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Russian Apr 25, 2016

Cyrillic is the easiest part of it, I agree. Pronunciation is very hard. Grammar is the hardest. Even verbs have a gender (only in past tense, though).

Russian is beautiful but hard to pronounce. Much harder than, say, Croatian (another beautiful language).

All languages are beautiful for those who can appreciate them. There are, however, harder languages to learn and Russian is one of them.

Oh, and spelling is a nightmare. If you've been in, say, Moscow
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Cyrillic is the easiest part of it, I agree. Pronunciation is very hard. Grammar is the hardest. Even verbs have a gender (only in past tense, though).

Russian is beautiful but hard to pronounce. Much harder than, say, Croatian (another beautiful language).

All languages are beautiful for those who can appreciate them. There are, however, harder languages to learn and Russian is one of them.

Oh, and spelling is a nightmare. If you've been in, say, Moscow area, they pronounce most of the "o" as "a". Therefore, you really have to know the stem of the word before you can write it correctly. This is not about Cyrillic; rather this is about correct spelling. Croatian, Serbian and other languages of the same subgroup (which I don't speak but which I very much would like to learn at some point in my life) are spelled as they are spoken. Not the Russian language. Even natives make some mistakes.
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George Luca
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Language learning Apr 26, 2016

My favorite language learning story is about Heinrich Schliemann (a visionary archeologist and a talented linguist), narrated in C.W. Cream's story of archeology published in English as Gods, Graves and Scholars.
It is worth reading it, as it also describes Schliemann's amusing method to learn foreign languages (Russian and many others).


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