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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5335 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 9 27 July 2010 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't understand what is so difficult about Russian grammar, I may be close minded but
to me most grammar is the same in difficulty. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5326 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 9 27 July 2010 at 4:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Apparently the cases (there are around 13 thousand of them or something. Yes, that was an exaggeration) and the word order or where to put a comma or something.
Chinese grammar is fairly easy, there aren't many rules. I don't think all grammar is the same difficulty. Edited by johntm93 on 27 July 2010 at 4:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 3 of 9 27 July 2010 at 5:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think it's reasonable to say that all languages' grammars are more or less equal in difficulty. Russian grammar, with all its noun/adjective declensions and verb conjugations, its perfect and imperfect verb forms, its fleeting vowels and variable stress patterns, is certainly more complex than Chinese grammar, and I would argue English grammar too. If you still need to be dispelled of this notion, try comparing Navajo grammar with Indonesian grammar. As with pronunciation, some languages are just easier than others with respect to grammar.
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| Derian Triglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5307 days ago 227 posts - 464 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Czech, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 9 27 July 2010 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | ||
The same... as what? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6039 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 5 of 9 27 July 2010 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's the cases I keep mixing them up
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6445 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 6 of 9 27 July 2010 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
As in, you think all grammar is of the same difficulty, regardless of language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5447 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 7 of 9 27 July 2010 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think the case system is that hard, but the mobile stress is quite challenging.
The imperfective and perfective verbs, while not hard in concept, takes a lot of work because the two pairs are formed in many different ways. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ALS Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 104 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Finnish, Russian | Message 8 of 9 28 July 2010 at 1:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't studied Russian in a while but I had very little trouble with imperfective/perfective verbs. I found it much easier to just treat each pair as separate words entirely rather than learning one verb and trying to remember which form it uses or drops to create its counterpart.
What was more challenging for me was accent, especially with the letter o as I'm sure most people have trouble with. Edited by ALS on 28 July 2010 at 1:37am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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