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| 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 9 of 64 13 December 2011 at 3:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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As for the topic, for me the language itself has always been the best reason to learn any language.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4866 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 10 of 64 13 December 2011 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Why do you think so? What are the specific features which make russian different from all the Slavic languages? Edited by Марк on 13 December 2011 at 5:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5083 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 11 of 64 13 December 2011 at 3:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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General reasons applicable to any language:
1.) Needed for work or business. 2.) Needed for personal reasons, e.g. family. 3.) Of linguistic interest. Objective unique features: 1.) Large number of native and secondary speakers. 2.) Language important in the arts. 3.) Language important in the sciences and mathematics. Subjective: Many consider it one of the more appealing languages to the ear. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 5915 days ago 707 posts - 1219 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 12 of 64 13 December 2011 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Although all the reasons given so far are excellent, for me it's the opportunity to actually SPEAK it on a regular basis (ideally one-to-one rather than Skype). Associated with this are opportunities to form some great friendships.
So the social reasons outweigh the cultural, although if the language opens up other avenues that's a bonus. There are Russians living all over the UK, but I've started with Polish (in Germany, I'd definitely consider learning Turkish.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6966 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 13 of 64 13 December 2011 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
Answers here are highly dependent on the user. As for myself, my strongest motivation to learn at least some Russian is to use learning material for minority Uralic or Altaic languages that is published with Russian as the intermediary language. I also have some interest in it for philological reasons but I wouldn't necessarily need to learn to use Russian as much as read more about its structure for purposes of comparison. Whatever else is associated with Russian (i.e. culture, people) barely register with me. They don't interest me much. However I've been on here long enough for people to figure out that there's a negative relationship between a language's "cultural profile", prestige or popularity and my willingness to study it. Give me the "useless" or "impossible" languages any day of the week over the "useful" or "easy" ones. 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 14 of 64 13 December 2011 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||
I challenged you both, so you are most welcome to this thread, particularly if you come up with some reasons to study Russian which make people run and get their Russian books! Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 13 December 2011 at 7:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4866 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 15 of 64 13 December 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you. But why do you want me to find a reason? Edited by Марк on 13 December 2011 at 5:40pm 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 16 of 64 13 December 2011 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||
First of all, the unique way it's gone in its development, which came to what we consider Russian now: an artificial language that has not much to do with its numerous ancestors. Here's a good, although a bit extreme, article on it: http://www.una-unso.info/articlePrint/id-4/subid-17/artid-22 38/lang-ukr/index.html Russian is a Slavic language for sure, but rather in terms of grammar. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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