A nightmare indeed! But I have come to enjoy using it and how expressive it can be. It has taken me five years to feel comfortable in most any situation but well worth the effort

That's why it's so delightful as well.

+Jason Pickering Nice to hear that! And where are you from, if you don't mind my asking?

Read Julius Caesar. 2000 years ago he was writing about Europe being invaded by Asians. European languages are classed as Indo-European.

+Maxundmoritz Hautala Except for Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian and probably some others.

When I was traveling through southwestern Asia I learned some basic phrases.The phrase asking for the price of something is almost the same in Turkish and what ever I was struggling with in India. Two very different groups yet similar. Why is uksi in Finn and ek in India "one"? The rest of the numbers in Finn are different from what is used in many other languages. Math is the universal language. Look at any paper currency and you know how man units it is worth.

Slavic languages are Indo European. That means they belong to a group of languages with roots in Asia.

+MarinGY Russian and Iranian have one and the same root. It's Sanscrit - the ancient Russian. If you hear Sanscrit - you hear Russian. Russians still speak the same language as Indians did in 400 -500 A.D.

+alyrababy "никто говорит по русски" you cant say that) it sounds funny and not correct. In english you can say "nobody speaks russian" but in russian "никто говорит по русски" isnt correct. You should say "никто НЕ говорит по русски" so its like "nobody doesnt speak russian" Everytime you use "nobody" or "nothing" you should add НЕ Example: Nobody does that Никто НЕ делает это Nobody thinks about you Никто НЕ думает о тебе. Thats why many russians when they study english they say something like "nobody doesnt think about you") cuz in russian its correct and russian people think that in english you should add "doesnt" after "nobody" and it will be right, but it isnt) So "nothing happens to me" will be "ничего НЕ происходит со мной"

+alyrababy hey if you need to practice the language i'm looking forward your feedback, futhermore english practice is important for me, let's chat :)

+Валентин Иванов Большое спасибо! I always forget about double negation ^^

+Leo Blanch Hey, thanks so much for the offer :)) I need to practice, but sometimes I don't have much time, but we can help each other, are you russian? you can send me email :) bbettycconfetti@gmail.com

+alyrababy I can teach you))

+Pi Niata the complexity of English that the proposal to build a need in a specific order. for example, if you construct sentences in English, then the English lose their meaning. the same with the Russians when it comes to translation from English. do you think this is so? and what language is more difficult in pronunciation? in my opinion to learn to speak Russian without an explicit focus much harder than English.

Ярослав Супрун I respectfully disagree, sir. Your comment is a perfect example validating my assumptions.

Pi Niata your gramatika at altitude. I say most likely as the green Jedi ))) because I do not know English and use the translator Google )))

Pi Niata this is a poor advertisement for Google as a company that brings people together )))

+Ярослав Супрун haha! Indeed sir! have a good day brother!

I agree with you! that's why chinese is so hard even though it's grammar is so simple

+Maky Tondr the thing is that russian is not really a slavic language, it's has finno-ugarian and turkic roots.

IPiminov No man, it is slavic :) The genes of Russians may have some turkic roots, but their language is clearly slavic. Or otherwise it would mean that most of central and eastern european languages are finnu-ugarian, which are not... Only Finnish and Hungarian belong to that group :)

Hyperborean Colonialism I am no expert of genes and stuff like that, I just like studying languages, that's all :) I didn't say that, it was the previous commentator, IPiminov. I clearly said that Russian language is 100% slavic, your comment should have belonged to IPiminov.. However, the cores of many slavic words are very very similar to Sanskrit, so every one of us here in eastern Europe is most likely to have ancestors in India :)

Hyperborean Colonialism Do not worry, you haven't confronted me aggressively :)

we change the verbs and the words also have gender in portuguese. but we dont change the substantives, tks, God hahaha

thethingabouthappiness Actually, Latin is derived from Russian. A big secret of the history, which most scientists are not willing to accept.

+Golden Age Latin came from the Etruscans' and the Greeks' languages. There is practically no way for a Slavic language to reach the middle of the Italian peninsula. Russian and many Slavic languages did come from Greek however and if you look at the letters they are very similar like Π,Φ,Γ,Ρ are the same as Russian П,Ф,Г,Р. There are probably many more similarities but I find it hard to believe that a Slavic language made its way down to the Italian peninsula.

The GraySun Slavic language made it practically worldwide. The original language of "ancient" Greek and Rome was Slavic, even the original Russian. Etruscans or het-RUSCI, who called themselves RASENI or RASENA were simply Russians, who still call themselves RUSSKIE or RASSIANI / RASSIANE. Between Russia and Italia there are also Slavic RUSSINI and Serbians, who called themselves once RAS. The Slavs or Russians, who founded the "ancient" Rome and Greece were called Pelasgians, Hyperboreans, Scythians / Sarmatians etc. They had the same origins as Indo-Aryans, who brought a Russian dialect to India, as well. All these allegedly very, very ancient civilizations were a part of a Russian-Turkish world empire and extended their history ARTIFICIALLY far into the past after they became independet. All they were once provinces of the global Russian empire. I know exactly, what you think now. ;) But I can prove every word scientificly, using old maps, historical books, early and modern linguistic results and genetics. Slavs / Russians can also be traced as far as pre-Columbian America, pre-colonial Africa (also subsaharian regions) or Oceania, Japan, China etc.

Илья Антонюк A great statement. What EXACTLY... is new to you? I am prepared to prove everything. But first find here the video "Russian Wooden Architecture" and then read the description, which contains some literature about this topic.

Golden Age You are absolutely right. The first man was actually from Russia and spoke Russian, that have not changed during the last 100000 years. All other languages derived from Russian and changed a lot, e.g. Russian "брат" [brat] ---> English "brother". "Матерь" [mater] ---> mother, Chinese "mā", and even Zulu "umama"

+EveryDaySlacker If you like Russian, you can watch video on my channel, there is russian language lessons)

+paulparoma thanks for the clarification! :)

+Prepare to Serve! My pleasure.:)

lily winx Я тоже так думаю(I think so too) :-)

GMByte Java молодец

lily winx :-)

Поддерживаю!)))

lily winx естественно)

+Ольга Маргарит Это канал какой-то секты, они отправляют миссионеров по всему миру. То ли мормоны, то ли иеговисты. А потом эти парни и девушки рассказывают на этом канале о странах, в которых побывали

+mEDIUM Gap Чет не допирает, что там у них творится. В чем суть этой секты? Должна же у них быть какая-то идея.

***** Миссионеры, что не понятно, ездят по миру, агитируют за своего самого классного невидимого друга

Пойдем копать картошку :D ммм ностольгия по советским мультикам :О

+Kuplinov Krasava Вперед. Собираемся и выезжаем на рассвете.

+Мария Дектянникова возьмите меня с собой :)

owtena Упаковались? В путь! От каждого по возможностям.

Мария Дектянникова уже на низком старте :)

Слава Богу, думаешь, что живешь в постсоветском гос-ве! Как же прекрасно знать русский

+Алина Дресвянникова но хуй там плавал, ибо по статистике лишь 13% россиян владеют каким-либо иностранным языком. для сравнения финны - 85%.

mihanich это уже зависит от личных предпочтений большинству русских это нахер не нужно, это печально

+Алина Дресвянникова Не совсем так. Нам легче изучать языки славянской группы, скажем, польский или болгарский, но изучить язык другой языковой группы, например германской(немецкий, английский) будет так же сложно, как например и китайцу изучать германские языки. В принципе этим и объясняется хорошее знание английского во всей Европе, потому что европейцам намного легче выучить похожие языки, они похожи по строению, по лексике. То ли дело нам, русскоговорящим, учить абсолютно чуждый нам язык во всех смыслах.

Q-Tip ATCQ ну это уже сугубо индивидуальное бывают люди, которые и при знании английского плохо могут подстраиваться под другие языки мне вот хорошее знание английского мало чем помогает в обучении японскому и немецкому хотя, может быть ты и прав

A little of Russian language for you)

+Anton Rebrov Я не сразу сообразила, что вы написали =)

+Anton Rebrov The use of the letter "y" confuses. Should have gone for letters "I" or "e". Also the letter "c" should not be used as it has no sound of it'S own. In English it can be S, K, or like the letter that looks like an upside down h in Russian.

Мы летим ковыляя во мгле, мы летим на последнем крыле?, бак пробит, хвост горит, но машина летит на честном слове и на одном крыле? Так? Верно ведь разобрала?

that's how we (Russians) write russian words using latin alphabet (if we're lazy to change latin alphabet to cyrillic alphabet on your mobile phones). I for example would write the same phrase as: "Mi letim koviljaja vo mgle, mi letim na poslednem krile, bak probit, hvost gorit no mawina lelit na 4estnom slove i na odnom krile!" Where russian letter "ш" is "w" because "w" is very similar to "ш", also some russians use number six "6" (шесть) or "sh", same is with russian letter "ч" = 4 (четыре) or "ch" ;) Some examples of "crazy russian" (as we call it) LOL! russian letter = english letter which russians would use to replace the russian letter while texting: a = a б = b в = v г = g д = d е = e ё = jo / je (её = ejo / eje; ёлка = jolka) ж = zh (or just "z") з = z и - i й = jo / j (йод = jod; сильный = silnij) к = k л = l м = m н = n о = o п = p р = r с = s т = t у = u ф = f х = h ц = c ч = 4 / ch (чай = 4aj / chaj) ш = 6 / w / sh щ = wa / 6a / sha ъ = ы = i / y ь = ' / j (тень = ten' / tenj) э = e ю = ju я = ja

DownFlex А слово СПУТНИК это чье???

Вы кажется забыли про слово "Бистро" Да и вообще про многие другие слова, если уделить внимание этому вопросу то можно найти много таких слов, которые перешли из русского языка в иностранные языки.

+DownFlex насчет вокзала - это потому что впервые в мире железная дорога появилась в Великобритании. Бутерброд -много немцев жило в России издавна,после того как императрица-немка(не помню как звали) позвала их в поволжье,заселять и осваивать земли.Видно оттуда.

+DownFlex this is mainly in the service sector and trade, as well as cooking, but also his words not refuse. there is an interpenetration of cultures. you know, it's like giving your hat to wear to my cousin, and then when you give it back with bullet holes, you can't throw, as she is beautiful as a basket for socks )))

А Английский из Латыни.

А вот самый адекватный - это уже идиш) Там нет мата.

+Шеринер Туманный Ужас везде есть мат

***** Но в идише ругаются по-другому. Когда я гуглил, мне особенно запомнилось "Чтоб у тебя рожа наизнанку торчала!"

+David Gardner Russian is full of loan words, in fact all things that concern even a bit of technology/culture, they're not named with Russian words. Hell, even the word "kultura" is not Russian.

+David Gardner If you like Russian, you can watch video on my channel, there is russian language lessons)

+Paul Kiss it is like that with most languages

Kenny911able ураган is not turkic, look it up

Kenny911able did you even google it? Ok, let me do it for you: the word ураган comes from french "ouragan", which comes from spanish "huracan". It is written the same in almost all european languages. Ultimately it comes from some storm god Juracan, whatever. Nothing to do with turks. Get your facts straight.

I might help. Which clip?

+Ryan Mar also finno-ugarian too

Hyperborean Colonialism not 100%. It's a bulgarian with heavy influence of finno-ugarian and turkic languages.

Words like urechni in old Slavic and grustni are sino-urgic. Hindi grasta means darkness/eclipse not "sad"

+Ryan Mar also tak is related to Mongolian tekzh for so/a lot. Where taki in Hindi means so.... Only as a subordinate conjunction, not quantities like so much.

grustniyi is altaic proto slavic hocheti is altaic(no indo-european languages possess these words) mongolian hoshehk) Tako kdor machko tolka zima look for zimuk(old uzbek for cold) uchiti( not from hindi because uchit in hindi have different semantic meanings, proper+ uchit in hindi) not teach" kazat nyeyo- ona- zhe- uzhe bi/bar- from languages like evenki byir/bir chemu like sino-tibetan shenme for the same meaning. urechni/srechni uhko khoroshii like altaic yarakhshii/yakhshi I can go on and on..... I speak 10 languages, I know morphology

+kaz9781 well, it's quite similar. russians and ukrainians can understand about 70-100% of speech, when they talk to each other. The difference is caused by polish and romanian influence, and some words that are used in modern ukrainian language are considered archaic in modern russian.

These languages are very similar but there are some things which russians can not understand in ukrannian language. For example the names of months are absolutely different and we (russians) don't understand ukranian names of months.

Я люблю русский!

Lucas Santos Kruto :)

+Ted Riggs And what do you think of it? Many of my friends from another countries suppose that learning Russian is an absolute torture.

+Xen Deadeye It is certainly a difficult language. Most words are a challenge to pronounce at first, but it's always fun because I like it so much. I wouldn't recommend it to just anybody because it is so difficult and because it's honestly not a very useful language to an average American.

Xen Deadeye Yes, but I think the most common foreign languages for Americans are Spanish, German and French. It's not mandatory to learn a second language, though. Most Americans speak English and much of the world speaks it, so unless we are traveling or working in other countries, it really isn't necessary to learn anything else. In my case, it's not necessary. I just learn it because I enjoy it. One of my good friends is Russian and he has taught me quite a bit, and of course you have the most beautiful women in the world so that's another incentive for me. lol

My mother is from Wisconsin where she grew up speaking 28 19th Century Finn and my father learned Finn at the Monterrey Army Language School. I can speak some Finn but it is the US Finn dialect.

They belong to a group known as the Ural Altaic family which means they can be traced back to Central Asia between the Ural and Altaic mountains. Related languages can be found from Norway to the Pacific.

+Богдан Тен А чем гордиться? ты же не прикладывал особых усилий, чтобы его выучить, плюс носителей русского языка - больше 200 миллионов.

Стыдно должно быть - слово "погордиться" слитно пишется и перед "чтобы" запятая ставится, знаток.

Учитывая ошибку, которую ты допустил, я сомневаюсь, что ты знаешь русский. 😂

Why so?

***** because it's my mother tongue and I know how ridiculously difficult it might be

Mona Sabbat Oh...

учусь в лингвистическом вузе, где в т.ч. и китайский русские осваивают успешно, говорят, что если пробиться сквозь иероглифы и тоны, то грамматика там довольно простая. но конечно, все относительно: тут и фактор близости родного языка и изучаемого, и мотивации и, банально, любви к языку. а помещение в среду, как у вашего канадца, вообще чудеса творит.

А вы для чего учите китайский? Для работы или как хобби?

С Сыктывкара?

Crazy-_-Lol TV Нет. Из Сосногорска.

+Ярослав Супрун , Что то ты совсем запизделся, 3й язык в США по популярности это китайский, а уж в Европе никто подавно на русском не разговаривает.

***** 在KZfaq上的你是个英雄

попробуй ещё раз

+Hudshi Привет! У меня все хорошо. Как дела? Вы хотите поговорить? Мой родной язык английский. Но моя кровь России. Моя бабушка была русской и имя моего прадеда был степан сегеевич швец.

+David Gardner Hey, Nice to meet you David

Hudshi And nice to meet you also. Are you able to speak English? It is probably far superior to my Russian.

+David Gardner Yes i am fluent in english and russian, Even though im russian, I also speak arabic. And your russian is pretty good.

Hudshi Я могу читать некоторые российские. Я могу читать лучше, чем говорить по-русски. Мне нужно больше помощи, чтобы иметь возможность проводить беседы. Я никогда не говорить по-русски, чтобы кого-либо. I know a little Spanish and some words in a few other languages. Your English is superb. Do you speak as well as you write English? I wish I was fluent in Russian, but I am not even close. It will require better lessons, and I teach myself. Where do you live in Russia? I often find myself studying the Russian city names on maps. I love to read Russian. I have a few programs or movies I have watched. I love the Dark World series. I have watched Morozko (an absolute favorite of mine). I have watched Burritino (similar to Pinnichio). Adventures of Electronic. And I have watched other films too. I have many cartoon Movies that rival Disney in a collection (which also includes Morozko and the Dark World film and the film that was made from the series). I have been researching my family and it's history. I found my grandmother's real first and last name and the rest of the family that had fled to Hawaii in 1910. They were to go back and was interviewed and paid to go back to the Motherland. A photograph was taken and is on file in an album along with their information. I was excited to find this for the first time. Now I know my family name that was changed long ago.

+Ryan Mar interesting, good to know! Thanks for sharing!

+Ryan Mar Yep, sanskrit, actually.

+Михаил Сергеевич and Urgic to some extent. Words like bi/bar for would/if come from Urgic bïr/bur. gurustni doesn't exist in Sanskrit meaning "sad" from Mongolian gürsen. Hindi has a word grasta but that means "to cover/eclipse" not "sad." Many examples from Hindi and Mongolic languages.

+Jack London I'm not, I'm Russian!!!

+Jack London where do the morphemes come from then? Bi/bar Kubi Grustni(not Hindi, grasta doesn't mean sad) Srechni/urechni(western Slavic morphemes) Many more...

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