Other than that, there’s a lot of textbooks in the physical sciences in particular which are written in Russian (but I’ve heard there are these new-fangled things called ‘translations’ available). Russian’s a UN language of course, and if you’re involved in politics or diplomacy then it might be required for your job. There’s only a couple of hundred million people who speak Russian, and the bulk of them are actually in Russia. I’ve said it before, but for reference, my Russian is B1/B2 in the European framework, and it’s sufficient that I’d be allowed to study a degree completely in Russian (but not any post-grad courses).įirstly, if someone were to ask me how to learn Russian, I’d say “why on earth do you want to learn Russian?” The internet seems to agree on the fairly subjective statement that Russian and Chinese are the hardest languages for an English speaker to learn. I decided to write a blog post about learning Russian, because people are often confused as how I got to the level I am in 18 months of studying, largely by myself. I’m actually still shattered from my flu the other week, so forgive the lack of ‘real’ content. ↓ Click here to skip to the list of resources. …because there’s nothing like a grandiose claim to start off a Monday.
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