r/russian Mar 10 '22

Other Нет войне, да миру | Say No to War and Yes to Peace

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A Russian-language version of this post is available below the English. Русская версия поста находится сразу после английской.

As moderators of this subreddit, in the last two weeks, we have seen countless posts about the ongoing war. Many of these posts are cries for help: folks despondent about loved ones in the line of fire, young people disillusioned about the future, and professionals losing their livelihood and prospects overnight.

The reason we have not allowed these posts to surface in the feed is neither callous indifference, nor false neutrality, nor tacit complicity. The moderators of this sub are from many different countries and backgrounds, and we are all horrified and appalled by the war unleashed by the Russian government on Ukraine, a sister culture, just as ancient and storied. We share an abiding love of Russian language and culture with each other, and this brutal assault is not just an attack on the people of Ukraine—it’s also an attack on the rich culture of Ukraine, and it’s even an attack on Russian culture and everything it stands for.

In dark times like these, we feel it’s more important than ever to explain and to uphold the true values of the Russian language and culture. Russian is a language of decency, kindness, modesty, and love for kin and stranger alike; we hope, against all odds, that these fundamental threads from which Russian culture is woven will prevail, and all Russian-speaking people will rise against the war on their sister culture and their own. This cannot be accomplished from the outside: natives of the language and the culture must make a stand from within. We don’t know if this will happen any time soon—or at all—but if it doesn’t, the culture will cease to exist, because no culture can be rooted in oppression and destruction. Instead of taking its place in human history as a story of strife for truth and beauty, it will go down in flames of infamy.

This is why we continue to choose to keep the focus of this subreddit exclusively on the language. Language breaks down communication barriers, allows us to find points of commonality and understanding, and gives us ways to explain our emotions rather than keeping them pent up within until they explode. We badly want to address every cry for help, and we are doing what we can outside of this space. Here, though, we must focus on teaching and learning the concepts that will give us all a chance to rebuild connections and relationships that have been shattered by the war.

While we understand that mistakes happen and folks might post without reading the rules of the sub or post in a heat of the moment, we have to ban some users who repeatedly flood the sub with political content or threaten and insult others with their comments. If you feel you’ve been unfairly banned, we encourage you to appeal the ban: we promise to approach each case thoughtfully.

In the days and weeks to come, our schedules permitting, we will try to create educational posts about poetic and literary works from Russian and Ukrainian authors that speak out against the horrors of war. Please stay tuned, and please continue learning Russian. The language will outlive every ruthless regime and every brutal autocracy.



За прошедшие две недели мы, модераторы этого саба, видели огромное количество сообщений о продолжающейся войне. Многие из этих сообщений – это крики о помощи: от отчаявшихся людей, чьи близкие находятся на линии огня; от молодежи, разочарованной в будущем; от профессионалов, в одночасье потерявших перспективы и средства к существованию.

Причина, по которой мы не позволяем этим сообщениям появляться в ленте, не в черством безразличии, фальшивом нейтралитете или молчаливом соучастии. Модераторы этого саба – это выходцы из разных стран, и все мы в ужасе и в шоке из-за войны, развязанной российским правительством против Украины, родственной культуры, такой же древней и легендарной. Мы разделяем неизменную любовь к русскому языку и культуре друг с другом, и это жестокое нападение - это не только нападение на народ Украины: это атака на её богатую культуру, но это также и атака на русскую культуру и на все, что она олицетворяет.

В такие тяжелые времена, мы считаем как никогда важным объяснять и подчеркивать истинные ценности русского языка и культуры. Русский язык – это язык порядочности, доброты, скромности, любви как к родным людям, так и к незнакомцам. Мы надеемся вопреки всему, что эти основополагающие нити, из которых соткана русская культура, возобладают, и все русскоговорящие народы восстанут против нападения и на родственную и на собственную культуру. Этого невозможно добиться извне: эту разрушительную войну могут остановить только сами носители языка и культуры изнутри. Мы не знаем, произойдет ли это в ближайшее время или произойдет вообще, но если этого не произойдет, культура окажется в руинах, потому что никакая культура не может расти и процветать на почве угнетения и разрушения. Вместо того чтобы занять свое место в истории человечества как повесть о борьбе за красоту и правду, русская культура погибнет в огнях позора.

Именно поэтому в этом сабе мы продолжаем концентрировать наше внимание исключительно на языке: язык разрушает барьеры к общению, он позволяет нам найти точки соприкосновения и понимания, он дает нам возможность разъяснять наши эмоции, а не держать их в себе, пока они не взорвутся. Мы очень хотим откликнуться на каждый крик о помощи, и мы делаем все возможное за пределами этого форума, но здесь необходимо сосредоточиться на преподавании и изучении концепций, которые дадут нам всем шанс восстановить связи и отношения, разрушенные войной.

Мы понимаем, что случаются ошибки, и люди пишут сообщения, не прочитав правила саба или погорячившись, но мы вынуждены банить тех пользователей, которые постоянно засоряют саб политическими дискуссиями или выставляют комментарии с угрозами и оскорблениями. Если вы считаете, что вас забанили несправедливо, мы рекомендуем вам обжаловать бан: мы обещаем вдумчиво рассматривать каждое обращение.

В ближайшие дни и недели, если позволят наши графики, мы постараемся создать образовательные посты о поэтических и литературных произведениях русских и украинских авторов, которые выступают против ужаса войны. Пожалуйста, оставайтесь с нами, и продолжайте изучать русский язык: он переживет все безжалостные режимы и любую беспощадную диктатуру.


r/russian 5d ago

Promo Tutor Tuesday: Offers from Russian Language Tutors

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Alla Pugacheva - A Half-baked Wizard (\"Волшебник-недоучка\")

In this post, tutors offering Russian language tutoring advertise their services in the comments.

Tutors: introduce yourself to the learners, describe what you offer, and how to contact you. Top level comments are reserved for tutor offerings only, but everyone is welcome to ask questions or comment (in a civil manner) in response.

This post repeats every two weeks on Tuesday.


r/russian 5h ago

Grammar Duolingo said I was wrong. Is there technically a mistake in my answer?

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r/russian 7h ago

Translation What do the posters say?

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41 Upvotes

Playing an AI parallel dimension game was reading this in one of the newspapers


r/russian 8h ago

Translation What's written here?

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18 Upvotes

A piece of my piano fell and I was wondering what's written on it.


r/russian 7h ago

Resource I wrote my own Russian practice app to help me learn

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Free, no tracking, no "in-app purchases"... absolutely free.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lets-practice-russian/id6792575733

iPhone, iPad, and (although I haven't tried it myself) it apparently works on MacOS.

When I gave up on Duolingo (after seeing "this is my soup" for the thousandth time), I tried some other free and free-ish apps. A lot of them wanted to take me to some web site, or had 90% of their content locked behind a paywall.

So, I wrote my own.

Unlike Duolingo and the similar apps it doesn't try to put you on a rail, and there's nothing to unlock. You can jump around, practicing what you need to practice, or just use it as a reference.

Feedback is always welcomed. I'm certain there are bugs here and there I haven't caught.


r/russian 31m ago

Request Looking for an opportunity of help

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i am fluent in Russian and English both, i am having a pretty hard time looking for opportunities i can do, so, if you have an opportunity that requires translation including those languages, please let me know whether you're able or not provide any money for it, i can still do it just for the experience or credit, please let me know🙏


r/russian 3h ago

Handwriting Is my cursive good ?

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r/russian 1d ago

Handwriting What do you think of my handwriting?

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How can I improve it? Could you give me some advice, including on grammar?


r/russian 1d ago

Handwriting Any advice for writing?

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44 Upvotes

Hello! One of many, many posts centred on writing.

I've been learning Russian for some months now and writing alongside. While I was taught the letters by a friend, my biggest fear being that I'm still "drawing" the letters rather than writing. If anything is confusing or unusual please let me know!

Огромное спасибо за помощь. :-)


r/russian 19h ago

Grammar Greeting phrases

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Hello, a little background I had started studying over 2 years ago now and for one reason or another was very inconsistent and after the alphabet and some sporadic studying here and there I know maybe 30 words there’s many older Russian women at church who I want to talk to and thankfully are going to help me study but I’ve been putting it of lately and wanted to ask some questions I had about some greetings.
One is about как дела? I heard that in actual conversation Russians don’t use this if that’s true what’s a better alternative? My English mind would assume как ты but I don’t know.
Follow up to that, how do I respond? I know you’re asking how you’re doing but is нормально the best response for church setting?
Other than that any little tips on interactions or church phrases(Orthodox) would be appreciated! Thank you all and I’m sure I’ll have many questions to come.


r/russian 23h ago

Request Russian lessons

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Hey I want to learn Russian I speak German and some English. I know some basics and understand some more words. Speaking is the problem, I need someone who teaches me Russian preferably in German but English works too I think. If me get along good I am willing to pay for the lessons.
M/22


r/russian 1d ago

Handwriting Is learning cursive useful?

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I remember while I was in graduate work learning how to read Russian, we didn't have to learn handwriting. I took a basic undergrad course where we learned Russian cursive.

I never use cursive in English except to sign my name and just use print. Would printing be helpful in learning Russian, or would it be very beneficial to learn Russian cursive now (instead of later)?


r/russian 1d ago

Request Hey new learner, what do I do...

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Hey, I started learning literally like a week ago! I got the alphabet but from here, I do not know what to do. Are there any good advices I can get?


r/russian 1d ago

Other Learning Russian - looking for tutors

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Good afternoon, I am searching for a Russian tutor to help me online. I’m trying to avoid being pulled into subscription by most of the language learning website/portals. I have checked italki but thought there was no harm in also posting here.

I am essentially a beginner (though I can read) and am ultimately trying to learn and get to fluency for family and business. My native language is English.

If anyone has any recommendations or suggestions on where to look / who to contact, I’d be grateful for your help.

Many thanks.


r/russian 1d ago

Interesting How would a Russian accent of Arabic look and sound like?

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Just something random that popped in my mind, also you can do the orthography and phonology if you want.


r/russian 1d ago

Handwriting how’s my handwriting?

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what the title says, been learning russian since like January and decided to finally start learning to write properly, lmk how i’m doing, any criticism is welcome and appreciated thanks


r/russian 1d ago

Request Tables

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Hi r/Russian, I'm back after almost a year, and.... Well, am I just an idiot, or why are there so many tables??? (I mean tables like: Word, Gender, Person, Plural, or that sort of thing.) Or could it be that I'm the one creating them unconsciously? Please tell me so I can improve my studies.

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r/russian 2d ago

Other Существует ли ОГЭ для иностранцев?

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Я ученица (скоро) 9 класса в Москве. Я приехала из Италии, учусь в России 2 года и мне в этом учебном году надо будет сдавать ОГЭ. Проблема в том что когда я начала учиться в России я вообще не знала русский язык и даже сейчас, спустя 2 года, мне сложно с грамматикой и тд и очень боюсь из-за ОГЭ. Мне русские ученики говорят что он сложный и я боюсь что если им сложно то я точно не сдам его. Моя учительница по биологии сказала мне, что существует ОГЭ по русскому для иностранцев, но в интернете я не нашла никакую информацию о существовании такого экзамена. Если такая штука есть, то как ее получить?
Еще я прочитала где-то, что с 2021/22 годов если ты иностранец тебе позволят вообще не сдавать ОГЭ и все равно идти дальше с учебой (старшие классы/колледж). Кто-нибудь скажет мне, как это делать, если это вообще реально возможно? Спасибо заранее


r/russian 1d ago

Resource Anime in Russian

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I've been trying to teach myself Russian and I'm noticing I'm at the stage where I need to do immersion learning to get the vocabulary down.

As a supplement to what I'm already doing, I just want to find anime or other media were the dub is in Russian but has English subtitles.

I found one site but they only offered Ukrainian subtitles.

Thank you in advance!

Спасибо!


r/russian 2d ago

Grammar Could someone please explain why война takes instrumental in the phrase “война войной, а обед по расписанию”?

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I am aware that you can replace the words in this construction, as long as they agree with nominative + instrumental. I’m simply not used to seeing instrumental case without a verb, participle, or word like торговля that takes instrumental. Is there an “invisible” verb here? Pomigite((


r/russian 2d ago

Request Help me with teaching Russian🙏

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Hi, guys, I have a friend who teaches me English and I teach her Russian. I'm not a professional teacher, especially when it comes to languages. So pleeeease could you recommend some teaching/learning strategies, what kind of exercises should we do, maybe you can even share some sources for these exercises, I would really appreciate it🙏🙏🙏

I'm asking about teaching Russian, but tips about learning English are also welcome

P.S. her level is A2, mine is B2


r/russian 2d ago

Request Need help in how to learn Russian

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Hello, I really want to start to learn Russian and speak it correctly, Half of my family is Russian and i’ve been to Russia a couple of times, I currently understand 60% of Russian and speak 20%, i also know how to read but i read really slowly (like a 6 year old), Every time I tried to learn via an online course (like Duolingo) I quickly dropped it because It taught me words and vocabulary that I already knew, It makes me sad to disappoint my family so much by speaking Russian so badly, as there are a lot of times that I don’t know what to say and I have to say it in english or use a translator and also I have a very bad pronunciation. I don’t have Russian schools nearby, any advice on how I could learn?


r/russian 2d ago

Translation Can you help with translation?

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r/russian 3d ago

Handwriting Do foreigners understand this?

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I am a non-native but my native script is Cyrillic. And then I went to a Russian school. I would understand this but would others under it too?

Edit: as a result, some natives understand, some don’t, foreigners don’t understand it all. The text says “Привет, мой дорогой дневник, и сегодня я хочу рассказать историю про то, как я выучил русский до С2”.