Этот трудный русский язык

[gera.livejournal.com]

Dear Russian learners,

what aspects of the Russian language do you find most difficult?

Comments

[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

I think that the idea of aspect is hard for English speakers to wrap their minds around because we don't have a direct equivalent. I've also studied French, so that helped a little bit, but I still don't know intuitively when to use imperfective or perfective verbs in the past tense in Russian. I tend to default to perfective, making everything completed actions.

[aciel.livejournal.com]

I have this same problem.

[ogeus.livejournal.com]

What kind of problem? E.g. шумел, зашумел, пошумел, отшумел?

[aciel.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. No, more perfective versus imperfective. Встретить или встречать, etc.