I LEARNED RUSSIAN BY MYSELF! | Turkish woman speaks Russian

Hello, friends! Welcome! My name is Idyllar. I'm 16 years old and I'm from Turkey. Today I'm going to make my first video in Russian. And now I feel very strange, because finally I'm going to show you that I've learned Russian. A new language. Last year I started to learn Russian, but, as you know, I didn't tell anyone about it. This year I've just made a video in which I said that I've learned two new languages, which were German and Russian. As most of you guessed correctly, I congratulate you. But in this video today I want to talk about why and how I've learned Russian. And then I want to answer some questions, for example, what is my plan for the future with Russian, what I want to do with Russian, and so on. If you are ready, let's start. Before I could speak Turkish, English, Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish. And last year I started to learn Russian and German. As you know, probably, I've learned these languages simultaneously and independently. Russian and German are not very simple languages, because of this I had a lot of difficulties. But at least now I'm very happy with the result. Especially Russian was the most difficult language that I've learned in my life. When I was learning it, I knew that it would be difficult, but I had a lot of stress. And I didn't even want to learn Russian anymore, I didn't want to continue. Learning Russian was one of my dreams. But at first everything seemed very difficult to me, because of this I hated the language, to be honest. But then I tried to find interesting things that can be done with Russian. And now I'm very surprised that Russian is one of my favorite languages. Probably, then French or Italian can be said. Now I will explain to you why I chose Russian. As a child, I really liked to watch cartoons and so on. But I watched cartoons in foreign languages. And I very often saw movies that had Russian names. And because of this it was very strange to me, because I was probably 6 or 7 years old. And I knew only the Latin alphabet, because of this the Russian alphabet seemed very strange to me. My interest started just like that. And then, when I was 11, I thought about it again, but then I decided to learn French. And in recent years I have noticed that I really like Russian culture and literature. And last year, finally, I decided to learn Russian. At the very beginning, I watched a lot of channels for beginners. And I spent a lot of time on grammar and vocabulary. The channels that I watched very often were Amazing Russian and Russian in Russian. I recommend channels for beginners. If you want to learn Russian, if you want to use some materials, you can watch these videos. Yes, I also watched. But then I noticed that for me it is still difficult to understand Russian or to speak Russian as I want. And for this I started using audio materials in Russian. Audio materials like podcasts or vlogs. And these materials in natural Russian helped me to progress or immerse myself in the language. Because, as you know, as I have repeated many times in my videos, when we study only theory or grammatical structures, if we do not know how they are used, then we do not study anything useful. For this, I listened to a lot of podcasts in Russian. Podcasts that were sometimes difficult for me, but I listened to them many times. And then I wrote only unfamiliar words to learn the meaning. And doing so, my Russian became better, I think. Today I spoke Russian for the first time in my life. Both with people who speak Russian fluently and with other people who speak Russian like me. It really comforted me to understand people's questions and see that I can answer them in Russian. I think I'm slowly solving my problems in Russian. The secret to doing this is to listen to something you don't understand the next day, the day after that, and to learn words in this way. I'm starting to get used to Russian. I hope everything will be better. The channels that I watched the most were Russian Progress and Russian with Max. I also urge you to watch these channels. But they can be a little difficult for beginners. But you can try. And then I also want to make another video for my recommendations for learning Russian. The most difficult in Russian for me were subordinates and verbs. And I also think that Russian pronunciation is somehow difficult. Because we don't read words as they are written. And if you want to pronounce something correctly in Russian, then you need to listen a lot. And also a very important point is to communicate with Russian people. Because when you talk to them, you learn a lot. For example, I found many Russian friends who wanted to learn German, Turkish, and other languages. And we talked a lot with them. And then, for example, when I call them and say something in Russian, if it's wrong, they show me how to do it right. I did a lot with Russian. Now I'm more interested in the language than before. Because I learned a lot about Russian culture. I even read some Russian books from my favorite Russian writers. And I also think that Russia as a country is very wonderful. And I really want to go to Russia. But, unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to go abroad. But I hope. Well, all over the world I learned this language. And it's interesting. But in addition, I think that the Russian language helped me get out of my comfort zone. Because I think that everything in my life has changed with Russian. I used to learn Italian, Spanish, yes. But they were not as difficult for me as Russian. And German was also not the most difficult for me. And for this I think that Russian has changed everything for me. As far as I've seen, there are a lot of people in Turkey who want to learn Russian. But not everyone can do it. I used to think that Russian was very difficult. Yes, it's true. And I also thought that it was impossible to learn Russian. But now, after months of hard work, I speak Russian. And because of this, I think that if you want to learn Russian, you can do it. I know that I still need to do a lot with Russian to progress. For example, because my German is now better than my Russian. But I know that everything will be fine. And at least I'm proud of myself right now. And that's all. Write what you think in the comments. And also watch my other videos. Especially the video in which I spoke in German. My new video. It's very interesting to watch it. And also, yes. Thanks for watching. And that's all. See you in the next video. Bye.