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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5060 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 17 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Vocabulary and phonology are also Slavic.
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| Oleg Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5833 days ago 57 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Russian*, Polish, English Studies: Spanish, French, Italian | Message 18 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
Russian humour is very interesting and rarely gets adequately conveyed in translation. Gogol is a good example, unfortunately. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5060 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 19 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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So, Oleg, I didn't understand your reasons why Russian is not a typical Slavic language.
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| Oleg Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5833 days ago 57 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Russian*, Polish, English Studies: Spanish, French, Italian | Message 20 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
What Slavic languages do you speak? Actually it's very easy to prove that Russian vocabulary is special: just give a text in Ukranian to a Russian speaker. An example from some BBC article: 'Втім, у зв'язку з занепокоєнням ситуацією з правами людини в Україні в ЄС лунали припущення, що угода не буде парафована 19-го грудня.' Rusians usually think they can understand Ukranians, but mostly it happens because Ukranians can speak Russian. As for phonology, the difference between Russian and Polish phonology is as significant as that between Russian and Finnish. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Oleg Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5833 days ago 57 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Russian*, Polish, English Studies: Spanish, French, Italian | Message 21 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
The reasons are historical. The Russian language was developed artificially, and has been torn away from the rest of the Slavic languages for centuries. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5060 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 22 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"As for phonology, the difference between Russian and Polish phonology is as significant
as that between Russian and Finnish. " You are a freak. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Oleg Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5833 days ago 57 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Russian*, Polish, English Studies: Spanish, French, Italian | Message 23 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Quod erat demonstrandum.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5338 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 24 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
You seem to be baffled that not more people want to learn Russian. I am giving you an opportunity to tell people all the wonderful, crazy, interesting and unique things about Russian which will make them want to study it. As I have said before, this is the unique gift you native speakers can give to the rest of the forum. I would like to hear the opinion of all the non natives as well, but you Russians can tell us about little cultural and linguistic gems that nobody else know about :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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