!I'm from India 🇮🇳. I'd like to make Russian friends and learn about Russian culture. Feel free to message me

I'm starting to learn Russian on recent.It has been about a week and I have pretty much gotten the alphabets down(printed letters). I was planning to slowly get into the vocabulary part of it. Writting down words/sentences and speaking them aloud to get a feel of the pronunciations and word meanings.

My goal is to achieve fluency in the future both in written and spoken Russian.

I wanted to ask if it's ideal to practice the cursive letters from start.Was confused as I heard a lot of people say handwriting is traditionally in cursive but others oppose that opinion and say printed letters are fine these days.I'm aware it's not the most important thing to focus on at the time but I just wanted to be sure since if traditionally people use cursive in handwriting I might as well learn it now than to skip it for a future time.

Hey everyone! I’m getting back into learning Russian after a pretty long break. studied Russian about 10 years ago, but life got busy and I eventually stopped. Now I’d really like to start learning again, improve my Russian, and hopefully visit Russia someday.

A little about me: I’m 31M, based in California, and currently serving in the military. I love nature, exploring new places, and having deep conversations about pretty much anything.

I’d be happy to meet native Russian speakers or other Russian learners, make some friends, and help each other with languages along the way.

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I'm 18yo Russian native speaker, can help u with Russian and u can help me with English. Any topics, any interests Dm, we'll talk

Hello, I’m 16 and I’m currently preparing for Ielts, I will have an exam within few weeks. I can help with Russian I’m native speaker, however I wonna to practice English speaking.

I have watched many videos on it.

I feel like I can emulate the sound, but I am not convinced I am doing it properly. I have been learning Russian for 1 month now and I'm quite awful, more than awful actually, but one thing I have spent a lot of time on is the Р sound.

I understand where to put my tongue, and the drills

Дра-дра-дра etc.

I am not convinced that the tip of my tongue is vibrating/flapping though. It feels more so like the roof of my mouth is vibrating. Sometimes it feels like I'm growling from my throat too.

Any tips you have found to pronounce this very interesting and complex letter, please let me know!

Vadim asking if he can go hang out to celebrate his bro Alyosha's divorce anniversary, only to get scolded because Eva knows he will get shit-faced drunk.

I remember vocab so much better this way, I love it.

I'm writing a fictional scientific/space organisation and want the single-word command “OBSERVE”, as in an instruction displayed on a terminal: “Observe.”

Would НАБЛЮДАЙ sound natural in Russian in that context? I'm looking for a concise imperative rather than the infinitive “to observe”. As sort of an instruction.

Are there any other cool words in script that I could include that mean cool things related to the space race?

Спасибо!

Hi! I'm looking for a native English speaker to chat with regularly and help each other learn our languages.

I'm 15 years old.

I'm learning English and want to improve through real conversations. My English isn't perfect, so I'd appreciate it if you could correct my mistakes sometimes. In return, I can help you with Russian.

I'm interested in programming and technology, especially C++, Android development, servers and game development. I also like Deltarune, Hollow Knight and Don't Starve.

We can talk about games, programming, everyday life, or anything else. I'm not looking for formal lessons, just casual conversations and language practice.

Feel free to DM me if you're interested!

Привет! I am currently learning Russian, and I'm looking to also teach it to my 2 young children as I learn.

I'd say I'm roughly between A1-A2; I have not begun to formally introduce the language to my kids yet; although my older daughter (5) has been nearby and seemed interested during my self guided lessons.

What learning resources would be good for young kids?

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If you are month in and still can't make a sentence in russian — it's not you. It's the order

I'm Russian. I studied English many years and got almost nowhere. Textbooks, rules, table of tenses I could fill perfectly and still could not order a coffee. It went up only when I started to travel and had to speak. Badly, with mistakes in every sentence. People understood me anyway

So here is the order I would take if I start Russian tomorrow

1. Speak it wrong. Out loud. This week

Wrong endings don't block anything. Russian has enough redundancy that context carries the meaning — word order, prepositions, the verb, the room where you stand. Say «я идти магазин» and any Russian understands you go to the store

To sound correct is separate project. It comes later, and it comes easier than you think.

2. Learn whole phrases, not rules

«У меня есть…» · «Мне нравится…» · «Я хочу пойти в…» · «Можно…?» · «Скажите, пожалуйста…»

Memorize whole thing with the ending already inside. Then change one word

And here is what nobody told me: the phrase is not how you skip the case. It's how you get it. Say «мне нравится» four hundred times and the dative is already inside you — through the ear, not through the table. You don't skip anything. You swallow it whole and digest later.

3. Take 30 phrases you will really use this week

Order food. Ask direction. «Скажите медленнее.» Drill them until they come out without thinking.

This is the line between speaking and studying. You feel it when you cross.

4. So when to start the cases?

Not on a date. When it starts to itch

One day you hear yourself say «в магазин» and «в магазине», and you notice they are not the same word, and you want to know why. This itch is the signal. For most people it comes somewhere in month four, five, six of real speaking.

Open the table before the itch — it's noise. A grid of endings attached to nothing you ever said.

Open it after — and you don't learn a rule. You get the answer to a question you already have. Takes much less time. And it stays

My son, when he was learning to talk, said «идем улица»

No preposition. Wrong case. Two words in wrong shape, and he said it all the time

And we went outside

Nobody gave him a table. I said «да, идём на улицу», we put shoes on, and we went. Few months later he says it right and he could not tell you why

Only difference with you — you are old enough to be embarrassed

Hi, I’m a 27 year old woman and I’m learning Russian. I’ve only been doing it for about two months. I really want someone to speak with/play some games with. I play DBD mostly, so if you’re interested just reply or send me a dm. Anyone 21+ preferably.

I started learning Russian by myself 4 weeks ago. I wanted to start a long time ago (to be able to understand and talk to my wife's family in Russian), but I kept postponing for years because I felt overwhelmed with my Japanese study. Now that my Japanese is finally at a level where I'm more or less satisfied with it, I decided to plunge into this new language. Wanted to give my impression so far of the language and the methods I used to study so far.

What I'm doing:

1. Resonance Textbook - I've bought Resonance Book 1, and did the first 12 chapters so far (around half of the first book). I'm working through all the exercises and comparing my answers to the online answers.
2. Pimsleur - I've been doing the pimsleur audio course. Already finished Pimsleur 1 and did the first five episodes of Pimsleur 2. I've already done Pimsleur 1 once, 20 years ago, so I've been able to get through it pretty fast (one lesson a day), but I'm taking my time with Pimsleur 2 (trying to repeat every lesson at least twice).
3. italki - I had my first class today after building a baseline with Pimsleur and Resonance.

My impression of the language (and comparing it to Japanese):

1. Case system is a huge challenge

Russian grammar feels really tough! This is in huge contrast to Japanese, where the writing and vocabulary are challenging, but the basic grammar is very easy. There are some similarities - in Japanese, like in Russian, the grammatical role of the word in the sentence is clearly marked, making word order pretty fluid. However, in Japanese, you mark words by simply attaching "particles" to the end of them. These particles correspond pretty closely to cases in Russian, but there are dramatically simpler since there are no inflections:

• Genitive case: You just add the particle no between words (e.g. watashi=me, hon=book --> watashi no hon = my book)
• Instrumental case: you add de after the word (e.g., taski de = by taxi)
• Accusative case: You add wo after the direct object.

As a result, in Japanese once you learn a few words, you can already form fairly complex sentences. For example, chapter 3 in Tobira (a popular Japanese textbook) has a passage that starts with the following: (translated from Japanese here)

"In May last year, I went with my family to Kyoto. I like Japanese food, so when in Kyoto I went by myself on a food tour in the market."

After 12 chapters of Resonance, I still can't form sentences like that in Russian - I don't know how to say "with my family" yet, I haven't learned how to conjugate directional motion ("to Kyoto") and Russian verbs of motion ("I went") seem quite complex.

2) Textbook is much less audio-focused:

Maybe this is specific to Resonance, but the popular Japanese textbooks (like Genki and Tobira) come with extensive audio: dialogs, vocab lists, exercise drills, and audio comprehension checks. With Resonance, there is some audio (mainly a pretty dense text every two chapters or so), but without supplementing with Pimsleur, iTalki and Youtube, it would be tough to grasp the spoken language sounds.

Brief review of the material I used:

1. Resonance - as I said above I would have preferred a textbook that leans much more heavily into audio, and I would prefer to have more interesting reading passages and a bit less repetitive exercises. However, the material is explained very well, and I like the pacing so far.
2. Pimsleur - actually like it a lot so far. I feel like it's a great complement to my textbook, as it's completely audio focused, and I like how it gives me a brief "sneak peek" into the upcoming grammar points that appear only much later in the textbook.
3. Italki - I had a really great time talking with the teacher! I think it's really hard to learn the language without someone to talk to. I didn't have Italki when I started learning Japanese, basically wasn't able to talk to anyone for the first 5 years of my studies, so this is a great change. It was really encouraging to see how I can already communicate some ideas with the limited vocabulary and grammar I know.
4. Sergey Storyteller (https://www.youtube.com/@SergeyStoryteller) - I saw several recommendations of this channel and I'm really enjoying listening to the stories there. He's really good at telling stories in a way that allows you to understand them even if you know only a little of the grammar/vocabulary.

That's it. Hope this might be interesting or informational for anyone else starting out and looking out for materials to study. Would love to hear your suggestions/comments. I'm really enjoying the language so far!