/r/russian

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This is a subreddit for people looking to learn Russian and all things related to the Russian language. Though Russian is encouraged, most discussions are in English.

Это сообщество для людей, изучающих русский язык, и для обсуждения всего, что с ним связано. Использование русского приветствуется, но обсуждения чаще всего ведутся на английском.


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Welcome to /r/Russian, a subreddit for people looking to learn Russian and discussion of the Russian language and culture. Though users are welcome to speak Russian, most discussions are in English.


Looking to learn Russian? Check out our Wiki, which can be accessed HERE.


Join the official WhatsApp group by messaging +79787064535! Please introduce yourself first!


Discord servers:

https://discord.gg/UZnxnBM

https://discord.gg/ccVGqWFSA2


Resources

Rules

No politics

Political content (comment or post) with no relevance to the Russian language will be removed, and users who post this content will be banned. /r/russian isn’t the place to post about current events in Russia or other Russian-speaking countries. Discussions about language policy topics, like Russian orthographical reforms and the status of Russian as an official language, are fine.

Be civil

Personal attacks and other forms of disrespectful conduct aren’t allowed. This includes harassing users elsewhere on Reddit as a result of a disagreement in this subreddit. Disrespectful posts will be removed and may result in a ban.

Focus on the Russian language

/r/russian is a language-learning subreddit, not a place to post anything and everything in Russian. Of course, if you're learning Russian, you're likely to have questions about articles, videos, books, movies, and other works in Russian that you encounter. You may also want to ask native speakers to proofread something you've written. These posts are fine! On the other hand, if you just want to share a funny picture of a cat with a caption in Russian, there are other places to do that. (For memes, funny videos, and adorable animals, try /r/pikabu.)

Limit promotional posts

If you have a YouTube channel, blog, app, or other resource related to the Russian language that you’d like to share, you’re welcome to post it here. However, we do have some guidelines for promotional posts:

  • Don’t make more than one promotional post every 14 days. Additional posts will be removed.
  • If you make promotional posts, engage with the community in other ways, such as answering questions. Users who post to /r/russian solely for promotional purposes may be banned.
  • Resources promoted on the subreddit should be relevant to Russian learners. Use of the Russian language alone does not establish relevance — for example, Russian-language fashion blogs and gaming channels don’t belong here.
  • Dishonest promotional posts and links to dishonest promotional content (like fake reviews) aren’t allowed.
  • Where applicable, ensure that users can access some portion of your promoted resource without payment. If you’re promoting a series of video lectures or a book, for instance, let users watch one lecture or read one chapter for free.

No discussion of piracy

Don’t request or provide access to unauthorized copies of books, films, music, and other copyrighted works. This includes, but is not limited to, asking for or posting links to free PDFs of commercial textbooks. These posts will be removed, and multiple violations of this rule may result in a ban.

No unethical requests

If you're studying Russian in school and need help with your homework or exams, don’t ask others to simply do the work for you. These requests are unethical and will be deleted. However, questions about work you've already done are completely appropriate (and even encouraged).

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Просто и Просто-Напросто

Это одно и то же? (Just?)

2 Comments
2024/04/09
20:16 UTC

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Does anyone know why the Russian language prefers these super long words?

I'm not asking to be funny or anything, but genuinely curious.. why does the russian language seem to prefer these 16+ letter/8 syllable words over more simplistic words? I just saw the post in this sub with the word for “highly qualified’ that’s apparentely “высококвалифицированный”. That’s 23 letter and 9 syllables. Like seriously they could've made the word for 'higly qualified' like half as long as it is. In english its far harder to find words of this length or complexity and when you do they're typically acedemic words that are rarely used in in typical conversation. I feel like far more Russian words are unnessecarily longer than they really need to be. Didn't the russian language go through a reformation abt a century ago, and they still kept it this complex? Is it purposefully like this to disuade ppl from learning it? I'm just wondering what the reasoning is.

9 Comments
2024/04/09
20:09 UTC

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Какой ваш любимый каламбур в русском языке?

Обратите внимание, что я не носитель языка, поэтому вам придется объяснить мне каламбур.

2 Comments
2024/04/09
19:49 UTC

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Колхоз

Соседний колхоз
Просит навоз
Хуй, не дадим,
Сами съедим!

Встретил такое слово в поговорке

В целом понимаю что колхоз эта советская штука

А может кто-нибудь на пальцах объяснить что на самом деле это было?

4 Comments
2024/04/09
17:34 UTC

0

Колхоз

Соседний колхоз
Просит навоз
Хуй, не дадим,
Сами съедим!

Встретил такое слово в поговорке

В целом понимаю что колхоз эта советская штука

А может кто-нибудь на пальцах объяснить что на самом деле это было?

2 Comments
2024/04/09
17:34 UTC

0

Russian poem about aristocrats eating sausages

Someone was mentioning there is a famous Russian poem about aristocrats eating sausages, possibly by Myakovsky.

Does anyone know the name?

Thanks!

1 Comment
2024/04/09
17:27 UTC

347

This word popped up on my feed in Instagram with examples from movies and I thought it was a joke… lord have mercy on us learning Russian

93 Comments
2024/04/09
16:13 UTC

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Confused on whether to use наша or нашей

Hi, as you can probably tell I'm very much a beginner.

In response to the question "твоя?", should you say наша or нашей? I want to say "it's ours", basically. I recognise that it's nominative vs genitive case, however I'm unsure which case would be the right one to use here. Thank you!

3 Comments
2024/04/09
15:36 UTC

5

Нельзя более кстати

Я знаю эти слова отдельно , но что они обозначают вместо взяты как-то не очень понятно

Это одно наречие , состоящее из 3-х частей или это 3 разных слов , обозначающие что-то новое?

7 Comments
2024/04/09
15:21 UTC

0

What does this mean

Братух, закаляй дух, повышай дан. Братан, тебе не зря этот стайл дан.

9 Comments
2024/04/09
14:40 UTC

0

What is the the best website/application to learn Russian?

5 Comments
2024/04/09
13:47 UTC

8

Нужны анекдоты про Штирлица

Если знаете любые анекдоты про Штирлица, то можете накидать как можно больше

13 Comments
2024/04/09
13:25 UTC

0

Умри, если меня не любишь - Шаг за 20

кто-нибудь знает эту песню?

1 Comment
2024/04/09
08:13 UTC

28

What's the difference between, прошу прощения and извините?

I'm pretty new to Russian

27 Comments
2024/04/09
06:43 UTC

71

Is there a reason the “кр-” sounds like “Ви-” here?

The song is Psycho Dreams by Kill Eva. Maybe it’s just me hearing it wrong? I wanted to make sure it’s not some rule I wasn’t aware of, as I know that’s common (e.g., о sounding like а).

55 Comments
2024/04/09
05:03 UTC

22

Can "и" sometimes mean "from"? Or is this not a correct translation?

11 Comments
2024/04/09
04:30 UTC

4

1."Природа вокруг меня так красива." 2. "Природа вокруг меня такая красивая." Is there any difference in meaning between the 2 setences?

9 Comments
2024/04/09
03:24 UTC

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Any Russian guitar players here?

I have been talking with a friend recently, I’m learning Russian and she’s trying to be more proficient at English. We both play the guitar, and when we’re discussing playing, we frequently have to draw diagrams to explain what we are talking about. Can I have someone tell me the most accurate, oft used russian words/phrases for these guitar terms?

Strings, frets, neck, nut, bridge, upstroke, downstroke, arpeggio, picking, alternate picking, tremolo picking, sweep picking, tube amp, solid-state amp.

Thanks in advance to any person that can help me fill these gaps.

6 Comments
2024/04/09
02:44 UTC

37

Можно как можно больше русских анекдотов, или цитаты?

Или есть где то сайт который содержит всякие штуки, анекдоты?

92 Comments
2024/04/09
02:24 UTC

9

What's difference between "будешь воду?" and "Ты хочешь воду?"?

16 Comments
2024/04/09
00:37 UTC

0

is duolingo a good source for learning russian

ive heard mixed opinions about it mainly about duos wording issues, and if its not then are there any better places to learn russian?

19 Comments
2024/04/08
23:56 UTC

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Imperative aspect (positive and negative)

Всем привет! I ran into some grounds of imperatives and the aspect isn’t entirely clear and I need a clarification. For organization, here’s what I know:

• Imperfective for repeated, “important that the process happens.” Perfective for one-time, “the result is what matters.”

Negative imperatives have imperfective for not to do something in general (i.e. “don’t touch the souvenir”), perfective for warning (i.e. “don’t do it or you’ll die”).

What’s left to be clear for me are the positive imperatives. I’ve heard of people saying:

• Imperfective for invitations, perfective for authoritative orders.

• Perfective for polite requests, imperfective for more “snappy and impatience” of a command.

So… how do positive imperatives work with politeness, commands (authoritative), invitations? It seems to me that imperfective is for inviting (which is polite, no?), yet it is more rude? Meanwhile, perfective is for polite requests but also for “bossy commands”?

These statements seem to differ by people, and it’d be great for this matter to be clear and concise. I apologize if this post seems to be rude or not worth asking.

P.S. if I misunderstood something in “here’s what I know,” please correct me as I’m not well-versed with aspect.

Большое спасибо за ваше время!

5 Comments
2024/04/08
23:00 UTC

0

Стечение обстоятельств

Это устойчивое выражение? Что оно обозначает?

Переводится как combination of circumstance, и это тоже не очень понятно

4 Comments
2024/04/08
22:39 UTC

1

What is the song about coming from America on a green broomstick?

I saw it in both Tsoi's Igla and Slovo Patsana. When they are arranging the cup guessing game, they say something like "i came from america on a green broomstick, the broomstick broke and i went to kolyma..." and on and on. Im curious what the origins are and any more information about it if possible, as well as the full song.

1 Comment
2024/04/08
21:39 UTC

1

Help identifying Russian song

Saw this insta post. I can make out a word or two but can't find it using search. Help please!!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5K8yoXIIuG/?igsh=MWl2bDQ2Ynd3NWRrZA==

3 Comments
2024/04/08
21:36 UTC

0

Made this Russian Devil Survivor logo while I was bored today. Tell me if there any any improvements I can make.

5 Comments
2024/04/08
20:32 UTC

6

What is the proper word/phrase for calling someone "bitchy" and "acting like a bitch?"

When I say "bitchy", I am referring to a vulgar way in which someone (most commonly referred to women) is acting in a very crabby and very moody way.

By "acting like a bitch", I am referring to a vulgar way in which someone is called a coward for not going through with something. I suppose calling someone a "pussy" has the same connotation.

So, can anyone help improve my knowledge of Russian profanity? Haha

18 Comments
2024/04/08
18:21 UTC

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Помогите перевести на Английский пожалуйста

Как перевести «апрель начался неудачно» или «апрель прикалывается над тобой» «тебе не везёт в этом месяце» на Английский сленг?

9 Comments
2024/04/08
18:11 UTC

4

What's the difference between gopnik and patsana?

They seem similar to me.

6 Comments
2024/04/08
18:04 UTC

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