If you have questions about Russia - come here! (Poll added!)

[Lumikki]

pezus said:

Mnementh said:

Lumikki said:

I also learnt Russian in school and I think it's not the easiest, but in the same time it's the hardest language. For example I think German was much much more trickier than Russian. There's lots of irregularity in grammar and not always the words are pronounced as written (o is sometimes pronounced as a etc). I could say that if you learn the cyrillic alphabet you will notice that Russian has borrowed lots of loan words from German/English/Swedish/French and it easies the learning a lot if you are familiar with those languages. I haven't either used Russian for a long time and starting forgetting.....

As I'm german, I have no problems with it. But I agree, most foreigners I know claim german is very hard to learn.

@pezus: I can't Icelandic, is it really that hard?

It is. Infamously so. Even for a lot of Icelanders. I can't imagine trying to learn it if I came from England/USA, for example.

Actually, I have some minor knowledge of Icelandic since I'll probably move there for a short while during this year. It didn't seem to that hard for me, just like any other European language, but with a few special characters. I think the level of enthusiasm towards a target language helps a lot, for example I didn't have any verve to study Swedish in school which made the learning painful. If I had some interest towards that language, I think I'd have mastered it easily. Now I can barely introduce myself in Swedish xD 

As someone said already, Finnish is much harder, I really can't image any foreigner would master it perfectly (Well, maybe Estonians and such...)