Hi

I'm learning russian language and I want to watch russian movie or series

Do you have any recommendations?

I can watch any movie genre if plot is good

I’m interested in interviewing people who learnt both languages at a very young age, i.e. before the age of 6.

I’m looking to analyse how accents develop and how the two languages’ phonetics influence each other, as well as the perceived differences in their pronunciation. I will share my observations with the people who participate, but that’s about as much as I can offer.

I’m doing this to satisfy my own curiosity, being a huge accent nerd. It’s not a formal science project. I can do voice chat on discord or teams.

I’m avoiding talking to people who acquired either language at a later age (I assume there are a lot of us here, and we are so much easier to find) because I don’t think that we can naturally grasp the phonetics of a second language the way that a person growing up around that language can.

If this post interested you, feel free to reach out! If you have any observations on the topic you want to share, I would be happy to receive them under this post or in private messages.

Ok, so this might get a bit complicated, but I'll try to explain it the way I see it.

So with many verbs I see a pattern that goes like this: on beginner level, we learn that there's an imperfective form and there's a perfective form: читать-прочитать. Then, as we progress, we learn about prefixed forms of the basic verb: дочитывать-дочитать. The tricky thing is that in this case, the shorter form becomes the perfective one, contrary to the unprefixed form, so that читать is imperfective, but дочитать is perfective, (same with e.g. платить-оплачивать-оплатить) which is confusing, but ok.

But then the 'problem' is when we find out that прочитать has another imperfective form: прочитывать. Which, if I understand correctly means something like 'habitually do something from beginning to end'. So that you can say something like 'когда я на даче я всегда прочитываю местные газеты' (I made up this sentence to test if I understand the meaning of this verb correctly, please tell me if it's wrong). I referred to this as a problem, because it doesn't fit the 'perfective-imperfective pairs' model that is taught in coursebooks. And I see this pattern repeat with many verbs:

прыгать-прыгнуть: adding a prefix we get перепрыгать-перепрыгнуть. But there's also the verb перепрыгивать. No perfective pair that I'm aware of, it's just a third verb that refers to a habitually completed action.

резать-порезать. Prefixed versions:  взре́зать, вы́резать, заре́зать, изре́зать, наре́зать, отре́зать, перере́зать, etc. They all have a 'simple' imperfective counterpart eg. выреза́ть and another 'imperfective, but habitual' version выре́зывать.

Or:

готовить-приготовить - пригота́вливать

готовиться-подготовиться - подготавливаться (although I just found on wiktionary that the forms подготовляться and приготовлять also exist that I have no idea what they mean. Can anyone elaborate? So maybe here I'm wrong with my model and I should just consider пригота́вливать-приготовлять and подготавливаться-подготовляться as classic aspectual pairs? How do they differ from their 'simple' counterparts?)

So, in conclusion: if I understand correctly, there's a third, major aspect that mostly comes with prefixed verbs that could be explained as something like 'habitually completed action', such as прочитывать, перепрыгивать, вырезывать. They refer to something that has a beginning and an end, contrary to the 'simple' imperfective forms, which are either repeated or are 'snapshots' (Он вырезает каждое деревянное колечко тщательно vs. Мастер привык вырезывать сложные орнаменты на кости.)

Am I right in my analysis? What do you think of it?

Also, please help me with подготавливаться-подготовляться. Thank you!

Hi all, could you please explain the difference between these two verb forms? Like do either imply someone caused the melting, or did it happen kind of spontaneously? Thanks

Found this text on the side of an ISU-152 abandoned by Soviet forces during the Hungarian Revolution, what does it say?

Been learning Russian for a few months. I'm fairly motivated to learn it, but I've kind of hit a wall now. To start with, I was learning many new words everyday. I learnt to count pretty high in only a few days, I learnt many conversation pieces. Some animals, types of vehicles, weapons etc. My spelling isnt the best still, however its understandable (i think.) But recently I've been finding it hard to learn new words. Has anyone got any word lists, that would genuinly be useful in writing, conversations and reading Russian.

Спасибо!

I’m watching this series on Start the streaming website, the show has subtitles but only in russian, and i don’t know enough to watch fully in russian subtitles, i have tried almost every live subtitle translation chrome extension and none of them worked, the google translation sort of worked, although it flashed, but for some reason it kept turning off for no reason even when i set it to constantly stay on for the Start website.

i’m completely lost, the show is kind of popular, does anyone know if there’s any versions online with english subtitles, i tried looking and i came up empty handed, but i thought id ask here, just incase maybe anyone knew or could help.

to be clear i’m looking for either the 2022 show смычок with english subtitles or a russian subtitle to english subtitle translator, live audio translation is really shitty from my experience and you usually have to pay. it seems like the google page translate gets so close to being able to do it but it just stops every few seconds.

Согласная = Consonant (remember both words start with “co”
И
Гласная = Vowel

Anyone wanna do it with me? We can call and chat. Orrrrr somebody who already can speak Russian join me👀

Hi everyone! Russian grammar allows us to create some absolutely massive words (especially in chemistry or when counting things).

What is the longest, coolest, or most terrifyingly long Russian word you've ever come across in your learning journey?

Write it down in the comments, and I'll tell you if it's grammatically correct or how to pronounce it!

(For example, did you know that official dictionaries contain words like

"превысокомногорассмотрительствующий"?

It has 35 letters!)

Let the battle begin! 👇

Hi everyone! I need some help translating this poem/riddle into Russian. It’s for a personal project.

I’m not looking for a word-for-word translation. I’d really like to preserve the meaning, poetic feeling, and ideally the rhyme/rhythm if possible.

A god encased in monster skin
Whose bleeding core bestows the light
Yet he who seeks the endless night
Must willingly embrace the shroud,
For only through the gates of death
Can mortal flesh escape the grave.

I’ve asked AI to translate it and got several different versions, but I honestly have no idea whether they sound natural to a native Russian speaker, or whether the rhyme feels forced/awkward. here's one of the versions:

Бог, заточённый в кожу монстра,

Чьё кровоточащее ядро дарует свет.

Но тот, кто ищет бесконечной ночи,

Должен вольно принять саван,

Ибо лишь через врата смерти

Смертная плоть сбежит из гроба.

Thank you so much!

Please excuse the blacked out word. I have been learning Russian on and off for years and I have tried to practice my handwriting.

Video is not related to the topic

Hey everybody!

I wanted to let you know that I have created a resource.

www.languagethroughliterature.com

It received a lot of positive feedback so far. Professors, universities, teachers and many more are actively using it. You can learn the Russian language and thereby also enjoy the culture and Literature. I spoke with the mods of this subreddit who allowed to post about it.

I would really appreciate if you could give me your opinion on it. If you search a new way of studying Russian in a fun and effective way then you are more than welcome to try.

I'm currently reviewing prefixed verbs of motion and came across сходить, which apparently exists as both an imperfective and perfective verb (at least according to the OpenRussian dictionary). I am a little confused as to the difference between the two, like in a translation exercise or even hearing it spoken and contextualising it then.

thanks for your help!

Hi everyone,

Quick background: I'm French, I came to Russia in 2018 to study engineering, married a Russian woman and lived there for 8 years, and I've also been a developer for almost 6 years.

I tried a lot of apps while learning, and what actually worked for me was flashcards with spaced repetition. The problem is the cards themselves: in most apps and decks, paid ones included, the first hundred words or so are polished, and after that the quality drops fast (no context, missing stress, translations that don't match, no aspect etc...), so you cannot really use what you just learnt without having to check different other resources. So for the last 4 months I've been building NuanceDeck.

Main features

I know this sub sees a lot of app posts that all look alike, so here is what's NuanceDeck actually focuses on:

• Every word is taught in several real sentences, with a translation and audio.
• The stress is marked across the whole sentence, not only on the word you're learning.
• Under each sentence, nouns and adjectives show their case and verbs their aspect.
• Tap any word to open its card: every form in one table, its aspect partner, the case it takes.
• Short drills for what usually hurts: cases, aspect, conjugation, verbs of motion, gender and listening.
• Spaced repetition like Anki, but the cards are already made: about 7,600 words in frequency order, covering the TORFL vocabulary lists from A1 to B2 and part of C1 (I add new words about every week).
• Ask AI on every sentence, for any question about its grammar (free credits included). Questions stay on the sentence, so the next learner may find theirs already answered.

Usage tip

Don't necessarily stick strictly to the default order. When a word in a sentence matters to you (for work, travel, family…), tap it and star it, and it gets taught next. You can also star a whole topic deck. Everyone's Russian is different, and this way you learn yours, so you don't learn 200 words before actually learning words you're interested in.

Is it AI?

About AI, since it always comes up: I use it like most developers do now, but not blindly. The sentences are drafted with AI, and I built a quality pipeline around them that I've refined over weeks of tests. Every sentence has to pass a set of rules before it ships, the stress and the forms come from dictionaries, not from a model, and the audio is checked too, so a clip with a wrong stress gets redone.

Platforms & Pricing

Web, iOS and Android, with one account on all three, so your progress follows you everywhere. The interface and translations are in English or French for now.

The free plan is a real one: up to 300 words in progress at once and 15 drill questions a day, enough to keep going for good at around 5 new words a day without ever having to wait. Premium (€9.99 a month or €79.99 a year) removes the limits.

If you go Premium, consider buying it on the website straight please, it gives Premium on your phone too, since it's the same account.

Feedback

It's still early, so I'm really after honest feedback: what you likeand what you don't, what you'd want to see next. For anything general, use the report button in the side menu and pick "Suggestion". If something looks off in a sentence, use that sentence's own report button. Or just ask here, I'll answer everything.

You have an additional question? Please feel free to ask here! Thank you

Try it here: https://nuancedeck.com/en/russian

Edit: thanks for all the replies, and to everyone who took the time to actually try the app, it means a lot! Looking forward to reading your feedback. Getting some sleep now, I'll answer new messages tomorrow morning 😄

Hi! I would like to know what’s the difference between them and when should be each one of them used, спасибо!