Learn REAL russian with Vanya Usovich

Especially for today's comedy, I put my hair the same way as the comedian of today, Vanya Usovich, and he has a fun joke about the Russian language, which I do not agree with at all. But that's going to be at the end of the video. I'm a Dutch guy who learned Russian as an adult, and I'm going to be helping you learn Russian with real comedy instead of like the boring textbook stuff. Check the full word list in the description if you want to analyze it while Let's get started. This is a cool sentence, a pretty difficult sentence with lots of interesting stuff. First, in general. Is a great word to be using almost, you can use it almost in any sentence. Whenever you say, oh, in general, it makes it so that your statements are a little bit like, more hedged like that. And I use it very often if you check my Russian videos. I recommend you do the same because it buys you a little bit of time in order to think of real words you want to say. Tak means, tak has so many different meanings, but here it's like so. So, so great, so cool. Means at least. And it's something you can say like, in this case, it's great to at least know Russian. It's pretty advanced, so I wouldn't really use it too often unless you're more intermediate. And then he says, means like Russian and znajt is to know. And he ends with pravda, which means truth. And here it's interesting, like in English, like when I speak English or Dutch, I very often end the sentence with right, in order to kind of ask like a question confirmation of the person understood what I said. In Russian, this tends to not really happen, but here Vanya does it. He says like pravda, true, but it's better translated as right. You can also do that whenever you make a statement like this, pravda, pravda. All right. And this is something you would more see just like in the setting somewhere of your phone, because it means by default. Po tends to require the dative case and umolchaniye turns into umolchaniyu if it's in the dative case. Then we've got prosta, tak. Prosta is simply and tak is like that or so. So it's like simply so by default. Prosta is also a phrase, a word I use very often. And why not? It's like you can add it into any sentence. Я так рад, что я знаю русский. Finally, we've got a simple sentence. Here's something that you could use as a person learning Russian. Я так рад, I'm so glad, что я знаю русский, that I know Russian. It's a very straightforward sentence. And one thing here, русский can be used like because we're talking about the Russian language. Русский means like the Russian language. You can omit язык at the end, it means language. But русский can also mean just like a Russian person. But since we're talking about languages, obviously, we mean the Russian language. Я так рад, что я знаю русский. I'm so glad I know Russian. Потому что так бы я хер бы брался за русский, честно говоря. This is a difficult sentence. At first, don't use the word хер because it means like male organ. Потому что так бы я хер бы брался за русский, честно говоря. So first, потому что is like two words that mean because. It's pretty straightforward. Так бы is kind of like that. And it adds this conditional, like I wouldn't take on Russian. And бы, the second бы could kind of be omitted here, but it makes it a little bit stronger. This is very, very advanced. So don't worry about all this stuff now. Then it says, я бы брался. I would take on. If in Russian, you see бы together with a conjugation. In English, you say, I would take on and then take on the full verb. But in Russian, you take the verb браться, which is the infinitive. And if there's бы there, it's я бы брался. You turn it into the past tense. This is pretty straightforward once you learn more about that. My course Conversations in Locke goes more deeply into this. And it says, я бы брался за русский. I would take on Russian. If you have the infinitive брать союз, it's like браться за and then русский. You take on the Russian language. And then it ends with честно говоря. Честно говоря is a phrase that I also like to use. It just means honestly speaking. Честно is the adverb of честный. And говоря comes from говори. This means like honestly speaking. And yeah, this is a difficult sentence. Don't worry about this. Слишком сложный язык для второго языка. Слишком means too. Сложный means difficult, complicated. And then для второго языка. Для is always required as a genitive case. So the второй язык turns into второго языка. Too complex language for a second language. Прикиньте, в русском есть рода. Рода есть в языке. Прикиньте, в русском есть рода. Рода есть в языке. So first, извините. So прикиньте is pretty colloquial Russian. It means like imagine. Imagine or think about it. Прикиньте. And you can use it whenever you want to offer like something that you're going to like just imagine you're going to say something. And this is a great word because almost no foreigners use it. And I didn't say it for probably like whatever, six, seven years. And then I recently started using it in some videos. And people were like, wow, he's saying the word прикинь or прикиньте if you're using it plural. And then I was like, yeah, this is a great word. Whenever I said it like in person to people, I was like, oh, you said прикинь. And it's a nice word to use. Then he says, в русском есть рода. В русском. It's a prepositional case. And he's like in the Russian. Then he omits language. Есть рода. So in general, you don't need to use the word is, am, are in Russian because you can just omit them. If I say я Ари, it's implied like I. I say I Ari, but it's implied that I am Ari. But есть is something where you can emphasize when there's really something you can say. Есть рода. There are genders. Рода есть в языке. Genders are there in the language. It's to emphasize that something is there. То есть иностранцы садятся учить и такие, то есть. Usually it's translated as so, but more literally, it's like that is, that is. But I would say like, so, иностранцы, foreigners, the plural of иностранец, иностранцы садятся учить. Садятся means to sit down, учить, and learn. И такие. Такой, такие, такая. Usually means like, if you put it with an adjective, it means like so as well. It's like он такой, она такая хорошая. She's so nice. Yeah, also so. But in this case, we say они такие. It's more like and they're like, and they're like. And it's very, very pretty colloquial. I'm saying something like, я туда пошел, он туда пошел, он такой. And he's like, and he's like. Так, голова женский род. Again, так here. Так is being used so often by this guy and I also tend to use it very often. This is like a super versatile word. Here, так means so, so. Голова means head. And here it says голова женский род. So head is the feminine gender. I don't agree with this, but I'll talk about it later. Нос мужской род. I mean, I agree with this, but I'll talk about it later. Нос means nose. Мужской род means like the masculine gender. Ухо средний род. Ухо is ear and it's средний, like the neuter gender. И это вообще никак не обосновано. This is what I don't agree with. Because he says like this is completely unfounded, unjustified. И это, and this, вообще никак. It's like, let's leave вообще in general. And this is in general. Никак means like not how. Никак, you can translate as not at all. Не обосновано. Not founded, not justified. And here we get into the Russian like double negation. If you say никак не обосновано, you say like not at all, not founded. So this means not founded. Okay, so the double negation is something more difficult, but it's there in Russian. Right. Что нам нужно сделать? Means like what needs to be done. And here что is like the question. If it starts in the sentence, it usually means like what. In Russian, you do not say we need as in. I mean, there is a sentence to say that. Мы нуждаемся. But it's very rarely used. But you say нам нужно. To us is needed. And нужно means need or needed. To us is needed. Сделать is the perfective form of делать. It means to do more in the way of to be done. What needs to be done? А, ну просто возьмите, выучите все слова. Ну просто возьмите, выучите все слова. This is the punchline. And here it is. Ну просто. Well, simply. Возьмите, выучите. It's the imperative one. Take and learn все слова, all the words. And what it means here is like that it's so completely random to be learning the different noun genders because it's so random. And in order to know exactly what it is, you just need to go and learn all of them. I completely disagree with that. While there are some words, but in general, there's a couple of big rules. And if you give me any random Russian noun, and I mean random, random, don't look specifically up, then there's like a 95, 98% chance if I even if I teach you the rules, like the most simplest rules, there's like 95% chance that you will be able to say correctly whether it's masculine, feminine, neuter or plural, basically. And the rules are as follows. So Vanya is not right here. I mean, for the joke, I understand why you did this. But the thing is, we start here with голова женский род. Like head is a female gender. If a word ends in А or Я, written, then it's always, I mean, always like 99.9% there are a couple of exceptions, but it's almost always feminine. Then нос is a masculine noun. And it means that if a word ends in a consonant, like С, Т, Д, you know, all the regular consonants, or Е, then it's almost always masculine. And if a word ends in О or Е, written, then it's almost always neuter. Now, ухла is a little bit of an annoying word, because if you say it, it sounds like it ends in an А, but if you write it down, if you read it, then it's like О. And this is because Russian, if there's an unstressed О, then it sounds like an А. But in general, those are the three main rules. And if you know those, there are a couple of exceptions. You can almost understand all of them. All right, I hope you enjoyed this video. And watch this video next if you're interested in more comedy.