Russian is extremely frustrating but extremely rewarding if you stay consistant with it. I was watching Russian with Max the other day, and could understand alot of the things him and Yulia were talking about. Didn't realize til the end it was one of his B1 videos. I remember when I struggled understanding even a couple words from his A1 videos. Felt really good reflecting back on it.
Excellent video! American here who's been self-studying Russian for 4.5 years. Agree with all of your points. In the past 6 months I've reached the stage where I can read some Tolstoy, Chekhov as well as Svetlana Alexievich's books. Would love to hear your music choices. Luna and Aigel are the two artists I've really fallen in love with. Here are some additional reasons why I feel learning Russian is very rewarding: 1.) Tons of user comments online (TH-cam and Instagram) are written in Russian. I get a kick out of being able to read them. 2.) Russian women are frequently very feminine. I'm happily married to a beautiful Western woman but it doesn't stop me from admiring these exotic creatures from afar. 3.) Russian photographers are amongst the best in the world. I follow many of their accounts. 4.) Russian humor is very funny and bawdy. Some excellent Russian accounts out there make me laugh daily. 5.) Someone described learning Russian as ''Crossfit for the mind.'' That's 100% correct. The mental stimulation I get from reading Russian is off the charts. As well as the sense of satisfaction. 6.) You get a lot of respect from friends and acquaintances when they hear you know Russian. You will be regarded as being somewhat eccentric, but it's probably true. So own it. 7.) If you're a WWII buff, Russian is an excellent language to know. 8.) The case system opens your mind to a whole new way of thinking. 9.) With tensions running high in the world, it can't hurt to have more Westerners speaking Russian.
Из литературы попробуйте еще советскую почитать, например Ильфа и Петрова (Двенадцать стульев, Золотой теленок, одноэтажная Америка), книгу Два Капитана, творчество Стругацких и Крапивина.
Hi, Dude. I'm learning English currently (i'm brazilian), then the algorithm recomended your video. You speak very well. Russian seems for me a language unreachable
Can you do one video in English about how you learned German, the materials you tried, any tips, and if you are where you want to be now with writing in speaking?
Excellent video! Since you know Russian maybe you should try out Greek. I am not certain but I think I read some where mentioned online that the Russian language was created using the Greek Alphabet system. I tried learning Greek it is a very hard language. I stopped after 3 months to continue with my Italian but eventually I will return to Greek once again. But if you learned Russian I think you should be able to pick up Greek even easier, there are a lot of similarities between the two languages.
Yes please make a video about case system I am learning russian by two books one is russian course by nicholas j brown and another one I got today is barrons 501 verbs and it's a difficult language!
Make sure to learn russian using other methods aswell like watching youtube videos in russian or reading childrens books in russian so that you can apply what you learn in the books
Auto translation of this comment into English as "Handsome!" shows the amount of culture the western countries are missing without the knowledge of Russian.
Привет! I really wanna learn Russian!!! I would love to read original Russian literature, converse with people who speak Russian, watch Russian shows, listen to Russian music, all of it. I'm trying to right now and have been for about a month or so. Wish me luck. 🤞 I'd totally take recommendations, by the way!!! Also, your videos are really motivating. Спасибо.
For anyone learning Russian, AJATT, I understand if you don't want to do AJATT, but holy crap does it make understand grammar so much more intuitive and easy, cause when I'm reading a grammar book it just feels like finishing a puzzle you already know the answer to but don't quite know it, and plus it is CAKES trying to understand the grammar without immersing, like it just sucks.
How long have you been doing ajatt in russian? Do you count hours ? my Current plan is grind grammar with anki and learn most frequent words with anki then move on the reading listening when I know enough planning to go to a russian speaking country in 5 months may try ajatt(russian) leading up to bit not sure how effective it would be now
@@Tomas-ml9nv I've been doing it for a month shy of a year, Don't track my hours, I just started getting input as soon as possible, CI if you want it to be understandable but not as engaging (or you get engaged by understanding things) or what I did which is just sentence mine with native content and choosing some media to rewatch a bunch of times, AJATT does have a silent period granted of 6 months, a year, or 2 years, I would say just do it, even though it sucks not understanding stuff, but man am I not happy I just took the jump and started input as early as I did
@@Tomas-ml9nv Btw don't study grammar, theres no point if you're a beginner, the most you should do is a grammar overview because all of your problems at the start is Not understanding because they speak fast, the second is vocabulary, and that one is going to be for a long time, I would recommend putting grammar off up in till like 6 months, and even then the most I would recommend is to look at a certain grammar point and then look out for it while you're getting input in Russian.
To be fair the war in Ukraine has only made knowing Russian more important hence you can actually get the other side opinion and judge the real thing by yourself. This whole thing started as a civil war in Ukraine after all, so there must be much more history to it than "Russia invaded an independent neighboring country". And also you can then translate Ukrainian directly into Russian and read it like that with absolutely zero loss or alteration (because two languages are practically identical in structure and as such can be translated word to word) and compare what and how they write in their press to what you are seeing in the news at home about "democracy vs evil RuSSia". Word of advice, if you are stuck in B1 after 4 years then you are not doing enough vocabulary and reading. Vocabulary is everything and using it a lot will pull the rest naturally.
@@Fiztex553 You might be right, but the world feels different. I was in Riga, Latvia to practice Russian a year ago. They looked at me strange - like I was learning German in 1941. Right or wrong, the Russia brand changed on 2/24/22. I was in Russia in 2019, and it was a beautiful country and the Russian people are super cool.
@@derronstravels21 Don't worry about this, things will come around. The world needs Russia same way the Russia needs the world. Policies change, but no one will take away your Russian from you. Maybe you'll come and retire there, it's amazing at least for that with western money 😂 Russia still is a beautiful country, and people there are still very nice and this war won't change it a bit. Those rulers in the west are very old, and young generation was not exposed too long to this extremist BS to be affected, they simply don't watch TV. Maybe it won't change in nationalist states like Baltic states, Poland or Ukraine any time soon (this war is a gift to local politicians to push that narrative), but I can guarantee you that western businesses, which were forced to leave by US, dream of being able to come back to Russia as they are afraid to completely loose the market to locals and China, and money always ruled the world. Many companies left Russia with temporary substitution companies with the right to buy back in 15 years (e.g. McDonalds). As soon as there will be no money in the current war for politicians, the things then will start to come around. There are already talks about this in EU, and the war is not even over yet. Who would not want to play a peacemaker card when it's time for that and get access to the Russian energy? Why keep buying it from Turkey and India and make your people poorer? I bet removing energy sanctions would be a necessary part of any peace deal if any is to be made in the future and I highly doubt EU will fight this condition too hard. Maybe US will though, so we shall see. BTW I'm learning Chinese now. I think knowing Russian, English and Chinese will allow me to eventually connect those lost worlds together. Worst case I'll work with Chinese instead of working with EU like I do now, most of the life is still ahead. Or work with the businesses which will get rich while connecting those worlds despite sanctions.
I am learning Russian and lately I have been concerned with repports of russians wanting to end the Federeation. Russia would dissapear and we all Russian learners will be fucked up.
Dear Ayan you've gained great success in russian! 🙂 But what's happened with your friend Antothony American? He has recently returned from Moscow and content of his video changed radically. He sounds like a russian propagandist and seems to be hired. We hope you aren't gonna take this way.
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Russian is extremely frustrating but extremely rewarding if you stay consistant with it.
I was watching Russian with Max the other day, and could understand alot of the things him and Yulia were talking about. Didn't realize til the end it was one of his B1 videos. I remember when I struggled understanding even a couple words from his A1 videos. Felt really good reflecting back on it.
I’m studying Russian now, I’m blessed that my local college offers it
смотрю это видео так, будто собралась заново выучить свой родной язык
Excellent video! American here who's been self-studying Russian for 4.5 years. Agree with all of your points. In the past 6 months I've reached the stage where I can read some Tolstoy, Chekhov as well as Svetlana Alexievich's books. Would love to hear your music choices. Luna and Aigel are the two artists I've really fallen in love with. Here are some additional reasons why I feel learning Russian is very rewarding: 1.) Tons of user comments online (TH-cam and Instagram) are written in Russian. I get a kick out of being able to read them. 2.) Russian women are frequently very feminine. I'm happily married to a beautiful Western woman but it doesn't stop me from admiring these exotic creatures from afar. 3.) Russian photographers are amongst the best in the world. I follow many of their accounts. 4.) Russian humor is very funny and bawdy. Some excellent Russian accounts out there make me laugh daily. 5.) Someone described learning Russian as ''Crossfit for the mind.'' That's 100% correct. The mental stimulation I get from reading Russian is off the charts. As well as the sense of satisfaction. 6.) You get a lot of respect from friends and acquaintances when they hear you know Russian. You will be regarded as being somewhat eccentric, but it's probably true. So own it. 7.) If you're a WWII buff, Russian is an excellent language to know. 8.) The case system opens your mind to a whole new way of thinking. 9.) With tensions running high in the world, it can't hurt to have more Westerners speaking Russian.
Из литературы попробуйте еще советскую почитать, например Ильфа и Петрова (Двенадцать стульев, Золотой теленок, одноэтажная Америка), книгу Два Капитана, творчество Стругацких и Крапивина.
@@ДмитрийШайтура Thank you for the suggestions!
Hi, Dude. I'm learning English currently (i'm brazilian), then the algorithm recomended your video. You speak very well. Russian seems for me a language unreachable
Looks like the algorithm is doing something right🫡 Don’t be intimidated, all things worth doing are difficult at first!
Can you do one video in English about how you learned German, the materials you tried, any tips, and if you are where you want to be now with writing in speaking?
I've been studying Russian for 100 years, guys it's not worth it. Go learn Uzbek instead!
We got all the Russian TH-camrs here 💀
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Excellent video! Since you know Russian maybe you should try out Greek. I am not certain but I think I read some where mentioned online that the Russian language was created using the Greek Alphabet system. I tried learning Greek it is a very hard language. I stopped after 3 months to continue with my Italian but eventually I will return to Greek once again. But if you learned Russian I think you should be able to pick up Greek even easier, there are a lot of similarities between the two languages.
Yes please make a video about case system I am learning russian by two books one is russian course by nicholas j brown and another one I got today is barrons 501 verbs and it's a difficult language!
Make sure to learn russian using other methods aswell like watching youtube videos in russian or reading childrens books in russian so that you can apply what you learn in the books
Brown's book is horrific. Avoid like the plague!
@@F4ZER_EDITS yes my dear sire thanks I don't have many to buy books right now but I am practicing listening on TH-cam
@@todesque why?
@@harshitkumar-sh5ti Because it's incredibly boring.
Красавчик!
Auto translation of this comment into English as "Handsome!" shows the amount of culture the western countries are missing without the knowledge of Russian.
Привет! I really wanna learn Russian!!! I would love to read original Russian literature, converse with people who speak Russian, watch Russian shows, listen to Russian music, all of it. I'm trying to right now and have been for about a month or so. Wish me luck. 🤞 I'd totally take recommendations, by the way!!! Also, your videos are really motivating. Спасибо.
debating between arabic and russian a army recruiter said that linguists most wanted russian or arabic speakers what do you think?
Arabic is gona be more relevent for longer since taht war is probaly gona go on longer
Russian - but I am 100% biased lol
@@PolyglotCornerlol im leaning towards it too whats the best way i should learn it without spending money
Arabic is a family of languages, not a language. For Arabic, you will need to learn al-Fusha for formal purposes and a dialect for informal purposes.
@@pudgeyboizzzDuolingo. I learned Russian mainly through that.
For anyone learning Russian, AJATT, I understand if you don't want to do AJATT, but holy crap does it make understand grammar so much more intuitive and easy, cause when I'm reading a grammar book it just feels like finishing a puzzle you already know the answer to but don't quite know it, and plus it is CAKES trying to understand the grammar without immersing, like it just sucks.
How long have you been doing ajatt in russian? Do you count hours ? my Current plan is grind grammar with anki and learn most frequent words with anki then move on the reading listening when I know enough planning to go to a russian speaking country in 5 months may try ajatt(russian) leading up to bit not sure how effective it would be now
@@Tomas-ml9nv I've been doing it for a month shy of a year, Don't track my hours, I just started getting input as soon as possible, CI if you want it to be understandable but not as engaging (or you get engaged by understanding things) or what I did which is just sentence mine with native content and choosing some media to rewatch a bunch of times, AJATT does have a silent period granted of 6 months, a year, or 2 years, I would say just do it, even though it sucks not understanding stuff, but man am I not happy I just took the jump and started input as early as I did
@@Tomas-ml9nv Btw don't study grammar, theres no point if you're a beginner, the most you should do is a grammar overview because all of your problems at the start is Not understanding because they speak fast, the second is vocabulary, and that one is going to be for a long time, I would recommend putting grammar off up in till like 6 months, and even then the most I would recommend is to look at a certain grammar point and then look out for it while you're getting input in Russian.
What is the Russian music and movies that you like?
During these 9 years, how many hours per week, on average, have you spent learning Russian?
At the beginning maybe a few hours a week tops, but after year 3 to now maybe like 15 mins a week tops lol
Боже мой! Russain is so hard. Been studying for 4 years and feel like I'm stuck at B1. Anyway, cool video, but the war in Ukraine changed a lot.
To be fair the war in Ukraine has only made knowing Russian more important hence you can actually get the other side opinion and judge the real thing by yourself. This whole thing started as a civil war in Ukraine after all, so there must be much more history to it than "Russia invaded an independent neighboring country". And also you can then translate Ukrainian directly into Russian and read it like that with absolutely zero loss or alteration (because two languages are practically identical in structure and as such can be translated word to word) and compare what and how they write in their press to what you are seeing in the news at home about "democracy vs evil RuSSia".
Word of advice, if you are stuck in B1 after 4 years then you are not doing enough vocabulary and reading. Vocabulary is everything and using it a lot will pull the rest naturally.
@@Fiztex553 You might be right, but the world feels different. I was in Riga, Latvia to practice Russian a year ago. They looked at me strange - like I was learning German in 1941. Right or wrong, the Russia brand changed on 2/24/22. I was in Russia in 2019, and it was a beautiful country and the Russian people are super cool.
@@derronstravels21 Don't worry about this, things will come around. The world needs Russia same way the Russia needs the world. Policies change, but no one will take away your Russian from you. Maybe you'll come and retire there, it's amazing at least for that with western money 😂 Russia still is a beautiful country, and people there are still very nice and this war won't change it a bit.
Those rulers in the west are very old, and young generation was not exposed too long to this extremist BS to be affected, they simply don't watch TV. Maybe it won't change in nationalist states like Baltic states, Poland or Ukraine any time soon (this war is a gift to local politicians to push that narrative), but I can guarantee you that western businesses, which were forced to leave by US, dream of being able to come back to Russia as they are afraid to completely loose the market to locals and China, and money always ruled the world.
Many companies left Russia with temporary substitution companies with the right to buy back in 15 years (e.g. McDonalds). As soon as there will be no money in the current war for politicians, the things then will start to come around. There are already talks about this in EU, and the war is not even over yet. Who would not want to play a peacemaker card when it's time for that and get access to the Russian energy? Why keep buying it from Turkey and India and make your people poorer? I bet removing energy sanctions would be a necessary part of any peace deal if any is to be made in the future and I highly doubt EU will fight this condition too hard. Maybe US will though, so we shall see.
BTW I'm learning Chinese now. I think knowing Russian, English and Chinese will allow me to eventually connect those lost worlds together. Worst case I'll work with Chinese instead of working with EU like I do now, most of the life is still ahead. Or work with the businesses which will get rich while connecting those worlds despite sanctions.
Future is brics
I am learning Russian and lately I have been concerned with repports of russians wanting to end the Federeation. Russia would dissapear and we all Russian learners will be fucked up.
Иц а гуд лэнгуидж
Dear Ayan you've gained great success in russian! 🙂 But what's happened with your friend Antothony American? He has recently returned from Moscow and content of his video changed radically. He sounds like a russian propagandist and seems to be hired.
We hope you aren't gonna take this way.
Not a chance🫡
Охуенный видос брат) да стоит выучить язык