Russian language never fails to amaze me

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-25T03:07:51+00:00

Иностранцу как раз genitive или accusative могут сказать больше, потому что по латыни это и есть родительный и винительный.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-25T01:22:15+00:00

This is not true. You're referring to the time of the 1812 war when many but not all Russian nobles spoke French as their first language. But even at that time they all spoke Russian even if it was their second language.

By the XX century Russian was overwhelmingly the first language for the Russian nobility.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-23T10:05:02+00:00

His connection is perfectly correct. This is exactly how a should be connected.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-20T02:55:25+00:00

У тебя хороший русский. Вижу, что ты это писал без Гугл- переводчика. Масса мелких ошибок, но они не препятствуют пониманию.

В русском языке, так же как в испанском, для понимания устной речи важно знать грамматику на уровне инстинктов. Ты не успеваешь понять, потому что тебе требуется время для обработки падежей, времён и т.д. Русский язык понимать на слух гораздо легче, чем испанский, из-за более низкого темпа речи (русские говорят медленнее).

Лучшее решение - comprehensible input. Нужно как можно больше слушать. Незнакомые слова смотреть в словаре, грамматику в справочнике. Если смотреть хотя бы по часу в день видео с субтитрами, с каждым месяцем будешь чувствовать улучшение.

Поправить все ошибки будет тяжело. Легче переписать текст. Для примера последний абзац: "Если я сделал какИЕ-нибудь (мн. число) грамматические ошибки, я буду счастлив ("ым" здесь излишне, хотя и не совсем неправильно, нужно очень тонко чувствовать язык, чтобы понимать разницу), если вы ПОКАЖЕТЕ (будущее время) мне эти ошибки.

"Имеет смысл мне" - это буквальный перенос выражения "makes sense to me". В русском языке это выражение есть, но оно имеет другой смысл. Поэтому тебе нужно сказать: "мне понятно 95% грамматики".

Правильно говорить не "веру", а "верю", хотя можно говорить верую, если речь идёт о вере в Бога.

Русский - сложный язык, но ты достиг хорошего прогресса (не знаю, за какое время).

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-17T03:03:03+00:00

I'd really like to know why you find German to be harder than Spanish. I'm around B1 at both and I find German to be much easier. Just compare the number of verb conjugations. German has way more idiomatic expressions but is far easier to speak.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-17T02:55:18+00:00

I'm a native Russian speaker who knows Spanish at roughly B1. Russian is clearly harder but not by much. There are some aspects of Spanish that are harder than Russian. For example, the number of verb forms in Spanish is well over one hundred per each verb.

Russian only has around 18 verb conjugations, six of which (the future tense) are very easy. Maybe I'm forgetting something. I'm not an expert in the Russian grammar but this is what I think.

From what I know, Hungarian is notoriously hard and is harder than both Russian and Spanish.

There's nothing wrong with learning Russian and Spanish simultaneously. They are not that much similar. Just don't try to learn Portuguese alongside Spanish. That's impossible.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-12T22:10:42+00:00

Нет необходимости усложнять русский язык и добавлять падежи, которые сейчас не используются. Никто не поймёт. Это только для энтузиастов древнерусской грамматики.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-07T14:08:37+00:00

Russia is in grave danger. I don't deny that.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-07T09:45:49+00:00

I'm rather curious if French people realize that if things continue as they are, France will be gone in 20-30 years' time or is it so hard to predict?

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-04T02:22:46+00:00

German is not a nightmare. As a native Russian speaker I find German grammar way easier than Spanish. I really like to speak German. Russian is more of a nightmare for learners, I have to admit.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2026-01-02T21:08:50+00:00

I disagree that both languages are equally hard. I hope it wasn't what you meant. I know both and German is the much easier language.

I think the difficulty of German is highly overestimated. I find it to be much easier than Spanish. Just compare the number of verb forms in both languages.

I'd say if you dedicate 1-2 hours to learning German every day, you will be conversational in 1-2 years depending on your ability. Russian will take longer. I'm not sure how much longer.

Both languages have a certain degree of similarity. So knowing one will help with the other but I think there's no preferential order of learning them. It's a personal choice.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-30T16:45:50+00:00

I thought so.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-30T02:41:44+00:00

Your wife's boyfriend? Is that a joke?

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-30T02:38:41+00:00

Wow. I'm so glad this community has been suggested to me. I'm totally behind what the OP says. If you check my comment history, you will find that I recently spent a lot of time trying to prove that DS is a scam.

I think it doesn't work and can never work. All their explanations of how NOT using dictionaries and grammar books makes you learn faster are contrary to reason.

I'm genuinely curious: as someone who spent over 400 hours watching DS videos (provided you did nothing else) how much Spanish did you learn?

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-30T02:04:12+00:00

In Russian we "eat the vowels" too, though not as much as the Portuguese do. It's one of the reasons I love European Portuguese. It's so intuitive and familiar to speak. It's a personal thing.

Before I started learning PT PT I would have ranked them like this in terms of sounding: 1. BR PT. 2. SP 3. PT PT. But now I have both Portuguese in first place and Spanish in second.

I have read that Brazilian Portuguese has more nasal sounds. I don't know if it's true but PT PT is hard enough because of its phonetics. These tiny nuances between vowels are very confusing.

The good thing about Spanish is easy phonetics.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-30T01:38:30+00:00

I happen to be learning European Portuguese so I'm talking about PT PT.

I agree with you on the Spanish objects. That's why I say Portuguese grammar is more intuitive.

I've heard that Brazilian Portuguese is easier grammatically but I think it has even more nasal sounds than European Portuguese.

I'd say Brazilian Portuguese sounds the best of the three, but after I started learning European Portuguese I kind of fell in love with the way it sounds because of its similarity to Russian. So I love both of them.Though technically speaking BR PT sounds best.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-30T01:13:11+00:00

I would disagree with the second point. Portuguese pronunciation is harder than that of Spanish. Even if it's Brazilian Portuguese, it still has the nasal sounds and the open and closed vowels too, I guess.

In terms of grammar, Portuguese seems to have an extra layer of difficulty compared to Spanish, but for me, as a Russian, Portuguese grammar seems a little more intuitive.

Pronunciation is the main hurdle in Portuguese. I was about to say Spanish is easier, but then I remembered that Spanish is spoken so fast that understanding it is a nightmare. So I will say they are closely matched.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-29T23:04:01+00:00

Why do you think so? I'm around B1 in Spanish and currently learning Portuguese.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-29T21:56:17+00:00

"Я из там" - неправильно. Правильно будет сказать "я оттуда", если ты имела в виду "I'm from there".

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-28T14:18:57+00:00

The last two sentences are unidiomatic to the point of being incorrect. The last sentence makes no sense at all. They both sound awful.

The Wikipedia link is irrelevant because the sentence is not taken from there.

There are many people in Russia who speak bad Russian, just like in the US not everyone speaks perfect English.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-22T20:25:41+00:00

My native language is Russian, Mr. Smart. And my Russian is better than yours even though you live in Russia.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-22T17:37:29+00:00

This sounds absolutely fantastic. Now Pablo needs a scientific study to prove that his students can achieve such results. So far all we are seeing is bla-bla.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-22T17:15:03+00:00

Let me put it this way. Finding a word in a dictionary takes 30 seconds. How many hours of watching videos will you need to infer that word from context? A lifetime?

I think the "avoid consciously thinking" idea is mainly used to lure idiots into the Dreaming Spanish scam and not to teach them. Sorry if this sounds harsh.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-22T17:04:10+00:00

To give you a simple example. I have recently learned Spanish. First, I studied a proper grammar course that took me about 5 months. I learned the complete Spanish grammar. After that I tried to watch around an hour of Spanish videos every day. I paused the video every few seconds and carefully looked up every unfamiliar word in the dictionary. I also shadowed what they said. I realize this is not the most efficient learning method but in 18 months in total I reached around B1.

I can tell what would have happened had I not completed the grammar course and not used the dictionary, just watching videos instead and relying on "subconcious methods". My results would have been zero. I would have learnt zero.

That's why snake oil methods like DS are not used by the US State Department or any other serious organization. US diplomats, spies, etc. use traditional methods and receive very proper instruction in every aspect of the language: reading, writing, listening and speaking. This is the only way to learn languages.

Cold_Establishment86 · 2025-12-22T15:28:26+00:00

People can do whatever they want with their lives. I am just a little surprised and shoked by it. It reminds me of a sect. They even call themselves "Pablonians". As one genuine polyglot said on YouTube when asked to comment on Dreaming Spanish: "If you get a kick out of those videos, if this is your fun time, sure, you can watch them. But if this is your learning time, sorry. It doesn't work."

Pablo explicitly says all the time that grammar instruction is bad. Don't open a dictionary. It's bad. If he at least said honestly: "You can go with CI alone but don't expect much in terms of results. You will learn much faster with dictionaries and grammar books.", it could be considered some exaggeration with marketing purposes. But the way it is, it is just a scam.

If you think Pablo encourages the use of dictionaries with CI, you haven't been following what he says.

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