Thread: Why do you learn Russian?

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.

about quarter to half of the jewish population in Israel are Russian.

But most of them know very good Hebrew since teach them when they come to Israel.

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.

Why not?
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:

Originally Posted by Rtyom

Ага, и ещё избыточный.

Как это

Originally Posted by nadavvin

Look at my signature:

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.

You may ask somebody to translate an easy text from English and mark the stresses.

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Originally Posted by nadavvin

Look at my signature:

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.

You may ask somebody to translate an easy text from English and mark the stresses.

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.

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 There are many who learn Latin

There are many who learn Latin

Those who learn Latin are not religious?

Since, there any country today which spoken Latin (maybe in Vatican)

Originally Posted by nadavvin

There are many who learn Latin

Those who learn Latin are not religious?

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).

Originally Posted by nadavvin

Originally Posted by Leof

Дастишьфантастишь! Митцуайнемпасиреннюрауфге вейзнбештойб! Ансцводрахтарарах! Гейенгейенбештейен! :P

Is Russian is the language with the longest words???

What is it????:

Митцуайнемпасиреннюрауфге вейзнбештойб

Your English sucks... Where are you from?

Your English sucks... Where are you from?

Israel, how should I need to write this?

Originally Posted by nadavvin

Your English sucks... Where are you from?

Israel, how should I need to write this?

There are some errors in all your posts including this one.

I started learning because of my boyfriend, and past longing to learn the language.

Originally Posted by Musa

Я студентка _ переводческого факультета (or "я учусь на переводческом факультете"). Так что я изучаю русский язык, чтобы переводить с него.

Originally Posted by Оля

Originally Posted by Musa

Я студентка _ переводческого факультета (or "я учусь на переводческом факультете"). Так что я изучаю русский язык, чтобы переводить с него.

Большое спасибо!

(I'm quite a beginner)

Originally Posted by nadavvin

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?

OUCH!!! Not off to a good start nadavvin...

Start off with learning the few simple words that go far in ANY language, "Hello, Goodbye, Please, and Thank You"

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

Я - мазохист! По этой причине я изучаю русский язык.

DDT: over and out

Originally Posted by DDT

Я - мазохист! По этой причине я изучаю русский язык.

DDT: over and out

So why not Japanese?

Originally Posted by DDT

Я - мазохист! По этой причине я изучаю русский язык.

DDT: over and out

And a sadist too

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.

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.

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.

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.

And they were the first people in space.

And they have those cute little dolls that fit inside each other. [/i]

Originally Posted by rainbowworrier

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.