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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 25 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
And guys. Play nice. I do not want the thread closed just as I am eagerly waiting for your answers... 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 26 of 64 13 December 2011 at 7:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yep, I was waiting for answers as well, but Mark isn't the right person to get them from. =) Aha, by the way: Russian is a perfect tool for quarreling! And one of the most mysterious languages I know: you can talk in Russian for hours without making any sense. But it calls for work, that's no doubt. It's much easier to speak comprehensible Russian, so it's a good motivation for learners! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5277 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 27 of 64 13 December 2011 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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There's no such thing as a "typical" anything language. We can just call it archaic or innovative. Sorbian is an archaic
Slavic language, just as Icelandic is archaic Germanic and Sardinian is archaic Romance. Russian, I agree, is not a "typical" East Slavic language in that it has a massive amount of South Slavic (and indirectly Byzantine Greek) influence through the liturgical language. Other than that, it's a pretty "typical" European language in that it bears a lot of loan words from the usual "culprits" in Europe: French, English, German, Latin, Italian, and ancient Greek. Of course there's also some Polish, Finno-Ugric, Norse, and Turkic influence as well. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5060 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 28 of 64 13 December 2011 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
OK. Can we say that it doesn't differ more from other Slavic languages than any other Slavic language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5060 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 29 of 64 13 December 2011 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
You see me better than I myself. In that thread I argued against the reasons were given why it is not so popular. And against the opinion that Russian is "overstudied". It has potential to be learnt more and to be taken more seriously. The number of speakers and geographical proximity are the only objective points that make Russian preferable. For many Europeans it is an easy language because they speak a Slavic language. Russia is more conservative than Europe and the history makes us think of it, we therefore have different views. 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 30 of 64 13 December 2011 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Oh really. =) How does it manifest itself? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5055 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 31 of 64 13 December 2011 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I opened a [URL=http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30348&PN=1]thread]/URL] yesterday on Russian music that some of you might already have seen, but I'll post it here just in case.
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| Alanjazz Triglot Groupie United States Joined 4819 days ago 65 posts - 129 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 32 of 64 14 December 2011 at 1:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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As a beginning learner of Russian, I'd like to chime in some key reasons for learning Russian -
Russian has to have one of the world's richest literatures. From Pushkin to Dostoeyevsky, there is an enormous amount of amazing Russian-language text to be explored. Secondly, learning Russian opens you up to learning about 'the other side' of the Cold War and of the global ideological struggle of Marxism and Capitalism. As a citizen of the United States, the entirety of my public education has been a tacit and at times open explanation of the infinite and inevitable superiority of capitalism over all other kinds of economic and political organization. Russian allows you to explore what is called in German 'Ostolgie' (correct me if I am wrong) or a longing for pre-Westernized times. So, learning Russian allows you to see another history as a westerner. Lastly, Russian-language online media. There are a fair number of stimulating and timely left-oriented websites on art and politics that are only available in the Russian language. I do not mean to suggest that you have to be leftist to appreciate this language, just that there are a number of resources of interest in it if you are. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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