Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
How do people speak and read Russian? There are seemingly infinite long words that are almost identical or at least similar. I thought Turkish was crazy about this but Russian is another level. Большое спасибо мои друзья
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kugusha 🦋
@kugusha.eth
Есть еще множество однокоренных слов у которых схожее значение. Терпения в учебе 🙌
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Nick T
@nt
Most verbs are composed with simple roots and many prefixes and suffixes, similar to German and Hungarian, and it becomes quite intuitive after a while. That said, it's my mother tongue so mileage may vary
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kugusha 🦋
@kugusha.eth
from the memory @cassie learned Russian too
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max ↑🎩
@baseddesigner.eth
You don’t think about it much, at all really, when it’s your native language you were growing up with
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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩
@nounishprof
tagging @alinaferry on this one
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Alexander Iv
@youzzzerneim.eth
To me, Turkish seemed much more complicated. But anyway, we speak and read just fine. We even understand each other sometimes 😜
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Alina
@alinaferry
My background is in ESL and FrenchSL teaching, and yet I still have no idea how to explain the quirks of Russian as a native speaker I’d say if you ever studied classic Latin, some aspects of Russian would come easier I personally think there are also some random similarities with the Semitic languages (like root vowels), and any previous knowledge of any languages can be applied. Even the tones in Mandarin somewhat have an equivalent in Russian, believe it or not My giant rec to everyone is to read something on Russian language history - understanding its “backend” logic and its evolution will help immensely. The rest will come with a ton of practice Sorry I don’t have anything more useful for you :) Good luck!
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Kent Babin
@kentb
Having learned Russian grammar as a child and spent many years in the Turkic-language world, I always felt Russian was a lot more similar in construction to English than, say, Azerbaijani or Turkish. The glutinative constructions of the latter just don't feel intuitive like the simpler Russian contructions. That said, what drives one's head in about Russian is the use of prepositions and cases. In theory, you really only need one, so having two adds a lot of overhead when trying to form sentences correctly.
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Ivan P
@dayofniagra
My wife's (she's married to a Russian-speaker) Russian teacher insists that one needs not to worry about all the pre/postfixes and just say and read the roots and piece meaning together from that. Some meaning is lost but the main idea will mostly be clear. After some comfort with that you can start getting fancy.
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Niki 🎩🔮
@niki-finance
What about chinease 😂🤣
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