#russian language

The 50th issue of the Higher Education Discovery magazine for applicants wishing to study in Russia has come out.

The Russian language is not at all easy! But, it's absolutely worth learning. And here’s why!

It is an open secret that Russian is one of the most difficult languages in the world. Why is Russian so hard to learn? Let’s try to figure it out together.

People beginning to learn Russian as a foreign language ask exactly the same question as little native speakers of Russian do, "Why do I write И if I hear [Ы]?" We are going to explain it now.

As many people say, Russian phonetics is difficult but fascinating and entertaining. Today we focus our attention on the sound [Ы], which is very difficult for foreigners to pronounce.

These words don’t carry any semantic load, but they are said quite often. Such words or interjections exist in all languages. In Russian, such words are exclusively called ‘parasite words.’