Is it worth learning the Russian language? | Interview with a polyglot

[@russianspeakingclub]

📌elinabakunova.com/russianclub - the link for joining our Russian Speaking Club! We hold it monthly, and this December we will have a Christmas edition club. Spend the holidays eve with us, and hope to see you in our classes soon! 🎄🎅

[@TravelingCitrianSnail]

Hopefully some time next Month I'll join; I Hope. 🙂

[@sebastiangonzalezgonzalez2183]

Yessss. Finally have my chance.

[@PodcastItaliano]

Thanks for having me, I had a lot of fun! До скорой!

[@busblu1475]

Ciao, Davide, fatti, non so se l'hai già fatto, un video sulle particelle che si mettono in finale frasi in italiano, come pure, e che cambiano il senso della frase. In spagnolo non c'è nulla di simile. Io ho parlato italiano con mia zia fino ai dodici anni, ecco, mio italiano da bambino non basta per reggere questa caratteristica dell'italiano.

[@nicols2446]

Ciao, tu sei Davide,Il ragazzo qui parla dal video ? O Mio Dio! OMG ., Gratulation..sei Tanti Bravo 👏🎉 bravisimmo..non so escribere Italiano..ma ii he imparato a parlare ascoltando Musica italiana,porque volebi parlare con una Amica italiana que io trovaba molto simpatica e gentile..grazzie por Il tuo consiglio per imparare la lingua Rusa..Tante auguri...sorry how I write Italiano,but I wanted to comunicate with you in your language... But I can only talk..You are very clever. I wanted to learn Russian at the school but now I'm giving up..[I will just lern myself and travel to Russian speaking countries.thats all at the moment..may later I will find a easy at not sooo expensive way to move to Russia some short time +visit a Russian language school and lern it RIGHT]

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

You are excellent

[@gabriellagirardi4741]

I completely agree with Davide. Learning foreign languages and also Russian is really very important. Different culture, languages...contribute to enrich our life. Thanks a lot for sharing this beautiful conversation.

[@jorgruthschilling]

C2 is definitely the level where you really know a language good enough to work in an demanding professional context. The Polish language shares a lot of vocabulary with Russian. To me the Russian language matters because there are a lot of engineering science books and DIY books, you will not find in English or French.

[@jorgruthschilling]

​@@gee8883 In the European Union the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ( CEFRL ) defines the Mastery Level C2 as follows: You can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. You can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. You can express yourself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations. We consider foreign students at the C2 level to be able to attend university courses in the foreign language that are intended for native speakers. IELTS is a very different test. The purpose of the IELTS is also little bit different in my personal opinion. You can still pass the Cambridge C2 Proficiency exam (CPE), which is more comparable with an original CEFRL C2 level.

[@gugulethukheswa4605]

Oh wow thank you for the Info about books

[@Gigusx]

Hey, do you mind sharing what engineering and DIY books did you have in mind? Interesting mention!

[@jorgruthschilling]

​​@@Gigusx The books I am most interested in have titles like "Математическое моделирование радиотехнических систем" ( "Mathematical modeling of radio systems" ), "Тайны музыки и математическое моделирование: Алгебра или гармония? Гармония и алгебра!" ("The mysteries of music and mathematics: Harmony or algebra? Harmony and algebra!"),... In Russia you also find DIY books on modern car repair.

[@Gigusx]

@@jorgruthschilling Thanks!

[@chriswatchingponies9877]

Btw. My girlfriend in the 90s was Romanian and she could understand Italian pretty well by nature. That's when i learned about the shared history between Romania and Italia.

[@annakrasnova2218]

What I admire most about this video is pronunciation! Your English and Davide’ English and Russian. That was a real pleasure to watch and listen, really! Thank you so much❤

[@eusebioalbertieri2248]

For italians living near by france, Russian is more important than english and franch itself, cause MONACO is THE BEST place to work, and a city full of russian people

[@marshal1808]

Nice interview, I noticed how hard Russian grammar can be. Overall I completely agree the more languages you learn the richer you get culturally. Your Russian speaking club is one of the best places to start learning, I started with Rosetta Stone, and it wasn’t as complete of an experience as the speaking club was. I love Russian culture and history which really motivated me to learn Russian, although I am still at the very basic level for now 😅. Keep up the good work Eli, you are an inspiration ❤. Thanks 😊

[@andreaciampi9394]

I've been learning Russian for seven years now, my one advice for learning the most beautiful language in the world (in my opinion) is non stop practice a bit like going to the gym, especially if you don't live in Russia.

[@dimmacommunication]

Mi fa piacere vedere che Eli include sempre noi Italiani :)

[@jordyhanners4000]

I like this type of interview. It's not too long like a podcast. It is to the point and engaging. Молодец! 😁

[@atuego]

Fichissimo! Mi fa un gran piacere sapere che Davide parla russo, anzi parla molto bene🙂Seguo il suo videoblog da un certo tempo.

[@gehdochnicht]

For anyone who likes languages or working internationally knowing a Slavic language is essential and from all of them obviously Russian is the most useful one and not the hardest one. I was always between Russian and Polish because I have many friends speaking both, in the end I chose Russian and never looked back. And I also love how knowing Russian as enabled me to understand Polish a lot more too.

[@Србомбоница86]

Nah ,Serbian is superior in every way ,Russian sucks lol,but it's more necessary sadly 😢

[@oldragon666]

Interesting, very helpful. Thank you both!

[@lucyfromsiberia]

This guy has a great pronunciation in Russian. I am delighted!

[@Helga2408]

Thanks for the nice interview! Haha, Davide, you like Russian swear words, untranslatable Russian folklor! Greetings from a Bulgarian polyglot.

[@chriswatchingponies9877]

In my untrained ears, he just sounds like any Russian guy. But his English is also pretty perfect. Chapeau, linguistic genius !

[@susanasanchis9816]

04:30 This saying is between Spanish and Portuguese. (Italian and Spanish mutual comprehension is simetrical) Spanish has a very simple vowel system (like Italian does) but Portuguese vowel system is a complex nightmare. Portuguese speakers can understand spoken Spanish but that isn't true in the oposite direction.

[@critterhighland8427]

Great interview. A lot of good advice I will follow.

[@passport_light]

Rusian is my favorite language after Spanish i really wanna learn Russian it's sounds nice

[@matt684]

I have recently hired a Russian native speaker on preply to learn Russian. I found apps like Rosetta stone and babel to help and give me basic understanding in the beginning. But I'm a serious learner so a tutor is needed because let's be frank at 41 it's harder for me to retain. I enjoyed your video with both of you talking about everything.

[@estebanspeyer8598]

Muy lindo video ... llevo año y medio cada día con ruso...recién empiezo....cada día....

[@DM-wv6to]

Very interesting video. I started learning last January and it is very much the challenge, even though I speak another 4 languages and my native one is Greek. I listen to a lot of Russian pop music to get used to the sounds and pronunciation. The hardest part is to retain vocabulary, as there is nothing to compare it to. I definitely feel it's worth learning, it's a beautiful language,

[@dimmacommunication]

I am Italian and a German guy spoke to me in Spanish cause he didn't knew Italian and we understood each other :)

[@pgspat1]

Thanks for this interesting interview - I am in awe of both of you. I just know a couple of Russian words, Yes, No, Hello, Goodbye, Thank you. My one tip for English speaker to learn how to say "Thank you" in Russian is to think of a medical placebo - pill with no drug in it. Just change the o to an a sound. Knowing how to say thank you in a language is always appreciated if you travel there.

[@ugiswrong]

Learn excuse me, it’s iz -vee-NEE-tyah

[@namebit40j4]

Davide is becoming famous and he deserve it

[@AJIN0071981]

Of course. It is worth studying Russian Language (No advertisement needed).. It is essential for a person who wants to excel.

[@estrafalario5612]

3:50 generally speaking, it's the opposite. If they are people with 0 previous experience with each other language, the Italians don't t get the words and pronunciation that are part of the perifery. For those from Spain, France, Portugal or Romania is different, as we almost always have cognates to our words or high culture terms coming from latin that we don't use that much but we know and help us understanding Italian. At least that's what I saw when studying in Italy, as the vast majority of Erasmus students from Spain, France and Portugal had near to zero experience but could guess a lot since day 1.

[@estrafalario5612]

I mean, - the clear cognates work in both directions, so "casa" being the same in Spanish and Italian helps both, and also with those only similar, like vecchio/viejo, puerta/porta or mayor/maggiore. - the key is in the really different words like mesa/tavolo. The Italian would think of a mess, a religious service. The Spaniard would think of a table...

[@RiccardoArduino]

My children are Russian and Italian mother-tongue :) But at home we usually speak (at least) 3 languages ... my big problem is that I am able to understand Russian but not able to speak, well making complex sentences ... seems a bit strange but it is. So I should start to learn 'seriously' Russian (at least to interact with relatives). On the other side knowing two latin languages I think makes it easy to learn the others ... (I fluently speak French and had no problem to learn the others, starting with Romanian while working in Bucharest). My boss spoke 7 languages (!!!) in 3 main domains (German, Latin, Slavonic).

[@LuneFlaneuse]

I am learning italian and David’s channel is also brilliant. Keep up your great work Eli 🥳 thanks for the video 🌸 PS: I wonder how difficult it would be to read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Russian? 😅 beautiful literature indeed

[@ТатьянаПриходько-р2н]

The Russian language has changed. So some times it is difficult to read Tolstoy and Dostoevskiy even for native speakers))))

[@lucyfromsiberia]

Russian Russian As a native speaker, I can say that Dostoevsky is more difficult to read in Russian than in English. In the English translation, Dostoevsky's text is simpler.

[@denisemeredith2436]

This was an interesting video. Long ago, at High School at age 13, I wanted to learn Russian but was shoved into a German class instead because only 3 students opted to learn Russian. I have made up for it now because I have been using Duolingo to learn and have been doing a daily lesson for 247 days. I want to read Chekov in Russian because his stories might make more sense to me. I find Russian nigh on impossible to write but reading and listening to it is not so bad and I am starting to understand more. At somepoint I will go to the Brasshouse Centre here in Birmingham UK where I can further my education in Russian and take exams.

[@lucyfromsiberia]

Chekhov is beautiful. For the sake of his stories, you can also learn Russian. There are a lot of Chekhov's audiobooks on KZbin. I love listening to Chekhov and Kuprin.

[@davemackenzie8343]

Great interview Eli! Very impressive polyglot! I totally agreed with his advice on learning Russian. Don't let the grammar overwhelm and discourage you! Focus on building vocabulary and speaking practice in the beginning. Unfortunately, too many Russian teachers are too grammar heavy at A1 and A2 and many students say хватит!

[@legendcoding]

Mem Can you please make more videos with this guy on Russian and simple english conversation, and i really enjoy Italian & Russian common words if possible please find out more 😊. Thank you, 🎉 Best wishes from india for your channel.

[@raireva4689]

Amazing guy!

[@kitty5000]

Listening to him speak English, it's easy to forget he's Italian! It's super impressive. I've been telling people that the cyrillic alphabet is really easy to learn because it's the first thing they ask about when I say I'm learning Russian and it's true that it's not the biggest obstacle. But yeah I guess it does slow me down when reading, as opposed to learning a language with the Latin alphabet, I never really thought about it until Davide mentioned it.

[@Mia-de8xf]

È Davide, il migliore insegnante della lingua italiana. Un ragazzo molto in gamba :)

[@jabrilbalakrishna]

I speak 7 languages and 4 of them at a "bilingual" level. A cool perk is being able to understand, at least to some degree, almost all European languages (mostly in written form). Davide speaks an impressive kind of Russian btw. One correction: there is actually A TON of basic slavic vocabulary strongly related (not loanwords) to both romance, but especially germanic languages. So they are strongly related once you notice the patterns at least. The grammar overlap is also obviously huge.

[@АлексейШишканов-г7ж]

Interesting person. I didn't notice errors. From the start he easily used a passive voice. His cool)) красавчик))

[@moonlambo5229]

Wow this guy sounds like a native english speaker.

[@MichaelStewartArt]

Not really, only some words he sounds very native but mostly it’s easy to tell he has an accent and improper grammar at times. But he’s still pretty good at his endeavors

[@nicols2446]

I would say.. I was in Moscow in a hostel [ only Russian guest and me]once I forgot something in my room,so I toke it,and when I wanted to go : all the girls called me back, and told me : that I should look myself in to the mirror !!( Because I forgot and came back))..when you lern Russian language you become more clever, ( intelligent)because you need to think a lot, Russian language got A LOT of very similar words [ девушка дедушка ,бабуша, бабочка 🦋] and some words sound same ,looks same and are different [ есть ]meanings..you need to HEARD good and Think longer before you speak.[брать Врать, Bрат ?] the grammar ( omg I don't know ) and write cursive..OMG this boy in video iis very clever.

[@OShaughnessyC]

Davide's English is amazing!

[@alanfox4914]

Hi Eli from Russ I would love to learn Russian language. I think I should learn my own countries languages first. We have 5 or more different languages in my country the UK. Loving what you do Eli🥰🥰🥰

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

Wonderful video

[@scottsuttan2123]

Спасибо another helpful but of info

[@Kinotaurus]

I'd say Davide is a high B2 / low C1 now. He may have been higher before. BTW I follow his "Podcast Italiano".

[@FionaSpeaks]

Wooow! I follow his channel because I speak italian and I did not know he speaks russian too ( I have been learning russian for 3 years) Parlo 6 lingue ma ancora studio russo e tedesco. Потому что русский и немецкий учить трудно. Danke fur dieses video! Sprachen gefallen mir sehr gut. Beijos de Buenos Aires ❤

[@pile333]

NIce collab!

[@LuKaspuzz]

As a Brazilian that also study russian I forgot some word in Russian and I forgot how to read but I think is not a hard language to learn .

[@csc115]

His English is really good, no accent. Could pass for USA. Does he speak all languages with no accent (You mentioned his Russian sounded native...)

[@Mr.Handsome]

Yes, he has no accent, unlike to this girl

[@saem_rg]

i wish learning to read cyrillic was the hardest part of studying Russian 😂😂 like Davide pointed out, it's something you learn in a week or two, the real problems come afterwards 😂

[@andrewshepitko6354]

I speak 5 languages: Ukrainian, French, English, Polish, Russian. And I learn 5 languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Czech, German.

[@NoMady688]

7:49 Ele é muito parecido comigo. Uma vez o meu tshirt queria uma redação em inglês sobre qualquer assunto... nesse caso EU não escrevi redação nenhuma se ele quiser ele que escreva e me dê a redação que eu leio, então no dia meu tshirt passou pela classe e disse quero ver o que vocês têm a apresentar, eu conversei com uma amiga minha "e agora o que eu faço? " Ela tinha escrito 3 redações e me deu uma redação dela. Eu fui a frente da classe e comecei a ler a redação. Meu tshirt me deu uma nota melhor do que a da própria menina que tinha escrito as 3 redações e eu fiquei pensando "meu tshirt tá me ajudando... isso não é normal" 😂😂😂

[@RifetOkic]

Can you add the song/s played ? Thanks allot in advance ! Good taste !

[@OShaughnessyC]

Very interesting interview!

[@moonlambo5229]

Hey I have that mic! Samson Meteor.

[@ChristoffHavenga]

Learning other languages, break down barriers. (...I realized I made a typo and had to correct it. We learn every day 🤣)

[@Kinotaurus]

Why does he say that Italian doesn't have the hard "l"? What about "stella"?

[@jesina_waldemarina]

I asked "Mamuschka" or "Mutti" in "eastgerman" language, who learned Russian as her first language back in GDR about that issue. She had less problems with it than with English. So it shouldn't be a big problem for me and she seems to be right. BUT I'm afraid to say, that we are shurely not "average people" and so one shouldn't give to much on my comment as an orientation🙁

[@eimisavageofficial9196]

I like eli muah I'm interested

[@markjohnson8983]

Love your beautiful language, love your culture and the Russian people!💕🇷🇺💕

[@ingvarahlekristenssen6721]

Well, Elina I am not learning Russi, for the simple reason that I am trying to learn Italian. That s a bit tricky, but I will manage. And about Russia, we need you, only the stupid politicians needs to get out of their mass psychosis. And behave like adults, and forget this insane inclusing madness. Keep it going I like you a several more Russian.

[@WhitRose97]

Does anyone know who his friend is that teaches Italian to Russians? I like language stacking so this was interesting to me.

[@shayamkhan4272]

We also call Ananas Hindi and Urdu mean pineapple 🍍

[@abhamidhamzah2239]

Love ur channel.im fr Malaysia.have u ever come to asia.

[@namor637]

Richer and it changes your character, makes you open minded, because you gain the ability to put things in perspective. На русском говорят - он упрям как баран! Но такой человек скорее захочет скрутить кого-либо в бараний рог - Someone who is interested and has gone through the pains and pleasures of learning, understanding and assimilating a new language and culture -especially a very different one…..will likely be more interested in understanding than forcing the other

[@7tv276]

i'm a Korean polyglot!! 안녕!!

[@relaxedmuffin3666]

I've been learning Russian for 5 weeks 😎 I'm almost an expert 🤷‍♂️

[@slimytoad1447]

Eli many europeans,english also support Russia

[@alessiosem2238]

As i said in my comment. Millions of people know that the real evil are us and their puppet zelensky. Russian president did what he had to protect their nation. They had us tratening them since 1990 when NATO start to absorb all the countries at the russian borders and put there missiles everywhere towards Russia: Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Hungary and now also in Ukraine. Us is the threat to the world, we seen it in south america, we seen it in vietnam, korea, iraq, afghanista, libya, ukraine (since 2014), korea again and now taiwan.

[@NoMady688]

O que ele está tentando dizer sobre enriquecer? É que quando aceitamos o desafio de aprender um novo idioma, nós encontramos palavras com um som totalmente diferente e seja qual for a forma que você deseja se "infiltrar" no dialeto se torna ainda mais lindo. Quando eu comecei a ler inglês eu não lia jornais, mas após eu começar a buscar novas palavras o jornal foi o meu fascínio, palavras diferentes modos diferentes de serem usadas, mas eu não me perdi nisso, nesse aspecto de aprender um idioma você tem que se livrar da ideia que irá se tornar mais "fluente" só porque ler jornal... pense mais no fato de ele ser informativo e você possa se aproximar mais da cultura... caso não goste de jornal até mesmo as piadas se tornam um bom instrumento para se naturalizar nesse novo idioma, não piadas " sem graça" (piadas feita só para o povo deles) Exemplo piada de bonnie and clyde para aprender mais sobre o idioma e ter interesse de ler a história de bonnie and clyde, você precisa de tempo pra fazer isso. Mas se torna incrível quando você não se esforça tanto para chegar ao topo.

[@ugiswrong]

Worth it to go fight for glory

[@whukriede]

Thumbs up, great and excellent!

[@greatestytcommentator]

I think travel to Russia will be resolved before the average person has learned the language?

[@ziani3683]

Great talk

[@Helga2408]

I'm a Bulgarian polyglot so you can interview me if you want. I have a KZbin channel where I publish music and videos about languages.

[@TravelingCitrianSnail]

Cool. And - *of course* Russian is worth learning! The Russian Culture, is *the* Greatest in Europe, if not the World, *plus* politically speaking, it *is* the Language of the Good guys (as any *decent* person shall obviously agree). I do Hope to someday reach the C2 level... for the moment, I doubt I'm even B1; more likely A2.

[@greatestytcommentator]

Same here... A tutor is important but immersing yourself in conversation with native speakers is golden.

[@nicols2446]

Did he says: Guuet? I'm now in Switzerland..hier everyone speaks minimal 2 Language...some people speaks 4 Language PERFEKT!..and this people most just works in a simple store! I know about a Colombian girl,born in colombia [ perfekt spanish] she was adopted from a Italian couple,[perfekt italian Language]she grow up in Fribourg switzerland,this city is, like many hier in Swiss ,they got official 2 Language..billingue [ German and French] and she speak even english!she simply works in a supermarket! Portuguese is not,so easy to speak,and yes, they got similar words like Spanish..but is dangerous ,to think, Only because the words sounds similar ,that they have same meaning..most of cases are different significance JEJE.. Portuguese seems more like Russian some pronunciation.,not really like Spanish \talian. French is another thing..I can speak French but: NO WAY I TRY TO WRITE.IT!.Russian Language is easyer to write (a Text, by hearing) than ITALIAN AND FRENCH..I don't want to learn to write In this language. [ think if I would I easyer prefer to do 3 marathons in a week than write french ].Italian is very hard to write,but french.. omg...no way . Arabic language is VEEERY HARD TOO because is like mathematics[algebra] and pronunciation is hard..but once in my life, I will learn GOOD arabic and Good Russian..because this language are beautiful ❤️💕❤️ Russian sound like love to me and arabic looks like love, art and sound magical [ Turkish tooo I love hearing the music Play] ok...I Suppose ..I LOVE LANGUAGE!...because I like to travel and so I can meet differens cultures with respect!

[@deepmind591]

Where is your Instagram

[@chiaral8516]

What is the Russian term he used for Russian curse words? I tried to look it up with no luck. Sounded like мать????

[@jabrilbalakrishna]

It's called мат

[@MrMysvulner]

It spells a bit different - мат. It is closely connected with word "мать" in many ways.

[@chiaral8516]

@@MrMysvulner спасибо)

[@chiaral8516]

@@jabrilbalakrishna спасибо)

[@chiaral8516]

I found this ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Русский_мат

[@111_gagan]

I want to learn russian bcoz you are beautiful.

[@EluGupta]

❤🎉😊❤ilu❤🎆🎆🛕🎆🎆🌹🌹🌷🌈🙏💕❤

[@rafaelgoncalvesdias7459]

I wish I had more discipline to learn Russian

[@alessiosem2238]

Russia is one of the most beautiful country in the world, the history, the scientists, the arts like Bol'šoj, their people, everything is overwhelming beautiful there. The fact that ther is a war right now is not because of Russia but because of US that using NATO as their hammer starting from 1990 they began to absorb all the countries bordering russia and the last piece was missing which was ukraine which your president rightly and courageously opposed to protect you. The same thing happened when the Cuban crisis occurred in 1963 and the United States threatened thermonuclear war if the Russian missiles were not removed from Cuba. Russia, on the other hand, has tolerated for decades that the Americans plant missiles in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Hungary and now also in Ukraine. You are on the side of reason as all the peoples of the world know, only the governments side with the USA because of subjection because they actually conquered Europe at the end of the Second World War and we are all their colonies. A hug to you and all the Russians, if it were possible tomorrow the vast majority of European populations would move to Russia and leave Europe available to the African peoples as well as the powerful of the world want like schwab, soros, etc. while you are live freely and quietly. народы мира любят тебя.

[@ya.vlady_slava]

The history - invasions and imperialism, the science - abusing clever minds of colonized people and making everyone believe that all of those inventors were Russian, the art - the same. The US definitely has its interest, I won't argue with that. But the war is happening not because of NATO but because of Russian invasive nature. Such a big country can't survive with expending its territory. But empires fall and this one will do to. Think about it, Russia has tried to make Ukraine its slavor for centuries. And back then there wasn't NATO, there wasn't even the US at the time. And all this propaganda bulshit abou NATO being a thread, preventative measures and blabla is just... Well, bulshit. Why do you think Baltic countries are happy to be a part of NATO? Because they were once also occupied by Russia and they want to feel protected. And we Ukrainians want it to

[@lucyfromsiberia]

Thanks for the hug.

[@lucyfromsiberia]

@@ya.vlady_slava You listen less to Ukrainian propaganda.

[@slowukrainian]

David is a great Italian teacher. I like his podcast and channel. maybe after Russian he will decide to learn Ukrainian.

[@queenvictoria7068]

The guest is so shy to speak idk why

[@avelinotiroljr.5753]

it"s good to know different kind of languages but russian maybe skeptical because of the current events going on ,.

[@whukriede]

Please educate yourself. There seems be a lot a room for improvement.

[@haroonmarikar]

Whether it is 1 percent who believe in russian propoganda or 99 percent i learn russian to speak to those who are not under propaganda ( similar to nazis same mindset ) . Russian language and music is beautiful and there will be a time when the propagandists will be a minority like modern germany . Fans what is your opinion ? I restarted russian after many months . why hate the language when many in russia believe in the craziness of a crazy dictator :) I have to speak to those that left

[@alfonsohshk8998]

I got married with a German lady and I learnt German. I have French relatives and I learned French. I had a Brazilian girlfriend and I learnt Portuguese. I keep regular contact with all the above people, lot of empathy and love. I also got married with a Russian lady. I did not learn any Russian and we stopped any contact possible. No empathy, no heart.

[@circus3422]

yes it is worth learning. so western men get with Russian women more easily.

[@3times_mom]

it's not worth it. There is nothing in Russian that cannot be found in other languages.

[@АнтонАнтошин-г1й]

You do not know enough about culture in Russian if you say these words.

[@3times_mom]

@@АнтонАнтошин-г1й I know enough as a native speaker. Know enough to ensure that so-called “greatness” and superiority over the rest of the world is a mere brag and narcissism.

[@АнтонАнтошин-г1й]

@@3times_mom я тоже носитель. И никак не мог подумать, что Вы носитель, раз говорите такое. Вы сказали, что на русском языке нет ничего, что нельзя найти на другом языке. Это абсолютно не так, как я считаю. По крайней мере я ещё не нашёл. И логика подсказывает, что не найду: поэзия - не переводима, проза - её тоже не перевести. К кульурам на других языках это тоже относится. И в этом нету ничего нарцистического, как и нету превосходства над другими.

[@3times_mom]

@@АнтонАнтошин-г1й Is poetry in any other language fully translatable? Doubt it. There is no 100% accurate translation or interpretation. Novelistic literature, on the other hand, is all about either being unrealistic, weak, dreamy, playing the victim or being a victim, or becoming an oppressor. Historical fiction is biased, kid's literature - stolen, as well as good songs. Lermontov better than Byron? Doubt it. Cashtanka more teaching than the Lord of the Flies? Seriously?

[@ivanovichdelfin8797]

¿dices eso del ruso siendo hablante nativa de inglés? Lo siento, pero no creo que eso tenga razonamiento alguno. Los hablantes de inglés son los primeros que tienen un aire de superioridad. ¿Por qué hay más gente que aprende inglés en México que español en Estados Unidos, cuando hay un 20% de hablantes nativos de español en el país (Estados Unidos), es un idioma importante y era el idioma dominante en la mayoría del territorio hasta la caída del imperio español? Parece haber una resistencia por parte de los políticos de los países angloparlantes a enseñar otros idiomas en las escuelas. Como si el inglés fuera más importante que el resto de idiomas...

[@mareka3740]

Russian is a language of imperialism, brutality, terror. Fortunately it is a fast declining language as Russia faces an unprecedented demographic disaster and more importantly all countries of the former Soviet Union turn to their native languages and even switch to Latin alphabet (as Kazakhstan). As the result of Russian aggression it is believed that within the next 20-30 years in Ukraine Russian will become as "exotic" as for instance nowadays Portuguese. Moreover according to various estimates by the year 2100 no more than 50 million people will speak Russian worldwide.

[@jacopofolin6400]

Bru Is not the language the problem but the political structure and in part the culture

[@aleksandarstavric2226]

@@jacopofolin6400 "part the culture"...like , you in the west are all sweethearts ???

[@jacopofolin6400]

@@aleksandarstavric2226 not at all, but even the worse of the democracy Is Better of the best dictatorships

[@luckyluckydog123]

@@jacopofolin6400 True: languages in themselves (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation...) are neutral. And in any case, as Davide rightly said, Russian does not belong to putin and his people. It belongs to no-one. Nevertheless, it is russia that has weaponised the language and is using it for its abject propaganda, so it's only natural that people are inclined to move away from it.

[@rshirkhanov]

Your argument has no sense, because with varying degree we can say so about many other nations and languages, for example: Chinese, Turkish, Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, and even (especially) about English. So don't forget that in every country you can find both good and bad people. Good luck to you!

[@русскийпартизан-ь6п]

You can better send money to Ukraine.

[@mubeenmoydien3941]

There is no difficulty for myself to travel to Russia 🤍💙❤

[@asadbusiness8285]

do you have discord