Quote Originally Posted by kib View Post
You probably meant this question to be answered by foreigners, but still I venture to express my opinion.
The thing I like most about Russian is flexible word order. Such flexibility and freedom give many opportunities for expression, choice and variety.
Also I think Russian is an emotional laguage. I like all these numerous suffixes: -ик, -чик, -ка, -ище at alias.
And you, Marcus, I suppose, there is something you like about Russian, isn't it.
I don't think there is much flexibility and freedom in Russian. There is a lot of conventionality in forming words and sentences. You can't form sometimes something because you just can't Like you say 'Мы победим' but you can't say the same in singular 'Я победю/побежду'. Why? I have no clue.
In English there is just few addings like 'ed, ing', and apart some exceptions, there is not much hesitation to put them.