what's good youtube your boy boss here we back with another reaction video for four reacts
and today obviously we're going to be doing something foreign to me and that's going to
be the uh uh um the russian language that's the title of the video the russian language so we're
going to be checking that video out today and we're going to see what that video is about i
don't know what i'm going to expect in this video it's a 30 minute 24 seconds long video and uh
sketchy i hope i learned some russian today but either ways guys if you are new to my channel
please leave a like on this video particularly and also subscribe and if possible you can share this
video with your family and friends and uh show the russian community how pathetic i am not knowing
anything about russia's language but either ways i love you all over there in russia and uh let's get
right into the video hmm what's the talk of the topic of today's videos no that's far too general
no it's not that either no i already made a video on that one yes that's it russian language yeah
hello everyone welcome to the language channel and my name is paul today i'm going to talk about the
russian language why is russian important well russian is one of the world's major languages
it is one of the six official languages of the united nations and it is the eighth
most widely spoken language in the world with around 155 million native speakers and around
i need to learn i need to learn today i i i'm sorry russia made a love for you guys i really
actually love russia but um i never knew that your you guys language was so powerful bro like what
i gotta learn russian there are languages that i already said i'm gonna learn on this channel
and one is finish one is russian and i don't know how i'm gonna put those together but um
we gonna do it 260 million speakers in total if we include second language speakers it's an official
language in russia of course but also in belarus tajikistan kyrgyzstan and kazakhstan it is also an
official language in 38 other unrecognized states autonomous territories and regions in ukraine
moldova and georgia and also a few localities in romania sure the russian economic zone and
spitzbergen and jordan georgia speaks russian i literally just discovered that there was a country
called georgia i'm always like oh georgia america like georgia state you know what i mean but
i'm happy to actually have this channel foreign reacts because if i hadn't if i like no no i
would not know any anything about the entire world except for you know let me not say it it
is also widely spoken as a second language and a lingua franca throughout much of central asia the
caucasus region and in eastern europe even in a lot of places where it is not an official language
that's why russian is important russian is the most widely spoken language of the slavic language
family have a look at my video on the slavic language family here to learn more about it in
detail but in brief the slavic languages are a branch of the indo-european language family and
the beginning of the slavic language branch traces back to a language called proto-slavic which
existed around 500 ce over the next few hundred years proto-slavic split into three varieties
west slavic south slavic and east slavic which eventually diverged into branches of the slavic
language family containing numerous languages each russian is an east slavic language along
with belarusian ukrainian and also rusin at the time that these three branches developed there was
a single slavic literary language that all slavs could understand that language was old church
slavonic russian is written in the cyrillic script which was created for the purpose of
writing old church slavonic until the 14th century the ancestors of modern day russians ukrainians
and belarusians living in a state called kievan rus spoke dialects of old east slavic this spoken
language existed alongside the literary language of old church slavonic a situation of diglossia
there is however some evidence that people used to write in the spoken vernacular
for some kind of casual writing birch bark letters from the town of novoga road in the 14th century
are written in the vernacular language and they concern topics of daily life
old church slavonic however was the literary and religious language in the 13th century ce kevin
russ was conquered by the mongol empire which brought a lot of foreign turkic loanwords into
the east slavic dialects especially words related to political and financial matters after the end
of mongol rule in the 14th century the old east slavic area was split into two separate states
the grand duchy of moscow to the east and the grand duchy of lithuania to the west
in the general area of ukraine belarus and lithuania the only slavic dialects in those two
states began to split and develop in different directions in the west the ruthenian language
emerged with heavy polish influence ruthanian dialects would later develop into ukrainian
and belarusian in the east russian emerged with much more influence from old churches
according to what i've actually realized doing reaction videos i've noticed that ukrainians their
language practically looked the exact same as a russian language so for me who doesn't really know
the difference it's hard for me to differentiate okay this is ukraine this is russian and i've
actually had an issue with that but i'm actually getting into that and realizing there's actually
man it's good to learn man it's good to learn it's really good to learn modern russian today resulted
from a kind of tug of war between old church slavonic on the one hand and the vernacular
spoken dialects on the other hand for example in 1453 ce after the fall of the byzantine empire
byzantine and bulgarian scholars began moving to moscow and they were upset that old church
slavonic had become corrupted or russified and they tried to standardize the language to remove
these impurities so a unique russian language had begun to emerge but scholars pulled the language
back towards old church slavonic but then during the rule of peter the great from 1696 to 1725
the written language was pulled in a different direction away from old church slavonic in order
to increase literacy he simplified the orthography of the written language eliminating some letters
and some diacritics he also made great efforts to modernize and westernize russia and started to
orient russia towards europe and french became the common language of the upper classes in russia as
you might guess this resulted in the adoption of some french loanwords into russian he also oversaw
the intentional adoption of specialized modern vocabulary from various european languages like
french dutch and german peter the great's reforms were some of the first steps in the development
of modern literary russian the basis of standard russian today another influential person in the
development of modern literary russian was mikhail lamanoso in 1755 he wrote a grammar of the russian
language which revolutionized the written language by combining old church slavonic with the spoken
language throughout the grammar he refers to old church slavonic as the language of high style and
he refers to the spoken language as the language of low style and he advocated a blended middle
style for most forms of writing the high style was basically reserved for religious texts and
the low style was reserved for the most casual written material in the following decades authors
and poets developed a new middle style that would form the core of modern standard russian
the most influential was the poet alexander pushkin who was sometimes referred to as the
father of the modern russian language he fully developed the idea of three different language
registers high middle and low making the spoken vernacular a legitimate part of the language
he also greatly expanded the vocabulary of literary russian by directly translating
phrases and idioms from other languages he greatly influenced modern literary russian and
as a result modern standard russian which formed during this time based on the literary language
in the 20th century russian underwent some small changes mainly in orthography but by far the most
important thing to happen to the language was the creation of the soviet empire universal schooling
and the mass media spread modern standard russian and reduced dialectal variation in russian
it also spread the language over a vast geographic area covering all the member states of the ussr
today russian is still widely spoken in all of those areas and is a common lingua franca
between different ethnic groups and between the citizens of different countries so what
is russian like orthography russian is written in the cyrillic script an alphabet consisting
of 33 letters which were mostly developed from greek letters some are the same as letters of
the latin alphabet but some of the sounds they represent are different like this one phonology
that's wow bro y'all gotta i might do a video learning the russian uh
learning to speak a little bit of russian the russian alphabet since it's different from uh
mines uh y'all can let me know man y'all can let me know there are 21 consonants in russian but
15 of them can be pronounced in two different ways either hard or soft and you have to judge
which sound to make by looking at the letter that comes after the consonant the soft sound
is palletized meaning that part of your tongue reaches the roof of your mouth this makes the
consonant kind of sound like it's followed by a y sound here are some examples back back back back
there are six basic vowels in russian but there's a lot of variation in the vowels
depending on the surrounding sounds and based on the stress pattern of the word vowels are often
it's gonna be hard for me to learn huh reduced when they appear in an unstressed syllable
this can make it a challenge to pronounce words correctly based on their spelling grammar russian
best syllable this can make it a challenge to pronounce words correctly based on their spelling
grammar russian is a fusional language meaning that suffixes and prefixes are added to root
words to communicate grammatical meaning let's look at nouns first there are six noun cases in
russian meaning that both the singular and the plural form of a noun can take six different
forms depending on the grammatical function in the sentence let's look at an example using the word
for sister nominative case sister strategy diet the sister reads genitive case system
i know the sisters name date of case
the brother gave the sister a ticket accusative case sistro brat the brother sees the sister
instrumental case sister i live with the sister prepositional case sister
on the sister on a side note it's interesting to notice the cognate vocabulary between russian and
english and some other indo-european languages is sister his brother
is ticket and even the word for c reminds me of the italian word vedere which means to see
so here we see some clear indications of russian being an indo-european language
now back to the noun cases the case endings are different depending on the gender of the noun
russian nouns are grouped according to gender with masculine feminine and neuter nouns you
can normally tell the nouns gender based on its ending feminine nouns can take either of these
endings neuter nouns can take either of these endings and masculine nouns are the nouns ending
in any other letter the one tricky exception is that some nouns end in this letter and these can
be either masculine or feminine so you need to memorize the gender of those ones adjectives
adjectives in russian are quite complicated they are inflected to agree with the noun they modify
in gender number and in case that means that any particular adjective can have 24 different
forms like this wow wow let's look at a couple of examples this is the adjective meaning new in the
nominative case novi at the novi after my bin this is a new car in the genitive case nova tv
the new car's color so we can see how the ending of the adjective changes to make it agree with the
noun but it's worth noting that the inflectional endings added to the adjective are different from
those added to the noun so you need to memorize a big set of endings for nouns and when to use them
but you have to memorize a whole different set of endings for adjectives and when to use those diy
is an online community where kids between the ages of 5 and 15 can learn any verbs that's actually
pretty wild i'm i'm going to learn russian and this is going to be a challenge i think i'm going
to start with finnish first i don't know which one is going to be harder finnish or russian but um
i already started a lot of finnish related stuff so i think i might just go with finnish first
in russian the russian language has three verb tenses past present and future that
sounds straightforward but russian verbs are also distinguished based on something called
aspect there's the perfective aspect which means that an action has been completed once
then there's the imperfective aspect which shows that the action is still in progress still ongoing
or that it's an action that will be recurring will be repeated many times in russian verbs there are
two different verb stems for the imperfective and the perfective aspect basically like two
different words let's look at an example for the verb meaning to write first the perspective
and the imperfective pisa either of these stems can be conjugated for past
present and future tenses let's look at an example of how aspect changes the meaning of
a sentence this sentence uses the verb with the perfective verb stem and is in the future tense
this sentence means i will write a book but when we take the aspect into account the meaning is
i will write one specific book an action that will be completed this next sentence uses the
imperfective verb stem and is also in the future tense the meaning of this one is more like i will
be writing a book in other words i will be in the process of writing a book at a certain time in the
future or if we use the plural form of book then the meaning changes it means i will write books
and that means i will write numerous books a recurring action
so in that case the imperfective aspect indicates a slightly different meaning
basic word order the most common word order in russian is svo but because of the case system
the word order is much more flexible than it is in english in english we normally judge
the function of a word depending on where it is in the sentence but in russian we have the case
system the case endings can tell us the function of the word so you can move the words around and
we still understand what the subject is what the object is and so on so a basic sentence might be
meaning the cat caught the mouse but you could also have mush by malakoska
and some other possible word orders so the basic word order is flexible like that however in some
cases the context or the style that you are trying to communicate in will determine the word order
articles like most slavic languages russian doesn't have any articles it doesn't have words
like ah or the if you have any russian-speaking friends who drop the articles when they're
speaking english that's probably the reason so how hard is russian to learn well according to
the american foreign service institute russian is a category 4 language the most difficult
category is category 5 and that includes japanese mandarin and arabic but russian is in category 4.
what categories i know that russia is close to family y'all must know something about
finland what categories finland like what category because man imagine i gotta learn
like some category for language two category four languages
what that means that it's relatively difficult for english speakers but not the most difficult
the most challenging things will likely be the inflection of nouns and adjectives as well as
the system of verbal aspect some people mistakenly assume that the cyrillic alphabet is going to be
the most challenging part of learning russian but people actually learn that fairly quickly
once they start russian is a major global language that will be very useful to you if you spend any
time in russia or in any of the former soviet republics so your efforts will be well rewarded
so the question of the day for people who have studied russian what did you
find challenging about russian and what did you find straightforward about russian and for native
speakers of russian russia is a huge country do you notice a lot of variation in the way
that russian is spoken in different parts of the countries are there noticeable accents or dialects
these days let us know in the comments down below be sure to follow langfocus nah bro that is crazy
bro yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo that's wow bro russian russian language bro i don't know how i'm gonna
get through this but i gotta do what i gotta do i said i'm gonna learn it i have to learn it
this is crazy though i did not know but either ways guys we gotta learn it so um
be sure to subscribe man and uh talk to me in the comment section down below
i don't know what to say i think i think i just went through trauma right now bro
like i had no idea it was gonna be this difficult it's a level four language bro
oh my gosh anyways guys we outta here man like and subscribe peace