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Question by Ben10: RUssian???
Is russian a hard language to learn being an american that only speaks english and has taken quite a few classes of spanish.
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Answer by Misanthropist
It’s harder than Italian, French and German, but easier than Chinese and Japanese. The grammar will seem really weird to you (words have gender, there’s noun declension, etc.). But if you really work hard (and get a good teacher), you’ll succeed.
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Maria says
kind of. some of the spanish and english words are the same as russian but people often have a hard time pronouncing the words correctly or close. its not that hard
csmonkey says
any new language that's not pretty similar to your own (i.e., learning spanish if you're portuguese) is hard. I would say Russian is not one of the easiest by any means. But it's not the alphabet that's really the problem. You can learn that pretty quickly (I was quite comfortable with it after the first week of my college course) and then you can sound out any word you want. It's other things that trick you up. To give you an idea, nouns and adjectives have declensions, which means the same word has different endings depending on how it's used in the sentence. Kinda like conjugating verbs. German does the same thing, but only has 4 different cases. Russian has 6 (so 6 different possible endings for every noun/adjective). Another tricky concept is that Russian prepositions don't really line up with English prepositions. For example in one sentence you could use "dlya" to mean "for" and in another you would have to use "za", but "za" could also mean "behind", "over", "at", etc. in other contexts.
"Генерал says
Russian is espesially hard for Americans. they can learn is, but they will have an accent. the accent will go away slowly if you communicate with Russian people alot. practice practice.
Timur D says
If you have a big will to learn the language, then you'll be able to do that regardless of all the grammar weirdness. You can see the pronunciation of couple phrases, please, go to the simple Russian phrases page: http://www.russian-translation-pros.com/learn-rus…
The good thing about learning Russian — the reading is really easy. As soon as you get to know Russian alphabet, you will be able to read Russian words, which is pretty cool. If you need any other help with finding materials, etc, let me know. Thanks, I hope it helps.