How Long It Takes to Learn Russian
Anyone starting something wants to know when they’ll finish. How long does it take to understand, read, and speak Russian? How much time does it take to learn the language well? Как долго (how long), сколько (how much)?
1100 hours?
1100 hours, says Denis Fedorov, who refers to science. Languages in 5 categories of difficulty. 1100 hours to master Russian, which falls into category 4. That’s about 1 year of studying 3 hours a day or 3 years at 1 hour a day. Watching videos probably counts too.
Dedication
Daria Molchanova ( Real Russian Club), however, talks about ‘the most common question’ (from 3:41): ‘How on earth do I know?’ It depends on so many factors. What is certain: ‘You need dedication’. With study tips.
Slozjni
This Самый сложный язык для изучения (The hardest language to learn) places Russian in the middle of the three and estimates the study time at 1110 hours. Apparently, you can also learn Hindi, Vietnamese, and a few others in the same time.
See also this
Russian FAQ: How long does it take to learn Russian? (2019, 2 m) and check out
How Long Does It Take To Learn Russian? (Rocket Languages).
Another answer to the question of how long:
Don’t ask how long it took me to learn Russian! (2018, 3 m).
More constructive:
How To Find Time To Learn the Russian language (2018, 12 m).
Because it remains сложный (complicated).
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Verbs work for those who want to make sentences. There - work and make, there you already have two. And try to make Russian out of that sentence if you if you don’t know работать or делать. So work, also on your vocabulary.
Even with bad news there is good news: there is a lot to learn from it. Russian news articles are excellent teaching material, even for the more advanced student.
The sixth noun, in Russian предложный падеж, is for most students the first one they learn. The reason is simple: the sixth grammatical case itself is.
And then it became war. Or should we say began the special military operation. On
February 24 2022 Russian troops entered Ukraine. It was allowed
neither war nor invasion be called, but it was akin to both.
This often comes as a setback for students of Russian: of (almost) every Russian verb there are two. Which do mean approximately the same thing, but express very different things. So you need to know both, and of both learn the conjugations.
Making mistakes in Cyrillic is no big deal. Everyone does. But wrong Cyrillic, that’s the biggest mistake you can make. And the worst thing you can do with that noble Cyrillic can do.
