There are four skills associated with language acquisition: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. A lot of learners spend all their time working on their speaking skills, but struggle with the listening part. Learning a language in a classroom can give you a false sense of confidence sometimes. Instructors often speak Read more…
When I started learning Russian, I had never even heard of cases and I definitely didn’t know that Russian had six essential ones. Looking back, I’m glad that I came in blind because I might have been discouraged had I known how difficult the grammar was. Five years later, I Read more…
At this point, I don’t need to tell you that Russian grammar is complicated. Verbs are no exception, but fortunately conjugating in the past tense is rather simple. Whereas some languages have compound tenses (had done, have done, have been doing, etc.), Russian only has two options for past tense Read more…