Biggest challenges for Russian speakers learning English

If you know what’s hard in advance, you can learn faster. These are the main things that slow down Russian speakers when they learn English.

  • Russian has no articles — 'a', 'an', and 'the' are entirely new concepts
  • Russian has six grammatical cases — English has essentially none
  • English does not use the verb 'to be' in present tense the way Russian does
  • Russian stresses different syllables unpredictably — English stress patterns feel random

Focus on one challenge at a time. Small daily practice beats long study sessions.

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