Amir E. Aharoni
So I heard this on a podcast, as a conversation between two Americans:
β "How did you learn Russian?"
β "I went to the University of Vermont, and I needed to choose a language, and I learned Latin in highschool, and it wasn't for me and I wanted to choose a language not even remotely similar to Latin, so I kind of randomly chose Russian."
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And that's all I remember, doctor.
Amir E. Aharoni
(Explanation, just in case you need it: Latin is an Indo-European language, and so is Russian, which already makes them related. So is English, but Russian preserves ancient Indo-European features, such as noun cases, much more than English does, and in that regard, it's even more similar to Latin. So it's not remote at all.)
Amir E. Aharoni
@clacke except Japanese is ACTUALLY not related to anything :)
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
@aharoni Not entirely different from how I learned Japanese!
I knew what I wanted to study at uni, but I wanted to do something random first, and I like languages. I had studied English, German and Spanish and figured it would be fun to learn something from scratch without any indo-european common ground.
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
Amir E. Aharoni
@sslaia that, and even more. Russian school students learn about six: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional. In advanced linguistics, even more than six are identified, but there's no consensus on how to call them (vocative, partitive, etc.)
sslaia
@aharoni It's closer to Latin than to German then π
sslaia
@aharoni Does Russian have in addition cases like in German: Genetive, Dative and Accusative cases?
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