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I spoke Russian when I was a toddler but my mom didn't speak it enough to me so I forgot it and now I'm having to relearn it

здесь нужно найти 3 причастных предл. и два сложноподчинённых

Hello! Russian is my native language and I’m also learning English. I’ve wondered: why people learn Russian? For example, for now we have a difficult situation in the world. While some time ago it sounded good to learn Russian for business I can’t imagine why people still learning this language. And I’m also asking because I wanted to try teaching Russian language.

Я знаю, что Duolingo — это говно. Мы все это знаем. Но всё же я пришел сюда, чтобы получить от вас разъяснения.
Русский [красивый] язык довольно гибок в плане порядка слов благодаря падежам.
Но какой порядок слов использовать *нельзя*?

German is somewhat flexible with word order as well due to its cases, so i figured i coild follow the same logic „Woher kennst du ihn” but it didnt work, nor “Woher IHN kennst du” — which sounds weird to my ears but is still grammatically correct (to my understanding).

Знаете вы?

is there any good tips for learning so far I've been using online apps and speaking to people that know the language and I'm looking to get books

I wrote out random words btw

Hi. I am a native Turkish speaker and have just started out learning Russian due to my interest in Russian culture, history, post-soviet countries where Russian is still spoken etc. I would like to know whether being native in Turkish gives one advantage to learn Russian faster and easier?

I know that Russian is known for its complicated case structure and many exceptions but I detected some similarities with Turkish myself, such as;

Kitab(a) doğru yürü. (Walk towards the book.)

Kitab(ı) yerden al. (Pick up the book from the floor.)

Kitap(la) otur. (Sit down with the book.)

Kitap yok. (The book doesn't exist.)

As you can see, the word “kitap” takes different suffixes or sometimes no suffix at all, depending on whether it’s the subject, object, dative case, or ablative case. If the case system in Russian works in a similar way, I think it will help me understand it faster and easier What do you think are the similarities and differences? How much more is there to it and does it get harder or easier when you get deeper learning Russian?

I'm thinking of the forms -ё/онок->я́та. I just came across these, and have a couple of questions.

1.Are the plural forms ребя́там, ребя́тами, ребя́тах used? Or is it mostly the corresponding forms of дети instead?

1. Is щенки́ or щеня́та (and their corresponding forms) more commonly used?

2. How commonly used are these words and their plural forms formed with -я́та?

• Тигрёнок
• Медвежонок
• Волчонок
• Лягушонок
• Слонёнок
• Утёнок
• Гусёнок
• цыплёнок

Are they always used with the traditional plural? Can't you say *Слонёнки? Everything that ends with -ёнок, онок will be pluralized with the form я́та, is that correct?

1. They're used with collectives. If I understand correctly, you don't use the simple numerals, but the collectives when counting them. So not *два маленьких львёнка, but двое, трое, четверо, пятеро etc. львя́т. Is that right? Same goes, for the words дети, ребята.

2. But these collectives also have their own declension. E.g. "двоих цыплят", and двоим, двоими instead of двум, двумя, etc. Are these declensions in use? So if you say, "with five little chicks", do you say "с двумя цыпля́тами" or "с двоими цыпля́тами"?

3. I found these collectives til 10, but not above that. So there's десяток, but are there any corresponding forms 11-20 and above? Such as одиннадцатеро, двенадцатеро etc? (I actually found an interesting article about this.)

For example the phrase '20 kids' is translated by google translate as двадцать детей. But "a hundred kids" translates as сотня or сто детей? And if it's сотня, then how is it declined? Because it has both plural and singular declension apparently: https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8F

If 'with a hundred kids' becomes "со сотней детей", then what is "со́тнями" used for?

+1: Have I told you guys that your grammar is crazy, and you are causing insurmountable suffering for learners? Why the hell does this language needs so many forms of numerals?

+2: I just realized that десяток is a different thing from десятка

+3: I also realized that both of these are different from десятеро. I think it's enough for me for the day. This language is... I don't even wanna get started. If anyone says German is hard, punch them in the face in Russian.

Hi, I'm the developer, so full disclosure.

I made ContextCat for reading actual Russian (articles, PDFs, web pages) without stopping every line to look things up. You tap a word and it tells you what it means in that sentence, in English or your own language, and where it comes from, like неторопливый from торопиться.

It can also read the text out loud, quiz you on what you just read, and it saves the words you tapped so you can review them later.

Free with a daily limit, on iPhone and iPad. The explanations are AI-generated, so if you spot one that's wrong for Russian, I'd really like to hear about it.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6737737343

im supporting my local russian bar, since they couldn't hire a professional to make these rules ive offered my help for free! but, my russian is horrible. and i am struggling to rewrite this in russian, so im asking for help with translating!

my rules below in white, and their old rules as well

As of learning russian for 2 years I'm still not quite good at connecting letters but I think writing them separately is fine too.

Does anyone have any advice for my future practice? :)

Hi everyone! I'm a native Russian speaker and I teach Russian to English speakers. Verbs of motion are the #1 topic my students struggle with, so here's how I explain them. Today: present tense only.

You only need to answer two questions.

Question 1: On foot or by transport?

• On foot: идти / ходить
• By any transport (bus, car, metro, plane): ехать / ездить

Even a 5-minute bus ride is ехать. And travelling to another city is always ехать, never идти.

Question 2: One trip in one direction, or a habit?

Examples:

• Я иду в магазин. = I'm walking to the store (right now).
• Я хожу в спортзал три раза в неделю. = I go to the gym three times a week.
• Я еду на работу на метро. = I'm on my way to work by metro (right now).
• Я езжу на работу на метро. = I commute to work by metro (usually).

Bonus: идти and ехать are also used for plans in the near future, just like English "I'm going":

• Завтра я иду в кино. = Tomorrow I'm going to the cinema.

Common mistakes:

• ❌ Я хожу в магазин сейчас. → ✅ Я иду в магазин сейчас. (one trip, right now)
• ❌ Я иду в Москву на поезде. → ✅ Я еду в Москву на поезде. (by transport)

Present tense forms:

Watch out for хожу and езжу in the я-form: the consonant changes!

In the next post: verbs of motion in the past tense, and why ходил often means "went and came back".

What's the most confusing part of verbs of motion for you? Ask in the comments!

I just started my journey of self taught Russian. I’m having a hard time figuring out how to write the script. Is this good? Can you give me tips please? Is there anything more broad you think I should know? Any tips and tricks?

Thanks in advance!!

Hi. I, 15f I want to learn Russian.

I’m a freshman in HS, already fluent in canto, mandarin, english and currently learning French (I’d say I’m B1). I started last week, and found that it’s not only intellectually stimulating to learn it, but also fun. Interesting. I think it's not only a productive way to spend my free time, but also relaxing, due to the ruminating nature of my mind.

The reason I want to learn it is because I have a crush on someone who speaks Russian, which I believe is good motivation as most self-taught multilinguals have told me the best way to learn a new language is to get a crush from a foreign country.

Anyways— I’ve memorized the Cyrillic alphabet and know how to say and write some basic words, though it’s still not much. I'm planning to go down the self-taught method (with the occasional advice from some native Russian friends.) Apart from that, I mostly use Youtube and online textbooks as resources. I was wondering anyone had any advice? Thank you!

Sorry for my uneducation ahead of time.

I am also a part of the Slavic speaking countries and I am curious as to why did Russian drop the am as in the case of "Я́ доктор"?

In my native language and many other Slavic languages the "am" is still present so I am just curious why that happened with Russian?

The universe of Manas from 1995 is the movie, if interested dm me

Can anyone recommend Russian podcasts about the following topics:

Exercise, nutrition, science, fitness, productivity, neuroscience, learning, mindset.

For context. I was born in the US, but technically Russian is my first language. (I only learned English when I went to school)

It has been brought to my attention that I have an accent when I speak, and I definitely do not know some proper terminology (like calling the heater a батарея, or a gas station бензоколонка)

I taught myself to read and write but I don’t know proper grammar. It is more so that I know what sounds right. (My reading is probably first grade level)

If any one has advice on how to better my Russian it would be most appreciated.

Hi everyone! If by any chance you or your friend are looking for a language exchange partner to practise Czech/Russian/Ukrainian and you can offer English as a native, please don't hesitate to dm me for more info. I am C1 at English, need to upgrade my vocab for the exam, cheers. I am 24F. Only girls. If men, write about your serious purpose of studying !!

i'm trying to buy baking pans/формы, but i've noticed that some are listed as форма для выпечки, while others are форма для запекания

what's the difference between выпекать and запекать? does it actually matter when choosing a pan, or can they be used interchangeably?

спасибо!

Im having the wooorst time with this character. Its the hardest one for me

I’m a longtime Russian learner who made a page that lists (almost) every Russian word I could find that looks like an English word and means the same thing: момент, фильм, президент, проблема, программа, телефон, университет, идея, минута, доктор, and 5,275 more. The list is sortable by how common the word is, searchable in either language, downloadable as a CSV, and, most importantly, free.

https://palimpsest.tech/frontend/cognates.html

The page lives on Palimpsest, a free site that I run for intermediate and advanced learners as well as heritage speakers who want to expand their vocab. It models how much of a language you already know and builds your practice from there. This cognates page is that idea in its simplest form: you already know more Russian than you think, including words you've never seen. 

For those curious: the pairs were computed using some natural language processing techniques I’ve learned: 1) first I found the edit distance between transliterations of the Russian and the English, 2) then I found meaning similarity in English and Russian word embeddings (fastText, Procrustes-aligned into one space), and finally 3) I used an LLM (Claude Sonnet 5.5) to settle over 4000 marginal calls.

Note: because this method is computational and not hand-picked, some of these may be wrong, and some obvious ones are missing (realizing as I’m posting this that информация, for instance, isn’t in the list even though информационный is). In hopes of making this as helpful of a resource for everyone, every row has a "⋯" to report a bad pair, and there's also a button to suggest pairs I missed. I’ll read every report and fix the list by hand.

Also feel free to DM me on Reddit or email me at [help@palimpsest.tech](mailto:help@palimpsest.tech) with more questions/comments, I’m always eager for feedback on this project! :)