Learning Russian

People who start learning Russian state that its' the most difficult language in the world. Their statements are very fair and justified indeed. The Russian language really is difficult for foreigners, especially for the ones who have never dealt with Cyrillic alphabet...

Russian is difficult on all possible levels of its linguistic performance – spelling, pronunciation, grammar, syntax... You need a whole bunch of all possible Ps in order to successfully master it. Needless to say that preferably you should combine your patience, persistence, positive thinking and passion with communicating with native speakers – Russians – after you've learnt the language enough to start communicating in it.

Russian spelling is based on Cyrillic alphabet which is Greek to you if your native language 'deals' with Roman alphabet. Here you'll find a vast range of letters which look absolutely different from the ones from English, Spanish or French (there are a few exceptions when letters of the two writings look similar). Make sure you are patient and persistent enough to eagerly proceed with your Russian education.

Russian pronunciation isn't any easier... When reading in Russian, you are to pronounce letters according to endless amount of rules which suggest that the way a word is written and the way it's pronounced are two different stories from one and the same field called unique (or uniquely difficult) Russian spelling.

If you decided to profoundly go into Russian grammar – you are a brave person! For Russian grammar is Greek even to Chinese people whose language is considered one of the most difficult languages ever... Numerous categories and terms (extremely extended grammar comparing to other languages) represent the immense difficulty of the Russian language.

But if you are serious in your intention to master this language, you won't go off your persistent and patient track, we are sure of it. If you are planning to travel to Russia, knowing the language will be of vital importance to you and will help you learn Russian culture which truly amazes with its generosity, poetic spirit and immense soul full of kindness and gentleness.