"Ненадо,мама."

You can translate it as "No need, mom" or "Don't", meaning "Don't bother" or "That won't be necessary."

If it helps, you can imagine that your mom has offered to do something for you, but you decide you can handle it on your own, so you say ""Не надо, мама." This is just my interpretation; I am not a Russian speaker.

same problem, for me "Don't, mom" has no meaning.

Means "it's not necessary, mom"

it's more something like when you say to a baby to not do something bad so you say:"don't"

Literally, "It's not necessary, Mom."

http://www.russianforfree.com/alphabet.php learn how to read it ;)

Same in spanish

Pensei que eu era o único brasileiro estudando russo aqui. Tem muitas palavras parecidas.

"de nada"... would be nice if "не надо" meant that

Agreed. I speak Russian and could have sworn that two Brazilian Portuguese speakers i overheard were speaking Russian.

And also, "Где" sounds like "Cadê" which is portuguese for "Where is it", so it's pretty neat

I used to watch Brazilian soap operas in my childhood, my favourite word was obrigado which sounded like бригада to me, which means a brigade, a team of workers, though obviously it means "thank you" in Portuguese.

nada means hope in croatian, it got my heart super fuzzy and warm ^-^

All my life I've heard Brazilian people, and I've thought it sounds like Spanish, buuuut, two years ago I met people from portugal, in the caribbean, and I thought before to know it, they may be from some Slavic country ... Portugues frome Portugal is not Similar to Spanish, it sounds like, to me, Russian or somthing as Bulgarian. I'm spanish native speaker

I thought the same on several occasions, but was not sure whether other people perceive it like that. Nice to know I am not alone. :)

Muito bom!

They are unrelated in origin.

Same for me. I would like more translations.

On some of the other не надо questions, comments say it can be used as an imperative: "don't do that." It might be a little rude to say that to one's mother, but duolingo doesn't seem too concerned with politeness except for formal/informal pronouns (вы/ты) :P

In english, "Don't mom" can just mean "don't do whatever action you're doing, mom". Assume itrs the same in russian

I said "We don't need that, mom" but DuoLingo didnt accept it

Memorize, honestly. Just like English has a bunch of homophones and you have to memorize those spellings too. Sometimes there's no shortcuts.

I believe you just need to memorize it. I also kind of remember from a Russian pronunciation class that consonants at the end of words are devoiced, meaning a 'd' sounds like a 't'; 'b' becomes 'p'; etc

No, you can't. They both "reduce" to a sound called schwa, similar to the filler sound "uh" in English (or the u in cut, but, butt, mutt/a is what).

Unfortunately, you'll have to memorize them.

Depends on your mother language, I guess. As a Spaniard I struggle, but someone with a schwa sound in their language should be able to pick it up.

I think of it like this: In English, I pronounce the word "potato" like "pə-tA-tO". The only way you know from reading how to say it is if you're familiar with the word. If you go around saying "pO-tah-tO", people will look at you funny.

I think with the mostly regular grammar/spelling rules and patterns, spelling will come easier later even if they do sound the same.

Both would work :-)

Trump. Don't.

Same thing I thought of reading this. I'm native speaker. This phrase is rather rude/emotional, reflecting some conflict but it could depend on intonation of course. But I think if there is no conflict it would usually be paraphrased.

Yep. It means need and is used with a dative noun/pronoun frequently.

E.g., mne nado rabotat' sevodnja vecher (i need to work tonight)

They are different. Roughly, "нет" = "no", while "не" = "not", but it's not 100% like that.

нет = no, or to be not in present tenses (short from не есть)

не = not

I don't know what kind of broken Spanish you speak during your everyday conversations, but that doesn't make sense at all, unless you:

• are talking about people that can't swim; or
• meant "no, nada, madre"

Of which only the second has a little to do "не надо", and only if we make an effort

No, it means - please don't start, please don't do that, and so on, it's used to ask someone to stop doing something.

Russian pronunciations come in two main variants: аканье and оканье. аканье is the standard one, and distinguishes itself by merging the sounds of the vowels "а" and "о" when they're unstressed. So, stressed "о" and "а" sounds as you would expect. Unstressed "о" and "а" sound the same, like a schwa (ie. not exactly an "a", but close).

The stress of "надо" falls in the "а", meaning that the "о" is reduced and sounds like if you were saying "nada".

If you're thinking: "damn! this won't help me at all when learning", you're not alone ;-)

unfortunately, as in English where the word Dove can mean a bird or past tense of dive and is pronounced with different stress on the O depending on usage, we only know that because we were taught the different pronunciations based on context. A new English speaker has to learn that. Same with Live - I Live in..... the show is Live - different context, different pronunciation - confusing for new students. so many examples, copper - o sounds like ah, cope o sounds like oh. so this is not new stuff - but we're on the other end now having to learn when its stressed. There are books that discuss this - beginner's books and children school books use a mark above the stressed vowel but more advanced texts don't use the marks as it's assumed you have learned it. "Russian course, a complete course for beginners" helped me understand it. (хорошо is my favorite russian example where the first two o's are pronounces ah and the last one is oh) also, there is a website called forvo.com where you can type in or copy and paste in, a russian word and it will bring up audio clips of native speakers saying the word - not EVERY word is on there but I've usually found what I'm looking for.