Love for languages – 4
- POSTED ON: 9 May, 2020
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- POSTED BY: Madhuvanti S. Krishnan | Video: Jagadish Kumar TPM
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In the fourth installment of this series, gear up to learn some useful phrases and words in Russian. Did you know that with over 170 million native Russian speakers, it is the eighth most-spoken language in the world.
If you have ever had a dream of being an astronaut you would need to ace astrophysics and learn Russian too. Did you know that?
Much like Sanskrit and German, nouns in Russian have masculine, feminine, and neuter genders. Russian has around 2,00,000 vocabulary words. So, many Russian words have multiple meanings.
Let’s take a look at some commonly used phrases and words to get you started. Here are a couple of pointers:
The stressed syllable is indicated by capital letters. For example, in the word “PoZHAlusta” (please), the second syllable (ZHA) is stressed.
The Russian “e” sounds more like the “e” at the end of the sound “ye”; it is not pronounced like in the English words “met” or “meet.”