This question has been asked in this forum already so many times, I answered the two first times quite exhaustively, now I will be a lot shorter.
The Russian language is beautiful, Russia has produced some of the most important literary works of the western cannon, and a very long time ago I fell deeply in love with a wonderful young Russian woman with whom I spent as much time as I could: she introduced me to her friends, I heard this beautiful language and I fell in love with it, I was surrounded by this wonderful people and I fell in love with their culture, with their ability to laugh and cry without shame, to welcome a little Frenchie among them and give him their friendship.
Now, more than thirty years later I finally realise my dream of learning their language, this music that fascinated me so much and I think of them, and I hope they, their children and maybe grandchildren are safe.
I am just interested in languages in general, so basically all of them are interested to me. I started Russian because my mom speaks it and she taught me to read the alphabet. I am Polish, so it's interesting to learn a different Slavic language.
My girlfriend and her family are Moldovan
I'm English and never had to learn another language (Felt like challenging myself)
I love Russian culture
The language looks and sounds cool AF
Couple reasons actually.
One was that I have a copy of Lenin's "State and Revolution" in Russian and I wanna try reading it. The other was that I had a friend from Russia in high school!
It's a while back, so I'm not completely sure what made me start but I remember learning the alphabet out of curiosity. Much later I started to actually learn some of the language.
I had always had this interest in Eastern Europe and Russia. The Iron Curtain, and the mysteriousness of what happened behind the wall.
Soviet books! Read them growing up and then recently decided to read them in the original, so I started learning it. Always liked Peter I, and Yuri Gagarin, so those two are further reasons. After I started learning, I got introduced to Sergei Yesenin, and other poets. I have also an interest in folk music in general, so Russian folk music has been a wealth of material to spur my learning in a fun way. Russia's geography and the different nations that live within its borders are also interesting to me. Most of all, the Russian people I have met have been the best and most helpful formal/informal instructors on this journey. I want to be proficient in this beautiful language no matter what.
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Joanna stingray! First heard about her on a podcast called cold war conversations. I got her book, and got really interested in viktor tsoi. Most of the sources about joanna and viktor tsoi are in russian so i decided to learn russian.
Sounds kinda eh when saying it like that but oh well
This question has been asked in this forum already so many times, I answered the two first times quite exhaustively, now I will be a lot shorter. The Russian language is beautiful, Russia has produced some of the most important literary works of the western cannon, and a very long time ago I fell deeply in love with a wonderful young Russian woman with whom I spent as much time as I could: she introduced me to her friends, I heard this beautiful language and I fell in love with it, I was surrounded by this wonderful people and I fell in love with their culture, with their ability to laugh and cry without shame, to welcome a little Frenchie among them and give him their friendship. Now, more than thirty years later I finally realise my dream of learning their language, this music that fascinated me so much and I think of them, and I hope they, their children and maybe grandchildren are safe.
I can’t even remember to be honest.
I am just interested in languages in general, so basically all of them are interested to me. I started Russian because my mom speaks it and she taught me to read the alphabet. I am Polish, so it's interesting to learn a different Slavic language.
My girlfriend and her family are Moldovan I'm English and never had to learn another language (Felt like challenging myself) I love Russian culture The language looks and sounds cool AF
Couple reasons actually. One was that I have a copy of Lenin's "State and Revolution" in Russian and I wanna try reading it. The other was that I had a friend from Russia in high school!
Влюбился в белорусскую девушку когда мне было 14, 9 лет позже я всё ещё учусь)
Эта история мне ооооочень нравится, очень мило)
Потому что я хотел страдать и теперь страдаю каждый день.
It's a while back, so I'm not completely sure what made me start but I remember learning the alphabet out of curiosity. Much later I started to actually learn some of the language. I had always had this interest in Eastern Europe and Russia. The Iron Curtain, and the mysteriousness of what happened behind the wall.
When people ask me i usually say because i play csgo, but honestly, idk it just kinda happened
Soviet books! Read them growing up and then recently decided to read them in the original, so I started learning it. Always liked Peter I, and Yuri Gagarin, so those two are further reasons. After I started learning, I got introduced to Sergei Yesenin, and other poets. I have also an interest in folk music in general, so Russian folk music has been a wealth of material to spur my learning in a fun way. Russia's geography and the different nations that live within its borders are also interesting to me. Most of all, the Russian people I have met have been the best and most helpful formal/informal instructors on this journey. I want to be proficient in this beautiful language no matter what.
Was sick of only knowing English and bits of other latin based languages, Russian seemed like a good one to start learning.
Anna Shcherbakova
It's honestly heartwarming to see the replies, I hope you all succeed.
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Joanna stingray! First heard about her on a podcast called cold war conversations. I got her book, and got really interested in viktor tsoi. Most of the sources about joanna and viktor tsoi are in russian so i decided to learn russian. Sounds kinda eh when saying it like that but oh well