*Once my Russian friend told me:* Russian grammar is difficult even for Russians.

English: Run, Ran, Running, Runs, Russian: бе́г, беги́, бе́га, бе́гов, бе́гу, бе́гам, бе́г, бе́гом, бе́гами, бе́ге, бе́гах, бегу́, бежа́ть, бежи́м, бежи́шь, бежи́те, бежи́т, бежа́т, бежа́л, бежа́ла, бежа́ло, бежа́ли, беги́те, бежа́щий, бежа́щая, бежа́щее, бежа́щие, бежа́щего, бежа́щей, бежа́щего, бежа́щих, бежа́щему, бежа́щей, бежа́щему, бежа́щим, бежа́щий, бежа́щую, бежа́щее, бежа́щие, бежа́щего, бежа́щую, бежа́щее, бежа́щих, бежа́щим, бежа́щей, бежа́щею, бежа́щим, бежа́щими, бежа́щей, бежа́щих, бежа́вший, бежа́вшая, бежа́вшее, бежа́вшие, бежа́вшего, бежа́вшей, бежа́вшего, бежа́вших, бежа́вшему, бежа́вшей, бежа́вшему, бежа́вшим, бежа́вший, бежа́вшую, бежа́вшее, бежа́вшие, бежа́вшего, бежа́вшую, бежа́вшее, бежа́вших, бежа́вшим, бежа́вшей, бежа́вшею, бежа́вшим, бежа́вшими, бежа́вшей, бежа́вших, бе́гать, бе́гаю, бе́гаем, бе́гаешь, бе́гаете, бе́гает, бе́гают, бе́гая, бе́гал, бе́гала, бе́гало, бе́гали, бе́гай, бе́гайте, бе́гающий, бе́гающая, бе́гающее, бе́гающие, бе́гающего, бе́гающей, бе́гающего, бе́гающих, бе́гающему, бе́гающей, бе́гающему, бе́гающим, бе́гающий, бе́гающую, бе́гающее, бе́гающие, бе́гающего, бе́гающую, бе́гающее, бе́гающих, бе́гающим, бе́гающей, бе́гающею, бе́гающим, бе́гающими, бе́гающей, бе́гающих, бе́гавший, бе́гавшая, бе́гавшее, бе́гавшие, бе́гавшего, бе́гавшей, бе́гавшего, бе́гавших, бе́гавшему, бе́гавшей, бе́гавшему, бе́гавшим, бе́гавший, бе́гавшую, бе́гавшее, бе́гавшие, бе́гавшего, бе́гавшую, бе́гавшее, бе́гавших, бе́гавшим, бе́гавшей, бе́гавшею, бе́гавшим, бе́гавшими, бе́гавшей, бе́гавших. That's simple.

Guys, don't be afraid of making mistakes. As a native speaker, I can confirm that we're very happy to see someone learning our language and trying to speak it

Paul: the most difficult thing in Russian is the cases and types of verbs punctuation: laughs

-Вы в каком классе были? Я в а -О и я в а -А я в б -А я и в а и в б

Me: native Russian who speaks my language perfectly Also me: INTERESNO

I am an American who has been using Duolingo for 3 months to study Russian. I know that I have only just started to scratch the surface. My nephew's spouse (who is originally from St Petersburg) helps me out whenever they visit my state every 6 months. I know I'll never be fluent, but at 72 years of age, I enjoy exercising my mind and I love this beautiful language.

The real reward of studying Russian is gaining access to the magical realm of Russian internet memes

Russian- has no articles and only 3 tenses Me: wow such an easy language Russian: hold my cases (if you can)!

Звучит так сложно, что я теперь боюсь говорить на родном языке

As a French learner of the Russian language, I was surprised by the number of words of French origin. The alphabet is simple except for the handwritten cursive script. The vocabulary is easily remembered because of the Indo-European roots. But the hardest part is grammar and suffixes. I have to think about every word. But it's the most beautiful language in the world, and Russian speakers are wonderful, cultured people.

I love hearing Russian being spoken. I have heard it in movies and TV news. Greetings from El Salvador (Central America).

Насколько же мне скучно, что я смотрю видосик про свой язык на английском?

I'm Polish and I love listening to people speaking Russian. I understand roughly 20-30%, but Russian sounds to me like a beautiful song. Regards to our Russian brothers!

I'm just starting to learn russian. I've always wanted to learn a language that is widely spoken outside western countries. Best regards from a citizen in your neighbour country in the north east 🇧🇻🇷🇺

I am a native English speaker, have studied Russian for 22 years, lived and traveled and been very heavily involved in that part of the world. The major difficulties I have had are in the area of verb tenses and word endings. Entire words can change dramatically, so it is not always just like adding an ending like we do in English. An example in English would be the plural of mouse and mice. I found that if you find an example of an oddity in your own language it helps to understand a similar oddity in the new language to calm yourself down :). They also have a formal "you" which is also plural and an informal "you." Later I found out we used to have the same in English and the formal "you" won out. The alphabet is easy. What is very hard is being able to say the sounds correctly, which in part is based upon they have different concepts of HOW to say a letter. Such as from the front of the mouth or the back in the throat. And that is influenced by hardened muscles in the palette as well. The REAL difficulty between languages is the NUANCES. A language is simply the MECHANICAL aspect of communicating concepts. Examples would be: you have a word that has 13 definitions. Well, not all those definitions match up in their language. Or the word "the" in English has a volume of rules about it (such as can't be used before a name...). The farther the language is from your native language the more the mechanism changes. Languages don't necessarily match up one for one. We might write "C'mon In" and they would write normally "Welcome" on a sign, but they would say "c'mon in" if speaking. Also, have you noticed little kids speaking? They speak some 80 hours a week. I found one key thing that helps to learn is to work with someone who is virtually fluent in your native tongue who can explain split hair differences and then just accept how they say something and practice it over and over till it becomes natural. If you inspect your own language you will find the goofiest things that make no sense whatsoever but we never question it. You just run with it. (Like "it's raining"...what is "it?" or the difference between "anyone" and "anybody" or "I DO not like spinach"...why the "do" in the negative form? or "there's" a dog in here...why the "there?"

Хватит выглядеть как русский человек и при этом говорить без акцента. Это пугает

That feeling when you are Russian and you're watching a video about Russian language described on English language... I don't know why I did it, but it was interesting.

I'm Russian and I want to say to people who study Russian that we are not strict about the correct pronunciation or grammar or anything else, so you really don't have to worry about trying to speak with Russian. Russians really appreciate you're interested and trying to study, because tbh even for Russians it's hard to speak write and even read in Russian 😂 the language is very intuitive

I am planning to get to know the Cyrillic alphabet starting today; I will commence learning Russian starting today. If you see this comment, keep in mind that I will be back after 1 year and update you. Good luck to all the people starting to learn Russian! Увидимся!

"Советская империя" *Ленин дважды перевернулся в мовзолее"

As a Russian, I regard a person who speaks my language fluently and with no grammar mistakes as a true hero. It's immensely complex for a foreigner. And Paul hasn't even mentioned our punctuation system, which is a clusterbang even for a native speaker. Kudos to all studying Russian. You are warmly welcome to come here and practice.

Here I am, learning English for 10 years and still dropping "a" and "the". Guys, how do you even know how to use articles? I mean, I know rules and all, but still can't quite get it. * crying in Russian*

As a native speaker I noticed four variations in spoken Russian: 1. Russian 2. Literate Russian 3. Russian profanity 4. My most liked, The mix of 3 first variations.

-Пить есть? -Пить нет. -а есть есть? -есть да наверное

Я финн которому восемнадцать лет. Я умею немного говорить, писать и читать на русском языке потому я изучаю этот язык и это - родной язык моей бабушки. Я бы хотел стать лучше русскоязычным однако. Простите за ошибки!

As a native speaker of Russian from Kharkiv (Ukraine), I can say that dialects are almost non-existent in our language. We speak almost the same language from Vladivostok to Odessa or Minsk with minor exceptions in terms of vocabulary. There are accents but nothing even close to strong accents in, say, Ireland or UK. Two main accents are northern and southern and the difference is, in fact, very small. The southern version contains specific sounds (e.g. a strong g-) and is felt as somewhat "rural" in Moscow and other big cities of Russia. Other accents exist but they are rare and not so different from the main ones. So the difference in vocabulary, pronunciation, accents, grammar, etc. between the Russian language spoken in Vladivostok and Odessa is smaller than in English spoken in Liverpool and Glasgow.

I am Russian. And this video was interesting for me, although, there were things that I haven't known before. And your accient is very clean for me. Thanks a lot!

Я живу с сестрой На сестре... И тут эти чертовы Ланнистеры!

От англоговорящего мужика узнал про свой язык больше чем от своей учительницы по русскому языку.

Russian. My favorite foreign language. 😍🇷🇺

I've just started Russian, and honestly I think people make it up to be more difficult than it really is. The vocabulary is actually pretty easy to get (lots of the words have connections to other languages; or at least to me they seem to). The hardest part is absolutely the conjugation of nouns and whatnot. I'm almost always corrected. However, many native Russian speakers will not mention it, because it's still understandable. The only time I think you need to be perfect is if you're in a professional setting or writing anything. But in spoken Russian, it's really not that crucial. I've been loving the process of learning it, and I definitely recommend it :)

Me after learning Russian for a month on Duolingo: "Wow, Russian is surprisingly easy" Me after watching this video: "Oh.... Oh I see..."

As a Dutch person learning this beautiful language, I was surprised that there are over 3000 Dutch words in Russian...

I've been a Duolingo student for more than 120 days and I would say the Cyrillic alphabet is the most easy thing by far.

The hardest part about learning Russian is the hardest part of learning any language - the unfathomable amount of vocabulary one must learn, in order to use that language in a deep and meaningful way.

I desperately gave up thinking of studying Russian after watching the grammar part of this video, only to realize that I'm a native speaker.

Привет! I'm from Poland and I'm learning Russian. Our languages are really similiar, so learning it isn't that hard for me. After learning Cyrillic alphabet I can read and I can understand quite a lot of sentences. Russian language sounds very cute to me and it's really beautiful! While learning it I saw that some words are the same like in polish or are very similiar. Some polish words was also created from russian, for example: tea - polish: herbata - russian: чай (chay) but teapot - polish: czajnik (chay-neek ?) - russian: чайник (chay-neek ?) Greetings from Poland, Slavic brothers! ❤

Russian is a very unique language. It is the 4th hardest language to learn. I am still improving my Russian. Very soon I will be fluent in the language. Also big love to Russia! 🇨🇳♥️🇷🇺

I've been, as a Dutch native, studying Russian for about 2,5 years now. I find the structure and the challenge of the language very fascinating, it's also a pleasure that the verbs are not that difficult either. However: I find pronouncing Russian HARD, as it's now 'what you see is what you get'. This, plus the length and tongue twisting of some words are the aspects I find most difficult about Russian. But, fortunately I've been able to use Russian in real life. The reaction of the people, and the possible to (somewhat) response to them makes learning the language absolutely worth it.

Славик даже не подозревал, насколько он популярен.

Вспоминается анекдот про американского шпиона, которого десять лет учили русскому языку, пить водку стаканами, ругаться матом и прочему.. Затем его забросили в русскую деревню. И вот идет он по деревне - навстречу местная бабка. Он ей на чистом русском языке -"Здорово бабка, где тут у вас станция?". Она ему "Милок, да ты небось шпион?" "С чего это ты взяла, бабка?" "Так у нас тут негров отроду не бывало!"

Я француз, несколько месяцев учу русский. Через 4 месяца перееду в Латвию из-за университета, поэтому начал изучать и латышский и этот язык. Пока очень нравится, еще много ошибок делаю, но главное то, что люди поймут меня 😁

До чего дошло время, что я стал смотреть видос про русский на английском.

"On the sister"... hmmmmm what do we have here?

Судя по комментам, чел этот ролик для русских запилил)))

Kievian Rus is not name of the state. It is the name of period in Rus history, when capital of it was in Kiev.

Started learning russian yesterday, I think I got most of the alphabet, now to grammar and words, I hope to have it easier as I'm native polish speaker, so our languages are quite similar and share a lot of words. Wish me luck!

An interesting fact about this language is that everybody who wants to fly to the space must know russian, for technical reasons, that's why all astronauts are fluent in english and russian.

A Russian from Siberia reporting in. We don't really have any dialects in Russia anymore, I am never able to tell what part of Russia the person comes from, because we all speak the same language. Only a few slang words can be different between one city and another. People from other countries on the other hand are very easy recognizable by their accents. I can tell when the person comes from Ukraine or Belarus, because their pronunciation of Russian is very similiar to the way they would pronounce Ukrainian/Belarusian.

12:49 I'm a native russian speaker, yes, we have dialects of russian, but they are not that different. But Russia is a multinational country, so we have many languges. I have some internet friends from Russia's most autonomus federal subjects - republics. They speak 2 languages: russian and their native.

I am Polish and I learned Russian at scholl (at that time all had to learn it at school in Poland actually) and I am courious why Polish is considered extremelly difficult and Russian "only" difficult. I perceived difficulty of Russion as rather similar to that of Polish. There is another thing I would like to mention as a Pole. Russian as a Slavic language has a lot of similarities to Polish. Word inflection, sentence order, some vocabulary they all have something common in both language. However, strangely enough for me it was not something that helped in learning Russian. There are so many differences that I always made a lot of mistakes using plenty Polish forms in Russian. In this respect learning languages that are less similar may be more straightforward. Although perhaps learning non-indoeuropean language for indoeuropean may be really a challenge.

- Ду ю спик инглиш? - Дую, но плохо.

Russian Ё be like: YOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I’ve been trying to learn this language for a while now and you are right the Cyrillic alphabet is not the hard part, I can pronounce words but it’s hard to figure out which part of the word to stress and what ending to use, there are so many variations 😅

Я из Санкт-Петербурга и общался с девушкой с Камчатки и никаких отличий в языке и речи не замечал. Вот про Воронеж слышал, что там есть свои фишки..)

Самое прекрасное в русском языке это уменьшительно ласкательные... очень не хватает в английском,прям вот ломает без них...вот как объяснить слово Хлебушек?

I literally just started to learn Russian on my own in this period of quarantine...I'm from Italy and I know what is a difficult grammar....to be honest...I don't even know all Italian grammar. Seeing this video and reading comments that says Russian grammar is hard... depressed me alot...I don't really want to experience again the pain of learning and hard grammar...but...I will not give up.

As a mongolian, Russian wasnt very hard because we also use Cyrillic, but we have 2 more letters

Привет!Я гречанка. Я недолго изучаю русский язык.Я почти нечего не понимаю когда Я слушаю разговорых русских и поэтому я чувствую себя плохо...Но в будущем я буду понимать все! Летом Я познакомилась с парнем из Москвы и сейчас Я хочу очень хорошо изучать этот язык потому что Я уже в него влюблена!;)

Very interesting to listen to the story of your language in a foreign language.

Thanks, the explanation for hard vs soft consonants at 6:37 together with the illustration given before was of great help!

There are still regional dialects in Russian, though variations are small. For instance: in "main" or "Moscow" dialect unstressed o makes [a] or [ə] sound, while in Vologda dialect it's always [o]. Some dialects can have г or х making [ɣ] sound. And how can we forget Odessan dialect, that have tonns of loanwords and loangrammatics from Yddish, which makes it sound unique.

Они изучают нас 0_0

Russian is also widely spoken in Israel, Brighton Beach, NE Philly, all Eastern Europe and Space Station

I’m learning Russian this semester and it’s definitely difficult. I’m just now starting to remember the alphabet. Also Russian cursive was something I never expected to learn.

The study of English -> Spanish -> German really helped me understand the concept of "cases" as these 3 languages get more and more inflective. The study of these highly inflective languages kinda creates a new "space or territory" in my mind that didn't exist before, like a new concept, a new way of thinking about life. It feels so good, like a mind massage. Thanks Paul!

I'm a German and I'm learning Russian. Russian is difficult to learn because the grammar is difficult, but I want to learn it absolutely because I love Russian music

Чуваки, изучающие русский как иностранный язык, я восхищаюсь вами. Хотя я думаю, что объективно оценить сложность языка нельзя однозначно, важным фактором является схожесть с твоим родным языком. Тем не менее, в русском куча грамматических категорий, тонны правил и исключений из них, стилистических нюансов... Запомнить такое нагромождение информации, а потом ещё и усвоить её и правильно применять знания на практике - это огромный труд! Обожаю русский язык - мой родной язык, само собой - каждый раз, когда узнаю, что кто-то из иностранцев его учит, сердечку становится теплее :з

I'm an American, I can say that the Noun endings were by far the hardest part. The verb endings are easier to understand because I'm conversational in Spanish cuz I live close to the border but Noun endings are so hard to grasp at first. It reminds me of learning Latin in middle school

I’m Hispanic, but I speak 4 Slavic languages. For me, I’d say Polish or Serbian are the hardest. Pronunciation will be very difficult for Westerners, because some sounds like ы English doesn’t have. Î ă these two in Romanian are similar or ъ this in Bulgarian. Russian is not very hard to learn and after a few weeks you can understand sentences. The grammar is very difficult and I believe it’ll take you a few years to get good. I actually prefer the Cyrillic script, because it’s a lot more comfortable than the Latin alphabet. I much prefer привет to privet. Westerners might have some problems with these letters шнив because they are not like the Latin letters. Ш is shhh н is n и is the Spanish/Polish I and в is v. You must practice with Russians to get used to the sound

Перед нами стол. На столе стакан и вилка. Что они делают? Стакан стоит, а вилка лежит. Если мы воткнем вилку в столешницу, вилка будет стоять. Т.е. стоят вертикальные предметы, а лежат горизонтальные? Добавляем на стол тарелку и сковороду. Они вроде как горизонтальные, но на столе стоят. Теперь положим тарелку в сковородку. Там она лежит, а ведь на столе стояла. Может быть, стоят предметы готовые к использованию? Нет, вилка-то готова была, когда лежала. Теперь на стол залезает кошка. Она может стоять, сидеть и лежать. Если в плане стояния и лежания она как-то лезет в логику «вертикальный-горизонтальный» , то сидение - это новое свойство. Сидит она на попе. Теперь на стол села птичка. Она на столе сидит, но сидит на ногах, а не на попе. Хотя вроде бы должна стоять. Но стоять она не может вовсе. Но если мы убьём бедную птичку и сделаем чучело, оно будет на столе стоять. Может показаться, что сидение - атрибут живого, но сапог на ноге тоже сидит, хотя он не живой и не имеет попы. Так что, поди ж пойми, что стоит, что лежит, а что сидит. А мы ещё удивляемся, что иностранцы считают наш язык сложным и сравнивают с китайским.

Кстати, анекдот: когда у сороконожки спросили как она ходит, она запуталась и упала. Я тоже пока слушал этот ролик удивлялся: а как я не запутываюсь в этих правилах? Потому что обычно всё просто ведь.

Kakoy zhe etot russkiy yazyk slozhnyy, horosho, chto ya englishman.

I attempted to learn Russian is the second language that I learned other than English. First being Latin. I went after it specifically because of Cyrillic made it seem hard. But after a relatively brief period Figuring out Cyrillic I realized that Cyrillic was probably the easiest part of Russian….

As a native Russian speaker I am happy to know the language already "by default". I can't even imagine what kind of hell it must be having to learn Russian as a foreigner. Kudos to everyone who is willing to learn Russian!

"What did you say?!" "Nothing mamma, I just said 'ticket'"

the way Russian people rearrange words in their sentence is something do precious that I must learn

я что, посмотрел весь ютуб, что мне в рекомеднациях подсунули это в 2021?!

Трудно представить как сложно иностранцам учить русский язык, если сами русские в своей массе далеки от идеального знания своего языка

когда у тебя мало времени, и тебе нужно подготовиться как к ЕГЭ по русскому, так и по английскому

Im a native Polish speaker Russian is really easy to me. I do not have to think about the word ending, bcs i can "guess" which one will be correct. Polish endings are quite similar. Unfortunetelly there are a lot of russian words which sunds like Polish words, but they have a diffrent meaning :( It is really confusing to me.

Thanks for this video! I’ve been looking for a brief intro to & overview of Russian grammar for a while. I’m glad there are examples too

"Soviet empire" *Lenin turned over twice in the mausoleum

Русский будет легким до тех пор, пока изучающие не встретятся с причастиями, деепричастиями, наречиями, полным склонением числительных, отглагольными прилагательными и категорией состояния. Вот тут начинается все веселье! А, ну еще и пунктуация, но это отдельный разговор

Heey! I'm happy to find your channel, it's really structured, cognitive and interesting! Thanks a lot for your videos😻❤️

Didn't know you where playing on hard mode. Love your language content, it's fun, serious, contemporary, non-serious. Its the kind of content that allows us language learners to be a bit more self-aware. It's a great addition to the polyglot KZfaq space. Anyways, just wanted to say Hi and thanks as I continue my own language learning adventures.

I’ve been learning Russian for years and still struggle with it, but I have Russian friends and cannot disappoint them by giving up. I will never give up. Russian is helping me better understand Russia and its citizens, become a better teacher of English, improve my mind and show more patience & kindness to others. Я учусь русскому языку годами и все ещё борюсь и ним, но у меня русские друзья и мне нельзя разочаровать их тем, что я сдамся. Я никогда не сдамся. Русский язык помогает мне лучше понимать Россию и её граждан, стать лучшим преподавателем по английскому языку, улучать мой ум и проявлять больше терпения и доброты к другим.

I'm a German and have been learning Russian since 7th grade (for about 40 years now). The cyrillic alphabet is a joke compared to other features of Russian. As a native German speaker I didn't have problems with gender and case in Russian declination. But the difference between short and long adjective forms was a bit of a hassle. The verbal system is very regular, there are even 10 types of non-regular verbs (so there is not too much of extra learning those) and only a handful of irregular verbs, which is quite a relief to all those irregular verbs in English (and German). The aspect system is totally different to the German verbal system, so I had a hard time to get a grasp of that. The most difficult part of Russian is the Old Church Slavonic part of it. Russian uses duplicates to express different meanings (or styles). E.g. "njebo" is OCS and means "sky", while RUS "njobo" means the sky of the mouth i.e. palate. You can compare this to sky and heaven, wth the first being the physical and the second the metaphysical. German only knows "Himmel" for both. These single-word duplicates alone aren't so bad, but OCS and RUS word-stems, prefixes, and suffixes are all mixed together. So you may have a OCS prefix followed by a RUS stem and maybe two suffixes, one of them OCS and the other RUS. Then you get a word with a meaning like "blushing with a rosy tan". But if you change the RUS suffix into its OCS counterpart it might mean "blushing with a deep/dark red tan". This is just a constructed (not real) example to let you get the idea of what I mean. This method of composing single words for meanings, where even Germans (the worldchampions of compound nouns) use several words, lets the vocabulary explode. So I often read a word and I identify the stem and know the meaning, I have an idea what meaning (changes) all the prefixes and suffixes might have - and still I don't understand the word and have to look it up in the dictionary. This is unnerving because this doesn't occur once or twice on a bookpage but rather three times in a sentence. I've been reading English without a dictionary for 35 years now, I've never been able to do it in Russian.

As a german I find the case system in russian straightforward and logical. German has only 4 cases but almost always the german cases fall together with russian cases, i.e. an expression which uses the dativ case in german will use the dativ case in russian too. Also, the german language has 3 gramatical genders. Somewhat difficult I find putting the stress onto the right syllable. That sometimes changes the meaning of a word, example "ZAMOK" depending on the stressed syllble means two different things (castle or lock).

Thanks, Paul, for the summary on Russian. It confirmed what I have been studying. Good to know it might be a Level V language! I will keep at it. Many thanks

Услышала про старославянский, вспомнила, что у меня по нему пересдача и пошла плакать

If you travel to Russia and you're not a Russian speaker you really owe it to yourself to spend a few hours familiarizing yourself with the Cyrillic alphabet. It's way less intimidating than it looks. It's almost totally phonetic and being able to sound out words is a huge help, even if you don't know what they mean, particularly for place names.

11:43 There are some "rudimental" articles in Russian, but usually we don't think about them like about articles. You can use word один (one) as indefinite article and этот (this) as definite article. - Есть тут _один_ парень, который видел снежного человека. - There is _a_ guy who have seen a yeti. - Парень _этот_ вчера был здесь. - The guy was here yesterday.

What I like the most about Russian is numerous ways of creating versions of one word (incl names) that will give it a hint of meaning. Like my name (Maria) - there may be like 20 different options of it, incl very loving, cute, funny, very informal, even on the border of a bit rude etc etc.

The Russian alphabet was quite easy, though still very confusing for an English speaker. The Russian case system was obnoxiously difficult (still haven't mastered it). The Russian verbs, especially verbs of motion, are suicide-inducing.

Sorry, I'm very late to this party! But here goes anyway. What things cause learners most difficulties in Russian? I am English with a degree in Russian. In the early days of learning Russian it took a lot of time and energy to learn all the adjectival and noun endings. Things are complicated by irregularities and shifting stress. Just because a particular syllable takes the stress in the nominative case doesn't mean the stress won't shift to a different syllable in a different case or number. These things don't worry me now but there is one thing that still causes me problems. Prefixes. There are a string of various prefixes в-, по-, про-, при-, от-, об-, с-, раз-, пере- and many, many more. These all alter the meanings of verbs (and nouns) in various ways. As a learner you first get used to these with verbs of motion. So eg ходить means 'to go', the prefix пере mean across so переходить mean to go across. However, you then find out that these prefixes can also go on countless other verbs changing the meaning in subtle ways that are not as obvious as they are for verbs of motion. So for example in English you have the verb 'to change' which doesn't really have many variations. Not so in Russian. The basic verb is менять but you also have сменять, изменять, заменять, разменять, обменть etc. and knowing which one to use in which context is a nightmare. Changе to replace = заменять, change money from one currency to another = обменять, change large amounts of money into smaller = разменять. Same story for almost every verb you use. It's actually what makes Russian one of the most beautifully expressive and subtle languages on earth but it's a minefield for foreign learners.

Great video! I almost forget how to use my own language :D But seriously, it reminded me whole school program of Russian language, GREAT JOB! Btw articles are still the hardest part of English for me.

Russian is a beautiful language

Забавно слушать собственный язык , когда о нем рассказывают иностранцы