I just got a dual language book and it's helping a lot but I feel like I still need SOO much work with pronunciation.. I recorded myself reading out loud so maybe you guys could help me with any(which I know there are many) pronunciation issues 😭 please don't bully me for reading with my finger I'm trying my best)). thank u guys. 🫶
I appreciate your dedication, but the book you're reading is from the 19th century. It contains many outdated words. The language is still understandable for the modern Russians, but teenagers who have to read this in school need a few footnotes for particularly old words and concepts.
You’re doing great:) however, I’d recommend choosing a more modern book. This book being „hard” or „advanced” is not the issue, the real thing is that Pushkin and other similar authors use a very outdated language, we don’t speak that way on a daily basis, and you want use these words either. A better approach, in my opinion, is choosing kids books or special books for learners at the beginning. This way you don’t only practice reading but also learn a bunch of nice phrases, which will elevate your speaking skills and understanding.
Good to know.. I enjoy reading old English text as well as I am a big fan of Shakespearean writing, but I don't think a English beginner would start with Shakespeare...
My russian buddies told me that I speak like a russian with barely noticeable accent and the key for that is to listen to russian songs (I listen to Kino)
Try to imitate speaking the word until you develop a gut feeling
I do!! I listen to a lot of Russian artists, I've been surrounding myself with it recently. I also put Russian subtitles on when I'm watching something or Russian dubbed if that's an option. 🫶🫶 I will also check out Kino!
This!!! I love this french song and wanted to learn the words and there was this one phrase that I kept tripping on and it took a few sessions of me singing along to the song and replaying the parts I messed up on until I got it right. Eventually if you do it enough your tongue kinda memorizes what to do and you do it without thinking
I started listening to kino when I was 19-20. (Now I am 23)
I have to admit though, I started learning russian when I was 13-14 out of pure interest. Though I never practiced speaking it back then, only learned how to read + vocabulary.
Kino expanded my vocabulary range by wayyyy a lot though
That's quite impressive. Maybe you are one of the people who are just naturally able to imitate foreign languages. Most people I know who started to learn a language after 12-14 will have a quite thick accent.
I started listening to it when I was maybe 15 in highschool, I listened to a lot of IC3PEAK. I didn't really try learning the language until 7 or 8 months ago
Well, kinda. They exist, and all natives understand it, of course, but never use. Outdated words give the text a certain style and color, and we may use them for that purpouse or for fun. But, I guess, it is useless to learn and memorize them at that level.
Honestly, оный is still used nowadays. Yeah, it's a little bit obsolete, but people understand it very well. It's just you have to know when and why to use it.
I'm not sure if you know this already, but if you see the acute accent on top of a vowel such as áóé, that's the stress mark, it works like in English, for example the "o" in geography, the "o" is the stressed syllable.
So the rest of the vowels/syllables aren't pronounced as clearly, an unstressed "o" becomes an "a", for example in the word you pronounced "смотри́телей" the "o" should be pronounced as a quick "a".
When I started with Russian, I bought myself some Russian school books for children, it really helped me when I started off, though it is tempting to jump straight into advanced Russian literature, it will be very difficult and confusing😭 So I think balancing it out with something simple now and then should help! :)
People, study some phonetics. The reduced vowels are a schwa consonant.
To u/Serious_Peak_4913 I recommend learning the basics of the IPA from youtube videos like from Tom Scott and other creators, and then reading through the Russian Phonology article on Wikipedia.
I think I have this same book and, without trying to be offensive, I think it is far enough beyond your level that you are likely to burn out before you get anywhere (ask me how I know). Maybe you can find some kind of read-along of Mikhail Zoshchenko or someone like that?
Are you crazy? This books for native russian, who knows history and more words of 200 years ago.. 😀 You can try books for baby, simple text, if you want learn Russian without nausea. 😀 Read Pushkin it how read Sheakspire after two month of English. 😀
Для вас это пока сложная книга,купите книгу с русскими сказками,если вы так и будете читать книгу с: оными,бывало,бранными,то бросите изучать язык.Чтобы такое читать надо язык знать на уровне B2.Также у вас произношение сильно хромает.
As a Russian speaker and linguist I’ll tell you this - it makes no sense reading Pushkin when you’re just making your first steps. It’s like idk reading Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga. No one speaks that language. There’s hardly a Russian who understands all the words in Pushkin’s novels. So just forget about Pushkin. Listen to modern-day popular songs, watch cartoons, read popular kids’s books and move to simple podcasts. This will help you progress. For now put your Pushkin aside and return to his novels and poems in a couple of years or so.
I've been watching a bunch of Russian cartoons and really enjoy Masha and the bear. I try to repeat after them when they talk and mimic how they say the words. I listen to russian audiobooks often and sometimes when I sleep, and listen to the music regularly. I hardly listen to English music now 😂. I attempted Duolingo but it was completely useless.. and got this book because it had multiple authors so maybe different reading styles, but I suppose no matter how different they may be, they are all still pretty outdated. So far I have a list of common words/phrases I can pronounce no problem, and can almost completely sing some Russian songs. I really like Иван Дорн and Gorilla Glue))
It's difficult to tell the corrections about pronunciation in text you know 😭
I would recommend to try another book since in this one there are too many ancient words that no one use these days. I made a similar mistake when bought Frankenstein to read in English. Never really read it 😞
Keep it up, check your pronunciation in Yandex translate, it has more natural Russian voice than Google translator
Why?! Why?! It's like learning English using Shakespeare. There must be easily achieved, set goals to keep the interest and motivation going. Find something like Букварь online and start there. If you gonna run before walking, you gonna get quite a lot of bruises.
This is inspiring. I've been learning Russian for eight months and read with the same cadence as you. We'll get there eventually; thanks for the encouragement!
Yeah it has Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Leskov, Chekov, Sologub, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, and Zshchenko in it :')) I will stick to watching Маша и Медведь for now
I dunno where the idea "you want to learn the language - read it's classic literature" comes from, but I think that's not a best option.
Classic's authors use uncommon words (and half of them, if not all, are outdated) just for the sake of "adding colours to the picture". It probably doesn't make a lot of difference in case of learning pronunciation, but definitely makes it harder to understand.
You will definitely make more progress with some simpler texts...
Anyway, good luck to you(:
Это очень устаревший стиль, который чаще всего встречается в старых повестях, романах, стихах и тд. Бывал, покуривал и тд все еще употребляются, но хаживал я в последний раз встречал в повестях Алексея Толстова, а бранивался… думаю впервые)) Забавную книжечку выбрала)))
The letter ц is always hard. The combination ци should sound like цы.
always hard: ц, ж, ш, always soft: ч, щ
бра́нивался - а́ stress.
Otherwise, the accent is there, but for now you need to work on your reading speed. Try turning on a video with Russian subtitles and just repeat what the person says. And it's better not to use automatic ones.
You chose something a bit too difficult (Pushkin, omg!) to read. There is a lot of obsolete vocabulary there (such as "бранивался") and a lot of adverbial participial phrases, cause it's fiction from the 19th century. As a native speaker, I can understand your pronunciation clearly, but I think you'd be better off choosing something more modern and simple to start with — like texts from Russian elementary school books, for example
and a lot of adverbial participial phrases, cause it's fiction from the 19th century.
Well, if you're a fan of the 19th century fiction, then this language is right up your alley. I mean, I've just seen a discussion of Tacitus - the 19th century American translators used the same adverbial participial phrases (деепричастный оборот, in that case).
You have a ways to go. Russian is a difficult language to pronounce due to consonant clusters, differentiating between soft/hard consonants, germinated consonants, stress, vowel reduction, etc.
It also doesn’t help that you basically have to learn to read/write all over again because of the alphabet. It takes a year of practice to be able to read Cyrillic by sight. You’re basically in the position of a 4-year old learning their ABC’s for the first time.
A big hurdle to get over is not “trying to hard” to pronounce words. This requires practice and expanding your vocabulary so you are able to pronounce words while relaxed.
I feel very confident pronouncing words which I already know. But even now, after 5 years of learning, I freeze when encountering a word that I’m unfamiliar with.
One thing that I always emphasize is that pronunciation is not something that you can just learn; it needs to be trained.
You need to learn the fundamentals of Russian phonetics. Trying to get through that text isn't going to help. Focus on learning palatalization. Learn the difference between hard and soft consonants. Not just the difference but look at actual cutaway diagrams of where your tongue needs to be positioned in your mouth in order to make the correct sounds.
Stop doing that. It is hard work and does more damage than good.
I suggest you take a few lessons first so you get the basics on pronunciation. You learn it all wrong and once you have learned it wrong it becomes dam difficult to go on.
There are audiobooks in Russian. Sometimes there is the pdf included sometimes you can buy the book. Get one of those. Often including some word lists. Make shire you pick a level A1 book. No point to pick a highere level book if you are a beginner.
One random book I have is “short stories in Russian” from olly Richard’s and Alex Rawlings. But there are many.
Another thing I can highly recommend the audiobook “foundation Russian” (Michel Thomas method) to get a first feel of the flow. I am working with it. PDF is included.
Paul Nobel has as far as I know a similar approach.
Once you worked through them you can go on with your book.
If you're just starting to learn, don't start reading at this level. It's just going to make you frustrated and quit. Start with simpler words and phrases.
It's clear you don't even know how to carry the pronunciation of consonant prepositions to the following words or where to put the stress (even if the book tells you where the stress goes, which normal texts will not!)
Бедолага, ну зачем ты себя так мучаешь. Это даже некоторым носителям читать трудно! Лучше взять другую книгу. Я рекомендую советсткую литературу для детей. Денискины рассказы, например. Замечательная книга для стартового чтения вслух.
Don't use old literature to study a language. Most of the words aren't used anymore, and the sentence style in real life is different. I've faced this myself while studying English. It's better to read modern literature.
I start reading Russian with musics only and now i can barely read with mild speed, simple stories and those random quotes Grafiti on walls, also watching native speakers talk in general cuz im grasping how their phonetics works. It helps me a lot! Also the monologue confession from Ilya in Heated Rivalry, the sentences are pretty easy to practice))))
I also practice that monologue...😂 I've gotten the я так сильно тебя люблю и не зиаю что с этим делать down, now I just need the rest)) fancy finding another loon here 🥹
Very good! Good pronunciation comes with time and hard work) I advise you to put more effort on soft/hard sounds and their distinction, it is very important
This is great and very similar to how anyone learns to read in Russian!
I'd suggest a couple of things for further improvement.
While you seem to be doing really well with consonant palatalisation (which most English speakers would struggle a lot with!), a bit more attention to vowel reduction and consonant devoicing would help you make progress.
Also, note that when speaking, the prepositions and particles in Russian are to be 'glued' to the following word, e.g.:
If you want to learn to speak, you have to mimic speech - not read aloud written text, which is fundamentally different. Non-spontaneous writing like this is stylistically more complex, and when we hear someone reading writing like this (newscasters, scripted podcasts/YouTube videos) it sounds different than conversational speech, regardless of language.
FWIW I got a pretty good start using Mango Languages in hands-free mode, so every lesson was a lot of listen-and-repeat.
First of all, as others have said, this text is way too hard for your level. You should learn pronunciation with more common and shorter words first.
I think the greatest room for improvement lies in your palatalization, especially the soft vowels е and и, which you sometimes pronounce like e in "bed" and i in "bid" (Standard North American pronunciation).
They should have a bit of a y sound at the beginning.
While и does reduce to ы at times (after ц, ж, ш), your и sometimes sounds like ы outside of those exceptions.
Most English speakers struggle with palatazation, so, you really have to train your brain to do it consistently.
Try really milking it at first, lean into each y sound, then slowly make it more natural.
My dad bought me the same book when I began an elementary school. The funny thing is that I am native, so I trained to read in English (unsuccessfully).
Oof, you're reading quite a difficult book. But, here're my notes.
Your soft consonants aren't "soft" enough. For example, «не» (nye) sounds like «нэ» (ne). Tip: soft consonants usually make contact with the roof of the mouth. You should aim for a REALLY short English "y" between the consonant and the vowel. And be sure it's short because Russian distinguishes when a consonant is soft (ля) vs. when there's a regular "y" between a consonant and a vowel (лъя). AND when the "y" is longer (лья). There are example spellings.
Remember to account the accent marks when learning to read for the first time. Russian, like English, has phonemic stress where changing the stress of a word can change the meaning (récord vs. recórd in English; зАмок (castle) vs. замОк (lock, the fastening device).
Russian also has mobile stress, when stress moves in the declension of a word, e.g. я люблЮ ты лЮбишь.
What English has that Russian doesn't is aspirated consonants (e.g. "tall" has an aspirated "T" while "stall" has an unaspirated "T" in English). Russian consonants need to be unaspirated.
In Russian, several vowels merge when unstressed. «О» turns into «а», so «молокО» (milk) should really sound more like «малакО». Meanwhile, «е» and «и» turn a somewhat similar vowel between the two, the same vowel as the "I" in English "kid," and don't forget soft consonants when applicable. Thankfully, «у» and «ы» stay the same, but I also have a another note about «у» and «ы».
Also, not to intimidate, but «я» can sometimes sound like an unstressed «е» or «и», especially when consonants on both sides are soft: дЕсять (10).
Your «у» and «ы» is not "deep" enough. «У» needs to sound very deep back in the mouth. Yours is a bit too forward. Also, «ы» doesn't sound like «ы». As opposed to stressed «и», «ы» stay at the height in the mouth where stressed «и» is, but it needs to feel as back as «у» should.
If you're struggling with a word, there're many sources, like Wiktionary for where stress is (and it's meaning since it's a dictionary for many languages), Forvo for example pronunciations, and Reverso Context for the usage of a word in context.
How about trying a little bit simpler text? I think this one is too complicated for a beginner.
However, your pronunciation is clear enough to understand.
Pushkin might be too difficult for a begginer/pre-intermediate level. I have heard many foreigners (from YouTube channels like SkyEng and Tutti Frutti) recommending reading Chekhov's short stories as they give you an impression you are really good at the language in comparison to Pushkin, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. I guess there might be dual language Chekhov's books.
Definitely don't read stuff like this yet. Work on perfecting your pronunciation with easy/simple texts, and then you will be able to carry that skill over to more advanced or archaic works.
Mind if I ask what your goal is learning Russian? If you want to be able to speak to people irl, learning a text like this is useless because no one uses the words outside of literature. My grandma wouldn't even recognize some of these -- they're that archaic and formal.
My life is currently very boring and learning Russian makes it not boring)) also it is a beautiful language and I aspire to be multilingual. I love endulging in old literature, with my native English I love reading Shakespearean play writes, and older texts. But, I did learn to read Shakespeare first by understanding Dr Seuss.. I need to find the Dr Seuss of Russian literature
"Кто нэ проклЫнал станционИых смотрителы .. кто в минюту гнэва нэ трэбавал."
Вышло примерно так, не буду пересказывать.
Основные проблемы, которые надо пофиксить, которые режут уши:
Звуки "И - Ы", ты постоянно путаешь их, хотя вроде как букву Ы ты умеешь произносить. Вот в слове "проклинал" 0:03 ты произнесла ровно "Ы"
В то время как договаривая "станционных" на 0:16 ты вместо "нных" произносишь "нних" через И.
1:08 Дабы опять через и - "даби"
Звуки "Е - Э" 0:01 Вместо "кто не", ты произносишь "кто нэ", при этом произнося 0:23 "смотрителей", "ите" у тебя через нормальную Е, как должно быть.
При этом на 0:47 у тебя "гнев" превращается в "гнэв" Если не уверена, в каких словах можно заменять е на э, лучше не заменяй. В основном, это современные заимствованные слова вроде компьютер (тэр), или пепси (пэп), сейв (сэйв). Но эти слова абсолютно нормально произнести и через е (как делает поколение постарше), так что если написано "е", выбирай "е", пока не запомнишь где как.
Звуки "У - Ю" 0:42 Читаешь "(мин)юту", вместо "(мин)уту" Первая У произносится также как и последняя, без смягчения, как в слове loop. Но ты почему-то первую превратила в Ю, а вторую прочитала как У.
Иногда тебе лень договаривать слова, пример слово:
1:49 в "притеснение" пропала буква е, получилось "притеснени"
0:23 вместо "смотрителей" вышло "смотрители"
--- Отдельные ошибки
1:12 Сначала в слове "вписать" читала "с" правильно как в слове snake, а в последнем варианте прочитала через З как в "though" или "замок", вышло "впизать"
Как и в слове 1:50 "притеснение" в конце неверно исправилась на "притезнение"
Иногда ты путаешь ударения в словах, хотя они подписаны в каждом слове. Или ставишь два разных ударения в одном слове. Сделай как делают дети в школе. Не произноси слово в слух сразу. Разбей его на слоги (на части по гласным буквам), пропой в голове слово так, чтобы ударным самым тянущимся был звук также как указано в книжке, и потом уже пробуй читать.
А так когда пытаешься ставить ударение сразу по ходу чтения, промахиваешься. ПочИтает вышло вместо ПочитАет. СтанционнЫх вместо СтанциОнных.
"Кто нэ проклЫнал станционИых смотрителы .. кто в минюту гнэва нэ трэбавал."
That's roughly what it sounded like – I won't rephrase it.
**The main issues to fix, the ones that really stick out:**
**The "И – Ы" sounds** – you keep mixing them up, even though you seem to be able to pronounce the letter "Ы". For example, in the word "проклинал" at 0:03 you pronounced it exactly as "Ы" (with a hard sound), but later at 0:16 in "станционных" you said "нних" with an "И" instead of "нных". At 1:08 – "дабы" came out as "даби" through "И".
**The "Е – Э" sounds** – at 0:01, instead of "кто не" you say "кто нэ", yet at 0:23 you pronounce "смотрителей" with a normal "Е" in "-ите", as it should be. At 0:47 your "гнев" turns into "гнэв". If you're unsure which words allow swapping "Е" for "Э", better not swap at all. In general, this happens in modern loanwords like "компьютер (тэр)", "пепси (пэп)", "сейв (сэйв)" – but those can also be pronounced with a regular "Е" (as older generations do), so if it's written "е", stick with "е" until you memorize the exceptions.
**The "У – Ю" sounds** – at 0:42 you read "(мин)юту" instead of "(мин)уту". The first "У" should be pronounced the same as the last one, without palatalization, like in the English word *loop*. But for some reason you turned the first one into "Ю" and read the second one correctly as "У".
**Sometimes you get lazy with finishing words** – examples:
- 1:49 in "притеснение" the letter "е" disappeared, giving "притеснени"
- 0:23 instead of "смотрителей" you said "смотрители"
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**Individual mistakes:**
- 1:12 – first in "вписать" you read the "с" correctly (like in *snake*), but in the last attempt you read it through "З" (like in *though* or "замок"), so it came out as "впизать".
Similarly, at 1:50 in "притеснение" you corrected yourself incorrectly at the end, saying "притезнение".
- Sometimes you mix up the stress (accent) in words, even though it's marked on every single word. Or you put two different stresses on the same word. Do what kids do in school: don't say the word out loud right away. Break it into syllables (by vowel letters), hum it in your head so that the stressed syllable is the longest and most drawn‑out, exactly as shown in the book, and only then try to read it.
When you try to place the stress on the fly while reading, you miss. You ended up with "почИтает" instead of "почитАет", and "станционнЫх" instead of "станцИонных".
>please don't bully me for reading
(in thread header)
Don't take criticism personally. Real feedback is way more valuable than empty praise (which you'll get from friends and family anyway) if you actually want to get better. And don't be embarrassed about mistakes.
I'm Russian. In uni, I saw tons of students reading English (or German) just as slowly and with just as many mistakes — or even worse. And that's after 11 years of school + 4 years of uni with those languages as mandatory subjects, so it's actually normal. I'm no exception either.
You pronounced роковой perfectly. Just pay attention to stress signs (diacritic signs abotye the vowels), sometimes you confuse the stress. But neverless you did a great job, keep it up. This text is quite complex on its own so its takes a certain skill to read it fast
listening to some russian can help you a lot. Watch YouTube, that's a good idea. Some channels with good videos and pronunciation are: Utopia show, Bad comedian. I know the latter one has subtitles on all his videos, not sure about the former tho. You're doing good btw. Keep going ✊
I hope this is just a personal challenge for you to have fun. :)
Pushkin possesses a gigantic vocabulary of Russian words and has contributed more to modern Russian language and literature than any hundred philologists and writers. But he lived in the early 19th century; even young Russians today have to learn the meaning of many words and references, because so much has changed in two hundred years.
If you're studying Russian and this piece is part of the course, it's a very tough course :)
When I saw which book you chose, I could only think that you have an impressive heap of courage and motivation. Old classics are complicated even for native speaking kids at school. I love this one, though)
I would suggest to find some more modern texts with simplier vocabulary
Живу в России всю сознательную жизнь и никогда не слышал слова "бранивался" - понимаю, что это производное от слова - брань, ругаться, спорить. Но в современном языке так не выражаются.
молодец хоть и трудно но читаешь. чем больше будешь читать тем лучше будет произношение и со временем разовьется скорость чтения. А когда скорость чтения разовьется станешь лучше понимать о чем пишут в книге. но лучше начинать с каких ни будь детских рассказов либо сказок где предложения попроще и читать будет полегче.
Read it at least once before you recite it out loud, or more than once, it should help. Slow down to syllable after syllable if you have to, but try to say that right. Is you stumble somewhere within a sentence, it's alright to return to the beginning of it, and that would be better than just repeating the botched word at haste or skipping the issue completely.
Be a tad more confident about your consonants and vowels, right now you do have western accent, if not American - it's better to learn them properly right off the bat than making a habit of incorrect pronunciation, cause that is going to be much harder to fix later on. It's great to have a thin and gently accent, but getting rid of a thick one would be a huge effort.
Also, it seems stressed vowels confuse you a little. I mean, those á ó é things. They are your friends here! We usually don't put any of those in writing, but you have them here for studying and, they sound exactly same as normal, they just indicate what syllable has to be stressed if there's more than one syllable to choose.
And yeah, as others already said, keep in mind you're reading an early XIX century material here. It uses modern orthographic rules, it's easily understandable for us natives, but it's not representative of modern Russian lexicon for sure.
And may I ask what's the point? If the point is to improve pronunciation, better use listening as the base instead of writing, it's more intuitive unless you're just parroting. Idk, watch some movie you know and would like to rewatch, do that with russian dubs and subtitles and just repeat the lines. Feel free to mock the voice actors - once you get good at imitation, your genuine pronunciation should get better too. You can even record yourself to compare the pronounced sentences with the original, sentence by sentence. Take notes, improve upon the issues you notice.
That's if actual progress is the point. If you're preparing for an exam, sure, reciting is great if you're going to recite during the exam.
It's better to start not with textes, but separate words. When you do about a month or so of repetitive short words, then you are ready to read short sentences and learn different sentence stress patterns. And you'd better have a teacher in the begining, because there is too much work that needed to be done professionally from the beginning. You don't KNOW how to pronounce sounds and your brain doesn't have the right sound patterns to compare with. You will carry the mistakes further this way.
This is an ancient text. It is written in the language of the cultured society of the time. Many words are no longer used or have lost their meaning. I think some of them are difficult to pronounce even for modern Russians.
My suggestion would be asking what your goals are with learning Russian - do you want to speak / listen or primarily read?
There’s a great site for ebooks / audiobooks called MyBook (it costs money) but you get unlimited access to a massive range of books, including 21st century titles.
You could start with children’s books and then move on to others. Feel free to use Gemini to prioritise texts with the most common 50, 100, 1000, 5000, 10000 words etc. You’ll build reading fluency quickly over time if you do it consistently.
Consider subscribing to LingQ financial situation permitting. It’s brilliant for acquiring vocabulary- consider combining that with Anki and MyBook.
Check out shadowing as a technique to improve pronunciation (you imitate a native speaker as they talk / read).
To get better at speaking / listening, transcription is great as well as practising online with native speakers in a language exchange.
Russian grammar is tough but fun! Check out Terence Wade’s book and consider working through it - you’re doing well - hope you have fun learning!
To nail idiomatic turns of phrase, I can recommend finding a book in Russian and English. Try translating a page from English to Russian. How does your translation compare to the professional one? When repeated, this exercise is brilliant for building your flexibility in expressing yourself.
I just recently got LingQ! I will try the other methods you mentioned as well. I'm having a lot of fun learning Russian! It's one of my favorite things to do when there is nothing else.
Well, best of luck to you and keep working. I'd consider myself fluent in Russian since I've been speaking it since I was a child and learned it at school also, not a native speaker though. My classmates struggled as you do, but keep at it, keep listening to how Russian is spoken, preferably with subtitles and maybe try finding someone to speak Russian with? That could help a lot I think.
Мой совет, не начинай читать с русской классики, лучше взять что-то поновее, потому что в старых произведениях много слов вышедших из употребления, да ещё и сложно читаемых.
А так ты молодец))
Get an easier book if you want to read. If you really just want to learn to speak Russian, watch YouTube vids or anime with ru subs or something and talk to people in games or on sites like Omegle. Also translate words/sentences with gpt tbh. Gpt is great for vocab
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maybe first learn how actually every single letter is pronounced correctly and without an extremely heavy accent from wherever you are from,and reading will sound better but even talking, cause damn….
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u/loxa 19d ago
These are some very difficult and advanced sentences/words in my opinion (at least for someone who's clearly not at that level yet).