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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5576 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 33 of 64 14 December 2011 at 3:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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To watch TopGear in Russian and to understand all the TopGears....In the world.
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| drp9341 Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4913 days ago 115 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French Studies: Japanese | Message 34 of 64 14 December 2011 at 6:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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Because Russia just seems awesome... Hanging out in moscow seems amazing, russian girls are beautiful, russian
people are just straight up bad asses, and whenever I see pictures of russian soldiers with the winter hats holding AK-47's I just get the chills 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| KimG Diglot Groupie Norway Joined 4978 days ago 88 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Portuguese, Swahili | Message 35 of 64 14 December 2011 at 7:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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It's an good language if you want to learn some richly inflected language, who lives and who you can speak to native speakers (unlike Latin), and enjoy an evergrowing amount of new books to read in it.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 36 of 64 14 December 2011 at 7:32am | IP Logged | |||||
Reasons I might learn Russian in the future would include:
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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4773 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 37 of 64 14 December 2011 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Oleg Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5830 days ago 57 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Russian*, Polish, English Studies: Spanish, French, Italian | Message 38 of 64 14 December 2011 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
The problem is that it's humour for them and reality for us. And you've mistaken threads, this one's on Russian. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 39 of 64 14 December 2011 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Here are some of the reasons I started learning :]
- I love the Cyrillic alphabet, or as I called it right at the beginning, "The Russian alphabet". While typing doesn't bring me any joy whatsoever anymore, I still love writing it by hand. My handwriting was truly awful when I first began learning it and I hardly joined anything together at all, but now even years later I sometimes just take a scrap piece of paper and write any old word just to see what my handwriting looks like. Even if I'm in the middle of something important. I even feel like doing that now, and probably will do when I finish writing this post. - I read some Russian literature in English before I could even read Cyrillic, and they just didn't sit right with me in English, so I had to learn Russian. Even though I've read a fair bit, my favourite is still Pushkin's short story Пиковая дама - "The Queen of Spades". - The history is fascinating. My coursework for one of the last history courses I did in school was an essay about the collapse of the Tsarist regime in 1917. I did far more background reading for it than was necessary for a 4,000 word essay. Before I started research for it, I had always had a bit of a problem with reading anything in translation - and after doing that essay, that was pretty much cemented in my mind. If I wanted to read anything that was clearly about Russia, I had to at least try in Russian. - Kids' stories. The first story I read (with lots of help from my Russian teacher at the time) was Лисичка со скалочкой - The Fox and the Rolling Pin. I loved the use of so many diminutives, even in the title, probably because we hardly have them in English anymore. -Although it's not much to do with the language, Russian cartoonists seem to draw in quite a different way to what I'm used to, and I like it a lot. One of my favourite things to watch in Russian even now is quite easy to follow - Трое из Простоквашино. One of my lecturers at uni said it's one of her favourite stories even now, and it's something that all Russians know, apparently. Not sure about that but I love it. It's on youtube. - The grammar's intriguing. The cases, aspect, verbs of motion which made me want to tear my hair out, word stress (not the stress of learning them, more the grammatical stress :)) Jack 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 40 of 64 14 December 2011 at 9:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
Me. I can live without Chekov at all.
1. Russian literature often gets reduced to the names Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Gogol and Pushkin. But there is so much more to it! I don't like Russian classics, even though I love the French ones for exemple (but I admit I may grow up to them one day). But that is really not the same as dislike for russian literature. There are many other names, such as Zamjatin (author of antiuthopy which probably inspired Orwell and is even more interesting in some ways), Bulgakov (Master and Margaret), the Strugatski brothers (very interesting authors of sci-fi from approximately sixties), Lukyanenko (a popular and in my opinion great author) and many others. There are interesting nonfiction authors as well such as Lugovska (author of a diary from the soviet era. Writen by a thirteen years old girl who got imprisoned for it later) or Politkovska (a journalist who was murdered several years ago). (sorry if I spell some of the names wrong, I didn't have time to search in wikipedia for each of them in English.) 2. I really like the thread about russian music which recently appeared on the forums. I accidentaly found another interpret- Fleur and some of her songs seem really nice to me. Can be found on youtube. Another reason to learn Russian. 3. The cyrillics alphabet is another reason. It is a foreign alphabet, therefore something I'd like to try, but not as different as Japanese kana's and kanji for exemple. And it can be useful at the internet and for exemple when reading the old music sheets at my granny's (it's sometimes hard to guess the name from the music only, I am not that knowledgeable). 4. And the final one for me, the language is a Slavic one (I don't dare to say whether it is more or less Slavic than some others, ask me in 2015) and therefore it may not be that hard to learn. I know it would still require a lot of time but I am really tempted to give it a try. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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