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Why do you learn Russian?
There are many reason why not to learn Russian:
1. The language talked only in Russia and maybe other countries that near to it.
2. Russia is not exotic place which think about to travel to it like south America or east Asia and Russia is cold country.
I start to learn only because most of the workers in my department are Russian, and they talking each other in Russian
What are yours reasons?
Believe me, it is overestimated grossly.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
And, by the way, Russia is very big.
Huh??Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
I would love to travel to Russia there are all kinds of amazing things there I would like to see!
It's not a good enough reason IMO. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
People are different. nadavvin doesn't need to travel nor he is interested in this. Домосед? A stay-at-home?
My name is NadavQuote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
I don't say that I don't need to travel...
But different people have different travel preferences.
So what are yours personal reasons to learn Russian?
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I shouldn't write my personal reasones why not...
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I think his personal reasons are:Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
the birth in Russia;
the attendance of Russian school...
Next it involved him. :)
No, birth in a Russian community. I was born in Germany. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Оля
Ну вот, я так и знала! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
[quote=Оля]Ну вот, я так и знала! :([/quote:x3yn726q]Quote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
Что я шпион, что ли? :?
Нет, просто когда я писала первый пункт, я почему-то подумала, что могу ошибаться. Интуиция. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
Дастишьфантастишь! Митцуайнемпасиреннюрауфге вейзнбештойб! Ансцводрахтарарах! Гейенгейенбештейен! :P
To answer nadavvin's question I am learning Russian because I like to learn about a lot of different cultures and languages.
Maybe Americans are "starved for culture" or something.
Всегда ей доверяй. И учись её слышать. Меня она никогда не подводила. Если вспомнить тот мой случай с велосипедом, я её трижды не послушался. Упрямость порой сбивает. В первый раз во мне боролись противоречивые чувства, выходить на улицу или нет. Во второй раз ко мне приходила ясная мысль, что нужно позвать с собой друга (с ним мы бы поехали совсем другим, безопасным маршрутом). В третий раз я возвращался уже домой и мне надоело ехать одной и той же дорогой, решил рискнуть и свернуть (сворачивать особо смысла не было и не очень хотелось — вот оно!). Я не смог противостоять своему упрямству три раза (три — интересное, кстати, число...) и ты, и все остальные уже знаете, что случилось потом. Прошёл месяц, я почти выздоровел. Большие тяжести ещё левой рукой поднимать не могу. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Оля
Интуиция — целый комплекс глубоких ощущений и чётких мыслей, включённых в конкрутеную жизненную ситуацию. Поэтому и можно найти единтсвенно правильный ответ на все вопросы, какими бы они (ответы) странными не казались.
Немецкий язык, хотя и лишенный музыкальности, самый выразительный из всех языков. © ШХ :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Leof
Ага, и ещё избыточный.Quote:
Originally Posted by Оля
Is Russian is the language with the longest words???Quote:
Originally Posted by Leof
What is it????:
:roll:Quote:
Митцуайнемпасиреннюрауфге вейзнбештойб
No, it's expletive parody on German. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
I can only assume you're not intersted in Russian language, nor in Russia itself. Therfore, I'm afraid it'll be really hard or even impossible to learn the language.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
You should try to find some other incentive except the "unfortunate" circumstances of working with Russians. :)
May be you will feel better, knowing that Russian is not so absolutely useless as you may think: :)Quote:
1. The language talked only in Russia and maybe other countries that near to it.
2. Russia is not exotic place which think about to travel to it like south America or east Asia and Russia is cold country.
1. About 170 millions of people speak Russian (mostly in Russia and former Soviet republics (14+ countries)). It' s 7th most popular language in the world.
Compare it with Japanese (125 mln), German (98 mln) and French (72 mln).
2. Russian can come in handy not only in Russia. Quite a lot of older people from contries of former social camp (some African countries, Eastern Europe, former Eastern Germany, Cuba, etc.) know some Russian, they studied it at school.
And there are plenty of Russian immigrants all over the world, and sometimes it's nice to know what they say. Um, wait, you already know that. :wink:
Yes!! So I wished to write the same! :D
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Yes I've just teased Rtyom friendly for being born on the German soil.
Excuse me for interrupting, but your question about Russia, though being asked with so sinsere interest, seems astonishing to me. My native language is Russian and I was born here for some reasons, and I assure you Russian IS one of the most widespread languages on the Globe.
It stands on the seventh place after Chinese, Spanish, English, Bengali (I really do not know how to spell them right :P ), Hindu and Portugese.
It IS almost as widespread as German, French and Italian all together!
It is spoken on 1\6 part of the inhabited land.
Russia has almost all kinds of landscapes. It has without doubts many exotical regions - like Kamchatka. Or Crimea (though it formally belongs to Ukrain), Ural and many many others.
about quarter to half of the jewish population in Israel are Russian.Quote:
And there are plenty of Russian immigrants all over the world, and sometimes it's nice to know what they say. Um, wait, you already know that.
But most of them know very good Hebrew since teach them when they come to Israel.
Why not?Quote:
I can only assume you're not interested in Russian language, nor in Russia itself. Therefore, I'm afraid it'll be really hard or even impossible to learn the language.
You should try to find some other incentive except the "unfortunate" circumstances of working with Russians.
When learn something, learn it, it is not matter, what the circumstances to do it.
And circumstances maybe come latter.
It will very easier latter, when I could read more naturaly Russian (to pronounce the words, not to understand the words).
Currently it take me very very long time to read single word, I I sure that most of them I don't pronounce good.
Look at my signature:
Как это :?: :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
I'm almost sure there is no audio for beginners on that particular topic. The easiest way is to ask anybody of your Russian colegues to make a record of him/her reading a short computer text or selected phrases in Russian.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
You may ask somebody to translate an easy text from English and mark the stresses. :roll:
I don't think that it is matter what the level, since it would help me to read correctly, to understand I translate word and full paragraphs.Quote:
Originally Posted by gRomoZeka
Maybe I change the signature to genral subjects.
Is there something in russian like:
http://librivox.org/
?
Я студентка на переводческом факультете. Так что я изучаю русский язык, чтобы переводить его.
And by the way, since when it is essential that a language is world wide spoken to be learnt :wink: There are many who learn Latin ;)
Those who learn Latin are not religious?Quote:
There are many who learn Latin
Since, there any country today which spoken Latin (maybe in Vatican)
Not at all. For example, here in Spain, Latin is a compulsory subject if you choose the branch of Humanities to take your university entrance examinations (that is to say, our A levels).Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
Your English sucks... Where are you from?Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
Israel, how should I need to write this?Quote:
Your English sucks... Where are you from?
There are some errors in all your posts including this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
I started learning because of my boyfriend, and past longing to learn the language. :)
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Originally Posted by Musa
Большое спасибо!Quote:
Originally Posted by Оля
(I'm quite a beginner)
OUCH!!! :o Not off to a good start nadavvin...Quote:
Originally Posted by nadavvin
Start off with learning the few simple words that go far in ANY language, "Hello, Goodbye, Please, and Thank You" :D
I work with Russian / Eastern European students in the summer, they speak better English than the South Americans that have lived here for years and are a whole lot more fun!
OK,OK, девушка 8)
Я - мазохист! По этой причине я изучаю русский язык.
DDT: over and out
So why not Japanese? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by DDT
And a sadist too :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by DDT
Perhaps half a billion people in the world speak Russian, most of them people I could never talk to if I didn't learn Russian. If you could speak English, Russian, Chinese, French and Spanish you could communicate with most of the people on the planet.Quote:
There are many reason why not to learn Russian:
1. The language talked only in Russia and maybe other countries that near to it.
2. Russia is not exotic place which think about to travel to it like south America or east Asia and Russia is cold country.
Not exotic? Not exotic???? Russia borders the Arctic ocean, Finland, China and several countries I never even heard of until I looked on a map recently. It's nearly as exotic to me as the moon, and almost as difficult to visit. It's got bears! Wolves! Roads in Siberia where they used human bones for the foundations. I can only read books about Russia in small doses in case it makes my head explode. :o
And when I was at school, we were never taught anything about Russia. It was the Evil Empire. Russians were all spies, vodka-swilling villains, they would seduce you or kill you or maybe both. Well, you can't say that sort of thing to an impressionable teenager and expect them not to develop a lifelong fascination. I've seen the Bond films you know. :lol:
And they were the first people in space.
And they have those cute little dolls that fit inside each other. :)[/i]
Russia is definitely exotic! The incessant generally accepted negativity for Russia is what I guess was a reason for my own lifelong fascination of Pushkin's homeland, Dostoevsky's motherland and Avazovsky's fatherland. Wolves and bears aren't that fascinating to me, we have enough of them in America/Europe, but the vast belt of uninhabited forest is quite amazing, frankly speaking!Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowworrier
nadavvin, with that attitude my friend you will never get anywhere with russian. its a hard language and one of the most important facots for success is a love and interest for the language to keep you ploughing through the random grammar.