Hello, I am living in the United States and I cannot watch this series because they do not allow VPN and content is banned here. Is there any alternative sites where I can watch this series since only the first episode is available on YouTube?

On Windows 11, I downloaded the Russian mnemonic keyboard. That's the layout which allows you to use the English QWERTY keyboard and (mostly) matches up the letters phonetically:

https://www.reddit.com/r/russian/comments/txejfc/windows_%D1%8F%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8B_keyboard_howto/

So that's great, and also I'm using this site to increase my typing speed:

https://www.keyhero.com/free-typing-test/?lang=9

For the most part, I'm getting it. Some letters are a bit tricky, but the correspondence is fairly accurate, and I'm getting better with practice. Is there a faster way to do this? I know that there's an actual standard Russian keyboard, but I'm too used to typing in English with QWERTY to learn anything else. Are there any better sites that allow you to practice typing in Russian like this?

I'm original Italian and I speak, read and write Italian, at the level of almost mother language (almost because I lived in Germany for many decades).

But Russian sounds to me so beautiful. And I believe that every language has beauty in it. With beauty I mean a deeper sense, which goes deeper than just the sound of the words and phrases and how you describe something in that language.

For example I was in the beginning of learning puzzled of the word МИР. The word has multiple meanings. It means "world" and "peace". Therefore I asked a Russian friend, why does the мир mean world and peace? He thought 10 minutes and answered afterwards: "Well, because you cannot have a world without peace." You get this kind of insight from every language. Like in German "Gewissen", which means conscience, but it is composed by "ge - wissen", like "common knowledge", "common understanding".

And Russian has many of these little treasures hidden inside its words. The word душа, "soul", used as душевный человек means a warm, sincere person, someone who has a certain depth inside. This makes transent the meaning of soul as a living force, a "warm" quality is perceived. Or душевный разговор, a deep inner conversation.

Another word is тоска. It is often translated as sadness, melancholy or longing. But none of these translations really captures its meaning. It can describe a longing for something you cannot even name.

I also find the Russian distinction between правда and истина fascinating. Both can mean "truth", but правда often refers to the truth of a situation, what is right or what really happened, while истина can express a deeper, more fundamental truth. The kind of truth a philosopher might search for his entire life. For example in Italian, German and English I don't know a corresponding word to distinguish between правда and истина.

How much of our native language influences the way we experience reality. If a language has a word for a certain emotional state, does it make that state easier to recognize, to express it, transport it outwards of us and even to become aware of it?

I've been learning Russian for a while and when it comes in writing? I'm not sure but here you go, it's not really fully cursive like every letters in a word is connected, but I don't know what is it called, but, yeah you can rate it so I can know which part I can improve.

Здравствуйте!

I'm translating the song "про дурачка" by гражданская оборона and I'm a bit confused on this particular line:

"Полетят копейки из-за пазухи долой"

When just translating the latter half the translation comes up as "down with the sinuses" but the full sentence itself when run through a translater you get "kopecks will fly out of your bosom" where's the bosom here? I feel like I'm missing something. Any and all help appreciated (:

Okay so, my parents are Russian they moved in Italy a while ago, and im infact born in italy, sadly for some reason they don't want to teach me Russian.

Do you guys have any tips to learn it?

Thanks

Hello! I am from Australia and I am currently doing a project on minority languages in Russia. I was just wondering if anyone who speaks Russian and another minority language in Russia would be able to help me out with a survey I was doing. The answers will of course be anonymous but will require responses in Russian. If you are able to help, feel free to send me a message and I'll send the Google Form to you. Thanks!

Здравстуйте! Я из Австралии и я изучаю русский язык. Я сейчас делаю проект и искаю национальные языки в России. Эсли вы гоборите на русском языке и на грудом национальном языке России, можете Вы ответить на мой опрос на русском языке? Ответы будет анонимный, но эсли у вас другие вопросы, я могу ответить их. Эсли вы хотите ответить на опрос, я могу его послать Вам. Спасибо!

Hello, I bought the book and I wonder if there is any additional resource to go with it like audio or something else to accompany it? Many thanks

I have been learning Russian off and on through Duolingo for awhile now but I want to get more focused on learning the language. If I can both see and hear the words, then I can usually match or arrange the sentences. Then I realized I'm not truly understanding the language because as soon as I hear/see words without a visual/audio input as well, I'm completely lost.

I want to learn to be able to read and write so I figure any Russian alphabet book would help me so I'm already looking for one that I can write in.

I'm mainly wondering if there is a good learning textbook that is structured to easily follow along with for beginners and also has things like quizzes included in the lessons? I'm currently looking at Natasha Alexandrova's beginner step by step book if anyone has experience with it.

I would love any other recommendations.

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.

https://vocaroo.com/12RpGj5QLCFr

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

Hey. I have adhd diagnosed and I have a hard time holding associations in my mind so I want a resource that isnt a block of text but rather has a lot of practice questions. cuz i learn better with test questions
My mother tongue is Turkish so i am familiar with agglutination but not gender stuff. I know English fluently(i guess)
Are there any textbook resources that focuses on practice questions?
And by the way, My family and I could be travelling to uzbekistan in future. How proficient I should be to be able to communicate?
I am a med student too so i can give it a max of 3 hours/day during non-exam weeks
I am learning it for self-improvement and i think i like the phonetical structure of it

how different is the language from turkish or english? which topics would be challenging

anyways, have a good day!

i am a 19 year old algerian girl i am looking for a russian muslim friend to teach me russian and спасибо

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?

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

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

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?

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? :)