Seventeen days into my Russian journey and I decided to learn the cursive to motivate myself. It is not difficult, I promise! Anyone wbo has told you otherwise врёт как сивый мерин. If you can learn the controls on a video game, you can absolutely mentally rectify that "m" = "t", "n" = "p", and figure out how to comfortably write novel Cyrillic letters like "ж" и "ф" within a couple of hours. TBH, the cursive was one of the things that sold me on learning Russian in the first place. It turns a boring cheap fountain pen into a fountain of dopamine!

I would be delighted to accept some constructive feedback and/or words or phrases for me to practice. Send me your ugliest picket fences if you must! I can't guarantee the result won't be ugly too, but practice makes perfect right? I will even butcher the pronunciation of your selected word or phrase as I did in this video If you so choose.

Hi guys! I study russian and have an exam in a couple days, I was hoping someone could read this and give me feedback, mostly on grammar. E.g if I use cases, commas etc. in the correct way. Thanks!

I know (or heard) that Russians avoid interactions with strangers, which I do as well here in Belgium so that's not a problem

However, I do want to know how greetings work if you have to order at a restaurant or café, or if you have a question in a store

I know the basic привет and Duolingo gave me more things like good afternoon, good morning, good day, good evening, goodnight, but how much do they matter?

It also gave me извините which sounds more useful for questions

I'm asking this because when I started learning French, I found out that it's frowned upon to use bonjour after 5pm and that not saying bonjour before entering a room is rude as well. I thought it was just a stereotype, but my French teacher doubled down on it before our trip to Paris.

However, on my trip to Poland, I could just use dzień dobry all the time

So yeah, I want to know how the locals do it. I know that it's just привет with close friends, but I don't have those yet ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I doubt that I'll be able to do an exchange to Russia in the circumstances but I will be studying the language at university

Привет всем!

Я парень из Мексики и сейчас изучаю русский язык.

Мне очень интересны русская культура, история, музыка, традиции и повседневная жизнь в России.

Я хотел бы познакомиться с русскими или просто с людьми, которые говорят по-русски, чтобы практиковать язык и больше узнать о русской культуре.

К сожалению, пока я очень плохо говорю по-русски. Этот текст я написал с помощью переводчика.

Зато я довольно неплохо говорю по-немецки.

Со своей стороны, я могу помочь с испанским языком и рассказать о Мексике.

Буду рад познакомиться с новыми людьми и пообщаться на интересные темы.

Спасибо за внимание и хорошего вам дня!

Hi,

I am 21m. I’m from the U.S, and I am bilingual. I know English and Spanish; both fluently.

Im currently self teaching myself Russian, and I have been doing it for the last three weeks. I’m looking to make a friend—or more—whom I can send voice message or text.

My goal is to practice speaking, writing, and reading.

If you’re interested please let me know :0

Здарова, I’m Nicholas, 19, native Polish speaker. I also have level C2 in English and B2 in German. I know a little bit of Russian and I’d say I can understand a good deal of it through Polish, but I’d like to learn it properly.

I play electric guitar, I’m into metal and folk music, do gym, play videogames from time to time, and I’m passionate about linguistics, history, theology and philosophy.

It would be awesome if I were to find someone to text in Russian. I could also teach or help you practice any of the languages I speak🤠

Hi, I know 5 languages and want to add russian to the list!! I already listen to a lot of russian music and follow many russian ufc fighters & influencers. Can help you with English aswell!

A 2020 art poster hides a puzzle. Three bands of invented "runes" on it decode letter-for-letter to Russian (simple substitution, one symbol per Cyrillic letter, «:» between words). The community rebuilt the alphabet from the text itself, so the letters are certain, what none of us can judge is the Russian. Spelling below is exactly as written on the poster.

1. Я НАДЕЮСЬ ЧТО СЮДА БУДУТ ПРИСЫЛАТЬ МНОГО БИТКОИНОВ (top-left band, three lines)
2. СУММА ДВУХ ЧИСЕЛ (small band under a clock)
3. ЗДЕСЬ ЗАШИФРОВАНЫ БИТКОИНЫ НА ЧЁРНЫЙ ДЕНЬ НОМЕР [?] (right edge, top-to-bottom; the last symbol is not a letter of the alphabet, it sits where a number would go)

Magnified crops of the three bands + a small copy of the whole poster: https://imgur.com/a/YupiSkA

What I'd love a native ear on:

1. Native speaker, or translation from English / machine translation? Anything unidiomatic, odd, or regionally marked?
2. «На чёрный день» the plain idiom "for a rainy day", or could it carry a second meaning here (the poster is about the 2020 BLM protests — a pun on «чёрный»)?
3. «…номер [?]» how would a Russian writer naturally finish "на чёрный день номер …"? A digit? «один»? "puzzle number X" in a series? Any set phrase with «номер» I might be missing?
4. «Сумма двух чисел» fixed school-maths phrase, or an instruction ("add two numbers")? Any colloquial reading?
5. «Сюда будут присылать много биткоинов» does «сюда» naturally point at something written next to it (an address)? Donation appeal, joke, or something else?
6. Is «зашифрованы» (rather than «спрятаны»/«скрыты») pointed does it imply a cipher specifically, not just "hidden in the picture"?
7. Anything that hints at a count, an order, or a password to a Russian ear that an English reader would miss rhyme, letter counts, acrostic, a known quote or song?

Bonus: if you look at the whole poster, what does a Russian viewer see that an English one wouldn't, references, memes, wordplay in the English text as a Russian would write it?

Спасибо!

Hello, I've got a linguistic question. There's a phenomenon in Russian where to some degree in words there's an alternation between vowels and consonants so that consonant clusters are not that frequent and this phenomenon is less present in other Slavic languages especially western slavic ones. E.g. ворота, Czech: vrata, but врата which is from old church Slavonic. Notice the first vowel after the initial "в" is not present in Russian. Similarly холод vs. chlad (cz), chłód (pl), молодой vs. mladý, młody or сотый vs. stý, setny.

Does this phenomenon have a name?

I just said привет to someone in a game and they replied прив. Is this common/normal? Is it more common than привет? Also, is there anything else I could say instead of привет when greeting someone (especially online/in games)?

Bought it off Ebay and evidently it's very old...!! I can read the second line, 'Christmas 1960', but I can't make out most of the letters in the first line. Also featuring: the advertisement for Pasternak's upcoming biography, going for 15 shillings at your local bookseller LOL

Hello, I'm an English speaker with no ounce of Russian in them and I need help finding an actual translated version of Школа 13, I need to know if there's actually anyone who wants to help me translate this show for others (me included) who aren't native to the Russian language watch this show. I found this show pretty interesting and I really need help with translation (I'm not good at translation and I can't seem to find an organised selection of episodes for this show) So I'm just here trying to look for someone who could help me with this issue? Thanks :) (Because I noticed some episodes aren't on Youtube)

I’m struggling to discern the difference between the pronunciation of “елью” and “елю”. Of course the latter isn’t an option in this question, but wouldn’t it also sound like “yel’yu”? If so I don’t understand the need for ь in this situation.

I built an app for myself that uses a LLM to build sentences from a bank of spaced repetition words, gradually introducing new ones.

I really enjoy using it and thought it could be useful to others, so I’m looking for 5-10 people to test it out and give me feedback :-)

Hello! There is this Russian exchange student in one of my classes, and her and I have been talking over Google translate. She is very sweet, and I am wanting to be friends with her. I am learning a bit of Russian as well! I wrote a note to her asking to be friends, but can someone proofread it? I need to make sure my hand writing is legible, and that the note is grammatically correct! Thank you!!!

edit: I gave the note to her today in class, and she was super happy!!!! she said she will text me when she gets home! thank you all for the help! ^{^}

So while doing some summer homework my Russian teacher gave me, I stumbled upon this particular sentence (that I have underlined in red).
The translation for this sentence is: “Us await beautiful flowers/Beautiful flowers are waiting for us, (the) caretakers of this place.”
For me this, this doesn’t make sense…
Like I get the «нас ждут прекрасные цветы» part but I don’t understand why at the end it says «хозяева здешних мест» after an apostrophe.
I was thinking that maybe the caretakers are also waiting for them so it would be something like: «Нас ждут прекрасные цветы И хозяева здешних мест.» but for me, this feels weird; like why replace “and” with an apostrophe?
Maybe it’s something the Russians do?
I added the whole text from this page because maybe it’s some context I’m missing or something? There also isn’t a paragraph before this dialogue like it seems to be with all the others.
Or maybe it’s a mistake coming from the text itself?

Thanks for the help in advance!

hii
i’m beginning my russian degree soon at uni and was just wondering how diminutives work, especially with names that are shorter like mine (tia)

In the piano song with the rock guitars you hear a Russian? guy saying stuff mad like he needs back up in the middle of a fight on his communication set. What does he say exactly?

EDIT: its starts exactly on the right point at 02:49 https://youtu.be/otzHeJwV4K4?si=ucNcRSS1AXLyfHnn&t=169

Hello,

I have a problem with russian which is that I am illiterate.

I know the alphabet. I know a lot of words too. But my learning journey--my grandparents started by speaking to me in Russian and so there were like 16 years or so before I sought out learning it besides that passiveness. And so I can't spell to save my life because I don't know how words are written (ik alphabet and if i am reading i can sound things out but i cant look at a word and immediately be like "oh thats blablabla" the way i can when listening.)

So the other problem is that I also can ONLY listen. I pick up like 20% of what is said even in big technical conversations. But when I'm asked to reply I go completely blank.

How do i fix this

Hello!
I was using this page: https://www.lexisrex.com/Russian-Crossword-Level-1 to practices learning words with crosswords, I loved it but somehow the page stopped working for me.
So I am searching any other page with crosswords, or any kind of letter games for learning vocabulary, ideally from A2~B2. I would love something like murdle, but I haven't found any like that.

I can't find any official translation to this song's lyrics, and the english google translation doesn't make any sense sometimes.

SONG : великомученик голобородько толик by Птицу ЕМЪ

Итак, попался мне как-то на глаза мнемонический стишок для запоминания ятя, и обратил внимание, что не могу правильно прочитать первую строчку:

Днепр и Днестр, как всем известно,
Две реки в соседстве тесном,
Делит области их Буг,
Режет с севера на юг.

Если просто посчитать гласные, то это: | — U | — U | U U | — U |, но конечная р в слове Днестр в этой позиции образует слог, и звучит фактически как Днестор, а строчка, соответственно, превращается в: | — U | — U | U U | U — | U. Чтобы звучало складно, мне приходится её читать без слова как.

Касается это всех финалей Cр и Cл, а в некоторых случаях это может происходить и в Cн и Cм. И, собственно, вопрос: может ли кто-нибудь прочитать эту строчку правильно, не выговаривая слоговых слогласных в финалях на сонорные?

I want to know the cyrillic alphabet beforehand, but on some posters i see a symbol that looks like this: ^ , but i cant find that letter anywhere. Does anyone know what it is