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Question by Don: Which parts of the Russian language are the hardest to learn?
I’m part Russian and I was thinking of learning it. If you’re learning it, which parts do you think are the most difficult or confusing so far?
Why is Russian difficult?
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Answer by Andrey
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071107205537AANGMjc
You can ask your grand papa about it
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Man of Hurst says
Russian is a very specific language. First of all, as you probably know, Russian has no articles. This causes many troubles for the persons who speak european languale (English, Deutsch, French, etc – any roman-derived one). Secondly, the gender of a noun is always indicated in Russian as opposed to English. How to indicate it without having articles? The answer is simple. Endings! Each noun in Russian has a lot of endings depending on its gender, plurality, case, tense. Verbs and adjectives also have endings depending on the subject (masculine, feminine or neuter). But the most complex thing is that you have to keep in mind the gender of each subject you use in a sentence in order to apply correct endings. Otherwise you will most likely be understood but the sentence won't be correct, it will be evident. Russian has more cases than, for example, English does. There are six. Another complex thing is a use of suffixes. Use of them adds more details and emotional implication to the thought you wanna reproduce. This makes speech much more concise. It is akin to use of idioms instead of ordinary verbs in English. Everything of that comes along with the practice, quantity determines quality.
Good luck!