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Russian speakers learning Irish
— the mistakes your language makes you commit

Your native language (Русский) quietly pushes you into specific Irish errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.

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«у меня есть» is already the Irish pattern

Russian says the book is at you, and so does Irish: "Tá leabhar agam". You will never make the have-verb mistake English speakers make — extend it to "Tá ocras orm".

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Мягкость is Irish slender

Your soft/hard pairs (мат versus мать) are precisely Irish broad versus slender consonants — "bó" against "beo". This is the single hardest Irish contrast and you have it already.

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Irish keeps its copula — do not delete it

Russian says «Он врач» with no verb; Irish still needs one: "Is dochtúir é". And it swaps to tá for states and places: "Tá sé tuirseach", "Tá sé sa bhaile".

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Your х is the Irish ch

The х of «хорошо» is the /x/ in "loch". The new habit is stress: Irish puts it on the first syllable almost every time — GAEilge, MÚinteoir — with no roaming stress to guess.

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Free order becomes fixed VSO

Russian cases let you reorder at will; Irish is rigid — verb, subject, object: "Ólaim tae", "Cheannaigh Seán teach".

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One article to learn, not none

With no articles in Russian, "an" gets dropped or over-applied. There is no word for "a" — only "an" for what is already known: "leabhar" → "an leabhar".

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