Trying to learn Russian

I’m studying Arabic as well as Russian on Duolingo. I think Russian is the hardest language I’ve ever tried to learn. I love the language but haha :joy: I’m just no good at it. @EldarfromRossia можешь дать мне совет

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I think russian language is unique.
Good luck in learning.

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Thank you :pray:. I really like the language. Don’t think I’ll ever learn it really haha :joy: but I like it.

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Is it your favourite language?

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Yes. It is. @Yellowdiamond are you a polyglot as well?

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I know 2,5 languages.

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I know Russian!

I have a babooshska, her name is Anushka, and on the weekends we like to do the roombah.

:crazy_face:

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You know 2.5 or 25? Wow good job. I know Spanish semi fluently. I can understand a little Arabic and speak a very little. I can understand some written Portuguese and some written French. A minute amount of German as well. I studied Turkish as well but I got bored with Turkish and gave it up.

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Just stop it you big silly :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Swedish, English, 0,5 Finnish.
I adore them all.

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Cool. English is my first language. I’ve heard though that for non native speakers it can be hard to learn. Good on you.

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Go for it, dear! :slight_smile:
I am half russian in fact, i know well the language lol. My mom is russian, my father bulgarian though.
Try to watch at some movies with russian maybe, its a hard language for the western people, yeap.
Good luck!

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I speak 3 languages and know words from a few others. I wish I had invested more time when I was little, right now it’s become very difficult to improve, even in my own language.

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I like learning languages and I must bring up Deezer, my music app, Spotify must have it too. You can view the lyrics of the songs as they play. My english got better, I was able to understand German, language in which I was absolutely stuck. Now I can understand it. All by using Deezer. Totally recomment it.

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Of course I’ll help. what questions are you interested in?

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different language is different mentality. always remember this. you are a great fellow that learn languages. even if you drop it but then start it is also good. I don’t know if this is true or not, but I heard that foreigners consider Russians unpredictable. and our language is just as unpredictable) to say a sentence starting with a pronoun or a verb or an adverb or something else and the meaning will be clear and remain unchanged. I confess it’s hard for me to use Google Translator so that he translates correctly for you, so that you understand. sometimes I rewrite the message several times. in English, I had problems in that I could not understand the rules for compiling sentences and time frames. pfect, sympl. There are no rules in Russian) Of course, there is grammar, there are commas and so on, but there are no rules in creating sentences. honestly, when I studied English at school, I did not understand why it was necessary to put such a pretext in some place. In our language, in the sentence “take a chair in the kitchen” “in” can be replaced by “from”, “from”, “to”, “where”. The meaning of this sentence remains the same. This is a simple example. Perhaps you can do the same, but when they taught me English, they said that it was impossible. there are many more words that mean different actions or essences. for example. “I will eat.” - the person will eat. “I am” . - the person is present. "There is ". I will do what is said. The last three sentences in quotation marks are related to the verb to eat. the fact that after the hyphen is what these sentences mean. in the English translation, the verb to eat is used once. three times in the Russian original. The Russian language is not predictable and you must understand it. and this is the first rule that I can convey to a foreigner. I think if you learn to speak Russian your life will change. a common example is that Russian people during a pandemic turned medical masks over because if you wear it according to the rules, it protects others from you, and if you turn it over, then you from others. In general, this is Russia …))

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That helps! Thank you :pray:

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Starting a new language i would start with singing a long the foreign lyrics and i would try to tell someone from the foreign language a joke.

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you can ask me any questions related to language learning. ask. I will be glad to help you

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я купил “кошку”
“кот” прыгнул
What’s the difference. They both mean CAT. It confuses me how nouns change form in Russian. I’m not complaining. Just trying to understand