How I Would Learn Russian (If I Could Start Over)

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  @Thomas-m3p7m · 8 months ago

  learning russian for the aura

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  @avenov · 2 years ago

  I'm a native russian speaker but I was watching this video as if I was gonna learn it from zero w

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  @antoinetteqvistorff2270 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The alphabet took me one hour to learn. I was able to pronounce words quickly. I learned basic phrases and words. Then I listened for months to basic stories. A baby never learns grammar but listens, repeats and gets corrected and praised.

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  @Mori_s1mP · 1 year ago

  Russian is the first language I&apos;m putting real effort into <br>:)

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  @partyjesus5588 · 8 months ago

  Learning the alphabet was the easiest thing for me, except for &quot;ы&quot;.<br>Fuck &quot;ы&quot;.<br>I hate that letter with a passion.

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  @wubuCS · 1 year ago

  1) Play CS:GO <br>2) Play high elo<br>3) Now you are fluent in russian

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  @Senyachka-e4f · 11 months ago (edited)

  All I can say as a native speaker is that my jaw literally DROPPED ,when I saw the cases table. Like, why do you make it look so hard and scary?? We learn it A LOT easier at school. We have 3 groups of words,that most of the words (except words that end in -ия, -ие, -ии ,13 words the end in -мя and some words that can use different types of groups at the same time )go to. <br>1) feminine and masculine ,that end in -а, -я (also to feminine/masculine/neutral table on the screen was SO wrong,but it is ok). They all change in a specific way and if you don&apos;t hear the ending clearly and have doubts,just use a word like земля́ or весна́.<br>2) masculine and neutral,that end in -о,-е or nothing (the empty square)<br>3) feminine ,that end in nothing (the empty square) . Also all of them have ь at the end. <br><br>And that is ALL ,yes there are exceptions as the ones I have pointed out earlier, but that is it. Also there are adjectives, but they work a lot mote easily. Just ask a question from the noun they are connected to and look at the last two letters of the question. That is what you write (mostly) sometimes о changes to е or somethine similait ,but nothing crazy<br>Hope this helps you learn cases easier :) <br>Also try looking up tables from actual books or from the internet,because as far as I remember those have the thing I am talking about.

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  @susankeeton1636 · 2 years ago

  My favorite part of learning about the Russian culture is the Soviet movies. You can find them on YouTube with English subtitles.

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  @lewismontgomery7398 · 1 year ago

  As a polyglot, the best advice I can offer is to not waste time learning case systems. &nbsp;The reason being, is unless you are already at a high level of fluency, you simply won&apos;t know when to use what. Instead, indulge in hours of listening, watching videos / tv with subtitles and listen / see how the endings are applied. This way you will start to naturally understand when and how they work. Having learned Finnish which has 15 cases, unlike Russian which only has 6, I have learned from the mistake of trying to understand a case system which you didn&apos;t grow up with. Kids don&apos;t learn case systems so why would you as an adult? Allow your brain to naturally adapt by repetition and interaction with the language. &nbsp;You will make more progress learning a language by listening and reading than you ever will learning a complex grammar table. The rule to mastering a language, is to acquire it as a child would: listen, watch, read, write and speak. &nbsp;Make mistakes and keep doing so until you don&apos;t. &nbsp;Avoid the grammar and in no time, &nbsp;you&apos;ll be living and breathing in your chosen language, because grammar is naturally understood and developed by the brain through non-stop input, not from complicated tables in a book :)

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  @frettychervil · 2 years ago

  I agree that the Russian alphabet is the beginning. After studying Chinese, it makes you really appreciate learning any language that has an alphabet.

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  @viktortsealov5903 · 2 years ago

  I am a native Russian speaker and must assure you and everybody watching that your Russian, at least in this video, is perfect and astonishing so your advice is worth a lot.

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  @LinguaSerbia · 2 years ago

  My advice related to cases: just don&apos;t learn it as a table. Learn it from the context, from actually seeing it used in sentences. Learning cases from a table killed my joy in learning any language ever. It felt much harder than any physical work.

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