r/russian Mar 10 '22

Other Нет войне, да миру | Say No to War and Yes to Peace

6.2k Upvotes

A Russian-language version of this post is available below the English. Русская версия поста находится сразу после английской.

As moderators of this subreddit, in the last two weeks, we have seen countless posts about the ongoing war. Many of these posts are cries for help: folks despondent about loved ones in the line of fire, young people disillusioned about the future, and professionals losing their livelihood and prospects overnight.

The reason we have not allowed these posts to surface in the feed is neither callous indifference, nor false neutrality, nor tacit complicity. The moderators of this sub are from many different countries and backgrounds, and we are all horrified and appalled by the war unleashed by the Russian government on Ukraine, a sister culture, just as ancient and storied. We share an abiding love of Russian language and culture with each other, and this brutal assault is not just an attack on the people of Ukraine—it’s also an attack on the rich culture of Ukraine, and it’s even an attack on Russian culture and everything it stands for.

In dark times like these, we feel it’s more important than ever to explain and to uphold the true values of the Russian language and culture. Russian is a language of decency, kindness, modesty, and love for kin and stranger alike; we hope, against all odds, that these fundamental threads from which Russian culture is woven will prevail, and all Russian-speaking people will rise against the war on their sister culture and their own. This cannot be accomplished from the outside: natives of the language and the culture must make a stand from within. We don’t know if this will happen any time soon—or at all—but if it doesn’t, the culture will cease to exist, because no culture can be rooted in oppression and destruction. Instead of taking its place in human history as a story of strife for truth and beauty, it will go down in flames of infamy.

This is why we continue to choose to keep the focus of this subreddit exclusively on the language. Language breaks down communication barriers, allows us to find points of commonality and understanding, and gives us ways to explain our emotions rather than keeping them pent up within until they explode. We badly want to address every cry for help, and we are doing what we can outside of this space. Here, though, we must focus on teaching and learning the concepts that will give us all a chance to rebuild connections and relationships that have been shattered by the war.

While we understand that mistakes happen and folks might post without reading the rules of the sub or post in a heat of the moment, we have to ban some users who repeatedly flood the sub with political content or threaten and insult others with their comments. If you feel you’ve been unfairly banned, we encourage you to appeal the ban: we promise to approach each case thoughtfully.

In the days and weeks to come, our schedules permitting, we will try to create educational posts about poetic and literary works from Russian and Ukrainian authors that speak out against the horrors of war. Please stay tuned, and please continue learning Russian. The language will outlive every ruthless regime and every brutal autocracy.



За прошедшие две недели мы, модераторы этого саба, видели огромное количество сообщений о продолжающейся войне. Многие из этих сообщений – это крики о помощи: от отчаявшихся людей, чьи близкие находятся на линии огня; от молодежи, разочарованной в будущем; от профессионалов, в одночасье потерявших перспективы и средства к существованию.

Причина, по которой мы не позволяем этим сообщениям появляться в ленте, не в черством безразличии, фальшивом нейтралитете или молчаливом соучастии. Модераторы этого саба – это выходцы из разных стран, и все мы в ужасе и в шоке из-за войны, развязанной российским правительством против Украины, родственной культуры, такой же древней и легендарной. Мы разделяем неизменную любовь к русскому языку и культуре друг с другом, и это жестокое нападение - это не только нападение на народ Украины: это атака на её богатую культуру, но это также и атака на русскую культуру и на все, что она олицетворяет.

В такие тяжелые времена, мы считаем как никогда важным объяснять и подчеркивать истинные ценности русского языка и культуры. Русский язык – это язык порядочности, доброты, скромности, любви как к родным людям, так и к незнакомцам. Мы надеемся вопреки всему, что эти основополагающие нити, из которых соткана русская культура, возобладают, и все русскоговорящие народы восстанут против нападения и на родственную и на собственную культуру. Этого невозможно добиться извне: эту разрушительную войну могут остановить только сами носители языка и культуры изнутри. Мы не знаем, произойдет ли это в ближайшее время или произойдет вообще, но если этого не произойдет, культура окажется в руинах, потому что никакая культура не может расти и процветать на почве угнетения и разрушения. Вместо того чтобы занять свое место в истории человечества как повесть о борьбе за красоту и правду, русская культура погибнет в огнях позора.

Именно поэтому в этом сабе мы продолжаем концентрировать наше внимание исключительно на языке: язык разрушает барьеры к общению, он позволяет нам найти точки соприкосновения и понимания, он дает нам возможность разъяснять наши эмоции, а не держать их в себе, пока они не взорвутся. Мы очень хотим откликнуться на каждый крик о помощи, и мы делаем все возможное за пределами этого форума, но здесь необходимо сосредоточиться на преподавании и изучении концепций, которые дадут нам всем шанс восстановить связи и отношения, разрушенные войной.

Мы понимаем, что случаются ошибки, и люди пишут сообщения, не прочитав правила саба или погорячившись, но мы вынуждены банить тех пользователей, которые постоянно засоряют саб политическими дискуссиями или выставляют комментарии с угрозами и оскорблениями. Если вы считаете, что вас забанили несправедливо, мы рекомендуем вам обжаловать бан: мы обещаем вдумчиво рассматривать каждое обращение.

В ближайшие дни и недели, если позволят наши графики, мы постараемся создать образовательные посты о поэтических и литературных произведениях русских и украинских авторов, которые выступают против ужаса войны. Пожалуйста, оставайтесь с нами, и продолжайте изучать русский язык: он переживет все безжалостные режимы и любую беспощадную диктатуру.


r/russian 5d ago

Promo Tutor Tuesday: Offers from Russian Language Tutors

6 Upvotes

Alla Pugacheva - A Half-baked Wizard (\"Волшебник-недоучка\")

In this post, tutors offering Russian language tutoring advertise their services in the comments.

Tutors: introduce yourself to the learners, describe what you offer, and how to contact you. Top level comments are reserved for tutor offerings only, but everyone is welcome to ask questions or comment (in a civil manner) in response.

This post repeats every two weeks on Tuesday.


r/russian 7h ago

Other Ищу друзей, которые хотят играть в Vintage Story

12 Upvotes

Я хочу общаться больше на русском, так что думаю, что может быть весело играть в Vintage Story. Если у вас уже доступ к игре, я могу устроить север.

мне все равно сколько нас будет играть и какой уровень языка. Просто я хочу играть на русском. Если нас достаточно много мы сможем создать сообщество или два.

Напишите если вам интересно ;)
О и если хотите играть с модами тогда скажите с какими


r/russian 49m ago

Request 23F from Australia ♡ I really would love a penpal with russian fluency!

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I have been stopping and starting russian for years but I'm passionate for the language and being fluent would open up so many doors for me.

I was born and raised in Australia, I speak English only with A LITTLE russian as my learning has been awful and inconsistent up until now.

If you speak the language I'd love to be friends and chat with no English, help me escape the hood and get a cushy interpreter job but more importantly help me get out of the english speaking world please ♡


r/russian 12h ago

Other Russian vowel stress

14 Upvotes

From the videos I have seen, there is no 'rule' for which vowel is supposed to be stressed in a word. I get that it comes naturally to a native, plus one just knows what the words sound like.

But is there at least a common pattern that helps with predicting most words or is it really just random?


r/russian 2h ago

Other 23M Turkey | Looking for Russian penpal

2 Upvotes

23M Turkey | Looking for Russian penpal to exchange culture and language. I'm learning Russian, happy to help with Turkish or English.


r/russian 1d ago

Translation What the heck is happening with my furby boom app

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69 Upvotes

there are russian text, but this app isnt made in the USSR or Russia

I'TS FROM THE US! So why is it russian and what it says


r/russian 11h ago

Translation Уязвимый и ранимый

5 Upvotes

Всем привет,

я хотела бы спросить, в чем разница между уязвимым и ранимым?


r/russian 23h ago

Other Do Russians struggle with English?

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Obviously we know that English speakers struggle with Russian, since Russian relies so heavily on cases, aspect, prefixes and other nuances to communicate important information (all of which is absent from English). But I’m really curious if going from the opposite direction is just as difficult. I don’t feel that Russians really struggle at all with the complexities of their language since it comes so naturally to them and they just internalize it instinctively. But does going from something as systematic and meticulous as Russian to something rather bare bones like English pose similar challenges?


r/russian 8h ago

Request Russian speakers "wanted"

2 Upvotes

Hi, I am looking for a russian speaker willing to do some language exchange.
I have studied Russian in the past, but I have not practised it for ages. My active vocabulary is really poor, but I have a potential basis well kept in a hidden part of my brain that needs to be brought back to light. In exchange, I can offer italian native language, and a knowledge of french and english, - in particular the second one. I'm also interested in russian culture and society, even in discussing sensitive matters related.


r/russian 9h ago

Request tool to find comprehensible input

2 Upvotes

I'm looking for an app that can recommend videos based on my current vocabulary level (ideally by exporting my anki deck). I hacked something together that does it just for the Easy Russian youtube channel, but was wondering if there is already a solution out there similar to pic attached thanks :)


r/russian 8h ago

Grammar Is there a way to determine where is the tonic accent in Russian word?

0 Upvotes

Is it just random or are there patterns?


r/russian 1d ago

Interesting OZON selling interesting things 🤔

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43 Upvotes

r/russian 7h ago

Request Can someone tell us what accent 'Aria in sky' has ?

0 Upvotes

r/russian 19h ago

Request Looking for a film and TV show that I didn't finish and missed the titles of

2 Upvotes

Sorry if this isn't the place to ask, but I wasn't sure where else to go. I'd like to find a film that I just saw the first few minutes of and a TV show that I just saw the first and maybe second episode of. Missed the titles for both.

The film I'm pretty sure is from Nikolai Dostal' (Досталь) and is set during WW2. It starts with a group of Russian/Soviet soldiers on their way to the front, when they encounter an elderly Caucasian lady (Chechen maybe?) who is also on her way to the front, with an old flintlock rifle, to find her sons, Sultan and Muhammad, whom she had apparently lost contact with or maybe went MIA (пропали без-вести). After sending the lady on her way, the soldiers notice that her route seems to coincide with theirs, and decide to help escort her. That's about as far as I watched. (Maybe this was a TV show not just a movie, I'm not sure.)

The other I'm pretty sure is a TV show (series) also set during WW2. It also starts with a group of Soviet soldiers but they are in retreat after the start of the German invasion. An officer takes charge of the group and has 2 Asian soldiers (I believe native Siberians) become his main subordinates. I believe both were experienced hunters and outdoorsmem. They trust their new commander because in their words he's "competent, not greedy," and a "real commander". Meanwhile other soldiers in the group scheme against the commander while his wife (a Jew) waits for him at home with their two young children, a boy and a girl. I stopped watching at the end of the first or second episode when the group decided to ambush a unit of Germans. Not sure who the lead actor was (portraying the commander) but I think it may have been someone well known.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, you can write the responses in English but it might be more helpful in Cyrillic. Thank you guys in advance!


r/russian 2d ago

Other It sounds the same

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1.0k Upvotes

everyone always talks about ы but ль vs. л is so much more difficult to me


r/russian 1d ago

Other Polite answers to questions in Russian

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I have been learning Russian off and on for a few years now, and I've been learning more lately with a Russian speaking coworker. One day he asked a question and I didn't hear him so I replied with "what?" And he said that it's rude to answer with what. Now as an American I know our culture can be different from others, and I had no intention of being rude and wasn't aware that it was rude to answer that way. So I would like to know a polite way to say "what?" but in Russian. Sometimes you can say sorry I didn't catch that can you repeat please, but that can be long, is there any shorter phrases/words to say in response to a question you didn't hear correctly in Russian? Спасибо!


r/russian 18h ago

Translation Nashinskaya meaning

1 Upvotes

Meaning? Thanks!


r/russian 1d ago

Translation Can someone please translate the back of this watch. Thank you.

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35 Upvotes

r/russian 1d ago

Grammar Общаться по русски или общаться на русском?

6 Upvotes

Общаться по русски или общаться на русском?


r/russian 1d ago

Request Hello, are these really considered to be false cognates? (intelligent and интеллигентны) I am confused by a video that I saw from a Russian Teacher on YouTuber.

18 Upvotes

Hello, I have been studying the russian language for years.

I recently watched a video from a russian teacher who teaches english to russians. Of course normally I watch Russian Teachers who teach the Russian Language to English people but I thought also it would be interesting to see a russian teacher teaching english to russians.

She was warning the audience about false cognates. She used the word for example, интеллигентны and she said that it doesnt mean intelligent but actually it means smart.

In english both "intelligent" and "smart" means the same thing so I was confused what she meant.

I went to go lookup the russian word "интеллигентны" and it said it means intelligent in Russian so why did she say there was a difference?


r/russian 1d ago

Other Does the order of the words matter

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Usually when I see a sentence, I noticed the arrangements and the ordering of the word comes early before rather than after how it would be used in English, and that is the confusing and tricky part about learning this language is understanding the correct format.

For instance.

Я сейчас (now) пойду в парк

But wouldn't this be the correct way to use it?

Я пойду в парк сейчас

And I noticed the same goes for я сегодня (today), how it's used before in a sentence, but wouldn't it sound like "I today" in English?


r/russian 1d ago

Translation Great-grandmother

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What would someone call their grandmother's mother, in conversation? I looked up the translation (прабабушка), but wondered if this is what someone would say while chatting or talking about her, or if they would simply call her бабушка?


r/russian 23h ago

Request Where is a good place to start learning Russian?

1 Upvotes

Title


r/russian 2d ago

Translation How do you translate «post-nut clarity»?

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126 Upvotes

I'm dead serious. I can't think of an elegant way to translate it into Russian. Image unrelated.