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So I heard this on a podcast, as a conversation between two Americans:
— "How did you learn Russian?"
— "I went to the University of Vermont, and I needed to choose a language, and I learned Latin in highschool, and it wasn't for me and I wanted to choose a language not even remotely similar to Latin, so I kind of randomly chose Russian."

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And that's all I remember, doctor.

(Explanation, just in case you need it: Latin is an Indo-European language, and so is Russian, which already makes them related. So is English, but Russian preserves ancient Indo-European features, such as noun cases, much more than English does, and in that regard, it's even more similar to Latin. So it's not remote at all.)

sslaia

@aharoni Does Russian have in addition cases like in German: Genetive, Dative and Accusative cases?

@sslaia that, and even more. Russian school students learn about six: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional. In advanced linguistics, even more than six are identified, but there's no consensus on how to call them (vocative, partitive, etc.)

@aharoni It's closer to Latin than to German then 👍