Teango wrote:blaurebell wrote:My "favourites" in the Russian language:
1. Verb aspect - arcane black magic that nobody seems to be able to explain and at least doubles the amount of vocabulary to learn.
2. Verbs of motion - It's doing my head in to go anywhere in Russian, since there seem to be a gazillion ways of getting a single verb wrong. I better just stay home.
3. Cases - Having the potential to make 3-20 additional mistakes in a single sentence and getting confused about who killed whom with what.
4. Participles - Why don't you just accumulate a gazillion verbs in one sentence to make them even harder to understand ...!
5. Word order - It's even more insane than German word order and that's saying quite something.
Oh wait, that's pretty much all of Russian grammar.
And if that weren't already enough to outwit a sleuth of bears...there's ударение (grammatical stress) roulette - placé your bеts now!
I think this is just a good example of why studying grammar is unnecessary and just plain wrong.
1. Read 20000 pages (preferably out loud)
2. Watch 1000 hours TV
3. Do Glossika
4. Do Ari's Chinesepod method
Massive exposure rules, grammar drools.