Learning Russian - Difficulties And Tips

My perspective on learning Russian, the country and the people.

Transcript:
Hello, Steve Kaufmann here. Today I’m going to talk about Russian, my experience with Russian, about how I learned the language, some comments about the language. I’m going to begin by explaining a bit about Russia and Russian culture as I perceive it.

I had mentioned in my video about learning French that the French like to be very logical, at least that’s what they teach at school, they’d like to be very precise in how they explain themselves and so forth. The Japanese are not at all that way. Also, there’s a lot of understatement in Japanese. They don’t say no. They say we’re going to certainly consider your suggestion, which means no. The Russians aren’t like that...

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Timelines:
0:20 Russia and Russian culture as I perceive it.
1:36 How I got started learning Russian.
2:24 Russian grammar is very complicated.
2:52 Russia is a phenomenal country.
6:57 Russian pronunciation is hard.
8:24 Russian writing system.
9:49 Word order is an issue.
11:11 Russian Case system.
13:48 The problem with the cases.
16:03 How to deal with the cases.
17:20 Not knowing Russian cases doesn’t prevent you from understanding.
18:22 Verbs of motion in Russian.
19:18 Aspect of verbs in Russian.
20:20 The good news about Russian.

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Russian Question Words:
https://www.lingq.com/blog/2018/11/05/russian-question-words/

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