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The contrast between the whole site, its pupose, its target audience and so on and the contents of the article is almost ridiculous. These words are indeed the actual swear words. But you should never use them. It's not like f-word in English, which is used very loosely though most likely will be beeped if it is a TV show. No. These are very strong, very harsh words. Probably like a c*nt-word for Americans. I can not imagine a Russian who has learned any foreign language and still use such words when he speaks Russian. It's just different kinds of people. One can say them and another one is willing to learn something. They don't overlap. Though I must admit that the whole article and especially the sentence "Generally, adding “suka, blyad” to the end of each sentence is a good way to master swearing in Russian" made me laugh, because it is so true.

Blaveloper, you are right, Russian is a Slavic language. What I meant is that since the original question was in English then for that person whose mother tongue is of Germanic family Russian's pronunciation and alphabet would be easier because Russian is closer to Germainc family than any asian language. And as for Romance languages, it's suprising how many Russian cognates in Spanish. And that "se" ending which is the same as Russian "ся" ending in meaning and very alike in sound.

I would say the hardest language to learn will be the one with the smallest amount of different content. The more books, films, videos and other resources there are, the more time you could dedicate to a language and not get bored. If I have only one textbook, a dictionary and a bible movie from thegoodbookcompany.com, I wouldn't even start.

When I was teaching my mother English, she had the same beef with it. For example Russian word for "everything" consists of only three letters.

I probably not qualified to answer the question since I'm a native speaker, but I believe Russian is not that hard in comparison with Asian languages. It's pronunciation and alphabet are much closer to Germanic and Romance languages then the ones of say Mandarin or Thai. And if you could manage to learn for example German, Russian grammar will be manageable for you too. The main question is

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