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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 17 of 47 02 September 2013 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7205 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 18 of 47 02 September 2013 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Speculation of course, but perhaps because Russia was a SuperPower, and most Spanish speaking countries don't have the the stature on the world stage as Russia. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| anime Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6360 days ago 161 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Spanish, Swedish*, English Studies: German, Portuguese, French, Russian | Message 19 of 47 02 September 2013 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Isn't it easier to guess the right noun gender in Russian (by word ending), than in German for example?
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 20 of 47 02 September 2013 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes, it is. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4715 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 21 of 47 02 September 2013 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
MUCH³³³³³³³ easier. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| anime Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6360 days ago 161 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Spanish, Swedish*, English Studies: German, Portuguese, French, Russian | Message 22 of 47 02 September 2013 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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that's good news atleast :)
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 23 of 47 03 September 2013 at 1:36am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I wouldn't say we demand perfection any more than other native speakers do. At least if you're not an illegal immigrant heh.
And really in any language there's a huge difference between just speaking and speaking well. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4639 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 24 of 47 03 September 2013 at 9:21am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I can confirm that this is the case. I've been studying Russian seriously for more than a year and a half, but it has been mainly "passive" learning, i.e. I have practised speaking it very little during this time. By now I am able to get the main gist out of a newspaper article (with the help of a dictionary), but I struggle hard to say three coherent and grammatically correct sentences. It is one thing to read and notice that after a certain preposition the noun will be in genitive, another thing to remember this and be able to produce the right gentive plural form of a noun on the spot in a conversation. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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