Good day everyone! I’m a native Russian speaker, looking to improve my English. My English is pretty good - I was certified C1 in a British school when I visited. I am currently a student at a Russian uni shooting for a degree as a translator/interpreter, and what I really need is to hone my skills in terms of pronunciation and/or recognizing and translating quotes and set phrases. My uni offers a “Teaching Russian to foreigners” and I want to take it, but from what I heard it’s pretty abstract and I want to go in knowing what actual struggles do Russian language learner face.
I’m 23, living in Moscow. I’m interested in basically everything but just a little bit. If held at a gun point I’d say my interest are books, videogames(Minecraft in particular, lol) and D&D.
Wanna be friends? / Будем друзьями?
I wrote you a DM a few days ago, please answer me if you're interested, thanks :)
Hi!! I am interested!
Hello! I'm a 21 year old American college student who is learning Russian for fun. I see that you're familiar with British English but I could offer some insight into American accents and speech patterns if you're interested. I'm a very beginner level in Russian so you'd probably get some good practice from teaching me. Message me if you're interested!
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Hey, since you mentioned pronunciation, I could maybe help with that. I'm a fourth-year student of the English language and literature department at my university with a huge interest in phonetics and helping people with their pronunciation. And also, as a native speaker of a Slavic language and person who's currently learning Russian, I know the struggle.😅 Feel free to dm me if you're interested.
This isn't really relevant to your post lol but I really wanna know this, Why do Russians always say Friend and call you Friend all the time and say things like "Friends!" "My Friend"
In addition to OP, it really depends on the context:
- in russian-to-russian the word "friend" is rarely used. In general, it seen as something for people with strong bonds;
- russian-to-english, it's used quite often because we lack the vocabulary. It's hard to take "acquaintance" from the top of one's head, during a live conversation, while "friend" is very basic and comes naturally. For me it also feels "friend" is more common even for acquaintances for native En communication, so I may use "friend" just to save time in case the other person decide to ask why is mr. Smith is not a friend;
- russian-to-russian drunk talk — everyone is "friend" after 2 shots. 2 more and you are a "brother"/[bratishka], even if the autopiloting body sees you the first and last time.
That actually a deeper question than I was ready for. I can think of two things is comes to.
First one is kindergarten. It’s pretty much the only time in your life when it feels natural and appropriate to just announce to a person that you wanna have some sort of relationship with them to their face rather than building up that relationship organically.
The second is is that Russian has a lot of words to describe how well do you a person and how good of a relationship do you have. Not everyone I call my friend in English is my friend when I’m speaking Russian. As such, when we call someone a friend we invite them into our personal life, signaling that we are open, if it comes to it, to become a real friend. And if it’s done publicly, as in “That’s John Smith, he is my friend” it’s an act of vouching for a person and establishing a sort of protection over them. Kinda like prison, lol
Ah I see, my theory was russian had a lot of words to address each other based on how good friends they are and because English doesnt have those, Russians just learn to say Friend for all of those words in English
That’s definitely a part of it, it’s just that saying “Wanna be buddies?” in Russian is possible but sounds WAY to awkward, so friends it is
“if held at gunpoint i’d say…list hobbies” LMAO WHAT. haha i’m 18 from the U.S. i know very little of russian. when i mean very little i mean none
“By very little I mean none” sound hysterical too, I’m not the one contradicting myself in here)) Wanna move to PMs?
absolutely
also yes, i’d love to be friends (if you’re cool with that)