Do THIS and you will speak Russian - Canadian polyglot's tips-  

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Daria, thanks for the two conversations with you. Language teachers, those that focus on making it fun, and motivating their learners, like you do, are valuable members of a growing interconnected international community. Best of luck to you.

I’m 76 and learning Russian……. Love it!

My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

Steve never grows old. Always healthy, energetic and smart!

Daria is great. Her slow Russian vlogs were the first comprehensible input I could understand. That was almost three years ago. Since then, my Russian has improved immensely, I've made friendships with Russian speakers, and even spent last summer traveling around eastern Ukraine talking with local Russian speakers. I continue to study. I work with a tutor online several times a week. Most of the Russian material I watch now is just regular Russian language material, like the news etc. but I still watch Daria's material because it's fun and interesting. Good luck everyone. Russian is great and it can be learned!

This is one of your best contents so far. Getting Steve kaufman on your platform is amazingly amazing.

Во первых, спасибо, Дарья! Наверное не поверите но 5 лет назад я начал учить русский именно здесь) мой первый шаг с Real Russian Club и мне очень приятно) Во вторых, прекрасный интервью!! Steve Kauffman он действительно классный мужик! Сейчас я учусь китайский и как всегда он вдохновляет меня. Быть позитивным и вкладывать страсть в то, что вы делаете - вот что является ключом, как вы сказали. Не нужно ни с кем конкурировать. Только желание и любовь познавать и улучшить себя.. шаг за шагом.

I didn't even realize I spoke Canadian until that guy started talking and I understood every word he said!

part of the just listening process I went through with learning Russian, ( still basic), is figuring out the tempo and listening for word separations and syllables. also listening to how some of the more complex sounds ( to an English speaker), are formed. Living in Ontario and having a very large and very friendly Russian community, it makes things a lot easier. Also learning the alphabet is one of the things I found to be key in learning the language.

I started your Zero to Fluency videos 18 months ago. It's an excellent foundation. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn Russian. Your other lessons are great too.

What a amazing interview. I loved it. Thank you both for the inspiring words.

Steve is such an inspiration to all of us! 🌟

Thanks for sharing, Steve!! Russian language RU-vid educator community is getting stronger by the day 💪

Steve has a very meaningful approach to language learning.It's pleasure to have him on your channel.

I totally agree. Using different resources, jumping from one to other, keeps you still focused on learning but not bored because you are using different means.

Спасибо - wonderful to see and hear this talented man Stephen Kauffman - it gave me so much more enthusiasm to carry on with my studies of this beautiful Russian language 😀

Great advice and interesting discussion with two excellent teachers and language RU-vid leaders. Спасибо!

This was great Daria, thanks for sharing this interview. When he began speaking about his joy in learning Russian, his whole being opened up. Very inspiring. It’s so good to see that those who speak languages…LEARN languages. They invest time daily. It is a joy, yet it is work. Daria’s ZTF program ushered me into Russian. And others should know, learning the sounds of Russian letters, approximately, is very easy, 1 week. Then you go to a RU-vid Russian film, no subtitles, go to the opening credits, all was Greek prior, and you hear yourself sound out S..v..yet..lana. Svetlana! And if like me, you’re hooked :)

Congratulations, Daria, for inviting Steve Kaufmann to your channel. I love studying languages (and Russian is one of them!), and Steve is an inspiration to me. One day I will be a polyglot just like him. Thanks for the interview with him! I love your videos and lessons too, Daria. Я желаю тебе и Steve всего наилучшего!

Awesome interview! I started my Russian language journey with Real Russian Club and recently bought a lifetime subscription to LingQ Russian!

Огромное спасибо вам Дарья и Стив за интервью, было очень интересно

This is a great interview, thanks to both of you.

Woa!!! this is really encouraging, thanks lot for the amazing interview, losts of good advices!

I’ve used LingQ and also the Real Russian Verbs Of Motion course and both are fantastic. Thank you 🙏🏽

Its nice to see steve here with you, i have been using lingq since 1 year now, i learned russian and norwegian there. and i am glad that i found this amazing platform to learn language.

Thank you. Both of you are really inspiring people.

Wow Daria this interview was absolutely phenomenal. You guys hit a lot of key points about learning a language. I stopped learning Russian mostly because of work I didn’t have enough time. But also I was try to learn by looking at the same book. And it was getting too repetitive. But now I’m getting back into learning and trying different videos and books. You’re still my favourite teacher though Daria :) Спасибо

This is a great perspective. hearing it from Steve reaffirms what I already knew.

Such a great an inspirational interview

Yay! Multiple sources and learning from different angles! I'm on the right track!

Exactly! The pleasure is the kie for progress in someone language.

Wonderful! So encouraging. My friend and I are going through your ZTF course and we're thoroughly enjoying it. I'm surprising myself at how much I'm improving in the Russian language. Спасибо!!!!

Russian is beautiful......it's just like unwrapping an exquisite chocolate ....it is an amazing journey of discovery.....and thank you Daria for having been my very first teacher ! So pleased you managed to team up with Steve for this video as he is truly amazing. Being french I know his french is spot on ! and your english Daria is something else !!!!! keep up the good work you two and thanks again for being there for us Russian learners. All the very best. Мichel XXX

Really helpful. I love your channel, Daria.

thank you so much for your all effort. Sadly time flies otherwise I would tune in for all of your content

Excellent interview! Thank you!

Steve will be such a great guest!

Yeah you’re right many many professors like her sharing their native language and spending all their precious time to share all the material for us interested people to learn this awesome language. Thank you 🙏 all you guys mostly girls sharing all this fenomenal work. We really appreciate y’all.

Agreeing with Elise J... my favorite part was seeing his face light up around 15:30 when he talks about the world that opens up to him through Russian. That's the effect this language can have on people. :)

Handsome man! You two conversed so naturally considering it was an interview.

The motivation thing - great!

Literally this video made me to do hard work on Russian 🌼😃

Thank you

Thank you so much.

Darla, thanks for the good lessons I am learning about 6 different languages right now so I appreciate what you do .

Some of my favorite language teachers

поздравления за гениальное интервью!!

Finally someone who makes sense. I've learned most of my English through video games, movies, series and later books. I started with reading and listening first. Then I went into typing answers and questions online. I didn't start speaking until quite a lot later. It's not super easy to do. However, when you know what words to use and how to structure sentences in a way that you can have a decent conversation, talking becomes way easier. It truly makes a difference if you start at that point. I hated having to talk in French in (Dutch) high school when I could hardly say anything. It was a nightmare for me. I've not done anything with languages for years due to the stress I experienced back then :/

Amazing collaboration :)

Спасибо тебе за это❤️

Amazing! Daria you are a wonderful teacher I'm finishing up your lesson 22 and I feel that I understand a lot for someone who has only studied Russian for 2 weeks or so.

Just finished Cruel Romance in english subtitles. Thank you for recommending this movie! The ending had my jaw drop lol Also your content is getting more impressive. Love your channel!

WHAT!? WHAT!? WHAAAAT!?🤯 I thought that's a mistake in the thumbnail! I don't know who's idea was that but bravo! Crazy collaboration. Do that again. Invite Luca Lampariello!

This person so inspiring I have listened him in different podcast and is really awesome 👏 Russian is a journey I agreed

that was amazing!!!

it's so interesting to see how present Steve is, connecting with you through gaze, you often look away, a habit I have as well while im concentrating on speaking...but yeh fascinating, Steve must have a really grounded balanced brain, haha hopefully we'll be able to hold eyecontact down the line

Nice discussion I like it thank u for it 🤗

Very interesting interview Daria...I have spoken English and Spanish more than half my life, then in 2017 I decided to teach myself German, when German became boring I started teaching myself Hungarian (paternal family roots) and then a little over a year ago I started with Russian. For my Russian I watch your channel and use Duolingo for on the go practice. I don't have much opportunity to put what I have learned to use but try whenever I can. Once, while first learning Hungarian, I was at the grocery and heard two ladies talking. I listened, decided they were speaking Hungarian and took the opportunity to engage in conversation. There is an offcier in the department where I am working who immigrated from Russia, we have had the opportunity to speak on a couple of occasions. Being able to put those skill into practical application is quite rewarding. While I had always been told that Hungarian and Finnish are two languages that have no ties to other languages I am finding some crossover between Hungarian and Russian. One example the word for bear (H) Medve (R) медведь they are written different but sound very similar. Also German the language is Nemetul in Hungarian (the country is Nemet) and in Russian the language is Немецкий. Apologies for the long winded post, but I find the study of language very interesting. Thanks for all you do.

Great to hear this inspiring talk. I love learning the Russian language even though here in Canada I have to study on my own. My progress is steady but slow. I get excited every time I find a Russian word that is similar to a Finnish word. Recently it was апельсин, appelsiini in Finnish. I knew the word appelsiini long before I learned the English word orange. So studying the Russian language never gets old for me.

Wow! Спасибо большое для видео Даря! I liked Steve's more laid-back approach to language learning!

rlly loved the video

Learning a new language is learning a new way of thinking.

Даша, спасибо за интервью! Ты - отличный интервьюер! Сейчас вспоминаю, как брала интервью у тебя...

No, I did not know him, but it's great to have pertinent advices from an expert.

Love this

Steve Kauffman is a legend 🙏🔥

great man!

Greetings from Mexico! Congratulations to Mr. Steve Kaufmann!! I like to study languages.

I am Spanish and I started learning Russian because I follow a singer who sings in Russian, and I watch a lot of videos in RU-vid with a lot of comments in Russian, and a lot of people speaking Russian and I want to know what they are saying...😀😅🙃 first of all I'm learning the Cyrillic alphabet so that I can transcribe the words into the Roman one.... It's quite a hard work, but I like learning languages and about other countries and cultures. I have just subscribed to your channel and to the free course which I think will help me a lot. Spasibo bolshoe☺☺

enjoy the process

your vids are marvelous. i stumbled on something that's fun, flip the language: eng-ger/deu-eng, eng-rus/rus-eng/rus-nem. bouncing out of the native-lang comfort zone. fascinating!

Neurons that FIRE TOGETHER WIRE TOGETHER. At 6:59

I respect this man in every level. I am learning Russian language. I have to say I have a long way to walk and to learn in Russian.

Very encouraging. I’m 45 and have just started the journey to learn Russian. Hope I can endure 😅

Круто! Я не ожидал видеть Кауфман. Хорошая работа и спасибо за видео.

Yes, that's on point, ive purchased tons of audiobooks im russian on liters oh i live this Man, that's my method as well, when i was starting i did exact the same thing.

So imspaiaring video.

Many people want the practicalities of accurate multiple language communication without the necessary resources and we too can turn to you

What is that film he mentioned, the one you said was your favorite? I didn't catch the title. And thanks so much for that interview. I really enjoyed it!

Daria and Steve, you are probably the two people who inspired me to start learning Russian about two or three years ago. Thank you.

He a very respected and famous!

Engaging progressive content seems to be the best way for me to get the most progress. A lot of random lessons on RU-vid seem like lists of words or most common phrases without much context. Stories or topics using the vocab stick with you much longer than memorizing lists and tables. (for my learning style at least)

Спасибо , очень интересно

I love Daria, I started early on following her sight. She's not only beautiful, but a great teacher.Everything said in this video was very pertinent to what a person would need. I have been taking Russsian for 1.5 years, and yet I don't know if I could follow a native at the train station as fast as they speak.

Great interview. большое спасибо. What is the other movie title mentioned around the 15:40 mark? I cannot quite work it out.

Good stuff motivated till i get it 🤩🇲🇽

Спасибо большое Дарья и Стивен, очень интересно, конечно буду сматрить на фильм жестокий романс. Хорошего дня вам 😁

Daria I'm continuing my learning in latin but have dabbled in Russian and will return after I get to satisfactory level in latin. Russian is also inflected and is a beautiful language and I've found latin has helped me immensely for learning Russian. Do you recommend assimil Russian or any other resource plus maybe with you if its possible.

I watch films on Star Media on RU-vid. This is a fun way to hear it spoken.

Молодец!!! Очень хорошо 👍👍👍

Здравствуйте, мой преподаватель Дарья, интересное интервью, хочу вам сказать, что лично мне было очень тяжело, когда приходилось видеть кого-то спереди, и хороший друг научил меня фиксировать взгляд на лбу собеседника, т.к. сильно двигал глазами, и создавалось впечатление, что он не обращал внимания, Это не так, но это может отвлекать,,,,,,,,,, объятие из Боготы.

I have started learning Russian. I have mostly learnt the Alphabet. Then I have learnt a few phrases from Anna Detective. Now I am writing in russian to my teacher.

Nice positive guy in his ages.

really encouraging words. im slowly getting discouraged, i am trying to slowly learn 7 at the time, but hey thats my own fault

This is great motivation to not give up and continue learning Russian. I am also 60 and I just love learning it. When the Pandemic is over I plan on going to SPB as I have friends who live there. I already speak 100% English, 100% Spanish and 75% Italian...and the trick is to learn Russian from Spanish to Russian because they are so similar. Especially with the order in which the words are said...they often make no sense in English then I realize they are exactly in the same order as in Spanish.

I have French and Latin and Spanish and Russian but Russian is my favorite and always have been. I just love languages.

Came here to learn Russian and getting flashbacks of my time in Latvia! Whew the women there I tell ya!!

Why I am here? I speak Russian wery well. It is my second mother language.

Russian seems to be a very interesting language