarded as being somewhat eccentric, but it's probably true. So own it. 7.) If you're a WWII buff, Russian is an excellent language to know. 8.) The case system opens your mind to a whole new way of thinking. 9.) With tensions running high in the world, it can't hurt to have more Westerners speaking Russian.

[@ДмитрийШайтура]

Из литературы попробуйте еще советскую почитать, например Ильфа и Петрова (Двенадцать стульев, Золотой теленок, одноэтажная Америка), книгу Два Капитана, творчество Стругацких и Крапивина.

[@todesque]

@@ДмитрийШайтура Thank you for the suggestions!

[@lifeofyama]

I've been studying Russian for 100 years, guys it's not worth it. Go learn Uzbek instead!

[@Ariale618]

We got all the Russian KZbinrs here 💀

[@ramondossantos6966]

Hi, Dude. I'm learning English currently (i'm brazilian), then the algorithm recomended your video. You speak very well. Russian seems for me a language unreachable

[@PolyglotCorner]

Looks like the algorithm is doing something right🫡 Don’t be intimidated, all things worth doing are difficult at first!

[@harshitkumar-sh5ti]

Yes please make a video about case system I am learning russian by two books one is russian course by nicholas j brown and another one I got today is barrons 501 verbs and it's a difficult language!

[@F4ZER_EDITS]

Make sure to learn russian using other methods aswell like watching youtube videos in russian or reading childrens books in russian so that you can apply what you learn in the books

[@todesque]

Brown's book is horrific. Avoid like the plague!

[@harshitkumar-sh5ti]

@@F4ZER_EDITS yes my dear sire thanks I don't have many to buy books right now but I am practicing listening on KZbin

[@harshitkumar-sh5ti]

@@todesque why?

[@todesque]

@@harshitkumar-sh5ti Because it's incredibly boring.

[@Asoot7227]

Красавчик!

[@pudgeyboizzz]

debating between arabic and russian a army recruiter said that linguists most wanted russian or arabic speakers what do you think?

[@darthjarjarbinks2480]

Arabic is gona be more relevent for longer since taht war is probaly gona go on longer

[@PolyglotCorner]

Russian - but I am 100% biased lol

[@pudgeyboizzz]

@@PolyglotCornerlol im leaning towards it too whats the best way i should learn it without spending money

[@tompeled6193]

Arabic is a family of languages, not a language. For Arabic, you will need to learn al-Fusha for formal purposes and a dialect for informal purposes.

[@tompeled6193]

​@@pudgeyboizzzDuolingo. I learned Russian mainly through that.

[@Nikolai.A.McGuire]

For anyone learning Russian, AJATT, I understand if you don't want to do AJATT, but holy crap does it make understand grammar so much more intuitive and easy, cause when I'm reading a grammar book it just feels like finishing a puzzle you already know the answer to but don't quite know it, and plus it is CAKES trying to understand the grammar without immersing, like it just sucks.

[@Tomas-ml9nv]

How long have you been doing ajatt in russian? Do you count hours ? my Current plan is grind grammar with anki and learn most frequent words with anki then move on the reading listening when I know enough planning to go to a russian speaking country in 5 months may try ajatt(russian) leading up to bit not sure how effective it would be now

[@Nikolai.A.McGuire]

@@Tomas-ml9nv I've been doing it for a month shy of a year, Don't track my hours, I just started getting input as soon as possible, CI if you want it to be understandable but not as engaging (or you get engaged by understanding things) or what I did which is just sentence mine with native content and choosing some media to rewatch a bunch of times, AJATT does have a silent period granted of 6 months, a year, or 2 years, I would say just do it, even though it sucks not understanding stuff, but man am I not happy I just took the jump and started input as early as I did

[@Nikolai.A.McGuire]

@@Tomas-ml9nv Btw don't study grammar, theres no point if you're a beginner, the most you should do is a grammar overview because all of your problems at the start is Not understanding because they speak fast, the second is vocabulary, and that one is going to be for a long time, I would recommend putting grammar off up in till like 6 months, and even then the most I would recommend is to look at a certain grammar point and then look out for it while you're getting input in Russian.

[@voda2023]

Иц а гуд лэнгуидж

[@artistgoya4716]

Dear Ayan you've gained great success in russian! 🙂 But what's happened with your friend Antothony American? He has recently returned from Moscow and content of his video changed radically. He sounds like a russian propagandist and seems to be hired. We hope you aren't gonna take this way.

[@PolyglotCorner]

Not a chance🫡

[@John-rc1vd]

Охуенный видос брат) да стоит выучить язык