How does Russian language sound to you?

[Antimage]

to hungarian speakers russian sounds a bit stupid at the beginning, but u can get used to it

[kkk77]

It sounds like "kustrova snhyift vik nyeeet".

It has a funny elevated intonation sometimes, a lot of "uh" sounds and an hard R.

[Eventhorizon]

I find Russian very attractive in a badass sort of way , it exudes toughness
I particularely like the "R" sound in it , "KH" , "ZH" "YE" "YEE" ...etc
a very beautiful language , exotic and special yet painfully difficult to learn

[Arthur Scharrenhans]

Centum–satem isogloss
Slavic languages together with Armenian, Albanian, Baltic languages are closest to Indo-Iranian languages much more than to Celto-Germanic and Romance-Hellenic languages

The centum/satem isogloss isn't considered especially relevant nowadays. It's clear enough that satemization was a relatively recent sound change that propagated in a wave-like fashion from the center of the IE-speaking area but didn't reach the Eastern- and Westernmost languages. Other, more important isoglosses cut through the centum-satem border. Greek for example is much more closely related to Indo-Iranian than to Italic.

Back on topic: to me Russian sounds just like... Russian - I mean, it's one of those foreign languages whose (stereotypical) sound one learns as a little child even if he doesn't actually speak a word of it, so it's a bit difficult to judge it with some detachment.
Anyway, it is pleasant enough to my ears, probably more than other Slavic languages; neither too harsh nor too soft, vaguely menacing but in a sensual way.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Men who speak with a Russian accent sounds nice.
The Russian community in London have a lot of melody and tone in their accents. As for the Russian language, I like the sound of it too.

[Jana]

Sounds very beautiful and melodic to me, softer than other Slavic tounges. I am a big fan of Russian language

[wvwvw]

The centum/satem isogloss isn't considered especially relevant nowadays. It's clear enough that satemization was a relatively recent sound change that propagated in a wave-like fashion from the center of the IE-speaking area but didn't reach the Eastern- and Westernmost languages. Other, more important isoglosses cut through the centum-satem border. Greek for example is much more closely related to Indo-Iranian than to Italic.

Back on topic: to me Russian sounds just like... Russian - I mean, it's one of those foreign languages whose (stereotypical) sound one learns as a little child even if he doesn't actually speak a word of it, so it's a bit difficult to judge it with some detachment.
Anyway, it is pleasant enough to my ears, probably more than other Slavic languages; neither too harsh nor too soft, vaguely menacing but in a sensual way.

That's completely bullcrap. Greek is not anywhere close to Iranic languages and is infinitely closer to Italian and German. The grammatic is almost identical, not to mention that thousands of Greek words that have entered your vocabulary. Being the oldest European language still in use, it influenced most of the other languages (English, Italian, Spanish...), especially for scientifical and medical terms. 30% of English vocabulary has Greek words. Phonetically many people confuse it with Latin languages (most commonly Spanish) due to the similar fast speed, exceeding use of vowels and the rolling of the r. Don't speak about things you obviously are clueless about.

The Centum/satem language divide isn't a recent change at all and is very much relevant today as it always have been. Stop making misinformed comments about other people's languages and do some rsearch before you write your ignorant comments. And for your information the distance Ancient Greek and modern Greek is shorter than is Midieval Englisn to modern English and much shorter than Latin is to modern Italian.

The tempora (and modi) of Latin and Greek are fairly similar, although in Latin the aorist and the perfect tense have merged into one tense whereas Ancient Greek retained both; (also the optative has merged into the subjunctive in Latin whereas Ancient Greek retained) - the rest of the tempora are the same, which appears to be a major difference to Germanic languages.

There are similarities in the case system, too. The genitive of the Greek a-declension (-as/-es) is the same as the old Latin genitive of that declension that can still be founds in the well-known pater familias. Also the long dative -o of the o-declension in both Latin and Greek goes back to the Indo-Germanic ending -oi; The nasal final in the accusative and the -os ending (at least Old Latin still had -os rather than -us) in the nominative also go back to the same root.

There are also corresponding consonants/ consonant clusters that you can notice; e.g. Greek p is usually qu (/kw/) in the Latin cognate: hippos - equus; hepomai - sequor; penta - quinque; Greek question pronouns usually start with p, Latin ones with qu

Those are just a few examples. The relationship of Latin and Greek had long been observed (even Varro noticed the similarities and described them in his book de lingua Latina). It was precisely the knowledge of this similarity/relationship and the comparison of those to other languages like Sanskrit and Old Persian that made Sir William Jones think of a common predecessor for all those languages in 1786 thus kind of starting off the branch of Indo-European studies

[Ülev]

Men who speak with a Russian accent sounds nice.
The Russian community in London have a lot of melody and tone in their accents. As for the Russian language, I like the sound of it too.

check it out
Different Russia channel is about Russia, Moscow and nearby area (Fryazino town), she speaks English with "ze" Russian accent, and automatically generated YT translation feature mixes Russian with English when you turn that function on, lol

[alnortedelsur]

Its sounding is very similar to Portuguese sounding.

[Ülev]

Its sounding is very similar to Portuguese sounding.