The 5 most difficult things about learning Russian | how to learn Russian

In the 1st episode of Learn about Russian Bridget talks about cases, verbs of motion, prefixes, imperfective and perfective verbs, and pronunciation.

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0:23 - Russian has 6 cases!
0:28 - In English, the word order is stable: I saw him. He saw me. 

0:45 - List of cases

Nominative (Именительный), 
Genitive (Родительный), 
Dative (Дательный), 
Accusative (Винительный), 
Instrumental (Творительный), 
Prepositional (Предложный)

0:51 - In Russian, word order can change because of cases, and the meaning remains unchanged!

1:17 - 2. Imperfective vs Perfective verbs
1:21 - Is the action complete or not? 
1:30 - Verbs come in pairs, like: 
1:35 - отвечать (что делать?) and ответить (что сделать?) = to answer
1:40 - читать (что делать?) and прочитать (что сделать?) = to read
1:46 - Yesterday I read a book. "Вчера я читал книгу" or "Вчера я прочитал/дочитал книгу"

2:10 - 3. Verbs of motion
2:29 - You always need to specify

2:52 - 4. Prefixes 
3:01 - They are added to words to specify their meaning. 
3:11 - Towards (под-ходить), away from (от-ходить, у-ходить), through (про-ходить), into (в-ходить), out of (вы-ходить), etc.

3:21 - 5. Pronunciation
3:26 - You can pronounce a Russian word as it's spelled, as long as you know the stress
3:40 - Tricky sounds
3:42 - Ы: мы (we), вы (you plural), ты (you singular)
3:52 - Ь (мягкий знак) is not pronounced, but modifies other sounds.
3:57 - Брат (brother) is not the same as брать (to take)

4:18 - Learning Russian will make your brain smarter!

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