Sugrue is the best but I just found another history of philosophy series by Leonard Peikoff that's a bit more systematic although it's a bit slanted as it's told from an Objectivist pov.

Спасибо! Я надеюсь тебе понравится читать это снова!

Hahaha I don't do or use any specific. Just Crest toothpaste and brush 2x per day

I was cracking up at sections in the English so I can only imagine how comical it is in Russian

Happy to hear you enjoyed as much as I did!

I’ve heard great things about Persuasion so maybe that’s what I should go to next!

Thank you! I found it interesting Williams rejected the idea of Stoner's life being a sad one. I can see why for the hope that you and I derived from the story, but I do find Stoner's sorrow and regret to be a bit cautionary for readers on how they should avoid living

@@TheActiveMind1 Yes, I agree! Have you read Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich? I'm sorry if that's a dumb question if you have read it, as you are so well-read in Russian literature. Someone pitched that to me as great for fans of Stoner, and it certainly fits the cautionary tale theme. I thought Tolstoy's story was much bleaker and sardonic, but I loved it!

@@Johanna_reads Yes, I have! It's similar in a precautionary way except the character of Ivan and life is drastically different compared to Stoner. I'd agree that it's a bleak and depressing tale

That's an erroneous and drastic simplification

Off topic, but have you been able to get your hands on a copy of Blinding yet? I'm working my way through Solenoid now and I know I'm going to be seeking out a copy after I finish in a couple weeks.

I’ll definitely make a discussion/review video once I finish it in the coming months!

I have not seen Blinding in print :( but I will likely get a Kindle soon so I can get a digital copy

@@TheActiveMind1 I think i'm going to end up having to do the same unfortunately. Luckily Nostalgia is easily found in print, but I'm more interesting in Blinding. I wish Archipelago would run a re-printing.

I think what I heard wasn’t that they are similar but the vibes are similar. If you liked one, you’ll like the other kind of thing

Спасибо! That excites me but also makes me realize how far I am from reading even a Gogol or Pushkin short story in Russian 😅 just got to stay patient!

@@TheActiveMind1 man I had been reading Pushkin couple months ago and I had to check the dictionary every few minutes. Not because I struggle with russian but because there are so many old words in his works that are not used today and therefore they are literally perceived as foreign. Quite a feeling. I am pretty sure this problem exists in most languages when you tackle some literature from 19 century and earlier

Приятно это слышать! The verb variations are definitely tricky

Через четыре года - можно употребить, когда речь идёт о будущем. Вы же говорите о прошлом. Правильно было бы сказать: "после четырёх лет", "по прошествию четырёх лет", "за четыре года изучения" и т.д.

Спасибо! Я надеюсь посетить Санкт-Петербург в будущем

Конечно!

Спасибо 🙌🏼

Exactly but reaching fluency in languages especially such a difficult language like Russian s not easy but it s definitely worth the effort.

Thank you for the words of encouragement! I’ve inspired by your own polyglot journey

Hahah yes that is an easy loop to fall into. We’ll both feel more comfortable with enough consistent practice!

Unlike English speakers Arabs are excellent when it comes to Russian in my experience as well as Italians.

@xxxyyy8779 That's ture! It is because arabic language has many pronouns and grammer, and we change the words endings very much, so you can say that we are used to sophisticated processing of languages

@@arabicmajd oh, it's not just grammar alone. Arabs also tend to have a good Russian pronunciation while I personally find English speakers' accent rather hard on ears. And it's not just a couple of gifted individuals! This seems to be consistent across all Arabic students of Russian. There must be something about our languages that makes them intrinsically similar on some level.

Спасибо! That doesn’t surprise me as I think a lot of native Russians get bored with Tolstoy/Dostoevsky from school as Americans become with our western writers. Я надеюсь тебе понравится здесь жить!

Большое спасибо!

В действительности зачастую в разных языках есть аналоги, просто нужно иметь обширный словарный запас и быть знакомым с народной версией языка. К примеру, кататься без конкретной цели это "cruise". Когда говорят "we were just cruising", это и значит, что просто катались с друзьями

Спасибо! Это долгий и трудный путь, but I'm staying patient and enjoying the process)

I would highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish 2gether as they are way too pretty not to know, instead of Russian which has mostly non-pretty words, and, if one also wants to learn a Slavic language, I would recommend learning the pretty Slavic languages Slovene and Latvian which have mostly pretty words! Re learning methods, I recommend using the spaced repetition method and watching as many vocab videos as one can find at least thirty times over a period of two or three years and many videos on grammar etc multiple times on different days, and also memorizing many lyrics and analyzing / translating each new word that one doesn’t know yet, and always watching every video or movie with subtitles in the target languages, and typing a lot of sentences and words in the target languages to develop a muscle memory, and also, learning all the prettiest languages at the same time as it saves many years and is the most fun way to learn languages! I recommend learning at least thirty thousand base words in the prettiest languages ever created and at least ten thousand to fifteen thousand base words in the other pretty languages!

Some fun sentences / words in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are... Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse) Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse) Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse) Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic) Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch) Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc! (The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Danish and English and Norwegian and Faroese and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska!)

Norse languages and English and Dutch have the best lyrics and the best literature etc with pretty words that are fun to read and learn, whereas Russian is very overrated and most of its words aren’t pretty and sound funny and is not easy to read, so I don’t understand why would one try to learn Russian or most other languages that exist, when there are truly heavenly languages like Norse and Gothic and Icelandic etc that truly dsv the attention - choosing wisely (only the pretty and easy languages) is key to being a successful polyglot, as pretty and poetic languages that are well-constructed with good letter combinations and pretty word endings and refined / modern / cool sound etc are naturally easy to learn (one naturally learns the prettier and more distinctive words faster) and fun, with Norse / Germanic languages and Celtic languages being the best, and, English is the easiest language ever created, so it’s easy to learn it if one uses the right learning techniques and if one uses it as the main language (more than the first language) and if one watches every video or movie with subtitles in English and always translates the new words that one doesn’t understand, and, the Wkp dictionary and G translate are two of the best tools for translating words and for learning all the meanings of a word etc, and the free dictionary is also great! (And also, all ppl are the exact opposite of wf / lord etc or possessive pronouns which only reflect me the only wf / bride / gf / maiden / girl / lass and the only Possessor / Leader etc and the pure protectors who are the lords etc, and, there should be a distance between all ppl at all times and no śįnńing, and ppl should never want that which was never meant for ppl, and should never learn a language to ‘get’ x or y, and, should only learn the pretty languages for their pretty and poetic words, which are a true work of art - things such as ręlationships are only meant for us pure beings / me and the pure protectors aka the alphas, and love only exists for me and is only meant for me the only lovable being aka the pure being!)

I'm open minded to that but I've seen advocation for learning two languages at once. I assume it greatly depends on how much time you can devote to them and if one comes at a cost to the other, then frustration is inevitable. I'll likely dabble since I already have some familiarity from my adolescence and then will pursue it more once I get a solidified base in Russian. Do you think that would be a more appropriate approach?

@@TheActiveMind1 I disagree with the first guy. If you want to dabble in Spanish, do it! Yes your Russian might stagnate but you can always refocus on it when you decide to. It is important to separate and not mix the languages. Most important thing is that you’re enjoying learning and have goals

I'm JLPT N1 (Close to C1 almost C2) in Japanese, HSK 4 in Chinese and dabble in Russian and German. It's never demotivated me. Just have fun with it. I do prioritize which language I focus in the most. I usually immerse/use Japanese throughout the day and immerse Chinese at least 15 mins a day of I can. Prioritizing which language might help 🍻

I'm curious, what led you to start learning Welsh? What got you interested?

​@@TheActiveMind1 I found out that my ancestry is part Welsh, even though I was never exposed to that culture growing up. I am 90% German, so that was all I knew. I am having fun exploring my Welsh ancestry.

@@jackwalter5970 I figured that might've been the reason. Very neat!

Спасибо 🙌🏼 I’m grateful for the encouragement and the great example of how complex and descriptive Russian can be. It feels overwhelming but also rewarding as I’m making progress!

I also study Russian language, I still can't differentiate the subtle nuances of some words, for example: a rather complex verb: "жарить" (I know it has a sexual connotation, that's not what I mean). Imperfect aspect: "жарить", "поджаривать(ся, only in the third person)" Perfect appearance: "поджарить"; "зажарить" "изжарить(ся, only in the third person)."

That’s comforting to hear! I guess it just requires more practice and listening carefully for pronunciation

@@TheActiveMind1 what you described in the video is about the most basic words in their initial form and I realize that it can be very challenging for those learning russian considering the fact that our grammar is probably more complex and there are so many new and strange things to learn and understand. What I meant about stresses is that as you already know every word in russian has so many forms and stress is very often shifting and changing its place and it is honestly almost impossible to memorize every case for every form of every word if you don't read all the time with the wikidictionary. So yeah, it is enough to memorize only the most common and basic words because when you use some complex word in its altered form incorrectly most native speakers might not even notice it.

That’s inspiring to hear! I hope 6 years from now I’m able to say the same and fluently read in Russian!

I would highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish 2gether as they are way too pretty not to know, instead of Russian which has mostly non-pretty words, and, if one also wants to learn a Slavic language, I would recommend learning the pretty Slavic languages Slovene and Latvian which have mostly pretty words! Re learning methods, I recommend using the spaced repetition method and watching as many vocab videos as one can find at least thirty times over a period of two or three years and many videos on grammar etc multiple times on different days, and also memorizing many lyrics and analyzing / translating each new word that one doesn’t know yet, and always watching every video or movie with subtitles in the target languages, and typing a lot of sentences and words in the target languages to develop a muscle memory, and also, learning all the prettiest languages at the same time as it saves many years and is the most fun way to learn languages! I recommend learning at least thirty thousand base words in the prettiest languages ever created and at least ten thousand to fifteen thousand base words in the other pretty languages!

Some fun sentences / words in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are... Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse) Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse) Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse) Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic) Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch) Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc! (The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Danish and English and Norwegian and Faroese and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska!)

I’ve got a bunch of my channel that I hope you find interesting!

@@TheActiveMind1 Oh, sorry. I’m a bit groggy today. I was confusing you with another guy that does shorts on classic literature. Sebastian Rothstein.

Haha well now you do!