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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5144 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 64 13 December 2011 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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We have a thread going now, about attitudes towards Russian, which is getting more and more heated. I have suggested that they give us some good reason to study Russian, but perhaps they feel that this would derail the thread, so I am opening up a new one.
What are your reasons to study Russian, or what do you think are the best reasons to study Russian, whether you study it yourself or not? My personal reasons for studying Russian is that it is useful for my work, since the organisation that we are working with is filling up with Russian speakers who do not speak Western languages well. I also have friends in Ukraine that I need to keep in touch with. And I must say that I have fallen head over heels in love with the language. It is more difficult than anything else I have ever done, but I love the sound of it, and I even love the grammar - complicated as it is. On a side note, I was offered a job in the Armenian railways on Thursday, because I was able to greet the high official who only spoke Russian, in his mother tongue. As I suspected the job offer entailed tasks not normally covered by Norwegian work contracts, I politely declined :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4866 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 2 of 64 13 December 2011 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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The obvious reason is to be able to communicate with people from the former Soviet Union.
"It is more difficult than anything else I have ever done, but I love the sound of it, and I even love the grammar - complicated as it is." You know many languages, but Swedish and Danish are very close to your mothertongue. German and English are not very far too. French you learnt in France, Spanish and Italian are similar to French. Is it regular morphology that makes Turkish easier than Russian? Edited by Марк on 13 December 2011 at 3:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5144 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 64 13 December 2011 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Oh, no, Mark, I am counting on you to be a LOT more creative than that. :-) There must be a lot of reasons why you think people should learn Russian, as I can see that this is a topic you are passionate about. Tolstoy, Pushkin, music, ballet, food - the tundra, the humour, the ability of surviving in hard times. What do you think would be the best reasons why people should learn Russian? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4866 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 4 of 64 13 December 2011 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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As with any language you can be attracted by the language itself or by the culture which
is behind it. Russian culture is similar to the Western European culture, but has many unique features. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5144 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 64 13 December 2011 at 3:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Such as :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5072 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 6 of 64 13 December 2011 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Russian literature, Dr. Zhivago, Dostoyevsky, Gogol. Who wouldn't want to be able to read Chekov in the original! Another reason would be to know the Russian people who have survived so many hardships in their history and have created such artistic beauty despite those hardships, not only literature but music, dance and poetry as well.
Besides, some day, I want to travel across Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Siberian Express, to meet the people who were once considered "the enemy". It would be nice to be able to communicate with the Russian people, the majority of whom do not speak English. Edited by iguanamon on 13 December 2011 at 3:16pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4866 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 7 of 64 13 December 2011 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Russian is a typical Slavic language and probably Indo-European language. I was thinking
of opening a thread about interesting points of Russian as a language. But we can discuss it here. That's how my interest to Irish arose. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Oleg Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5639 days ago 57 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Russian*, Polish, English Studies: Spanish, French, Italian | Message 8 of 64 13 December 2011 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Mark, I'm sure you're going to think I'm not only trolling but also following you thread after thread, but I can't help it: Russian isn't a typical Slavic language. Actually, it's not even a typical East Slavic one. =)
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