Russian doesn't get enough love. I find Russian the most beautiful, strongest, and sexiest sounding language a man can speak in the world. I love the sound of West Slavic languages too, like Polish.
Grammar in Russian is not so important because there is no order of words in a sentence in Russian, you can say words in any order, even without right word endings - Russians will understand you!
I think an extremely underused way to learn a language is to play videogames on EU servers and immerse yourself in the people that speak the language. It's much cheaper than going to the country and doing the same thing, plus you learn a bunch of 'interesting' words lol. Thanks for your uploads dude, you're a great teacher
I had a colleague once who was a very young guy, and his pronunciation and the expressions he used made him look like a native English. I had to ask him where he learned English this good. The answer is: online video games with natives 😂
I’m starting learning Russian seriously today, I’ll update every 6 months until I can speak well!( for me speaking well is being able to hold intellectual conversations the same way I do in English )
@@user-jb2hk4np3y i haven’t updated much, but so far so good! The alphabet was easy and with some practice I’ve gained efficiency, using RU-vid channels like this, along with Russianpod101 and textbooks has also helped a lot, along with using phrase books so I’m at a decent level. The best thing so far has been immersion it’s helped me get a feel for the language and learn the accent better, I’m planning on doing a language exchange in a couple months if I continue progressing like this. My best tip don’t worry about all the grammar just learn the vocabulary and phrases maybe a few rules here and there but just let the grammar sort itself out :)
Hello, i'm Russian native and I like your video, 'cause I'm learning english from it. You explain how to speak Russian and I'm learning to understand the opposite 😅
@@fatimav5984 Hello👋🏻 I'm a native Russian and I'm learning English😊 I think it might be interesting to communicate, if you don't mind😊 How we can contact?
Thank you so much for your help, Fedor! My husband Josh went through the Be Fluent Camp 2 years ago and it was one of the best investments in his Russian language learning. I gave it to him as a holiday gift! ❤ Fellow learners: If you're thinking about joining the Be Fluent Camp, DO IT! The value you get is so worth the price!
I'll be honest with you. I never cared to learn Russian. I don't know how I ended up in your channel late at night, binged who knows how many videos, and became so engrossed that, yeah, suddenly I think I should learn Russian :') you're so amazing, and you make it sound like learning Russian is a beautiful and interesting process (plus, Russian is, in my opinion, the most beautiful-sounding language in the world). So keep up the good work! Off I go to the first 100 words xD
I took two semesters of Russian a looooong time ago. I fell in love with the language (and Russian people). I always wanted to keep up with the language but never did. It's always in the back of my mind.
I like this soo much❤❤❤ Exactly what I need! Even though people may say it's crazy for me to try and learn Russian, I don't care. This is all for my fun and enjoyment of such a beautiful amazing language! Even if I never really become fluent, I just enjoy it so much!
@user-bv4vy1nu8m I like the idea! I just don't know if I could reciprocate the help because I am such a beginner and only know basic greetings. Let me know if you still want to learn languages together.
Боже как приятно читать такие комментарии... Знаете, когда говоришь на русском всю жизнь то полностью забываешь, что по сути ты знаешь такой сложный язык. Искренне желаю вам удачи и знайте, 90 процентов людей забрасывают изучение любого языка уже через пару дней. Так что если вы это не сделали то знайте: Вы уже победили!
Great to see this up to date info just prior to Camp. I’ve created a little exercise that’s helping with elusive case endings after many many hours, days, weeks, months - studying. I have stream-lined endings to single examples of each variation in declension and write them out at least once per week. In fact it’s only very few I don’t now know without checking (primarily instrumental)). This, in turn, helps my reading comprehension. Another thing I noticed as I worked my way through Olly Richards’ books were the roots of so many words that encourage me to tease out meanings rather than dive right in to the translation. I’m so excited to get started with you because I truly believe you’re the best Russian teacher on the internet.
Thank you so much, I really needed to hear that. I've been learning Russian for a few months, focusing on grammar because that's what I struggle the most with and I have been seeing little to no progress on my ability to express myself, which is depressing. I will follow your advice.
I have always been interested in learning languages, especially Spanish and Russian, i have always loved speaking with people in other languages, however i never really knew really how to learn a language so i never had much motivation, but I've been watching a few of your videos and i have much more of an idea on what to do now, so thank you so very much, i shall try my best now and ill put in more effort, спасибо бальшое!
I plan to partake in lessons forever unless I somehow become more language receptive. Just met a person in my life that speaks a first language fluent in Romanian Russian, and emphasizes it is the kind written in Cyrillic. So very fun. I enjoy knowing at least one word or phrase from Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian.
Thank you, I always find your guidance very useful. I've been learning Russian for 2 years and the hardest part, apart from speaking, is REMEMBERING the vocabulary. Do you have any suggestions?
try spaced repetition: аnki, but include vocabulary example sentences alongside native audio, instead of the words by themselves. open russian, you glish, and forvo immensely help me get accustomed to seeing and hearing words in context. also, i handwrite to reinforce what i've learned through active recall.
@@-sevda thank you for your suggestions. I had never heard of them, so had to look them up. I'm in Europe. Open Russian, in particular looks very useful, so I'll give it a shot.
@@DM-wv6to you're very welcome! another thing i should mention, (optional; still could augment your learning. i'm personally comfortable with cursive. digital mediums are great, too; however, i have noticed more positive results via handwriting), is that i soon intend on starting a russian diary to further cement custom phrases and vocabulary suitable to my life. удачи!
I've just started learning Russian and I accidentally stumbled upon a random video of an advanced learner venting about the grammar complexity and the gates of hell opened before me, showing the nightmares awaiting for me if I decide to continue my studies. Moral of the story: 1- Don't study the grammar if you are still learning the alphabet and the vocabulary. 2- youtube is a dangerous place, you might stumble across the grammar by accident. Be cautious.
Can you make a video about the different forms of writing the letters? I study old Soviet films and I simply can't understand some iterations of letters.
Russian spoken language sounds like a hardcore ufc fighter who smokes cigars in the octagon while squeezing his adams apple. Thanks for your hard work and excellent techniques. Spaseeba.😊👍👍
Hello to the author! I want to add a comment to a short video that I watched when you read Esenin. There is a line that reads Сидеть на "чьих то" коленях. По английски, если оне или кто то сидит "у меня на коленях" то это будет she seats on my lap. The word "laptop" came from the notebook that we place on our lap. We can't say seat on my knees, because it is not possible physically since knees are sticking out as somebody seats on the space between knees and hips. Anyway. Just something you may want to consider. Thank you.
I started learning russian in school grade five but now I'm in seventh grade but I only know how to read and I only understand a little bit of the text, But only in my school book.
well after watching this i need to ask you something that i have a lot of problem learning it, because i do search on google and yet i don't find it understandable... the difference in и, й, ы and ий and... what is soft and hard signs, how to pronounce them or use them and etc...
This is my first time commenting a RU-vid video about this topic, i tried learn Russian 4 years ago during the pandemic, instead i learned english, now i'd like to try learn it again and i still doing the same question, where can i practice it? it's hard for me cause I live really far from Russia but it still being one of my goals
Your point about not worrying about grammar until you have enough vocabulary for it to matter leads me to an analogy. Vocabulary is the bricks, grammar is the mortar to put those bricks together. It would be ridiculous to mix up a large batch of mortar and then decide to go the building supply store to buy some bricks. You only need to mix enough mortar to work with the bricks you have on hand. Thank you
Hello there! I'm a native russian speaker. I'm 22 years old and I agree with this video. I had a good marks at russian language in school, but teacher show me my grammar errors. It's good that this video exsist. Because I cannot in full maner understand why our language is hard to learning. And also don't know why in time like that someone studying russian. Can anyone please answer to me? (Sorry if I write something wrong. I didn't use translate, only my knowledge.)
Do you think writing cursiv is necessary? I know how to, but I do better without. Especally learning vocab is easier for me if I use block writing. I do hard getting all these words in my head anyway. 😢 But my "teacher"* makes me write cursiv always, as well as any textbook. *just some lessons, once a week for 3 month by a native. Mostly I study on my own.
If your vocabulary is weak how would you be able to read? And that's not even factoring the grammar rules. What he's suggesting is the initial hour. You'll know when you need to read which clearly isn't in the initial hour for sure.
I’m not sure I’m not sure which one to learn Portuguese or Russian. I already know three languages and want to learn a fourth so I’m not sure could someone help me lol.
Hiii. I know that something i want to ask now can be strange, buuut. My friend thought "Can I say "chest" if I'm talking about grave/tomb/coffin???" and started looking for this information. And then she showed me funny sentence about coffin and i asked her, why she's looking for synonyms for "coffin", and she told me, why, AND THEN I started doing it with her, but all we found was words that "yes, you can say "chest", but it's a very old way to say "coffin", so, nyeh. And i won't show you proofs haha". So now i want to ask you, english talking people. Are you still using this word in this way? Can we do so? Ummm... I'm sorry for my not perfect english, heh. Hope someone will see this comment and answer our question. I wish a lot of happiness to everyone who read this!
Even early on, I don't think cases are so useless. Compare Я в Лондоне Я в Лондон For the former, it'd be quite confusing in the nominative case. For the latter, even without knowing the verb "to go", I think a native speaker would understand the meaning here, especially with some hand gestures.
