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Я говорю русск язык, но очин плохо

Yeah, I studied Russian too. It was so little and so long ago that I don't really speak it at all anymore. German stuck with me much better than Russian.

Dated a russian girl for 2 years but didn't learn a lot....

Privet Denis!

Pj, married a russian girl and learned little to nothing....who wants the teach the goose to impress the wife...

Also, I did do my vows in russian, her mother cried. *high fives anybody?!*

lol

So I met her when I was touring with a Russian company and the first phrase all impressionable youths were taught was - davai minet

Nice....

Russian is much easier than German, IMO.

Putin, what is your native language?

I speak Russian. Although I can barely write, and i read really slowly. That's what happens when you immigrate before beginning elementary school.

English.

One Serbian here!

Putin, weren't you born in Russia?

No. I'm American.

He isn't actually Putin, you see.

What does davai minet mean? Google seems clueless.

@Putin, and you thought Russian was easier than German? Interesting. My language professor had the opinion that English and German are basically two dialects. Or rather, English is a dialect of German. I have not had any study of German, but I have found that I can understand a great deal of it written.

Come on/let's go/give

mine/my

I thinks....give it to me? I dunno.

@steephie, according to my limited translating skills.... "let us blowjob"

"I have not had any study of German, but I have found that I can understand a great deal of it written."

"With German it's close enough to English that you can get by with a bit of common sense. Go to a German lake, for example, and see a sign with a picture of a boat and the word "verboten" underneath, and it's no great leap to translate it into the English "for boats".

A very unusual place, Germany. So many boating lakes, yet so few taking advantage of them."--Octavious

Davai minet means give me a blowjob.

"My language professor had the opinion that English and German are basically two dialects."

Well they're from the same family but I find German grammar to be complicated. Gender must essentially be memorized. The use of prepositions and the cases which follow from them is also difficult because many prepositions use more than one case. While Russian has more cases but the rules are much more clear cut. Also some things are made easy like for example Russian has no present tense of 'to be' and expressing possession and feelings is very easy. Gender is also much easier to figure out.

@KingCyrus: First of all, sorry, but dialects is bullshit.
Second, I consider it quite hard to learn a language that is sort of similar to mine. I keep associating stuff with my native language and that simply doesn't work, for me at least. Hence I chose French rather than German. My native language is Dutch and while learning French is tough, it's pretty straightforward. With German, the approach ends up being a bit more like 'It's Dutch, except for …'. Of course, German is still a different language, so pretty much everything is an exception. I consider it much easier to just 'build up from scrap' rather than thinking about my native language all the time.

Most of my classmates chose German rather than French though, so I suppose most people don't have that same problem.. Oh well, just makes me more unique :-)

I should add that my professor was also a language historian studying the history and development of Indo-European.... So... His view was a bit from space as compared to yours. They are definitely in the same family though.

I also suppose I have less trouble with the French grammar.

Yeah, I mean older variants of English are definitely very similar to German. But English lost cases (for the most part) and gender while German kept it. Also English vocabulary became more Latinized.

That's due to french influence and the de-facto diglossa that existed there for a few hundred years after 1066, at least until the 15th cent.

I blame William.