| For a friend of mine, Eric, it's not a hard question. | | | | all words in a sentence, it will remain its meaning |
| 'Russian is a language of a 1/7 part of the world. | | | | nevertheless just because words are connected with |
| Besides, I'm doing business there,' he says. After the | | | | each other through endings, not through their positions |
| USSR has been destroyed Eric has found the market | | | | in the sentence.'It's also great to read some original |
| of former Soviet Union countries a booming one for his | | | | Russian book in the Evening before going to sleep,' |
| small business. And he's really succeeded with it. Partly, | | | | Eric's arguments seem endless. Wise men say, 'The |
| it became possible because of his strong will to learn | | | | more languages you know, the more worlds you |
| the language of his partners. He was lucky, however, | | | | belong to'. Eric belongs to Russian as well. He's fond of |
| because in any former SU country people understand | | | | Dostoyevsky, Bulgakov, Tolstoy and others, the |
| Russian. In many countries the most people also speak | | | | authors not any Russian adult knows and likes. |
| Russian and think it's their native language.'Ah well, | | | | 'Without Russian classics I would be two times stupid |
| Larisa's English is also not well enough,' he adds in a | | | | than I am now,' Eric jokes.All right, Eric. So you learn |
| dreaming voice. Larisa is his Russian girlfriend. Pretty, | | | | Russian for your business, for your romance, for your |
| smart, polite young woman who just can't understand | | | | brain, for reading. Is it all?'Well, those are the main |
| everything Eric tries to tell her. It's good for him he's not | | | | reasons. But there are lots of advantages of at least |
| lazy to learn the language instead of asking anybody | | | | understanding this language'Any example?'Do you |
| to translate her/his sometimes too intimate letters.Any | | | | know that in the Russian part of Internet you will hardly |
| other reason, Eric?'I always liked to learn foreign | | | | find a paid resource? Instead, it's filled with the info I'm |
| languages. So Russian isn't my first one. However, | | | | required to pay for if I search for it on English |
| French and German are common to English; and I | | | | websites.'That's not big news, Russians don't like to |
| wanted to train my brain harder. That is why I thought | | | | pay much. Instead the most of them are altruist. That's |
| that Russian would fill the gap. Indeed, six cases, tons | | | | their nature. That's what Russian Internet is built on.'All |
| of endings varying due to the case, tense etc. can train | | | | right. I see you know everything. So isn't it time to finish |
| anyone's brain,' Eric continues. 'If Russians had | | | | the interview? I've already showed enough reasons |
| hieroglyphs instead of Cyrillic alphabet, that would be | | | | for anyone to start learning Russian, haven't I?' |
| perfect language for any brain killer to study,' he laughs. | | | | Thank you for your time, Eric.'Ne za chto, tebe |
| Indeed, even Russians sometimes wonder how they | | | | spasibo.'Al Polonski is an administrator and chief-editor |
| can merge all these endings and cases together | | | | of a free online Russian language tutor, Learn Russian |
| seamlessly. As a great consequence of this little | | | | Easily, based on the method of extensive reading. |
| difficulty, they always proudly remark that if you mess | | | | |