Reality check
posted by Klyde Denton in Russia forum
The reality is that Russian is difficult to learn. Ignoring the tomes of idiomatic expressions and the vast Slavic vocabulary, which extends far past the borrowed foreign words, the intricacies in grammar alone are plethora, as is understood when studying from a thorough textbook like ‘Russian, A Practical Grammar with Exercises’ – I. Pulkina. By ‘learn’, I really mean ‘master’. After studying Hebrew, German, and French (as a native speaker of English), Russian is easily, and by far, the most difficult. Now, I live in Ukraine, where I’ve often heard that English is easy to learn. (By the way, those who spout such haughty opinions are easily humbled.)Then why is it that native Russian speakers struggle so pitifully and for so long with English? I have also come across some rare individuals who claim to have learned Russian. OK, so they have to some appreciable extent. But they have definitely not mastered it. For instance, they cannot read a newspaper. They are lost if a complex sentence or idiom flies past their ears. As with any course of study, the question in mastering Russian is how much time to devote to it. The answer is hours a day for years. It is not an effortless undertaking.
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