Tanja said:Casiopea said:From my university days,
Kak dela. (How are you?)
Ya dumaiyo. (I think)
Ya gavaru par Ruski ploha (I speak Russian terribly)
Wow!!! :up:
You learned Russian at the University?
But it's terrible that I can't remember anything at all. I wanted to go to Russia, actually. I never made it though; Could have had something to do with my poor language skills. :lol:
Tanja said:
As for grammar, I think all languages are tough, with Native Languages spoken by First Nations peoples, such as the Navajo in Arizona being THE toughest. The verb can have 20 or more letters in length, and each letter or two letter pairs represent one meaning. :shock: Agh! No wonder the US military used it as their code language in WWII. No one, aside from the 'code-talkers' could figure it out. I think the best education a child could receive would include a Portuguese grandmother, a Kung grandfather, an Asian aunt, an English uncle, a Navajo father, and a Russian mother, of course. She knows how to cook great food! All the other stuff I can say is about family, jobs and stuff. (I think - at least it's one way to say it)clare said:
Nahualli said:Transliterated.
Zdrastvooetye, ya Marco. Ochen priyatna!
Ya zheevoo f san-frantsiska. Ya studient y ya rabotayoo v banke. Ya nimnoga gavaryoo pa-russki. A ya kharasho cheetayoo pa-russki. Ya ochen kharasho gavaryoo y chitayoo pa-ispanski y pa-frantsoozki tozhe.
That's about all I can say in this context.
In my opinion, Russian is an extremely, EXTREMELY difficult language. It's not impossible but it does require constant practice. I don't remember who said that writing in Russian is "short and sweet" but from what I can tell it's nothing like that at all. Try spelling "please" or "in English". And good luck. Not to mention that verbs in Russian come in "cases" which is a pretty daunting concept overall.
I've only been studying it for about 6 months but I am HOOKED.
Soft signs, hard/soft consonants, masculine/feminine/neuter declensions, the absence of the verb "to be" and the absence of articles all add complexity to the language and I have to say, it's a total blast.
Ya tibya lyublyu, to the person asking if anyone knows how to say I love you in Russian
-Nah-
to have gender for verbs in the past..., even Japanesse (that is really cool! and concerning to it I can say all words that English-speakers say about diffiuculty of Russian)!I was talking about the difficulties of learning it as a foreign language. I had a go at German in school and in German, just like in Russian there are three genders, my native language is Russian, so I personally have never had any problems with genders in Russian but my attept to learn German really gave me the opportunity to appreciate the kind of difficulties that foreign learners of Russian have to go thru with genders. For example the word girl in German, in defiance of all logic and intuition, is neuter - das Madchen. Frau is feminine but Weibe, the technical word meaning female, is again neutral gender so you're supposed to say das Madchen and das Weibe rather than die Machen and die Weibe, even though your gut is telling you it has to be die because a woman is a she rather than an it. And then there are all those inanimate words like table and chair etc all of which have genders. This can be quite a nightmare, believe me.sunnyone said:Yes, you're right... Ukrainian has this, too.
I am from Ukraine but speak russian almost always.
Maybe, henrylee100, that is really odd
But this languages (I mean, Russian for Russians, Ukrainian for Ukerainians) are our natives. So, getting our language vocabulary "with mother's milk", as said, we don't really think how to say it right... And believe me, those gender forms are not the most difficult thing :-D . There are some aspects that stop even native speaker thinking how to write or say right.
actually you can toss them around a little bit, or use different patterns to focus in on a particular word like
Japanese and Chinese arenot really too hard grammatically, in fact chinese has one of the most streamlined grammars of all natural languages, especially the word formation and how it's interrelated the symbols they use for words.But I don't wanna make a discussion which language is better, really...
I like all languages I know - Ukrainian, my native, Russian, language of our neighbourhoods, English, international language, a little bit French, language of romance and love
how come you forgot to mention Lesya Ukrainka