How to Think Like a Russian
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- This has been a huge issue of many of you! Decided to put it in a video for EVERYONE to see, and not just responding to comments individually. I hope, this was useful!
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Good advice! I just wish I had seen this video before I went and acquired a pet bear.
stivosaurus,
MR, FEDOR,
DO YOU GUYS REALLY HAVE PET BEARS? DO THEY BITE?
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@@InsanityHere My bear doesn't. He's got addicted to me, and he can't imagine his life without me. Love him🐻♥️
u chase bear in russia
lmao!
I love how he says привет друзья and touches his chest in every video😂
Coco Bella Yes, many people to do it to create familiarity. These routines could go even further by using the same background all the time and just changing a few things from time to time. The viewers will remember him more often and feel an „urge“ to go back. It is is sort of like an artificial sense of nostalgia to lock people in.
@@jenot7164 Mind control.
That's a western tradition actually
Мне нравится етот тоже! Haha
I do not like it at all actually.
This may not work for everyone, but I actually feel like my Russian has gotten more natural by practicing speaking English in a flexible Russian syntax. "I to him sent the letter." "You I love." "That to me is pleasing." "I all day at the cafe studied." By training my brain to associate that kind of syntax with Russian, it helps me more naturally fall into it when I'm actually speaking the language.
Weird, but it's helpful for me, haha.
Good idea, I'm already talking about my actions (internally, i'm not a mad man!), when i am out in places. ' I am going into the shop', 'I saw lots of birds in the park' etc when i'm walking around and that's helping me. Having this internal dialogue when i'm doing things is helping me learn quicker than before. I'm going to try your syntax method too. Thanks for the tip.
gezma12 The best language student I know talk a lot to themselves ;)
Another thing that strikes many people as odd, but can work is to try and use as many Russian words in your thoughts as possible. Even if you only know a few of the words necessary to complete an idea, you can utilize the Russian words that you have in your mind in their grammatically appropriate places (noun/adverb/adjective/verb, etc). What remains that you cannot replace with Russian will tell you what you need to learn, and also which structures and constructions are your areas of weakness. The idea you suggest is also another very useful strategy that can help with word sequencing, which, fortunately for those of us learning Russian, is relatively free in Russian.
That's the same thing I work on doing is re adapting my English to suit Russian phrasing ...I do talk out loud a lot ...I talk to my self in Russian out loud...any spoken Russian is good regardless, i think speaking English in a Russian syntax is smart...I feel it helps me speak faster in my head without having to translate first. I hate that
This has been helpful to me as well. I think that you're still utilizing the suggestion that he mentioned in the video..."think Russian!"
"Do not come to Russian with your rules." Sounds so badass. It's also a great life lesson for meeting life on life's terms.
So no pet bear? 🐻😂🇷🇺
hoax
I'll say about how I learn English. It was in 90s years. I have my old PC and some games, but all that games are on English: some quests, Civilization, Duna and one game about war in Vietnam on the rivers.
I find my small Eng-Rus dictionary and I start write word by word all what someone talk to me in that games. Every word I write and translate.
Then (in that time) I start to listen american hardrock and after that, I found one CD of Bob Marley.
And I listen songs on English again and again!
Translating of games give me a good vocabulary. And songs help me to understand how I can build some phrases.
Try that, my american (and not american too) friend.
And then you knew: Every little thing is gonna be alright ;)
To me, it's easier to learn a completely different language, than a language from the same branch as my native language, which is very similar, because there are too many false similarities. I was once reading a text in Russian and I though I understand everything, because many words sounded familiar, and I could figure out the rest from the context. But when I checked the dictionary later on, it turned out that I understood everything wrong, because many words meant a completely different thing that I thought they meant :q Now I have a full list of such false cognates, and it's still growing :P
Well done Fedor. Excellent advice!
Very good and helpful advice! Thanks Fedor!
You are awesome, thank you for creating this video!!
Fidor, I like watching and listening to your videos, as person who grew up with only a little Russian, it helps me while I take classes. Your method is easier for me to understand sometimes.
I want to subscribe to this channel like a hundred times!!!! You have the most useful, actual and practical contents in your channel. Молодец🤭🤭🔥🔥
Спасибо for keeping it real. I needed to hear this!!
6:50 I noticed I practice Russian better while having a beer or two. It's kind of loose on the tongue.
That's normal. It's important to be comfortable.
Hey, Boris said it's easier to learn (or speak) Russian after a vodka or two so... you're not wrong!
@@JohnDoe-hp5nn Everybody has their own method. Whatever seems to work.
I do the same for English.
Thank you for speaking on this subject. I have a hard time absorbing some phrases due to this issue. 😊
He’s right, I was doing this subconsciously and I’m glad he made a video about it. Спасибо 🙏
Ой как здорово смотреть ваш канал ! Учу английски )понимаю каждое слово 🙏
логично)
I just found your channel today I have seen some of your more recent videos. And think you have really grown it's awesome to see! I wish more of this video was talking about the specific main differences of *how* to think in Russian. And not just iterating the point that Russian is different than other languages.
I spent years studying Spanish and am aware of that. But I want to understand the rules and the ways I'm *supposed* to think in Russian.
With that being said if you are reading this and are open to suggestions maybe remake a video like this (or if this was already done someone please link it to me)
Anyways thank you so much for putting our good educational content. We have been studying using Duolingo (best way for us to guarantee we practice daily). But we want to grow our real skills and knowledge in the language so this channel is proving to be very helpful 😊
This video should be the very first one EVERY person should hear when attempting to learn a new language. (I speak German, English, Spanish, French, but forgot quite a bit of my French. Oddly, now that I am trying to teach myself Russian, a lot of my French is "coming back" to my mind.). I find your videos extremely helpful and may sign up for one of your classes. Thank you for all your help!
Сколько уровень ты по-русский? Я уровен А2
When I started learning another language in depth I sometimes write broken English. I think it's a RAM shortage because I am an older model, or my hard drive is full lol.
Hello, I'm american and I do the same. When I speak with my Russian husband, I subconsciously try to mimic his accent and the way he speaks and it lasts a little even when I go and talk with other Americans. This happens when we talk in both Russian and English. I think it has to do with our brains trying to bond with the other person by speaking similarly to them.
Recently started learning. Fun story maybe. It was late, me and my co worker (who is russian and helps me to learn) were working quite late and we were both quite tired. Because of covid of course we are working remotely. I had to message her on our company instant messenger app and the chat box says 'type your message here' and i found myself staring at the word 'type' for a good few seconds confused if it was in russian or not...
English natuve speakers need to change OS! M$ Windows => GNU /Linux
i like the way u explain things. very informative
Haha! Thanks Fedor. I always thought the verb "to be" was a big pain in the ass. I am now vindicated.
I am so glad you explained that Russians can mumble while speaking. I have been having some trouble listening and picking up some of the language when it is spoken like that. When you explained that almost all words do not sound the same and a native speaker may not even pronounce some of the letters in the word- I see why.
Yeah! Gotta get some experience for you to be able to pick those mumbles up:)
@@BeFluentinRussian how do this video work for Vietnamese ? I'm one
Nice pfp, lets go bruins! 🐻
What freaked me out was the fact, that there are no articles in russian. I mean like "the" or "der ,die, das". Or the fact that there is no past perfect. Sometimes it`s difficult to understand. But then i changed my mind to, hey thats cool stuff.
No articles has been a nice change from english, as well as no linking verbs. As some Russians have told me, they do seem unnecessary at times.
Very helpful video, thank you
Thank you for sharing this. I have always had such a hard time understanding when native Russian speakers are talking. I often find myself thinking, oh, if this person would just speak a little more clearly it would really help. I have never had this murmuring thing explained before. This is a very hard language; I have tried several different methods over a period of several years and still cannot converse, but there is nothing for it but to keep trying. Fedor, you have a gift for explaining things and making them simple. Can you recommend something that lets you build vocabulary and get a chance to hear more Russian spoken at the same time? I can't go to the country yet but would like to as soon as the busy season at my job is done. Keep up the good work!
Yes!!! Da!!! Thank You Fedor Shirin.
You're the best thank you!!
Привет, федор! What you said about Russians being more "mumbly" when speaking Russian really hit home with me - I've been struggling with this and thought there was something wrong with me! You mentioned that to learn Russian you need to adapt to this - do you have any advice on how to adapt to this way of speaking?
I thought it was me as well. One person would not pronounce certain vowels, another person did pronounce the missing vowels. So confusing! Now I understand and can pay attention better. This makes so much sense when you know the cultural situation behind it. And yes in the USA we MUST pronounce it correctly or no one knows what the hell anyone is saying.
I had a russian language friend, he taught me russian and I taught him norwegian. He brought up this as well, that our spoken language often does not look like the written one at all, and there is no way to understand it if you are not familiar with it. I felt the same sometimes with russian.
This is a very helpful video! I don't think I compare two languages like that, I'm like the person who goes "did you know they say it like this instead? That's so cool"
But I will remember this as I keep learning Russian
I don't really have these issues, because I already studied Spanish and German so I got used to the fact that there were different rules for each language. But, how can I learn to think *in* Russian? It's so hard because even if I know the words, my brain has a hard time processing their meaning (because it tries to translate them to English) and by the time I really understand them, the speaker has said 3 more sentences and I'm completely lost and confused. I know that since you speak English so well, when you speak it/listen to it, you're thinking in English, so do you have any pointers on thinking in Russian? (Or maybe you've done a video about this and I've just never seen it and if so, where can I find it?)
Regarding swearing/cursing... you should go to England! There are a lot of people using the f-word in common conversation (well...maybe this is more common when they drink, but even so...)! I myself swear quite a bit, especially when upset/excited, so I don't judge people who swear as being unintelligent because I think I'm pretty intelligent. What I do is apologize for swearing in front of someone I don't know well. How do Russian speakers feel about English speakers swearing (in English, that is) and especially, how do they feel about girls swearing (in Russian or English)?
Thanks for the reply, Fedor. But, you learned how to think in English, so I was thinking you have tips for how to think in Russian. You know, there must be some exercises you did? Maybe just a lot of listening and repeating the words over and over again? I don't know. I've never been able to think in another language.
@@ESCSteph From my personal experience, I believe there is only one way to do that which is a lot of listening practice and even reading. In other words, exposing yourself to that language you want to think in a lot. Good luck !
This is good advice for a beginner. It's funny because so many times I found myself trying to argue with a teacher "But that's so stupid" it seemed like there was a person making these rules just trying to make things difficult. However, once the learner simply accepts the way things are they are rewarded by things like poetry. Michael Farr, I have also come to this same conclusion. To treat the modification of words as separate words can make things easier at first
THANK YOU fedor! i speak albanian and english and was using English to translate but the cases are better understood when I translate Russian into Albanian to understand!
Good advice for learning any language
I feel like this whole video is just a passive-aggressive rant about all his experiences with arrogant English speakers and their complaints that Russian phrasing doesn't make sense xD "...but we don't say it this way in English!" Helpful video though, thank you! Adaption in life is key, just open your mind!
Mmm...I don't know if he's on a rant... I used this method to learn English and it worked wonders! I am Romanian, English was killing me in school for 3 years! One day, we had a new teacher and she had this view: stop thinking in Romanian!! Stop fearing you might be wrong because in Romanian is.wrong! Learn words, daily! Say them, daily! Listen, daily! Read.daily and STOP thinking in Romanian, it's English, accepted as it is! Only 3 months later I was fluènt! So....I agree with the guy, it's a.tested method! Yeah, he seems a bit over the top when he is saying stop it, it's Russian🤣 but he is Russian and they are ...well...let's just say they have an ego that fills this universe🤣🤣, but I don't think he ment it that wa
y here! He is on point with it.
I understand, that rebelling against the differences is useless. But for me it's much easier, if I know the origin or the "true meaning" of some sentences. I want to understand, why russians use sentences like: "Как тебя зовут?", "Мне надо...", "У меня..." It helps me a lot, if I know, where these things come from, what they mean in my language (which is german) and what russians think (word by word in their language), when they use them. Because of that I can easier accept and remind those "special phrases" and other things. :)
yeah, you can definitely use that to understand. Just don't try to change Russian because it's different in your own language.
Great advice.
I appreciate you so much
Fedya,Festa, a great teacher! I am bilingual in English and Italian. I learned it the hard way, by living there. What really helped the most, was realizing that Italian has its own rules. There is no perche, e cosi e basta. Similarly, Russian has its own rules.
Great video! Спасибо!
Right! A lack of literal translations can cause so much confusion. I gave up on RussianPod101 when they said that как дела meant "how are you?" I am especially curious about the verbs like нужен and нравится, I think they're called reflexive verbs.
my mans went off ngl
Omg! You used the chicken neck! Lol! You remind me of my teacher. I view this when I feel down on my learning.
This is a great video
Ok , in english we talk of phonetics , and it applies to the structure of words in a sound sense, the break down of the word as opposed to absorbing the whole word without properly understanding the basics slowed down and fractionalized state makes memorizing and understanding easier.
I know I'm a bit late for this video (I only just found it). But that's good advice. Это хороший совет! Как всегда, спасибо большое! Очень полезный 😊😊
What you're talking about is the most cool part of learning a new language - it reflects sensibilities and culture.
"You must think in Russian. You cannot think in English and transpose. You must think in Russian."
Lol that's what we say to californians coming to texas... "leave your ideas and rules in CA" 😂
This is something I have been working on in my study of the Russian language; so many videos just put up a phrase in Russian with an equivalent phrase in English. I want to understand each word I'm saying as well as the phrase.
Thank you so much for this I've been studying the Russian language for about 2 years now and I have finally come to this conclusion. I was trying to make English rules match with the Russian language and it did not work. I have found I need to let the Russian language win. Thank you so much!
I've been learning for 3 months, and I just found this in my recommended, i see people like you have studied for years and still don't know how to think in or like a russian
The mumbling thing makes sense now.. I always get tongue tied or trip over my words when I try to say some phrase or sentence pronouncing every single syllable
He is saying right guys,,just do it.. ☺️
thanks man I live in Las Vegas and there's not a lot of Russian speakers,the first part of this I knewindifference from language I've never thought about the second part of this that wayI always feel like in Russian because of soft consonants my accent sounds horrible and I'm sure it does but it's easier for y'all to understand my horrible accent compared tothe vice versa or Portuguese to French or something
Thanks for the tips
As a Brazilian, I think in Portuguese
But I use your videos to learn in English
That's what I need to do all the time
And be careful to don't compare Portuguese to Russian and why the expressions are so different
Obrigado!
I think the grammar structure is similar, comparing Portuguese and Russian
"Apples and apple juice" 😂 I'll never forget that!
I've learnt 2,000 Russian words and I still can't understand most conversations. Apparently I need to know 12,000 words for that. Long way more guys. Wish me luck. 😢
My second language was Spanish, and getting truly fluent in it really did require me to think in a different way about things. Even Spanish, which is very similar to English, has so many rules that just only make sense if you think about them in a fundamentally different way, stuff like the subjunctive mood and various distinctions between words like por/para. If Spanish requires you to think completely differently, Russian certainly does.
Oh - excellent video! I wish I had seen it a couple of years ago. I have a Russian friend who always seemed to murmur some of her words. Now I understand why! So in keeping with your suggestion about speaking Russian like Russians do, is it OK if I murmur some of the more difficult to pronounce words or phrases, such as здравствуйте??
Yes it is. Don't make that your goal though.
Can tell you're in the states when you say swearing/cursing is not as bad as it is in english! Come to Australia or the UK, we swear all the time constantly in all situations.
God....Good Video....logical
Am I the only one that occasionally hears yelling, screaming, and explosions in the background?
Hi Fedor. Can you do a video on articles in the Russian Language.
Articles don't exist in Russian.
Words that don't exist:
the, a, is, are, am, be
May I ask how long it took you to feel comfortable when you are talking English? I've been learning Russian for fun in my free time (I work full time) and I'm 2 years in learning. I still feel tongue tied sometimes but i understand a lot more than i can say. When did you have the moment when you felt like you can converse naturally?
Спасибо за ответ. У меня много работы!
Keep practicing! I've been learning for about the same time. I'd say a know about 650+ words. I'm self taught through phrase books and utube. It's coming together slowly. Have a look a Russian world on utube. Its started getting more difficult when learning masculine feminine nouns. HE she you us them and the ends changing. It's slowly frying my head. Keep it up.
Just practice and it will come. I spent time in countries where I knew like 50 words. But I traveled alone and had to get around. So I was forced to speak, I did not care about being comfy, I simply cared to survive. Once you HAVE to speak, you will realise that you know words, that you did not know you knew.
I have found that word order is totally different too. Gender, cases, plurals, one word means 3 in English, word meanings change when paired with other words, etc. become very confusing. It is a very difficult language to learn. But I'm trying...!
My 'r' sounds forced and switches the stress of my words. It seems impossible to say it more softly and mumble through that letter.
I spat out my drink at his joke in the beginning
7:30 What😂
If that was true, I wouldn't have so much troubles listening to English speakers in youtube videos. They murmur and mumble more than us in many ways!
Очень спасибо!
how can English speakers bitch about other languages being *“incorrect”* but still use words like through, tough, though, they’re, their, and there?
If I may ask, what is your personal opinion on ø-copula verbs? I know that Russian don't use these, but it's such an integrated part of germanic languages that it is hard to imagine a world without them.
Be Fluent In Russian verbs like 'is' and 'are' that are used to couple words together.
Like 'the house IS there' in Russian would be 'дом там' without the link.
In American English, we murmur all the time depending on region. Example "probably"..."prolly" "probly"
How to think like a Russian? Activate Sleeper Agent...
"Have my own pet 🐻" 🤣
to us foreigners most difficult is to choose perfective or imperctive verb in conversation. i think only russians understood how to choose verb hcb or cb ?
I agree, for example as a native French I used to learn Russian through English (for the quantity of information etc.) but this is a waste of time and a source of mistakes.
"Words don't sound similar"
Not me thinking Fedor has been saying привет россия instead of привет друзья for literally 2 months now xD
Oh i font do this i had unusual upbringing when i learnt English i had no german to speak with anyo e i learnt english no mother tongue phase and i find it hard to use english as base i just use the language i can do it from german to russian etc just learn it by asociation table gets russian word for table stuck to it. I dont do grammar i use it every now then if i use grammar as building blocks im hopeless. I orefer to hear russian over over pick patterns up .i can make sense.
7:47 killed me XD
Right I have to stop filtering...
I don't know if there is any Hungarian here, but I find it quite easy to learn Russian through that, I use the english material, but have a notebook and I translate the stuff to Hungarian. I feel like that there is a lot of grammar concepts in Hungarian that is similar to the Russian ones.
Any Hungarian, do you think the same?
I know this video is old but....Fedor !!! Calm down :)
This video has made me think. I studied cases for the first time when I learn German. And now I'm trying to apply the same rules for understand and fix Russian cases. But it doesn't work... You are right! Russian is not German...)
How to think like a russian:
Stop thinking russian. Russian thinks you!
What do you keep saying after Привет??
Привет друзья как дела...
U da man
But I want a pet bear, Fedor
Yeah have to pay attention to the way the language makes sense. It’s not fun translating anyway. I’d rather look dumb or make mistakes. Thanks
I don't know how anyone ever actually learned a language by studying grammar and at this point I'm afraid to ask
It is crazy how I have a mother tongue, not English, by which I used to learn our national language which I learned alongside the English language. Now using English, I am now learning Russian.
Title: no more English anymore
Video starts with English.
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Большое спасибо Федору за добрые уроки.
I've found that Russian actually makes more sense than English, it's way more efficient, even if we said "you beautiful" in English everyone would still understand what you were saying lol
I died at have a pet bear 😂
Omg he’s even stotzivickitchi va garitiza
The not speaking clearly part is what I have a hard time with. I can’t seem to understand, so I can’t respond appropriately. I’m always more slowly please. I speak Russian great! Understanding it is harder for me.
That part is tough by itself yes! You simply need to put yourself in the situations where you're always challenged to comprehend the speech. You will make amazing progress from it!
I heard someone say that when you are learning another language that you are developing , what they called, a second brain. Excellent video.
мама, я влюбилась
I thought this said "how to drink like a russian" it's cool though, still enjoyed the lesson
Thing is that EVERY language has phrases and words that when translated word for word, will not make sense to a foreigner. Ex: spanish "como te llamas" means whats your name but word for word it would mean how you call your self. Umm... how DO i call myself??? Good question lol
Guilty as charged! I used to be exactly that way before, till I realized that it's simply how THEY do it. I quit trying to make a Russian phrase or sentence to correspond with an English counterpart. It's not even close. I stopped fighting IT and started copying it.