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Roughly 150 million native speakers, plus a large second-language population across the former Soviet states. It carries an enormous literature and an enormous internet, and it opens the door to the other Slavic languages considerably more than any of them opens the door to it.
The Foreign Service places Russian in its harder bracket at about 1,100 hours. Almost none of that is the alphabet, which is a weekend of work. It is the grammar, and specifically the endings.
Cyrillic — 33 letters, and genuinely learnable in a few days. The trap is that several letters look like Latin ones and are not: В is v, Р is r, С is s, Н is n. That false familiarity slows people down more than the wholly unfamiliar letters do.
Every noun, adjective and pronoun changes its ending according to its job in the sentence. Word order becomes flexible as a consequence — elegant once you are inside it, thoroughly disorienting on the way in.
Nearly every Russian verb arrives as a pair: one form for a process, one for a completed act. You choose between them every single time you speak. There is no English equivalent, and it never becomes fully automatic — it becomes fast.
Unstressed "o" is pronounced closer to "a". Since stress is unpredictable and goes unmarked in ordinary text, you frequently cannot tell how a written word sounds until you have heard somebody say it.
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The alphabet falls in days rather than months, and crossing it feels like a genuine achievement: you go from seeing noise to reading shop signs in about a week. Take that win, because the grammar is a much longer road.
Well covered by the big apps at beginner level and thin above it — which is unfortunate, because the case system needs correcting rather than presenting.
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The Foreign Service places Russian in its harder bracket at about 1,100 hours. Almost none of that is the alphabet, which is a weekend of work. It is the grammar, and specifically the endings.
Six cases. Every noun, adjective and pronoun changes its ending according to its job in the sentence. Word order becomes flexible as a consequence — elegant once you are inside it, thoroughly disorienting on the way in.
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It does. You get pronunciation feedback in your own native language, so you know exactly which sounds to fix.
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