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| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4386 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 1 of 27 15 September 2013 at 12:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In your opinion , do naitive speakers of slavic languages , especially the highly inflected ones , have an
advantage in learning european languages ? For example is it going to be easier for a croatian or a russian to learn german rather than for a spaniard ? Edited by albysky on 15 September 2013 at 1:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 2 of 27 15 September 2013 at 1:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I seriously doubt it.
I can't say about languages which using latin-based alphabet, but in case of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian there would be the very first difficulty - Latin alphabet itself. It may seem not true, but if one have lack of motivation, it's very hard to get through beginning. I got scared when I saw French alphabet. European languages (most of them, I think) have rather tricky pronunciation. Russian is somewhat close to German, but the main difference in speech requires a lot of time and practice, and I don't think that we have some advantage here. Articles are the most worrying part. Many courses usually starts with them and that's the thing that can easily put us in troubles. I'm dealing with English for quite a time since school and I still do not understand how to use articles. it may be easier in some languages, but it's still just completely foreign part of speech for me, Russian native. It's very hard to deal with something that has no analogues in your language. Tense system in European language is a disaster for us. We have three times, one future, one present and one past and the easiest way to get away of that is to use the simpler forms which is not always correct (German Präteritum and Perfekt, for example). Russian is very flexible language and any strict rules about word order is really upsetting, one feel literally no freedom without enough vocabulary. Actually, I do not even try to study German from Russian textbooks, I'm doing L2 (Michel Thomas, planning FSI). I won't fully avoid Rus-Deu for that's impossible, but at some point L2 is even easier (catching some parallels Eng-Deu, etc). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4386 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 4 of 27 15 September 2013 at 4:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was told that for polish russian is easier than Italian or french
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 5 of 27 15 September 2013 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That is because they are from the same family.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 7 of 27 15 September 2013 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's wrong. Polish and Russian are closer to each other. Russian is much easier than French for a Pole. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 8 of 27 15 September 2013 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
No, we don't.
No, it isn't. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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