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Thread: Я хочу сказать "I'm learning Russian" по-русски.

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    Я учу русский (язык) - is okay for "I learn/am learning Russian".

    However,

    Я учу русскому (языку) means "I teach/am teaching Russian"

    Take a close look at cases there, that's a perfect example when messing up cases means to convey diffrent meanings

    Nevertheless, be advised that

    Я учу русский (язык)

    is a somewhat informal use of the verb учить, if you wanted a more official verb for that you would say:

    Я изучаю русский язык.

    Hope it helps

    P.S. Я увидел много ответ для этому вопросу, а ничто совершенно

    Я видел много ответов на этот вопрос... (слышал would sound much better though)

    а ничто совершенно - What do you want to say? Doesn't make much sense in Russian. Anyway, a lucky guess here, I thought what you meant is:

    I've seen a lot of answers to this question, but none of them was perfect, if so then:

    Я видел много ответов на этот вопрос, но ни один из них не был исчерпывающим. Note: исчерпывающий ответ is a very thorough answer, which answers the question completely
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    I don't understand most of the cases in the revised sentence, but this helps a lot. Thank you very much!
    Edit: Actually I think I see the reasoning for the cases. I didn't think that the genitive case translated that literally
    Last edited by xXHoax; August 17th, 2014 at 03:42 AM. Reason: Realization

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