Thread: What do you find interesting in Russian from the linguistic point of view?

I've got to start by saying that I am not a linguist and am not extremely interested in the details of linguistics.

However, without doubt the cyrillic alphabet would make writing Swedish a lot easier. It would make the words a lot shorter (the words are pretty long due to complicated spelling). It would also make the spelling more consistent.

I really like the sound of Russian but I think Russian grammar is too complicated and it is not something I would want for my own language.

Russian is simply cool because it is the largest language on the European country, yet not that common as second language in the EU. It is a European language, yet very different from the "regular" languages - Germanic and Latin language families. The words sound interesting.

I respect that Russians are sticking to their own language instead falling in love with English like some countries in Northern Europe have done, Netherlands, Scandinavia and others. I think it's valuable for a country to be in touch and in tune with its own culture and language helps with that.

This said, I understand that there has been an almost completely un-monitored "invasion" of English into Russian over the last couple of decades - IT, media and business words.

I put my Russian studies on hold for a while but I will pick it up again in the new Year.

Originally Posted by Hanna

...I think Russian grammar is too complicated ...

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.An On-line Russian Reference Grammar
quote from Dr. Beard: "...they want their language to remain the simplest language in the world, the Russians decided...".
I'm not a linguist either. Whenever I have trouble (the usual situation), I remember Dr. Beard, and say to myself "Russian is the simplest language in the world!"

Russian is very interesting to me, the more I learn, the more interested I am to become more fluent.