Why is Russian so hard to learn? (My experience)

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"Russian is so difficult"

Is a common complain about Russian.

And I won't lie:

Russian isn't the easiest language in the world to learn if you speak English.

So why is it hard?

I think there are about 5 main things that are tough.

Watch the video to learn:
- What the 5 things are that I found most difficult to learn
- How I approached them so that now I'm fluent in Russian
- What I recommend you do to master them too

Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments!

[WorkSmartAndHard]

I'm Russian. Why did I just watch a 10 minute video of how to speak my own language?

[_FosteR]

In russian you read молоко and say малако. In english you read queue and say q. Thank you english

[Dmitriy_Obuhov]

As a Russian speaker I really like how precisely and deeply the author described the main challenges in Russian. Definitely I would recommend this video to all Russian learners

[EgorYouTube]

По твоей речи видно, что ты провел очень большую работу над произношением . Даже представить себе не могу, насколько это сложно . Вообще красавчик

[Sigurd]

I'm Russian, who's trying to learn French. There are so many things that do not make any sense in French for me, but every time I get frustrated by exceptions or legacy rules, I imagine that at this very moment a person from France is trying to learn Russian and suffers more than I do.
It comforts me.

[okosmose]

Как русскоговорящий могу сказать, что ваша речь очень впечатляет, реально лучший акцент и произношение из всех блогеров кто учит русский!

[maxtalin]

I've been using English at work as I'm a developer in UK company.
Но мой родной язык русский.
И каждый раз, когда меня начинают бесить фразовые глаголы, артикли, perfect tenses, conditional sentences, I start watching videos where foreigners explain how and why Russian is so difficult to learn.
И сразу на душе спокойно 😅

[мориморка]

As a Russian speaker, I want to tell you about you have a very good speech and pronunciation. Well done 👍

[Kari_kapi]

Это так прикольно: наблюдать как кто-то учит твой язык:)
Удачи вам! А я пойду английский учить...

[dasegot]

As a russian, I'm very proud of all people who can say even "hello" in russian. When I worked as a cashier at the grocery store, one day a four koreans (two girls and two boys) came and they said "здравствуйте", "ещё напиток" и "до свидания" and it was so cute! Don't be afraid, just try to talk!

[eugenewhiting]

"Никто никому ничего не должен". There are four negations in the sentence! It seems to be very awkward for native English speakers.😂❤ Thank you for making me look at my language from the outside!

[LastOfGamers]

I was trying to learn russian during covid but stopped, then when I went to Moscow and St. Petersburg last month and stayed for 4 weeks I loved the culture and its people and continued to learn the language!

[andrrrrrray]

когда вы перешли к теме совершенных и несовершенных глаголов, я прям прослезился. в таких логических мякотках и есть прикол русского языка.
и самим русским далеко не всем легко это даётся - я помню начальную школу, как многие тупили на подобных темах и хватали двояки.
эх, смотрю на вас, и тоже захотелось изучить какой-нибудь новый сложный язык, дать себе новый вызов, так сказать. вы молодец.

[abberata]

I am a native Russian speaker and a language nerd so just for fun I’ve taken a course of teaching Russian as foreign language. And damn…. I’ve always known it’s a hard language but looking at it from a foreigner’s perspective…. it’s just intolerable. Prepositions literally made me cry. Rooting for anyone who is brave enough to start this language

[TheTorrezzz]

Бро, респект тебе за то, что выбираешь такой язык в столько противоречивые времена. Мне прям приятно. Ты, уже лишь благодаря этому факту, производишь впечатление личности со своим мнением и хорошего доброго человека. Удачи тебе в будущем. Неважно, насколько хорошо ты выучишь русский язык, но продолжай всегда так же слушать своё сердце и оставаться человеком🤍

[ApenaUmCanal]

I'm in the very beggining, using the Assimil Course. I feel like a child getting literate for the first time. New alphabet, absolutely new words... It's very fun, but at the same time scary. My goal is to be able to read poems and prose in russian, especially the old authors like Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, etc. And be able to have a good conversation. Hope i can get this level in 2 years

[zgt]

As Russian, I must say that your accent almost can't be noticed. That's a great job!

[msbull]

Dude your language skills are just amazing. You can easily swith between both your non native languages and you are doing it without accent !

[GraceCanadaful]

Russian is a beautiful, soft language. Its structure is the same as all Slavonic languages. Sposiba vam za vashu programu.

[dimark]

I'm from Moscow. I swear your pronunciation of some phrases is perfect and has a clearly moscow accent!😁 At first I thought that you're a native speaker! I think If I weren't Russian I wouldn't have learned this language😁 Good luck :)