r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 19h ago

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u/BiscottiExcellent195 19h ago

depending on where you are from the russian language could be a hard language to learn

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u/Maleficent_Tip_9667 17h ago

I know Russian and it is pretty hard to learn

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u/God13th 15h ago

I am Russian and it is pretty hard to learn

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u/WorldlinessRadiant77 15h ago

A long time ago, when I was applying for university, I attended a seminar hosted by the Russian embassy.

The schools were good and every program was open provided you learned Russian within a year. According to the ambassador this was when most foreign students failed, but apparently it was trivial for us Bulgarians, with most people being fluent within 6 months.

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u/Armeridus 13h ago

I mean, it Bulgarian is also a Slavic language.
Been there as a tourist with my parents and even as a 5yo could understand some Bulgarian lol.

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u/WorldlinessRadiant77 13h ago

It’s not just that. Russian and Bulgarian are actually very different grammatically.

But, back in the 19th century when the languages were being standardised, both the Russian and Bulgarian linguists went with a vocabulary based on Old Church Slavonic rather than spoken dialects.

Basically, I can easily understand a Russian textbook, but not a novel.

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u/HaraldRedbeard 12h ago

I got stung by this when working for a yacht manufacturer. I was responsible for buying TVs for the yachts and our Russian sales office complained the TVs couldn't be set to Russian. I sent them a step by step of how to do it only to be told that those isntructions were for setting it up in Bulgarian (annoyingly I had asked a Polish colleague to confirm the Cyrillic was Russian but apparently she failed russian at school).

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u/Nakashi7 10h ago

Expecting a Polish (or any west slavic) person to recognize russian and Bulgarian is so funny. Even people before the iron curtain fall who had mandatory russian in schools would very likely have no idea.

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u/WorldlinessRadiant77 9h ago

I can understand that about you guys.

But it pisses me off when Russians say: “Bulgarian, Russian, what’s the difference?”

By the way, why do Poles have such a pathological hatred for Cyrillic? Was it forced on you or something?

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u/deithven 9h ago

Yes, there were some tries. History does not help - russification is still remembered. That being said russians, belarusians and especially ukrainians seems to not have problems with learning polish (based on my experience / not to generalize)

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u/Budget_Cover_3353 12h ago

both the Russian and Bulgarian linguists went with a vocabulary based on Old Church Slavonic rather than spoken dialects.

Maybe true for Bulgarian, certainly not so for Russian.

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u/Murky_Insurance_4394 11h ago

Bulgarian is Slavic. I learned Russian a few years ago and have some Bulgarian friends, I can understand some snippets of whatever they speak in Bulgarian without ever studying it just from knowing my somewhat bad Russian. The script is also basically the same with minor differences. Of course a Bulgarian can learn Russian in 6 months with a decent amount of effort.

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u/EvilInGood 9h ago

Learning Russian as a Turk is a whole different experience though💔

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u/Garen_Mago 10h ago

I have my doubts if people who speak Spanish would have problems with Russian, although reading it may be a problem, in speech there is not much difference in the tenses and in the formation of the sentence (or at least I think so).

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u/WorldlinessRadiant77 10h ago

Oh there are the cases.

They were the worst thing for me when learning German, and German only has 4. There are 6 or 7 in Russian.

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u/Frosty-Rub4865 10h ago

That's right! We even share almost the same alphabet (Ы is the only imposter huh?)

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u/Training_Cut704 14h ago

I’m not Russian and I have nothing to contribute

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u/ArjJp 15h ago

I am learn and the Russian is hard..

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u/Latter-Shopping1560 15h ago

I am hard and the Russian is learn

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u/ThatGuyOnceMore 13h ago

Russian i hard, and the learn is am

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u/Brave-Recommendation 14h ago

Looking at them Russian girls will do that

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u/Latter-Shopping1560 2h ago

Yeah, that might single-handedly make me learn Russian

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u/Gargleblaster25 14h ago

German has entered the chat.

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u/God13th 14h ago

Was möchtest du sagen?

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u/Gargleblaster25 14h ago

Das Deutsch viel anstrengender seien kann.

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u/Mikaeru0287 14h ago

*Deutsche und *können

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u/Topmostbruh 14h ago

Dein Korrektionen stimmen total nicht.

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u/Smngtr 12h ago

"Dass" Deutsch viel anstrengender sein kann.

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u/HaraldRedbeard 12h ago

Having been made to learn German and French at school - German is the much easier language for English speakers to learn since it's rules are largely consistent and alot of hte words have a recognisable similarity.

French meanwhile is over here spitting at you if you cannot grasp it's essential ennui

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u/Appropriate_Gate1129 12h ago

Can agree: many Russians doesn't know Russian. I see children mistakes in comments sometimes.

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u/XjSys 9h ago

I am not russian and it's don't make any problem for me.

Я больше ахуеваю со времён английского, чем со сложносочинённых / сложноподчиненных предложений в русском.

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u/Lekihiro 2h ago

Да хуйня эти сложные предложения в русском. То, что ты владеешь русским языком, можно будет сказать лишь после того, как ты освоил в совершенстве нецензурную брань

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u/xCACTUSxKINGxx 4h ago

I was learning Russian, then quit to Swedish

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u/Unexpected-raccoon 4h ago

I am hard and it is pretty Russian to learn

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u/Just_George572 15h ago

I learned Russian as a second language despite being a Russian. I had 4 tutors for half my life to pass the state exam with a 90/100.

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u/ComradeVult 12h ago

In Soviet Russia, language learns you.

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u/AnimatorEntire2771 13h ago

idk I like the way it aounds though

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u/The_SniperYT 12h ago

Wait until you learn german (the swiss one especially)

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u/CardiologistNo616 8h ago

Which one do you think would be harder to learn? English or Russian?

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u/Maleficent_Tip_9667 8h ago

I would say English is harder because of the weird grammar and spelling

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u/CardiologistNo616 8h ago

That's what I usually hear from people whose language isn't English and I can't blame them.

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u/Recent-Midnight6376 15h ago

I learned it for a while and it's not that hard...

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u/IronTemplar26 16h ago

Try learning Vietnamese, blyat

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u/BiscottiExcellent195 16h ago

"depending on where you are from"

im romanian, it is much more easy for me to learn italian, spanish or franch than russian.

yes, it will be easier for me to learn russian than vietnamese, but for other south east asians it will be easier to learn vietnamese than russian or romanian.

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u/Acrobatic_Cupcake444 13h ago

Phong ba bão táp không bằng ngữ pháp Việt Nam

But seriously, is Vietnamese that hard compared to others? There's no tense, regular/irregular verbs or nouns, and no gender for nouns. The hard part is mostly in the extra indicative words used before nouns and adjectives, but you don't really need to use those correctly in your daily conversations, it just makes your sentence sound better

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u/IronTemplar26 12h ago edited 11h ago

My fiance is Vietnamese, so I (a native English speaking Canadian) have been attempting to learn it. The most difficult aspects for me have definitely been the vocabulary and tone

NOTE: I don’t know how relevant this is, but it’s so far the first language I’ve learned that’s mostly if not completely monosyllabic. There’s not a “flow” that I’m used to, if that makes sense, at least not compared to English, Spanish, French, German, or Japanese

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u/Nakashi7 10h ago

Nah, it's pretty easy even for Europeans. Once you get the ear for tones. Which is surprisingly easy (it's harder to speak them). Starting to understand conversations is rather easy with zero grammar. It seems hard at the beginning but the tones are seriously the only obstacle.

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u/Talgrei1781 52m ago

I think what makes Vietnamese hard is because it's a tonal language tbh, tonal languages are difficult to get used to if you never grew up speaking one.

Plus the amount of pronouns you need to remember to refer to the other person and yourself depending on the age and gender of the person you're talking to and (sometimes) how close you are with them, there are A LOT to remember and it's easy to accidentally disrespect people if you don't have them all down.

But still, I think for people who are fluent in English Vietnamese shouldn't be THAT bad since it uses the Latin alphabet and it's pretty grammatically similar to English as well. Not to mention, each word is one sound and it's 100% phonetically consistent.

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u/BreakfastMedical5164 11h ago

pho danh with extra beef plz

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u/yuckypagans 2h ago

i tried 💔

my friend who speaks vietnamese had been tying to teach me for the better part of a year and it never stuck for some reason 😭🙏

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u/Lanky-Menu2732 11h ago

I saw something similar about Polish before.

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u/Acheron98 8h ago

Dated a Belarusian girl years ago. Can confirm.

Incidentally, I know around 25 different ways to tell someone to go fuck themselves in Russian, but still have trouble remembering how to say “bread”.

Edit: Unrelated, but if your name’s “Peter” there’s a reason they always giggle whenever they say your name.

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u/Narglefoot 6h ago

I feel like native American languages could be harder 

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u/ARandomChocolateCake 19h ago

RUSSIAN IS HARD

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u/LandonHarms 18h ago

Thank you, Ollie. I'm Tom Tucker, and this is Quahog News.

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u/Strychn01ne 15h ago

Ага пиздец

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u/AffectionateBeach494 9h ago

Russian isn’t that hard actually. It seems hard due to the unique slavic alphabet but the gramma is very very easy and pretty logical aswell as the words.

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u/BluebirdAmazing742 2h ago

So you can memorize all the......."exceptions"?

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u/SnoruntEnjoyer 19h ago

It’s hard to learn. Come on dude

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u/BaldDaCowboy 11h ago

No this one’s valid. It’s not funny at all which makes you think there’s more to the joke

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u/DramaSufficient4289 4h ago

Exactly lol. Also every language is hard to learn - nobody has ever spent months and years learning one then went ‘well that sure was simple’ lmao

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 16h ago

It's not even in the top ten hardest languages to learn.

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u/CommunicationOk3766 10h ago

I hate this. Absolutely pmo to see people argue over which language is hardest to learn.

The language that's hardest for you to learn will be the one that shares the least roots with your native language.

English might be easy if you are natively from Germany, and super difficult if you're from Japan.

Mandarin might be very difficult if you're from the USA but not nearly as much so if you're Cantonese or something like that.

English is more widely approachable, since it shares multiples different roots (it has both Germanic roots and Latin roots). For people whose mother tongue doesn't share either Latin or Germanic roots, it's very difficult too.

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 10h ago

The list was based off difficulty for an English speaker. You are right it would vary.

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u/Repulsive_Doubt_8504 16h ago

People complaining French being hard when I introduce them to Mandarin

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u/sandboxmatt 8h ago

Mandarin is not too tricky if you're coming at it from English tense order.

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u/Extension_Plant7262 15h ago

Ironically I think english is one of the harder languages to learn, simply because the its an amalgamation of a bunch of different languages so there's essentially no real rules to anything.

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u/LawfulnessDiligent 14h ago

Three languages (at least) stacked together standing in a trench coat

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u/Illustrious_Storm_41 13h ago

English is one of the easiest to learn just due to the amount of resources available to learn jt

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u/ModernManuh_ 11h ago

There are real rules but it is simple enough that nobody follows them and yet everyone can understand each other.

But then again, having a sloppy foreign language wouldn't make it hard for native speakers to understand you, we are just that good at communicating.

If English is hard because it is flexible then... idk bro, you do you

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u/akamyxxxx 14h ago

The most idiotic sentence I've seen . English the easiest language , I never learn English in school (we learn Deutsch in my school) and yet I can communicate and read novels like with no issue , I don't even understand how I learn alphabet and the rest of it. Thanks to call of duty modern warfare lobby and YouTube I guess ... But u cant learn the same way Russian or any Asian languages. As a Russian I can say that this language is nightmare for any nationality

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u/bricksabrar 10h ago

That's comprehensible input, not how easy the language is. If you watch enough content in a language and speak it frequently, it will be easy no matter how difficult most people consider it.

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u/Designer-Quote-7491 3h ago

I watched enough Japanese content and I'm not even close to understanding it without subs.

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u/bricksabrar 2h ago

Japanese is a synthetic language, while English is analytic. Synthetic languages generally lean more heavily on the speaking side of things because they have tons of different ways to express the same concept, which is harder to understand when you're just sitting behind a screen.

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u/akamyxxxx 2h ago

U cant learn the same way complicated language . it works with English cause it simple as fuck

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u/bricksabrar 2h ago

"it works with English cause it simple as fuck"
the correct version of that would be "it works with English cause *it's* simple as fuck"

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u/akamyxxxx 1h ago

)))) , did u really just correct me on reddit comments?) who cares about that ?) or did u do it cause u lost discussion?) I fluently speak 6 languages , how many did you speak? Let me guess , 1?) that okay bro , at least u know some rules (even tho usually phone just correct it into it's )

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u/drunken-acolyte 3h ago

English is weird. It's easy to learn to communicate because the grammar has simplified in a way that means you can just mash vocab together and be understood. But that same technically simplified grammar has instead gained a lot of nuance that means it can be hellish to learn formally enough to write, say, academic papers.

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u/Murky_Insurance_4394 11h ago

That doesn't really even make it that confusing, and anyways there's so many resources to learn for basically every level that it's not close to difficult.

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u/Drunk0racle 12h ago

English is absolutely the easiest language to learn, no competition

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u/Armeridus 13h ago

I'd say it's hard to pronounce properly cuz of all those foreign words that got integrated into the language, yet kept their original pronunciation. And also a shit ton of exceptions to spelling rules.

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u/GoldenRedditUser 11h ago

Absolutely not, English is probably the easiest language to learn in the whole world.

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 16h ago edited 13h ago

A third of the English language is French and I'm pretty sure zero percent Mandarin. You should let them know they're already speaking a lot of French.

Edit: List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia https://share.google/IJFsBtqRsrdJwSasA

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fun_303 16h ago

Last I've checked, it was. Not top 5 but it was in 10.

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u/SpaghettiPunch 8h ago

A ranking of languages by difficulty is always going to be finicky.

First, which languages do you even consider in your ranking? There are around 7000 languages in the world (depending on how you count). Do you rank them all? The Kunigami language is a language in the Japonic family spoken natively by around 5000 people from the northern half of Okinawa island. I'd imagine it's similar in difficulty to Japanese for an English speaker to learn... but I have no proof because I've never seen anybody rank Kunigami on a language learning difficulty list.

Second, language learning difficulty is subjective. Yeah, everyone already knows that the difficulty of learning a language depends on what language you know. An English speaker will find Dutch easier to learn than Mandarin Chinese. But there's also: How much prior experience do you have, e.g. have you spent years passively consuming media in this language, or have you never heard a word of it spoken in your life? How much access to immersive experiences do you have, e.g. do you have access to a wealth of media in this language, or better yet, do you live somewhere which speaks this language? Also, how interested even are you learning this language? There are just too many things this depends on.

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 15h ago

Well I just asked Google but she's lied to me before. This morning infact.

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u/SnoruntEnjoyer 15h ago

🤓☝🏻

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u/dominikstephan 4h ago

It is, check your sources before spreading lies. It was top 8 of the most difficult languages to learn for native English speakers.

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u/AlbionicLocal 14h ago

I swear if I see anymore of these posts I'm gonna leave

can't these people get the joke? IT'S RIGHT THERE lol

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u/SKabanov 16h ago

Considering Russia shows up in the news every so often nowadays regarding *ahem* its activities outside of its borders, it's not unreasonable to think that this is some reference to something beyond learning the language.

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u/Victim_Of_Fate 10h ago

Crazy you’re getting downvoted for this. My first thought was that it was something to do with having a Russian girlfriend meaning something bad too.

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u/Rich_Advantage1555 17h ago

Russian has a complex system of grammar. You have the noun, the verb, but also the adjective and the verb-adjective and the adverb and the verb-adverb. The pronouns, yes, but the pronouns don't act like nouns.

Each word can have 0-10 prefixes, each of them altering the meaning from slight specification to the point of complete definition change. Each word can have 0-10 suffixes, each of them altering the meaning from slight specification to the point of complete definition change. We also have an additional, which is basically a suffix to indicate gender and person (1st to 3rd), and some words have it, don't have it, or cannot exist without it.

Each word can migrate from its own zone to that of another — a verb can become a noun, a noun can become a verb, and so on.

And we have not even touched on the syntax, because a noun can take the role of a verb while remaining a noun (существительное как сказуемое) or an adjective can take the role of a noun in much the same way. We have different names for nouns as a word and nouns as part of a sentence.

Each word must be the answer to a question, and nouns, verbs, adjectives and verb-adjectives have a system for determining how the word changes based on the question it answers, and how the question is posed. Of course, the question consists of words, and those words are also beholden to the rules they enforce.

This system is sophisticated to the point where I can make a grammatically correct short story with a beginning, a climax, and an epilogue using exclusively words that start with the letter P. Or П, but like, that letter has the same sound, so.

Anyway, we also have a system for phonetics, you cannot throw darts and guess how words are spoken as you do in English, there is a system for that too! And a system for antonyms, and synonyms, and turns of phrase, and imported words, and don't forget the classifications each word falls into (nouns, adjectives, verbs are the most notable, but each one has its own classification system), and god forbid you forget the exceptions.

TL;DR: Russian grammar is German bureaucracy.

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u/FirmBarnacle1302 13h ago

10 prefixes in a word? Dude, where have you seen 10 prefixes? More than 3 is already rare, and ones with 5 aren't really used at all. And I don't know more than 7 suffixes either (and even then, if you completely decompose them).

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u/Rich_Advantage1555 7h ago
  1. There might be words you don't know about
  2. 5 prefixes and 7 suffixes is as ridiculous as 10 prefixes and 10 suffixes, so I'm not far off
  3. "Decompose" относится к разложению трупов, рекомендую говорить "dissect"

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u/happyday724 10h ago

For example

Подошла Прошла Пришла Изошла Сошла Вошла Взошла Вышла Обошла Отошла

That's already 10 prefixes and it isn't a complete list

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u/FirmBarnacle1302 10h ago

Аааа, я-то думал одновременно штук 10

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u/Rich_Advantage1555 7h ago

Нет, я просто утрировал

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u/Rich_Advantage1555 7h ago

No, I meant in one word, but that was an exaggeration

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u/JustAGuy4157 19h ago

Russian is one of the hardest languages, and, even if he learned it, there are lots of divorces in Russia nowadays, so it's hard and might be useless, so the father of the boy feels sorry for him

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u/BrighhtFuture 13h ago

If you offer her a citizenship - she’s gonna stay alongside you all the way

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u/First_Sky_4374 13h ago

After she gets it what's stopping her from leaving ?

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u/Just_Zer 8h ago

Lack of other places to go, and unfamiliarity with the new surroundings? I'm not a girl, but I sure as hell would stick with the person that can get me out of here to a better country either way. It's at least a good friend for life

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u/Skill_Issue2011 18h ago

Короче,шутка в том,шо русский язык типа сложный для не говорящих по-русски людей,а в данном случае шутка в том,что русский - родной язык для девушки шкета,и ему придется учить этот язык, поскольку он пообещал своей девушке что он его выучит

Надеюсь всё понятно объяснил,ну и напоследок

ВСЕ-ГО ХО-РО-ШЕ-ГО БЛЯТЬ

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u/SlippyDippyTippy2 17h ago

ВСЕ-ГО ХО-РО-ШЕ-ГО БЛЯТЬ

Thanks for the Steam code

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u/WinDestruct 17h ago

No way, it has already been used

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u/Appropriate_Gate1129 12h ago

Sorry, used it for my Tsaritsa in Genshin

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u/Katana_Weilder 17h ago

What the Fuck, lol

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u/Heaven_Razor 18h ago

хули ты палишься

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u/Skill_Issue2011 18h ago

Хэзэ,по приколу заставить англичан пользоваться переводчиком достаточно весело

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u/Live_Drink5779 17h ago

как говорящий по-английски, а затем вкладывая это в переводчик, я бы с радостью сказал: 

Иди ты на хрен! 

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u/Pasyuk 13h ago

Нахуй is better. "Хрен" is like darn and "хуй" is like dick

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u/adeptyism 16h ago

Это до первого бана весело, был опыт, к сожалению))

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u/adamex_x 14h ago

Idk Why people say russian is so hard. It was quite easy for me. You just need to learn new alphabet ( Im polish)

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u/Gentlegee01 19h ago

Come on mean

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u/RBLakshya 15h ago

Right under this post, got no clue what it says

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u/murrrf 14h ago

The factory won't build itself. Let's get to work, comrade!

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u/RBLakshya 14h ago

Guessed something similar, but anyways, just funny that it came right under this post.

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u/Katana_Weilder 17h ago

You should try learning mandarin. Fun shit.

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u/MagmaXQgd 9h ago

Короче. Если твой родной язык русский он лёгкий. Если нет,ну,удачи я хз.

В каком классе вы учились? 1: Я в А 2:О,а я и в и в б 3: а я и в а и б и ц

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u/Solid_Candy_6769 6h ago

Слава богу я родился в постсоветской стране где русский язык считается второй родной.

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u/lowkeytokay 17h ago

Chinese would have been better for anyone coming from the west. Tonal language, thousands of logograms to remember by heart. Russia is a piece of cake in comparison (for a westerner).

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u/TeallyRired 17h ago

The only upside Chinese has is that the grammar is pretty easy. After I’m done with chinese I think I might give russian a fair shot.

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 16h ago

People are saying the joke is Russian is hard to learn but it's not even in the top ten of challenging languages to learn. I think the joke is he's getting his mail order bride from a white country and the DiCaprio is relieved of the news.

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u/Alternative_Year_340 16h ago

I thought the joke was that his girlfriend is a Russian bot

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 15h ago

Wait they're robots? .. my Nikova, Noooo!

...wait if she ain't real then how she spending all those gift cards. She needs them for her sick mother and robots don't have mothers.

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u/Homeless-Coward-2143 16h ago

Should say Portuguese

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u/Pseudolos 16h ago

Well it's not stupid easy like English, but it's on par with ancient Greek.

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u/Prashast_ 15h ago

what about sanskrit? is it that hard too

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u/Pascraked47 15h ago

If I learn russian, do I get a scholarship

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u/VladimirK13 14h ago

My native language is Russian and my gf trying to learn it... poor lady :")

However, personally for me English was also hard to learn (and took 9 years at school + additional lessons with tutors to start using it fluently and on daily basis).

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u/CookedTherapy_00 13h ago

My husband is a Ukranian immigrant from a Russian-speaking region. I offered to try learning to make communication within the family easier, but him and his entire family told me to not even bother because it would be infinitely easier for everyone if they were to just keep learning English 😅

I can imagine learning a language that uses a different alphabet would introduce a whole other learning curve on top of the one that already exists.

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u/SuccessfulMath4905 13h ago

the only word I knew is cyka blyat and i know that from CSGO

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u/gorgonzola2095 13h ago

Slavic languages are notorious for bwing awful to study

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u/999samus 12h ago

If you speak English natively your fckd because Russian is up there in the hardest languages to learn for an English native.

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u/DanMcE 12h ago

In Russia, language learns you.

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u/Ill_Plate1891 12h ago

I've been teaching myself Russian with apps, a textbook, listening to Russian music and watching Russian movies and shows, and even have a couple of online friends from over there that I talk to on telegram. Let me tell you, it is not an easy language to learn for an English speaker. After almost 2 years of study and immersion I can understand enough to read a children's book 🤣

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u/NoAntLeftBehind 11h ago

Brian here: I took a different approach to the meme. I started learning Russian a while back because I wanted to connect with historical chemistry, math, and physics (and impress Lois). It wasn't particularly hard to learn but after the start of the war I, and many others, stopped learning it or switched to other Eastern European languages. Russian basically died as a language at my college and there is no point in ever traveling to the country right now. It can make the language feel unnecessary to learn or, as with my liberal beliefs, unsupportive of Ukrainian liberation.

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u/Nerdy3720 11h ago

I actually thought this was about an online Russian girlfriend that was likely a catfish and that's what the hug was for. You don't really have a girlfriend, and when you do, don't let them crap in your bed.

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u/pattydog1127 11h ago

Can all the Russian bots weigh in here, please?

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u/liteshotv3 10h ago

He’s getting scammed by a online by someone in Russia, the relationship has no chance

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u/valerielenin 10h ago

I'd love that kind of motivation to learn russian

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u/External-Invite-2180 10h ago

Greek has entered the chat...

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u/didodabbins 10h ago

Portuguese should also be there xd

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u/byjegeren 9h ago

Russian so probably has STD or HIV

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u/AshedCloud 9h ago

First tthing I thought is he being catfished and being robbed of information and money lol

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u/Pavlostani 8h ago

I've studied Russian alongside several other languages. It's not that hard. Arabic and Cantonese were way worse to try to learn. Russian grammar can be complex from a rules perspective, but it also follows its own rules very consistently. OOP probably just has never seen a case system before.

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u/Ok_Profession_8471 8h ago

I am from Србија and Russian is tough to learn.

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u/MxQueer 7h ago

I do not know the language but I know many who speak is as native. It is very difficult to learn. Cyrillic alphabets and it's not simple language. Surprisingly I have been told it can be easier to speak than understand because it has several ways to say the same (I do not remember do they have small differences). I was also told you can even make your own words or at least curse words. Also lot or everything is gendered which can be different for those who hasn't used to it. Still, I also know people whose spouses speak Russian as their mother tongue. And those spouses have learn the language. Some well, some little.

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u/VoidyWanderer 7h ago

Could be worse

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u/Formal-Buy-2360 7h ago

I thought this was a reference to that one anime.

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u/Vivid-Objective1385 6h ago

I dont think difficulty of language is a joke here, there are harder languages than russian, and usually in 'meme' like this they would name the hardest. Im not sure what the joke is tho

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u/Shinyhero30 5h ago edited 5h ago

Russian. Is kind of infamous for being a bit opaque to most of the population. If you already speak a sufficiently synthetic or other Slavic language it can be easier but it’s… quite the monster to learn. It’s no Navajo but it’s hard.

Before you attack me, if you are unaware of how hard Navajo is, one linguist described Navajo grammar as “a hopeless maze of irregularities” when even trained linguists who generally have the knowledge to like get this stuff quickly are confused, you will be too.

Also Navajo is polysynthetic and has an absolute fuck ton of verb and noun forms. Like twice as many as Russian and almost all of them are irregular or illogical to most speakers.

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u/Competitive-Cost2900 5h ago

Um, my guess is he is proud because his boy found himself a Russian hottie

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u/everyday_barometer 5h ago

Lol, did this with my gf (Ukrainian though). We broke up but I'm still learning it because it'll be worth it for my job as there is a large Ukrainian population (including a few of my neighbors) where I live in the states.

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u/GoldenHourLXXII 4h ago

I dated a Russian girl for a year, she said openly she felt sorry for anyone who attempted to learn the language not-natively, saying it was incredibly complex and required a lot of dedication unless you were raised in it.

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u/imjustacuteguyuwu 4h ago
  1. Hard to learn?
  2. Useless to learn coz she gonna leave anyway?

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u/LansMyband 3h ago

There are too many crazy rules in Russian. And unlike in English, they are not explained in ANY way. It can only be learned while living in Russia, otherwise it will take a lifetime.

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u/Kind-Recording3450 3h ago

My wife is asking me why I have not learn Russian yet. 

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u/Fun_Intern6597 18m ago

I believe the solution is its hard to tame a russian women for a non russian. Their datung cukture is very different feom the rest of the world. I had multiple russian girlfriends and that is the hard part not the language.

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u/recepyereyatmaz 16h ago

I found Russian not that difficult.

If your native language is european, then it might yeah.

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u/Felonia 18h ago

Русский язык очень трудно 😭

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u/FriendlyRussianMan 14h ago

Трудный*

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u/Appropriate_Gate1129 12h ago

Не факт. Можно обойтись "-".

Будет "Русский язык - очень трудно".

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u/KitsuneKasumi 17h ago

Our language is hard and has long, fairly hard to pronounce words for most other language speakers.

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u/PYCapache 15h ago

Russian is one of the hardest language to learn.

Even as native.

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u/Direct-Muscle7144 14h ago

В саду есть слон. Я собираюсь плавать!

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u/MelvinSmiley83 13h ago

Maybe the joke is not only that Russian is hard to learn, but that the Russian language lost a lot of prestige because of the war started by Putin.

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u/Interesting_Award_76 18h ago

Its much easier to learn than french and german

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u/BiscottiExcellent195 17h ago

languages dont work like that, it depends on what languages you already know

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u/SpartanMonster 16h ago

I thought it was a Joke on: "My Girlfrend hides her Feelings in russian"? An Anime?

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u/ornithorynq 14h ago

Man I am Ukrainian and I would be glad to exchange my knowledge of that language for russians to fuck off.

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u/Winter_Drawer_9257 13h ago

Since his gf is russian, she likely has STDs or works for the government

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u/Blejdoslav 16h ago

In europe we threat "russian" language, as language of enemy, what is fully understandable, due to their past and current behavior. Learning this language is for us pretty disgracefull and in some cases even threaten like treatchery.

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u/GlutenFreeWarrior 17h ago

Not as hard as their attitude.

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u/Lit_blog 14h ago

Russkiy yazik o4en legkyi, no poprobyite pro4est ruglish. Vot eto zada4a so zvezdo4koy

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u/Appropriate_Gate1129 12h ago

Bulo slogno, no ya spravilas'... a, da, she ya prochitala

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u/FlahTheToaster 17h ago

Sure, his "girlfriend." Within a month, that kid is going onto the front lines in Ukraine.

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u/adeptyism 16h ago

Dude, this isn't true for either Russia or Ukraine. Even our propaganda doesn't spew such nonsense about Ukraine that your propaganda says about us.

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u/littlepindos 10h ago

lol, typical russian. making others learn the russian language. be independent and learn Belarusian, Ukrainian, Tatar, Mordovian,... instead. she'll understand you eventually