Thread: Looking for language exchange

Originally Posted by kgcole

I think we’ve done a good job of breaking down the language barrier, haven’t we? It really has made me think about my own language, why we say things the way we do. Someone told me once that I didn’t really have to think Russian, but I don’t agree. It really is a certain way of thinking that is different. Do you feel that way about English?

I agree. We think different ways.
But I was greatly surprised when I read somewhere about the biggest difference between our languages.
It lies in ways of expressing grammatical relations between words in sentences.
In Russian these relations are expressed by inflections: заглавие книги.
In English they are mainly expressed by word order and structural words: the title of the book.
English is called an analytical language therefore, while Russian is synthetical.

I sometimes caught myself thinking, “What a primitive language English is”.
No offence meant, though.

Originally Posted by Helenej

I agree. We think different ways.
But I was greatly surprised when I read somewhere about the biggest difference between our languages.
It lies in ways of expressing grammatical relations between words in sentences.
In Russian these relations are expressed by inflections: заглавие книги.
In English they are mainly expressed by word order and structural words: the title of the book.
English is called an analytical language therefore, while Russian is synthetical.

I sometimes caught myself thinking, “What a primitive language English is”.
No offence meant, though.

In many ways English is simpler, I feel, but that may be just because it's my native language and easy for me. Russian has its advantages and I think that if one masters it, it can be very expressive.