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Russia and Turkey block instant messaging platform Discord
(www.reuters.com)
Now do WhatsApp.
It's weird that WhatsApp is still operational in Russia, despite Meta being labeled as a terrorist organisation. Them banning people sure love to half ass things
Rumour is that the Shahid Drones use Discord as a backend for Command and Control.
😂
Nothing of value etc etc
Dueling sanctions.
Why are they making it harder for me to learn Russian and Turkish :/
Props for trying your hand at Russian. Being a native speaker, only about a year ago did I realize how ridiculously complex the language is. From phonetics, to high context dependence, to word building and conjugation, I commend people who are tackling this abomination.
I am Polish, so it's not that hard for me :) But I've made a huge mistake of not learning where to put an accent (ударение) on each word, so my pronunciation might be way off for some words. Also I try way too hard to make sentences that make sense in Polish, but in Russian they might sound weird. Lack of practice, I guess. But I definitely see progress over time when I talk to native speakers (Ukrainian refugees mostly).
Yea, knowing another Slavic language definitely makes it easier, with Polish, at least you don't have to learn how to pronounce Ы from scratch. But one being west language and the other being east can also screw you over, because many things are similar, but not quite.
Be careful not to speak only with Ukranians, they, of course, have their quirks in speaking, like using soft Г which is prevalent in Ukranian, but never used in Russian and using за instead of про in some places, for "to speak about Russian language" they would say "говорить за русский язык" instead of "говорить про русский язык". Of course, unless you are ok with picking up these quirks.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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