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Russian is a largely phonetic language. This means that a word's pronunciation can be predicted from its spelling and its spelling from its pronunciation. This is certainly not the case in English, and usually causes Russian learners serious difficulty and frustration.
Russian and English convey meaning through the verb systems in different ways. The Russian system is based in the concept of aspect: actions are either completed or not completed. This is shown by appending affixes to the verb stem. There are few auxiliary verbs.
This contrasts with English which has progressive and perfect tense forms, and avoids the need for affiliation or inflection by the extensive use of auxiliaries.
Due to differences in the phonological systems, it is relatively difficult for Russians to acquire native-speaker-like standards of pronunciation and intonation. Russian consists of 5 vowel sounds, with no differentiation between short and long vowels.
This contrasts with English which has 12 vowel sounds (5 long, 7 short)
Russian is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, some of whose letters are similar to letters in the Latin alphabet used by English. While we used the letters as simple as ABC but it's harder for Russians to learn what seem so easy to us
English and Russian are very different in important aspect like their Grammar systems show significant variations: English has a fairly fixed word order. Meaning is expressed through the addition of words
and movement of words within limited boundaries.
Russian, on the other hand, conveys meaning largely through changes in the composition of words