Only geniuses can learn: what do Americans think about Russian

Americans will always feel much more different from us than we do from them. This is because we, at the very least, understand English, while for the inhabitants of the United States, Russian is something absolutely incredible.

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Many Americans admit that they do not understand at all how we can speak such a complex language. For them, Russian is not even a language - it’s just a set of difficult to pronounce sounds, in which there is no logic. Therefore, the fact that we speak this most complex language fluently awakens real respect in many Americans. Some even consider it a sign of genius.

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Many Americans admit that Russian sounds like a reverse play to them. Here is a humorous video on this topic, which reflects well the real idea of ​​our language abroad.

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But this is just a humorous opinion about Russian phonetics and the Russian accent in English. But the real challenge for Americans is trying to learn our language. For example, cases simply baffle them, and attempts to ask something from the Russians themselves usually end in nothing. After all, we ourselves don’t know why we say this or that way - we’ve just been doing it since childhood.

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It is not surprising that 99,9 percent of Americans cannot learn Russian and give up this activity from the very beginning. Well, many people put this language on a par with Chinese or Japanese because of its complexity. After all, our “inverted letters” are not much simpler for them than hieroglyphs.

By the way, studying Russian in the USA is becoming increasingly popular. Moreover, they do not learn it in order to find a good job, as we do in the case of English. Everything is quite prosaic - Americans want to understand Russians during online games, because they constantly encounter people from the post-Soviet space there.

The original column is published in blog "Dumbless America" ​​on Yandex.Zen.

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