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decided that here I would share some of the fun things I have learned about Russian just for interest’s sake

  1. Russian has no articles. Russian unlike english does not have words like “the” or “a/an”
  2. A number of English words have a Russian origin. For example, “Mammoth” or “Vodka”, which. comes from the old Slavic word for “water”
  3. Russian middle names are patronymic, meaning they come from one’s father. They also change baed on the gender of the child. For example, a if your father was named Vladimir and you are a girl your last name would be Vladimirovna . If you were a boy it’s be Vladimirovitch.
  4. Similar to Spanish or German nouns have gender. nouns can be Masculine, feminine, or neuter.
  5. There are over 150 million native speakers of the language.

This video is fun and points out some of the cool aspects of Russian.