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Originally Posted by kinbard
Scathe30, Russian is one of the languages I intend to learn fluently someday (along with cherokee, hebrew, hungarian) I might have some questions for you on grammar one day. It is hard for americans to understand the concept of grammatical aspect.
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Well, feel free to ask ANY questions then. I hope that I'll be able to help - I've got linguistic education, and though theoretically I know English grammar rules much better then Russian, the latter is flowing in my veins since my birth
The fact is that native speakers, who don't deal much with linguistics, rarely can explain why they say something this way and not that way - they simply feel the language but never explain its mechanisms to themselves