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Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian

https://twitter.com/haravayin_hogh/status/2003299405907247502
20•flaxxen•2h ago
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vunderba•26m ago
It’s a bit weird to see the English transliteration of Russian words for example, govoritz instead of говорить.

For anyone looking to study Russian, I highly recommend spending a few days familiarizing yourself with Cyrillic first. Toss it into an Anki deck (or download one) and use FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler).

It’s phonetic and consists of only 33 letters, I memorized it on a ~12-hour flight to Moscow many years ago.

d_silin•22m ago
Very funny and snobbish too, nothing less expected from Nabokov.

Russian grammar is inflectional, yes, but that's about the only difficult part of the language. It is not that different from German in this matter.

kemitchell•13m ago
What's difficult really depends on the languages you already know.

In addition to noun inflection, verb aspect, pronunciation stress, and punctuation trouble many native English speakers. That's in addition to all the simple irregularities, like irregular nouns and verbs.

Stress even troubles native speakers. When I lived there, I saw slideshow "where 's the stress?" quizzes used to fill time on screens in taxi buses, waiting rooms, and the like.

d_silin•7m ago
Stress is a bit of a rarer aspect, most words can be disambiguated with any stress placement, except for a few exceptions, i.e. зáмок (castle) /замóк (lock).

Punctuation is secondary, just put commas, colons and semicolons where you feel they should go, most Russians don't know any better themselves.

Noun and verb inflections you will master with enough practice, yeah.

Maybe overall a more difficult language than English or German, but not in the same league as Chinese or Arabic, in my humble opinion.

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