Why is Russian so hard to learn? (My experience)

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"Russian is so difficult"
Is a common complain about Russian.
And I won't lie:
Russian isn't the easiest language in the world to learn if you speak English.
So why is it hard?
I think there are about 5 main things that are tough.
Watch the video to learn:
- What the 5 things are that I found most difficult to learn
- How I approached them so that now I'm fluent in Russian
- What I recommend you do to master them too
Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments!

[@WorkSmartAndHard]

I'm Russian. Why did I just watch a 10 minute video of how to speak my own language?

[@Belomor2Kanal]

Потому что мужик исполнил при тебе сложнейшие трюки. А это очаровывает.

[@oofedguest2155]

это видео о трудностях русского языка, а не о том, как разговаривать на нем

[@Ur_Quan]

I suppose, it's the same reason people look at themselves in the mirror. It's often interesting how do you look (or in this case, sound) to other people.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

A little bit of self reflection won't hurt nobody

[@AndreiBerezin]

@LearntheRussianLanguage won't hurt nobody? Double negative, now that's gangsta!))) Either you borrowed it from AAVE, or, surprise! Russian language!

[@Dmitriy_Obuhov]

As a Russian speaker I really like how precisely and deeply the author described the main challenges in Russian. Definitely I would recommend this video to all Russian learners

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks, happy to hear that!

[@user-oi3vx2ul1f]

As a Ukrainian speaker, I really can say you better don't learn russian. Because Ukrainian was used to create russian and russian has not enough words and logic. This is why that "esperanto" looks so difficult. They can't decide how will be "familia" in russian. They are chauvinists and this is why they lose.

[@AndreiBerezin]

Sheeeit, I would recommend this video to any RUSSIAN

[@AndreiBerezin]

@@user-oi3vx2ul1f ваше националистское словоблудие здесь неуместно, да и реплика ваша полна вранья

[@user-oi3vx2ul1f]

@@AndreiBerezin Zwiebel Цибуля Ciboulette #лук «Российская грамматика» - одна из первых работ по российской грамматике, составленная в 1755 году М. В. Ломоносовым на основе более чем 10 лет систематизированного исследования значительного объема языкового материала ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Российская_грамматика

[@maxtalin5174]

I've been using English at work as I'm a developer in UK company. Но мой родной язык русский. И каждый раз, когда меня начинают бесить фразовые глаголы, артикли, perfect tenses, conditional sentences, I start watching videos where foreigners explain how and why Russian is so difficult to learn. И сразу на душе спокойно 😅

[@Lavr82.]

спокойно от того что английский типа легче или что?

[@Stigmith]

Ну, у русских тоже проблемы при изучении английского. Практически зеркальная ситуация. По себе могу сказать что я до сих пор не понимаю seen и saw, и использую их по настроению. Так же You and me и You and I заставляли проморгаться. Поэтому можно утешать коллег с тем что переучиться найти склонение каждому слову, тоже было не просто.

[@maxtalin5174]

Просто понимаешь, что русский гораздо сложнее и не очевидней чем тот же английский. Так что хорошо, что он нам по наследству достался.

[@noakly578]

@@Stigmith seen -v3 saw- v2 вроде ничего сложного

[@ichernichenko]

​@@Lavr82.Нет, ему становится на душе лучше зная что другие страдают как он когда учять русский.

[@okosmose]

Как русскоговорящий могу сказать, что ваша речь очень впечатляет, реально лучший акцент и произношение из всех блогеров кто учит русский!

[@ID-gu3oi]

Я тоже офигел, видимо у его родного языка есть похожие звуки или что то такое

[@ugusta8001]

​@@ID-gu3oiон голландец и девушка у него русская😊

[@vb9075]

😂😂😂

[@vb9075]

Тогда у пацана ментальность русская 😂 Девочка молодец, надеюсь она ему не запрещают экспрессивно высказываться

[@justyourfriendlyneighborho903]

Тоже заметил что очень хорошо звучит, и ещё не заметил ошыбок с грамматикой. Обычно иностранцы даже если хорошо говорят, всё равно делают ошибки с окончяниями слов, а у него вообще не заметил.

[@eugenewhiting8928]

"Никто никому ничего не должен". There are four negations in the sentence! It seems to be very awkward for native English speakers.😂❤ Thank you for making me look at my language from the outside!

[@watchmakerful]

Yep, in Russian (and not only in Russian!) repeated negations amplify the effect of negation.

[@eugenewhiting8928]

@@watchmakerful but in this case there is nothing to do with any emphasizing or amlifying!

[@sObad367]

nobody owns nothing to nobody

[@eugenewhiting8928]

@@sObad367 nobody owes anything to anybody!

[@sObad367]

@@eugenewhiting8928 yes that's kinda the correct way, but I'm pretty sure the way I said it is fine in african american (vernacular) english cuz the say stuff like "ain't nobody" or "I ain't know nothing" all the time

[@EgorYouTube]

По твоей речи видно , что ты провел очень большую работу над произношением . Даже представить себе не могу , насколько это сложно . Вообще красавчик

[@user-ex5ft5mr6u]

As a Russian speaker, I want to tell you about you have a very good speech and pronunciation. Well done 👍

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks!

[@LastOfGamers]

I was trying to learn russian during covid but stopped, then when I went to Moscow and St. Petersburg last month and stayed for 4 weeks I loved the culture and its people and continued to learn the language!

[@humble_reader]

I love St. Petersburg too, but to understand russian culture, you should go to towns and villages, St. Peterburg is the second capital of Russia (not official) I'm Russian and my English isn't good enough but I hope you can understand my comment😅

[@LastOfGamers]

@@humble_reader oh yes your english is perfect my friend 👍 and yes I agree with you I should visit the villages next time for sure! I have met some great people in both moscow and Petersburg and language was not a barrier at all because kindness was the key to a great communication!

[@LastOfGamers]

@@humble_reader I forgot to ask, are you from a town or village? Which villages do you recommend?

[@humble_reader]

@@LastOfGamers I am from the city of Krasnodar. It is a million-strong city in the south of the country. As for the villages, they're all about the same, haha. As for towns, I would recommend going to Novorossiysk, it is not far from my city, next to the sea. I haven't traveled much because I'm only 17, but coastal small towns have their own atmosphere, in my opinion😅 I'm moving to St. Petersburg soon because I fell in love with the city when I was there with my family.

[@TheTorrezzz]

Бро, респект тебе за то, что выбираешь такой язык в столько противоречивые времена. Мне прям приятно. Ты, уже лишь благодаря этому факту, производишь впечатление личности со своим мнением и хорошего доброго человека. Удачи тебе в будущем. Неважно, насколько хорошо ты выучишь русский язык, но продолжай всегда так же слушать своё сердце и оставаться человеком🤍

[@12345_qwerty]

У него уже разговорный уровень, видимо он его выучил до всех этих событий. Да и русский язык сам по себе никакого отношение к войне не имеет, как и немецкий к нацистам не имел

[@TheTorrezzz]

@@12345_qwerty вот вот. Ты это многим другим объясни) Это один из международных языков, и куда лучше поддерживать его уровень, особенно у тех, кто в подобных странах родился, чем деградируя, уходить в "традиции" и выбирать язык с меньшим количеством носителей. Это странно, люди повторяют друг за другом, а по факту не отдают себе отчёт, как забиваются сами лишь в меньшие масштабы.

[@ApenaUmCanal]

I'm in the very beggining, using the Assimil Course. I feel like a child getting literate for the first time. New alphabet, absolutely new words... It's very fun, but at the same time scary. My goal is to be able to read poems and prose in russian, especially the old authors like Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, etc. And be able to have a good conversation. Hope i can get this level in 2 years

[@cloudslady3400]

sorry to break your dream... but you will struggle more than you think with russian.... speaking in two years is not realistic...wait to see the grammar...😔 i held my laugh when you said understanding poems in two years.. well good luck with that.. 🤣

[@AKEri6832]

I love Gogol's books very much

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

It's a bit difficult to say without knowing your background (native language, language learning experience, age, etc), but I think if you take a solid approach that should be possible. Now, you won't understand 100% of those books and poetry, but even native speakers cannot haha.

[@LOVE-168]

​@@AKEri6832Gogol is a dark personality,he is a mentally ill person.

[@LOVE-168]

these poets, writers use the old Russian language, many words are not used in the modern world.

[@zgt5470]

As Russian, I must say that your accent almost can't be noticed. That's a great job!

[@mdegtiarev]

Какая бесстыдная лесть!

[@yuranduran]

@@mdegtiarev я бы не назвал лестью. Акцент есть, но он действительно незначителен.

[@andrrrrrray]

когда вы перешли к теме совершенных и несовершенных глаголов, я прям прослезился. в таких логических мякотках и есть прикол русского языка. и самим русским далеко не всем легко это даётся - я помню начальную школу, как многие тупили на подобных темах и хватали двояки. эх, смотрю на вас, и тоже захотелось изучить какой-нибудь новый сложный язык, дать себе новый вызов, так сказать. вы молодец.

[@lonely_nomad]

попробуйте учить Китайский

[@watchmakerful]

Да, особенно если соответствующие глаголы совершенного и несовершенного вида имеют разные корни, например "класть" и "положить".

[@turanturk5867]

Я до сих пор туплю ахахах

[@user-si2kd9tv9l]

Слово "Мякотках" вызвало даже у меня ступор =D

[@Alexandra-pz9qd]

А я не тупила 😊

[@abberata]

I am a native Russian speaker and a language nerd so just for fun I’ve taken a course of teaching Russian as foreign language. And damn…. I’ve always known it’s a hard language but looking at it from a foreigner’s perspective…. it’s just intolerable. Prepositions literally made me cry. Rooting for anyone who is brave enough to start this language

[@8Sigurd]

I'm Russian, who's trying to learn French. There are so many things that do not make any sense in French for me, but every time I get frustrated by exceptions or legacy rules, I imagine that at this very moment a person from France is trying to learn Russian and suffers more than I do. It comforts me.

[@alexberggo]

Спасибо всем, кто учит русский! Давайте дружить, общаться и учить языки друг друга! Всем мира и добра 🥰

[@AJ7000y]

the most peaceful nation

[@sdragoff]

​@@AJ7000y sarcasm?

[@AJ7000y]

@@sdragoff exactly!

[@igortchernowitzer927]

​@AJ7000y comparing to North Koreans or cannibal tribes, russians are even more aggressive..

[@kapi3887]

Это так прикольно: наблюдать как кто-то учит твой язык:) Удачи вам! А я пойду английский учить...

[@msbull100]

Dude your language skills are just amazing. You can easily swith between both your non native languages and you are doing it without accent !

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Next time I can add some Dutch in the mix haha. Thanks for the comment!

[@msbull100]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage it would be greate 😃 👍

[@Inna.Eroshina]

Great content!👍 I'm Russian and I've been learning English by myself and this is so hard for me! Each foreign language is difficult to learn and easy to natives! Good luck to us all! And thank you all for learning Russian at this f*cking time ❤✌️

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Спасибо за комментарий Инна. Удачи с изучением иностранного языка)

[@Inna.Eroshina]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage Спасибо большое) очень приятно) и Вам успехов 👍

[@marvelenia6702]

Lovely comment! I am 62 and I started learning Russian here on YT with a teacher who does 1 lessen every day. It is very hard to keep up with it but if it will take me longer, so be it. Times are rough yes, but here we are again, proving that we the normal people are filled with respect, love and compassion for each other. Hopefully we will go into a future together that will be lovely for all living beings! Good luck with learning English! I am sure you will succeed!

[@Inna.Eroshina]

@@marvelenia6702 Thank you for this amazing comment! ❤️ I was moved to tears while reading this text! Your words are my thoughts! Blessing to you! ❤️ Благодарю Вас! Ваши слова тронули меня до слёз! Желаю Вам успехов в изучении русского языка и благополучия в жизни!

[@alicekrausova2715]

By the way, though in these times Russian at schools is not taught, I see that even in The Czech Republic more and more people are interested in learning Russian ( especially my generation that had obligatory Russian lessons at school!) Lot of us we are trying to brush it. But in small towns it is difficult to find teachers... Privjetik! iz Čechii 🇨🇿❤

[@mateomp3439]

Damn, I'm a native Spanish speaker and I sometimes realize that that language is also very difficult, because we have a lot of changes in the words for each time and case, and it has accent marks which can change the meaning of the words. And I'm on my way to learn Russian

[@ApenaUmCanal]

I'm a native portuguese speaker and couldn't agree more. Our languages have soooo many changes, but for us is just natural.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

The good thing about Spanish is that there's lots of cognates with English though!

[@user-bp8sp6sf9y]

I tried to learn Spanish and found it somewhat similar to Russian in the part where endings and suffixes change.

[@user-bp8sp6sf9y]

​@@LearntheRussianLanguage There are many words from French in Russian, as well as in English ))

[@Man_008]

Spanish is the easiest language in the world as for the vowels and stress, I just love it, the most logical language system. Vaya, me encanta el castellano de verdad 💪 Y sí, las eRRes en ruso y español son bastante similares, me gusta la R vibrante como en español, italiano o ruso que sea suave o fuerte, esa R latina romana eslava :))

[@vadimmartianov9816]

As a Russian speaker should say - this guy totally right. Do Not Try immediately learn everything and use everything you learned. We understand how crazy our language is, and even if you use just basic forms of words we amased. Yes, it not sounds pretty, but we will understand you (ehm... in most cases). And after you have basic language - try to improve, not before. Also he talk about it only a little, but yes, system - is only way to do it, things like "i will listen native input" does not work here, no way your brain handle 6 cases, 3 conjugation, 3 pov and mix of all of this in one time.

[@roz472]

Great video and thank you! This is a refresher for me and you have inspired me to re-learn Russian. The cases were definitely a struggle for me, so were the imperfective and perfective verbs. My approach used to consist of taking references (from samples of native speakers dialogues/charts with examples) and memorize them from there. As you can see, I never really learned the grammars thoroughly and in isolation for me to be able to use them independently (in daily conversations). However, even if I did not know the grammars well, my vocabularies helped me a ton to have a small conversations with the native speakers and they were able to understand me. It is important to MAKE MISTAKES and to LEARN FROM THEM. It is crucial to our learning journey because it reinforces what we have forgotten and challenge the ones we already know. Best of luck to everyone learning the Russian language, удачи с вами! 🤗

[@Sabrineuwu]

Hi 😿

[@davemackenzie8343]

Спасибо вам Ари. Как обычно, всегда полезно. Отличный совет.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Рад слышать что советы в видео были полезными.

[@user-jy6wc4em5m]

​@@LearntheRussianLanguage мне понравился ролик, я бы только заменила пару 'смотреть-посмотреть' на 'видеть-увидеть'.

[@artur666stantsel]

​@@user-jy6wc4em5mв чем смысл? Это разные глаголы, как на английском see и look

[@Lily_1X]

This video has many important information, I don’t know a better way to appreciate your work. Thank you 😊

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Writing a comment is of great help ;)

[@dimark9173]

I'm from Moscow. I swear your pronunciation of some phrases is perfect and has a clearly moscow accent!😁 At first I thought that you're a native speaker! I think If I weren't Russian I wouldn't have learned this language😁 Good luck :)

[@Use69r]

As a russian native speaker I’m totally agree with you. When I started to learn foreign languages, I tried to imagine how difficult would it be - to learn russian. And at that moment I realized that it is soooo hard. If somebody would ask me why I use exactly this word or why that word has changed in so weird way in my russian speech - I have no clue. I don’t even know how to explain. Tons of complicated rules and a huge bunch of exceptions makes russian language unreasonably difficult.

[@user-bp8sp6sf9y]

Зайти, отойти, войти, пойти, уйти, обойти...

[@juliabartosh3365]

Выйти, пройти, перейти, ну и ...идти 😅

[@ernstkrudl4895]

Great, I "learned" some Russian at high school (not compulsory) for 3 years, one hour per week. 55 years ago. My motiv was to also learn a slavic language. German native, English fluent, Latin, French soso. Anyway visited Russia some years ago , Moskva and St Peterburg. Amazing how many signs I could read, buy tickets, dine out, it was fun. Presently reviving/learning two other languages from the past , but Russian is on my scope for after them. I like your entry lesson, nothing new, but very well presented. Spion in German is very close with Russian, in writing and pronounciation. Kitan for China/-ese is a very interesting historical root. All the best. I would prefer to call Russian a rich language, not a difficult one.

[@sskp6168]

You're absolutely right there is a lot of russian words derived from german language. My favorite one is Апельсин what means an Orange! German word Apfelsine litteraly translated as an Apple from China. There is a funny word Шаромыжник.This word means a bogan and this came from french language Cher Ami.

[@ernstkrudl4895]

@@sskp6168 bogan Я не знаю.

[@sergsuper]

​@@sskp6168апельсин ладно, но вот глаз - тоже из немецкого. Во всех славянских языках остались очи

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

I really like шлагбаум

[@nataliexhjztew9251]

@@LearntheRussianLanguageШлагбаум это просто прелесть. А ещё немцы подарили нам такие слова, как стул, шкала, абзац, бухгалтер, бутерброд, вахта, валторна, гастроль, гастарбайтер, кафель… много всего. Сейчас учу немецкий и просто диву даюсь. Замечтательный язык! И произносить почти все удобно. А вот голландский мне кажется очень сложным именно в произношении.

[@user-bk3qb5cr3d]

It's so interesting to watch videos about your native language. I'm learning English and your channel can give me a great experience, thank you. Subscribed.

[@foxfluffy]

Nice explanation about word endings, thanks! Russians use this as a partial replacement of the complex English tense system. There is only 3 tense in Russian so when there is 16 of it - for Russian native this becomes mind-blowing :)

[@antoshke]

Perfect pronunciation and brilliant grammar, mate. Keep it up 💪🏼

[@user-cp2bo3zm9s]

English is good, Russian pronunciation needs a lot of work

[@user-ho1ry8ql3z]

Не знаю ни одного иностранца, который хоть как-нибудь умел говорить на русском, и его не поняли бы. На мой взгляд труднее понимать разговорный русский.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Ну да, для этого просто надо много общаться)

[@user-se3gv6bu9g]

Конечно, в любом случае поймут, возможно переспросят где то. Но поймут.

[@Levon_RnD]

​@@LearntheRussianLanguageYou even know using the single bracket sign like Russians do, impressive😂

[@pixelvania]

Думаю, что это утверждение будет верно для любого языка ))

[@LubimijKot]

Так то да, но выразить свою мысль простыми словами легко.. а вот понять ответ в котором есть хоть одно незнакомое слово? А если два? Двум ученикам легче понять друг друга, чем нэтив спикера:)

[@Eugene_Yavon]

Вы проделали большую работу👍🏼👏 аплодисменты

[@user-ue5eo3qy9n]

Хорошие советы. Половина применима вообще к любому языку, вторая половина применима после (не)большой модификации. Ари, мне так нравится слушать, с какой любовью вы говорите о русском языке!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Да, эти советы можно и применять к нерусским языкам)

[@watchmakerful]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage Как минимум к большинству славянских (кроме болгарского - там совсем другая грамматика) и, возможно, к балтийским.

[@user-oi3vx2ul1f]

О российском язьіке

[@user-nu4be8qx1p]

very instructive, thank you profesor 🙏

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Happy to help!

[@florecista1]

Excellent video! I learned a lot.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

That's great!

[@aymunz]

Aside from the obviously very useful tips, I like the new video format and the improved audio quality!

[@peabody3000]

people think the cyrillic is going to be the hard part, but it's cake compared to about a million other things that make the language a monster

[@alko_xo]

For me as a Russian it (I mean this tutorial) was very good and funny as well. Really nicely done!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Рад слышать что видео вам понравилось)

[@thejkaff]

Well, as a native speaker, I watched your video with pleasure! Your have a pretty good pronunciation, хочу пожелать терпения и сил в дальнейшем изучении!

[@XBoxwolf]

Your advice is good. I speak several languages and I am learning Russian . I give this kind of advice to anyone who tells me they are interested in learning languages.

[@t0shii_137]

Учу английский, смотря на русский с их точки зрения. Это реально лайфхак

[@kolovra]

Если слушать американскую речь, там в 99% случаев всего 3 времени.

[@Darkdally]

I watch Russian series every night when I go to bed. Two things I notice: 1. The stresses are everywhere - I commonly hear the word ничего for instance, pronounced with stresses on any of the three syllables. 2. It doesn't matter, because when you listen to Russian enough, every word has its own distinctive sound. Words like что are thrown in everywhere, but you always catch it because of that 'sht' sound at the beginning. None of that helps with learning it per se, but it does - It's just like when I hear English spoken really fast or from different accents - I still understand it because of the basic sounds. Russian has those too. Watching Russian series has helped ease my apprehension of approaching the language a bit, because I have gotten used to people just talking about general stuff in regular conversations. It is one of the best ways to get started, watching something like Seinfeld (9 seasons on Netflix with Russian dubs) I hear these everyday conversations when I go to sleep and, yeah.. the stuff you worry about, especially when you hear how casually it's spoken, kinda goes away.

[@user-li3uk6fv5q]

Вы вводите людей в заблуждение: Слово "ничегО" (ничегО нет, ничегО не скажу)произносится с ударением ТОЛЬКО на последнем слоге. Слово "нЕчего"(нЕчего есть , нЕчего сказать..) произносится с ударением ТОЛЬКО на первом слоге и имеет другое значение,чем ничегО: "нИчегО","нЕчего" - разное написание,произношение и значение. (Moscow, Russia)

[@thatMikhail]

Ничего always has the stress on the last vowel "o" with no exceptions. Что might be ubiquitous because it is less often omitted than English "that" in constructions like "I think that you're right". Nonetheless, don't hesitate to omit it in simple phrases to make them sound nicer. Думаю, Вы правы. Have a good luck!

[@Darkdally]

@@user-li3uk6fv5q Thank you, I will write that down so I remember. That was very helpful!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Yes exactly, it's difficult to really say "I learned words X and grammar Y from watching series", but it's just such a great support activity.

[@stevanjakovljevic8390]

@@Darkdally I am serbia, I dont spek russian but I can undestand what is going on here . нИчегО is nothing , нЕчего is something .It similar to many slavic languages , on serbian is ништа and нешто. We even have word нечега , I remember нечега (something ). All are same base , but in diffrent language its developed differently

[@chipichipich]

You pronounce everything so well 😭🔥 I wouldn't be able to tell you're not a native speaker, honestly. There's a bit of accent, but it doesn't sound forced, just sounds like you're a native Russian speaker from a different country or even just simply not from Central Russia. Wow. I'm astonished. Amazing, keep up the great work! Так держать! очень приятно, что кто-то проходит через столько трудностей, чтобы изучить мой родной язык. скобочка)

[@toly4100]

You speak naturally and very well! Молодец.

[@rossleone9140]

There is just only so much I can remember in a day. I’m the worst at Russian but I haven’t given up

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

The more I prioritize sleep, the more new things I can learn I've noticed

[@rossleone9140]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage I noticed you said that in your memory optimization course. Luckily when I’m in Russia I have plenty of time for sleep. When I’m in USA however, that’s a different story

[@AgnieszkaKolodziejczyk-oh2rb]

​@@rossleone9140Привет 😊

[@rossleone9140]

@@AgnieszkaKolodziejczyk-oh2rbummmm привет

[@AgnieszkaKolodziejczyk-oh2rb]

​@@rossleone9140Hey there! What's up? Sorry to bother you.... I'm just learning Russian and......Never mind:)

[@openm1ndead]

I'm impressed. The way you speak, your pronunciation is almost identical to the 'real' Russian. Bravo and keep going!

[@LS-dp2gs]

Like I always say, if I did not speak Russian already, I would not even start learning it. Props to you, you speak Russian so well. Your pronunciation is awesome.👍

[@user-lv4im5fl8z]

Отличное произношение и понимание

[@ihinmof]

I am a russian speaker who also has experience if learning english.When i met a boy who was learning russian i was stunned how he was able to say Я хочу Ты хочешь Он она оно хочет Мы хотим Вы хотите Они хотят. I am still trully amazed hahahah. By the way, some day i was teaching russian to chinese students. Damn, russian is so hard. The word фотографироваться (to take photo) was an indeed loop. It is not obvious but russian is not my mother language. I talk a lot and use my true mother language and i love how it has logic and makes a lot of sence.

[@alicekrausova2715]

No language has so much sense and so many MEANS of expressing even feelings as Slavic languages!!! 🤍💙❤️❤️🤍💙🥰🥰🥰

[@ihinmof]

@@alicekrausova2715 я имею ввиду логику и последовательнось языка. Понимаешь, в русском языке необходимо учить каждый случай,каждую форму. В татарском намного больше правил и четче грамматика. Если бы вы учили кого-то русскому, то быстро поняли бы насколько он сложен в плане склонений. Кстати мой друг китаец(другой) после пары месяцев русского языка бросил эту затею. Другие еще пытаются... Самый сложный язык по рейтингу это мандарин китайский. Я считаю что так принято только из-за иероглифов. Они и правда сложные хахаха но русский намного сложнее, не могу представить какого это учить русский.

[@Dron008]

Sometimes I think how hard for students learning Russian is to pronounce even very popular Russian words like "мужчина", "женщина", "здравствуйте". Так, в слове "женщина" присутствует смягчённое "н", если его не смягчать, для иностранца, конечно, простительно, но будет очень заметно.

[@ihinmof]

@@Dron008 произношение сложное в каждом новом языке. С русским еще повезло,в нем почти как пишется так и слышытся.

[@alicekrausova2715]

@@Dron008 You are very right. I'm Czech and we had Russian at school but, unfortunately, nobody taght us proper fonetics. I've been trying to repeat Russian now but I' m aware how different the fonetics are ( And vice versa, the Russians mostly can't get rid od their strong accent when speaking other languages.) For us, Slaves, the grammar is not that difficult but the fonetics!!! 🙈🙈🙈 Never thought about " soft" N in " ženščina"!!! But which,N is in " zdravstvujte"? 😃 Privjet iz Čechii... ( P.s. Dymaju čto dlja innostrancev slavjanskaja grammatika slyškom složnaja, jak naša duša 😃🤍💙❤️!)

[@Serevg]

Отличные советы для любого языка, не только русского.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Согласен!

[@user-vy7ys7jf5j]

Great job!

[@alantsargasov6127]

you are rly good! Almost no accent and so well explained!

[@alexmares2984]

I have learned Russian language at school. Eleven years later I learned polish language, than Suisse German, a little bit Italian and now Scottish Gaelic. Each foreign language is difficult to learn. What's the problem? I want it!

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

That's a fun uncommon mix of languages!

[@graywhite1529]

the downsize of cases in russian is that it is a real pain in the azz for translators to properly caption Yoda, no matter how you turn it, it still sounds normal 😆

[@cufflink44]

That's a great observation!

[@K.for.k]

У Вас действительно хорошо получается объяснять разные маленькие нюансы!

[@v96n]

Прекрасный урок!

[@laierr]

ok, flash test, which is the correct way to say "i will buy": - Я буду купить - Я буду покупить - Я покуплю - Я сделаю покупление - Я совершу акт товарно-денежного обмена с целью получения материальных благ Okay, actually, the point of that exercise is: despite the fact that most of those forms are horribly wrong, Russian speakers would understand you. . . Except for the last one. Don't use that one.

[@keonliller_2287]

the last sentence is actually the only one that makes sense in Russian language

[@KB-ff9wx]

@@keonliller_2287 Correction. It's the only one that complies with the "rules" of the Russian language (is grammatically correct), but is still NOT recommended to be used in a normal conversation. Unless one wants to have their clock cleaned. :-)

[@laierr]

@@keonliller_2287 First four make perfect sense, but horribly incorrect grammatically. Last one is *correct grammatically*, but barely makes any sense.

[@dronnet]

Ю абсолютли райт 😀 (you absolutely right ) I full understand you, but it will be correct like this: - Я буду покупать meat, beer, car...... - Я куплю meat, beer, car...... - Я сделаю покупку

[@user-ms8gw9vz9q]

😂 last option

[@celestialwizard9290]

Привет Ари..I just started learning russian and I've stumbled upon the hard and soft consonants, cases and the verb conjugations. The thing is that I can't seem to pronounce the words correctly especially with щ and ш and the soft and hard consonants. Does it make a lot of difference since I am a beginner? Because I want to learn as much vocabulary as possible. I think it will waste my time trying to focus on correct pronunciation now. But wouldn't it be hard to correct myself later? I want your opinion on this

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

You're right. It doesn't make a lot of difference to focus on pronunciation now. Sure, don't ignore pronunciation 100%. But I've found that pronunciation tends to get better automatically IF you listen to a lot of spoken Russian (watch series, talk to natives, listen to music, etc). Focus on: - vocabulary - grammar - listening - speaking And then once you reach a decent conversational level, start focusing on the more difficult letters. Record yourself, show it to a native speaker and he can usually tell where to focus most (or send it to me if you're in one of my courses).

[@2406veronica]

As a Russian, I can only agree that this difference is not so important. Learn the vocabulary first thing. When you know the words, it helps you to understand, to guess, at least, and to express yourself. Maybe, it will be grammatically incorrect...

[@pietdev.4648]

sure thing, handle the vocabulary and grammar first. When you feel confident, grab a book on theoretical phonetics. I am not kidding. Pronunciation can't be learnt by imitation alone. You need to know how the speech apparatus functions

[@zloychechen5150]

Don't worry about soft/hard too much. You can just tell everyone you're from Belarus)).

[@snadianna]

don't stress about grammar too much if you just started. imo, vocabulary comes first. verbs are difficult to master. start with nouns first. that's how they teach language at school and noun grammar much easier to learn once you understand the pattern. to know correct pronunciation it's better to hear it first and all the time, so, you could watch some kids cartoons that teach that to little kids or watch youtube or twich, or films in russian (if your level allows it), but keep in mind, some people could pronounce some words wrong, even native speakers. it's not a big mistake though, because not all of native speakers are linguists, so take it easy. 😉 I'm writing all this as russian native speaker. P.S. I use google all the time to correct my writing (this message included). English is too difficult in that case. I learned English by myself and make mistakes all the time, because what you hear doesn't = what you write. Even if I know pronunciation, I can't be sure I can write it correctly. At least, russian doesn't have "silent letter" problem in most cases ("ь" and "ъ" doesn't count, because they're silent by default). word "здравствуйте" is just one of the few exeptions (the only one?) we all need just to memorise (native speakers included).

[@user-po5pt9kk3n]

Я не просто русскоговорящая, я еще и филолог. Ваше произношение впечатляет!

[@Virflow]

Отличное видео !

[@wosinddieteller2185]

когда знаешь русский , но все ровно смотришь видео 😂

[@user-cj8zc4qo7l]

Нет предела совершенству

[@horzeskull6503]

Интересно же узнать, как они это себе видят.

[@MaxusR]

Ага. И ошибиться в этой же самой фразе. Всё рАвно :)

[@karpai5427]

То что всем абсолютно наплевать на букву "Ё", полагаю, не делает изучение языка легче.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Нет, это действительно не помогает)

[@zloychechen5150]

это Е умляют

[@sdfasdfre]

​@@LearntheRussianLanguage Попался шпион! In this case "Нет" at the beginning means that you disagree with the other person. "Да, это действительно не помогает" would be better.

[@watchmakerful]

А ведь хотели же сделать её обязательной, как сделали в своё время букву "Й".

[@motogoa]

Dude, you did a great job at explaining Russian! As a native, I will say it's tricky, very tricky to learn, but Russian is so melodic and so poetic and so descriptive. Thanks for the video!

[@user-bv1ou8if2x]

Good advice for a start.

[@user-oe6sw9gi6m]

После просмотра я захотела изучить русский, но проблема в том что я его уже знаю на уровне advanced 😂😂

[@coyotewld]

Пунктуацию можешь подтянуть 😂

[@Valeriya-tn1th]

Скорее proficiency 😅

[@user-xt8ty6hr3p]

Лев Толстой:"Русский язык- сокровище. Смысловая глубина образов не имеет дна. Постичь его, полностью, во всей силе, мере, красоте, не может даже исконно русский человек, что тут говорить о басурманах"?

[@Hubert_G]

Then go learn polish

[@nexusi6867]

@@user-xt8ty6hr3p Ты это сам придумал, "басурман"? Вообще никак не гуглится цитата.

[@MrPeopleFUN]

Does English make sense when it comes to pronunciation? If you look close, it has almost no rules and every word should be memorized. You just got used to the language and do not see the dark parts. So Russian stresses also should be learned through getting used to it by practicing mostly listening.

[@user-se3gv6bu9g]

да, привычка приходит с практикой прослушивания и разговора. Слушаете и постепенно запоминаете где какие ударения. Но, нужно время для этого.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Oh yes English is even worse I think. Bit difficult to say because I've been exposed to it since childhood as we don't dub most of the English movies/series on tv.

[@margo7059]

@@LearntheRussianLanguage Английская письменность - это по сути иероглифы. Только не в китайском варианте, а в японском.

[@PyromaN93]

​@@LearntheRussianLanguageFrench and English is the biggest weirdos in the whole Indo-European family at this point, I think. Just notoriously messed pronounciation rules.

[@Amuser1]

Дорогу осилит идущий! Молодец мужик! Perfect pronunciation, in the first palece! I just admire the way You breaking along! Good luck!

[@glassperlenspiel]

With O that becomes A is very simple: if O is not stressed than it will be prononced as A. Nice video and explanations! Keep on!

[@bezemdriederde]

Ik luister veel naar russische muziek, dat zorgt ervoor dat kennis niet verwaterd en ik mn vocabulair kan uitbreiden. Ik heb alleen moeite met het vinden van rusissche series, hoe doe jij dat? Luister jij naar engelse series die gedubbed zijn in het russisch met engels ondertitels erbij? tips zijn welkom!

[@bogienyka]

почему бы и нет, озвучка ведь русская

[@alekseykrivoshein8241]

Я думаю, что существует достаточно российских интернет ресурсов, где есть фильмы и сериалы на русском. Это для нас в России есть трудности в оплате иностранных ресурсов, потому что наши карты не принимают сейчас.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Ik vind gewoon Russische series met Engelse subs. Maar op Netflix kan je ook wel wat Engelse series vinden met Russische dub. Russische series zijn wel gemiddeld gezien wat minder dan Engelse maar wel relevanter qua taal/cultuur.

[@R.a.p.h.a.e.l.a]

Re the cases. Can somebody explain why Russian nouns are taught one case at a time rather than teaching all the endings of a given declension at once? I speak an inflected language on a daily basis, plus I have extensive training in Latin (the only language before Russian that I acquired by formal study rather than getting more or less by osmosis), so cases as such don't faze me at all. But Latin textbooks present you with the entire declension of a given noun, all cases singular and plural, at the same time. I'm used to this and I found it incredibly disorientating that Russian pedagogy takes the approach of doing one case at a time. It's actually been the single most difficult thing about Russian cases for me and it really knocks me off my stride.

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

No clue actually. Maybe because most people do not have experience with Latin/case languages, so presenting all at the same time overwhelmes students. But that's just my experience.

[@merMLAB]

I suppose this is because in the Russian language, the formation of cases obeys a fairly strict rule with almost completely absent exceptions. That's why it's enough to learn a word only in the nominative case, and then use the case formation rule to incline it by case.

[@R.a.p.h.a.e.l.a]

@@merMLAB That's an interesting theory, but Latin has very strict rules as well. The difference being that in Latin you have to know the genitive as well as the nominative in order to decline a noun correctly. I'm wondering whether the one-case-at-a-time approach is just a newfangled way of doing things differently. I have actually seen an elementary Latin textbook that takes that approach and I thought it was weird there too!

[@zloychechen5150]

Being a native russian, and from watching this kind of videos, i've come to realize that teaching russian to foreigners is completely different from what we had in school. I'm pretty sure we did all cases at once, if there even was such a thing. In our case it had more to do with analysis of WHY things are how they are, rather than HOW they are (because we already knew that, for the most part). For foreigners it may be the other way round, or both at once, with the emphasis on the latter, coupled with the fact that they have to memorize a shit load of things.

[@nikospapageorgiou2345]

I speak a cased language too (Greek),and I studied Latin by the LLPSI book, which introduces cases one by one too. The book is written in a method that starts you from 0 (e.g. Rome is in Italy) and takes you chapter by chapter to more and more advanced sentences - each chapter deals with a grammatical aspect of the language. In that method, cases are introduced one by one, as they treated as some aspect of the language each, and some are more basic than others (Nominative -> accusative -> genitive -> dative -> ablative). I do not know what methodology the Russian textbooks use, but it may be motivated by similar ideas (Learn to say basic things first, we ll figure out more advanced stuff later). Of course this methodology targets people that can contain their enthusiasm and just be happy following the book.

[@vitalyproxtor3229]

I am a Russian native speaker and I hardly know the rules of my language! I just read and read books and therefore I just know exactly how to spell each word and what forms it has, it automatically arises in the brain. But I remember that in the 1st grades we started learning Russian with the correct placement of accents, we even had such exercises where you need to place the accents yourself, we also read texts with already placed accents as the author showed!

[@AgnieszkaKolodziejczyk-oh2rb]

Привет 😊

[@user-rd2tl9bo6s]

На данный момент я участвую в программе общения с Американцами, которые учат русский язык в школах. То есть я помогаю им с языком, просто общаясь с ними. Мне Ваше видео помогло задуматься о нюансах речи, которые я не могла почувствовать, потому что очень привыкла к ним. Мне легче понять, что вводит в ступор моих ребят. Спасибо большое! Скинула своим ребятам, очень надеюсь, что им это видео поможет преодолеть первые ступени изучения русского

[@oberont5743]

Gotta show to my students this video every time they ask " Why must we learn this difficult English?"

[@x86ed]

I’m addition to lessons, I’ve been listening to Russian Peppa pig lol.

[@user-is8mu8pb5c]

instead of watching peppa pig translated to russian, you can watch russian cartoon for kids Смешарики, it is actually amazing and still beloved by both kids and adults

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Hahahaha I personally hate the high pitched voices and prefer real voices. BUT the most important thing is that you like watching it.

[@Kinotaurus]

what is oink-oink in Russian? :)

[@snadianna]

@@Kinotaurus хрю-хрю :)

[@user-xt8ty6hr3p]

​@@Kinotaurus chroo-chroo😅

[@vinllga]

Wow thank you, blond handsome prince, for such great promotion of Russian

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Thanks!

[@thesands4963]

I had Russian in high school and 1 year in college. Some of my coworkers spoke Russian, but I haven't been able to keep up. Glad this was recommended to me. Hoping I can find time to restart and continue. Two things I wanted to say. First is that numbers can be tricky because it changes the case of the noun depending on the number. 1 is different than 2,3,4 which is different than 5+ (nominative, genitive singular, and genitive plural if I remember right). Second is I was told that there is a 7th case locative such as walking in the forest or falling onto the floor. They both take the "oo" ending. I'll be watching some more videos. Thank you :)

[@nataliexhjztew9251]

Cases = tears. So true! I’m Russian learning German. Such a beautiful language but cases are still an issue for me.

[@robetheridge6999]

It is funny that you say people will understand you if you make a mistake. I was asking a girl if she was ready to go, but I inadvertently used the masculine form of 'ready' because I had been working with and talking with guys all day. She looked at me as if I was an Alien speaking a language from another galaxy. She stared at me for a few seconds, then looked for help from my buddy who asked exactly what I asked but with the feminine word. She immediately answered him in the affirmative. Even he laughed at how lost she looked.

[@AKEri6832]

It's so weird. I never address women in a feminine form. And yes, I am a native Russian speaker

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

Hahaha, I think that's more her problem than yours.

[@alexandertvaladze8226]

Are you sure the girl was Russian?)

[@AKEri6832]

@@alexandertvaladze8226 In general, most of the girls I know usually address themselves in male form

[@user-hp2xr4hd8m]

As I see you use "готов" instead "готова". It's an adjective and it have gender forms. But as you know the verbs (except past tense forms) don't have gender different forms. You can say "ты пойдёшь со мной?" instead "ты готова пойти/идти со мной?" Btw "Ты готова пойти/идти со мной?" is a kinda weird sentence and kinda scary bc it prepose that the girl have (unless you really ask if she is ready/good prepared for) to make a difficult decision/choice.

[@reiper]

me watching this video knowing nothing about russian 👁👄👁

[@Nonames569]

Ну-ну! Я так же могу сказать.

[@reiper]

@@Nonames569 yeah true

[@justyourfriendlyneighborho903]

Me watching this video as a native Russian speaker:

[@despero2998]

It's easier if you imagine that all these suffixes and prefixes are mini-words that out of certain fashion you write inseparably from the main word. They are pretty consisten in how they affect meaning of a word, so you don't have to learn all these forms of a word, instead you learn how to combine original word with affixes to alter it. Like if in english you would say "upget" instead of "get up".

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

OMG, this is awesome! I just did a video "ranting" about how hard Russian is too 😂 My kids are being raised to be trilingual (we live in the UK and they also speak Chinese and Russian) and they also struggle the most with Russian!

[@banana53358]

yes even building a simple sentence in russian u need to know a lot of grammar but in chinese and english u can build even complex sentences with a little grammar so it s normal for ur kids to struggle most in Russian it s insanely difficult language so go easy on them 😊

[@coracora161]

Everybody will need to learn Russian. They are winning! From 🇧🇷

[@arrivaflyingsquirrel3150]

Excuse me, but what are we winning exactly? As I feel like my future, all my plans and dreams were misslied with rockets on neighbour's land. My hero was murdered, all artists, all talanted people I love are banned and flied the country or got jailed. If you are not ok with what's going on you have no right to say it or you go to prison. Is it your cup of tee, my brazilian friend?

[@neyzerdeusexistat9252]

You're a lunatic

[@neyzerdeusexistat9252]

But you're right to certain extent, Russia wants to take over the world, like Nаzi in WW2, they don't even hide it.

[@marvelenia6702]

Haha, that is funny. Some people here in Western Europe used to say "imagine that the russians would have won ww2, they would have taken the whole of Europe!" Yea, so what? At least I would have learned Russian as a kid and I would not have to struggle with it right now. If we are better off with the ruler from over the pond, well, I doubt it...

[@WorkSmartAndHard]

​@@marvelenia6702 why do you learn Russian anyway?

[@teastrum]

Thank you. I learn English watching your videos

[@Mike-fm2cp]

Amazing ❤

[@user-wo4qc3ox7s]

You’re “ы” is perfect 😍

[@panika2247]

Well… Russian exams are really difficult even for native speakers. We are struggling too (especially with stress marks). So, it’s okay to make mistakes. You all are amazing, keep going!

[@Eobred]

The most precious thing I learned on my journey with languages ​​was, many times, trying to understand the why of things will only get in your way, you don't need to understand the why, you just need to know that if you want to say something or write, it's that the way the language shows and not the way you wanted it to be, don't make things difficult guys

[@Ganaev]

Молодчина! Твой уровень здорово вымахал за последнее время! Учу английский с тобой на примерах родного русского. Но ведь твой родной язык - нидерландский, я не ошибаюсь? (прости, что на «ты», просто кажется, что мы давно знакомы благодаря твоему каналу)

[@user-vh5kq6pm7e]

Man, I have never thought about how difficult our language is for learners. I can only wish you guys good luck)

[@Onjii-ys5in]

Очень толковые советы 👍 следуйте им и будет вам счастье

[@JereinRussian]

Uh oh. So many good points you got there! Now after studying Russian seven months on my own I really feel the struggle. To be honest, I feel like giving up... but I also know it's not an option. - I've been recording monthly videos to follow my progress... and this week I should get my "7 months" video done. Сегодня это было слишком тяжело. Может быть, я сделаю это завтра. Не знаю. Боюсь, мой русский стал хуже, чем месяц назад. 😂

[@LearntheRussianLanguage]

I 100% know the feeling of thinking your Russian got worse. But there are so many factors that influence it (sleep, mood, recent exposure to the language), that I would only compare yourself to how you speak a couple of months ago.

[@konstantinosipov1037]

beautiful thing about russian lang is that every russian will understand you even if your pronounciation is bad and you not follow any grammar rule ))

[@natashak.9430]

Падежи - это, пожалуй, самое глобально сложное для изучения... А ещё суффиксы и приставки, меняющие одно слово до неузнаваемости и противоположности смысла. А, ну и порядок слов - любой, а от этого меняется, подчас, весь смысл сказанного. P.s. Видео классное и информативное в этом смысле - спасибо.

[@nobodyelse2230]

wow you have such a perfect pronunciation!!!

[@elviraaksenova3238]

Brilliant notes about the Russian language. I have been teaching Russian for 12 years and my students are always struggled with the cases and stress in words. У тебя прекрасное произношение! Так держать :)

[@OlegShyolk]

Wow bro) i'm russian and you're amazing!

[@larsutnevaage6592]

Ik ben Noors en ik heb sommige jaar geleden nederlands geleerd (mar niet goed, hehe). Nu ga ik Russisch leren. Je kanaal is perfect voor mij!

[@savascool3416]

Круто. А как в Скандинавии к русским относятся?

[@SuperMopga]

@@savascool3416 Это Голландия, а не Скандинавия. Плохо к вам там относятся.

[@alekto5783]

Вау. Вы звучите как билингвал, которого в детстве учили как русскому, так и английскому языкам, но из-за отсутствия практики немного появился акцент, но звучите очень чисто. Очень. Редко (никогда) не слышала иностранца, говорящего практически как носитель. Честно говорю, никакой лести) Вы оч крутой.

[@RuskiUrok]

Вы молодец! Удачи Вам в изучении русского языка!

[@Dron008]

Though I am native Russian speaker and struggle learning English whole my life, I think these recommendations are very useful. By the way, Russian sometime says "будем посмотреть" which is intentionally wrong but brings favor of uncertainty of some decision planned for future, but positive uncertainty.

[@Alextropik]

You mentioned ехать, поехать. Good example. Prefixes modify the word, change the meaning of the word. They form slang words. For every word there is a set of prefixes which can be used with it. The difficulty is that these sets are different for each word. For ехать (to go, to drive) there are words поехать, въехать, выехать, доехать, заехать, наехать, объехать, отъехать, переехать, проехать, приехать, съехать, уехать. For ход (a move) there are words вход, выход, доход, заход, исход, обход, отход, переход, подход, приход, проход, сход, уход, расход, восход.

[@agpaok0704]

As a Greek, the only approach that works for other European languages, is thinking how a 5 years old in Greece would speak. The tough part is to avoid thinking what you want to say in Greek, because there is no way you will ever find the exact words in other languages.