Is learning Russian difficult

Answer 1

Yes! 36 letters, a million grammar rules, and countless headaches. I'm a heritage speaker but the grammar+spelling still gets me from time to time; people have told me that Russian is harder than both Arabic and Korean...However, if you do master the Russian language, you will be rewarded with being able to read amazing literature. The choice is yours! ;)

Answer 2

"Some people say that the Russian language can be hard to learn. This is not really true, learning Russian is no harder than learning other languages. The main difficulty for a lot of people is learning the new grammar structure. If you have learnt other languages before you will already be familiar with some of these grammar concepts, such as gender and cases.

In fact, there are many things that make Russian easier to learn than other languages. The key is to use these things to your advantage. Here are some things that make Russian easier.

1. Once you learn the alphabet, you can pronounce almost all words quite accurately. With Russian the pronunciation is normally quite clear from the written form of the word.

2. Russian does not use complicated sentence structures like English. You can normally say exactly what you want with just a few words. For example, in English to be polite we would say something like "can you please pass me the salt", however in Russian they would say something simpler like "give salt please". Speaking so directly may even feel unusual for an English speaker, however it is perfectly normal, just add the word 'please' to be polite. This makes it easy to say what you want in Russian, and it will probably be correct. Less words also makes listening to people easier, as you can just pick out the important words.

3. Russian uses the case system. Instead of having a strict sentence word order like in English, you just need to change the ends of the nouns. This makes Russian a very expressive language, because you can emphasise a point by changing the order of the words in a sentence. It also helps you understand what people are trying to say.

4. Russian does not use articles. (Like "a" and "the")

5. Russian has fewer tenses than English. Russian does not bother with the difference between "I was running", "I had been running", etc."

Answer 3

According to many, English is the most difficult language to learn. Although, in my opinion, if your native tongue is Latin-based, it can be difficult to learn languages with alternate alphabets.

<<>> As one of the Indo-European language group that contains all the European languages except a few, Russian is not excessively difficult for a speaker of a common European language like English.

Members of other languages groups are far harder, examples being Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian and the Sami languages of extreme Northern Europe. These are all Uralic languages based originally in the region round the Ural mountains around 1000 AD.

Examples:

English: one, two, three, four, five;

Frence: un, deux, trois, quatre, cinque;

Russian: odin, dva, tri, chtire, pyatch;

But

Finnish: yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljaa, viisi.

Answer 4

the Russian language is extremely hard to learn by yourself. but if you have a tutor it is slightly easier

Answer 5

Not really, because if you are into it, you can do it without to much effort! Good luck!

Answer 6

I'm sure that learning any language is difficult, so yes i think it is.

Answer 7

Terribly difficult even for native-speakers.